The Humble Overhead Projector

Last week I was tutoring ESL students. I set a writing task for them (what is your favourite book?) After giving them time to write a paragraph, I spent the session going through each writing piece and using it as a platform to discuss common grammar mistakes with them. John's lecture emphasised thinking about 'not using technology to teach the same stuff' but how ICT can actually add a new (better?) dimension to the teaching. In this tute, I was writing out the errors for students to copy down. It occured to me that I only needed to have used an overhead projector so that all the students could have seen the work I was talking about. This could be applied to any group work that I wanted to analyse (and could be extended to using a scanned document with an overhead projector/ working on my laptop with an overhead).