The document discusses using screencasts and the website ELLLO to teach English according to the S.M.A.R.T. framework. It describes how teachers and students can create screencasts using tools like Jing and Screenr to provide tutorials, feedback on writing, vocabulary lessons, and more. The document includes a demo screencast of ELLLO and provides resources for learning how to make screencasts and use ELLLO in teaching.

1. Teaching S.M.A.R.T with the Web:
Screencasts and ELLLO
Michael Krauss
Available http://tinyurl.com/8xgv9ee
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2. Workshop Objectives
n Consider
a S.M.A.R.T. framework for
choosing/implementing Web resources
n Explore screencasting
– Uses by teachers and by students
– Two popular free tools (Jing and Screenr)
n Get
to know ELLLO through a screencast
n Answer any questions you may have!
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3. S.M.A.R.T. Framework
n Synthesis
of language and thinking skills
n Motivating content and comm. with purpose
n Appropriate for age and language ability
n Relevant to students’ lives (curricular objs)
n Tangible product with feedback/evaluation
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4. What is screencasting?
n Ability
to capture and share for viewing
anything displayed on the computer screen
n Both audio and images are captured
n Send link to your intended audience OR
n Embed in Web page (blog, wiki, social
network, etc.) OR
n Save to your computer for offline viewing
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5. How can ELTs use screencasting?
n Guided
“tour” of interesting Web resources
n Tutorials – displaying Web pages, Word
docs, PPT slides, etc.
n Feedback on student writing
n Presentation of vocabulary
n Provide pronunciation model
n Presentation of grammar points
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6. How can ELLs use screencasting?
n Narrate
a trip while showing Web pages
n Explain how to get somewhere displaying a
Google Map or Google Earth.
n Create a timeline and narrate events
n Take the listener on a virtual tour of a zoo
or museum Web site.
n Create family tree and share family history
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7. More ways?
n Show
a mystery object and talk about it.
n Put together a biography on a famous
person and narrate his/her life with pics
n Record one’s voice while reading a story or
poem. ELT assesses pron., intonation, etc.
n With photo of students showing, conduct
interview or debate (talking heads)
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8. Screencast Used for Self-Intro (ScreenR)
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9. Screencast Used for Writing Feedback (ScreenR)
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10. Comparing Jing and Screenr
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11. Demo of Jing Video (Stannard)
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12. A Screencast Web Site Tour- ELLLO
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13. Resources of Interest -1
n Training
Resource Guide 2012 (Krauss)
– http://tinyurl.com/6qd8j9b
n How
to use Jing with ELLs (2 screencast
tutorials) Russell Stannard
– http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/Jing/
index.html
– http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/
jingInReality/index.html
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14. Resources of Interest -2
n How
to use Jing to make screenshots (Nik
Peachey)
– http://www.scribd.com/doc/47249872/Task-7Creating-screenshots-using-Jing
n How
to use Screenr (screencast tutorials)
Russell Stannard
– http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/screenr/
index.html
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15. Resources of Interest -3
n
Comparison of features: Jing vs. Screenr
(Bramble)
– http://tinyurl.com/mbdusq2
n How
to use ELLLO (screencast tutorials)
Russell Stannard
– http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/elllo/
index.html
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