Dear Participants,
This is a place for you to tell us about your creations using your favorite tools or any activities done as you play around during the course. Whenever possible, describe how you use the tools
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Blogs
Motime
I've used blogs with my young learners (YLs) as an extracurricular activity, so they can practice English outside of class and with teacher's from all over the world. And also as a curricular activity, so they can be introduced to blended learning and work collaboratively as a group, amongst themselves, and with teachers worldwide. I did exchanges between students in the past, but have now opted for teachers, because there is always someone available in any part of the world.
Have Fun with English! 2 (extracurricular)
CALL Lessons 2005-2007 (curricular)
My blogs of Web 2.0 tools and Second Life (Daf, Jan 29)
http://dafneusb.motime.com/
I've created this blog for my English for Tourism learners' projects. This is a blended lesson that will start in March, that is why there are no posts yet. Students from different courses will also be encouraged to participate with their work and comments. (Cristina)
English for Tourism - First Lesson: Sports in Patagonia
http://imagine-tourism.blogspot.com/
My first blog addresses students who learn English through advertising or students who learn advertising through English. Last year I had the opportunity to teach an introductory course to advertising to students at RISEBA in Riga, Latvia but had no idea how to keep in touch with them except for the email. I am glad that with the Bawers' help this is no longer an issue. I have embedded here my bubbleshare album, too. It pictures our international workshop on ESP last year. This year you are all invited on May 8th (details: http://www.orizont.net./users/victor/espworkshop). Anisoara
http://www.englishthroughadvertising.blogspot.com
This is a new blog for the Blog-Based Lessons and e-portfolios Session that I want to share with you. This blog is meant to be an e-portfolio called English for Tourism (E.S.P.). It is linked to the blog I've already shared and contains a Wordle I made inspired by Dennis. (Cristina)
Photo Albums
Bubbleshare
I have created a photo album with screenshots taken by participants of the VWLL EVO session of a tour of Ciudad Bonita in Second Life. Used Bubbleshare. (Daf - Jan 28)
I also use Bubbleshare for illustrated tutorials, like these ones:
Short bios:
Students creating their own projects:
(Daf, Jan 29)
I have used photo albums to:
-- display my students' art work
-- upload photos my students took on a field trip to the Lisbon Zoo. The photos of the giraffes were specially taken for Daf, following a dialogue she had in the FwE2 blog with Gonçalo, a student, prior to the visit
-- share f2f meetings with Webheads. This was our first major meeting at TESOL 2007 in Seattle, WA (Teresa, 28Jan)
-- and the first Webheads summit in Lisbon (Jul 2007)
http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/195181.bf1f95b2c08/overview
-- share special events
http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/292117.df5123e82fa/overview
-- share a joint venture and close friendship (Daf and Teresa)
http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/156577.a75fa882d22/overview
-- share places we've been to: Seattle, WA (Mar-Apr 2007)
http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/144255.22d2e74cb26/overview
Flickr
-- display course work
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresadeca/sets/72157609125390287/ (Teresa, 31Jan)
Interactive Activities (week 5)
Class page and quiz made with Script-O by Ligia Sanabria
http://www.readingmatrix.com/quizmaker/classes/?id=3103
Survey for teacher assessment at the end of a course using ZOOMERANG by Cristina
http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB228TMAALDFW
Worksheet for the Sports in Patagonia Lesson by Cristina using TRACKSTAR
http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/ts/viewTrack.do?number=376179
Reading comprehension test on Mary Shelley's Frankestein (Abridged version) by Cristina at:
http://www.classmarker.com/quiz/?test_id=33619
To be used as a pre-task for an elementary lesson on Jobs (Cristina) at
http://quizlet.com/733686/jobs-flash-cards/
Podcasting Tools
http://podbean.com
http://vocaroo.com/
This is a trial with Vocaroo. My comments: I don´t like the fact that we cannot control the volume. Good side: it is fast, and the recording can be embedded (Daf Jan 29)
Other
http://voicethread.com
Wikis
PBwiki
-- for remedial work
The idea came to my mind when I got two 6th grades that had had two different teachers in 5th grade. Some were quite weak and behind and I wanted to help them both in and outside of class, especially outside since in-class time wasn't enough for everything. Is it ever??!! That's when a wiki for "remedial work" came to my mind.
We had already finished a few units, so what I did was:
-- create a new page for each unit
-- upload the audio for the main dialogue (we have them in a CD that comes with the textbook)
-- have them listen to the dialogue, then read it in the textbook and, finally, listen and read
-- create a reading comprehension exercise about the dialogue in an interactive site where I could correct it (Quia is what I used) [exercise creators will be dealt with in detail in week 5]
-- post the grade in the corresponding unit page in the wiki and give feedback on mistakes
-- create other types of exercises, for different basic skills, that could be corrected online and have them see the result immediately.
This remedial work also influenced their grade. A few weak students did a great job and said this wiki had really helped them. It is extra work for the teacher, but worthwhile when you can help a few students.
I called the publisher in Lisbon - an affiliate of CUP - and asked if there were any problems in publishing the audio files. None whatsoever. The man was very happy and said that he wished more teachers did this type of work. :-)
-- for at a distance TD (at Larissa's invitation for teachers in Yakutsk)
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