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  **Introduction to Technology**

This is a new project on technology, supported on a wiki, aimed at upper-intermediate to advanced sttudents of English as a second language since English is considered a tool to approach some technology-related concepts and situations. In case you have never heard about or browsed a wiki, here goes a short definition I gave my students: " A wiki is a collection of  [|web pages]   designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified  [|language]  . Wikis are often used to create  [|collaborative]    [|websites]   and to power community websites. For example, the collaborative encyclopedia  [|Wikipedia] is one of the best known wikis.”  [|To learn more about wikis click here.] The formats presented are very innovative and varied: podcasts, youtube videos, discussion forums and more but through very user-friendly activities, therefore requiring minimum knowledge on these applications. You may try some from our tag cloud: include component="tagCloud" Reading and Listening comprehension are the star skills developed throughout the lesson plans, as well as speaking, whenever a face-to-face debate is suggested. An enhanced comprehension of technology-related vocabulary will definitevely result from the activities. Furthermore, an introduction to direct translation is also approached, with a comparative analysis of different translation methods.

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**Articles about this wiki:** <span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(220,238,254)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(235,238,255)">**[|New project]** <span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(235,238,255)">[|**Aprendiendo con una wiki en ingles**]