This is my presentation at IATEFL in Glasgow in 2012. It includes links to 5 great tools that we can use to get students speaking. Watch the videos on JING, Vocaroo, myBrainShark, MailVu and Audioboo.
2. Today’s Talk
Quick bit of information about me
The Connected Classroom –research that I have been
doing at Warwick
Getting students talking/Digital Story Telling
Conclusions and Questions
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4. Me
Write “Webwatcher” in the ET Professional
Teach on MA in TESOL at the University of Warwick
Run www.teachertrainingvideos.com
Help teachers get up and running with technology by
providing step by step screen casts
287,000 visitors in 2011
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6. Congratulations to Erika Osvath
http://www.erikaosvath.com/
Donate button on my site raised about $450
I topped it up and gave Erika $600 to come to IATEFL
Big thanks to all those who donated money
Please donate this year. I would love to run the scheme
again.
Will be sending information about her blog and ideas
in my next newsletter.
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7. The Connected Classroom
Frustrated in what I could get students to do for
homework
Frustrated with the amount of speaking I could get my
students to do
Result of various experiments going back over nearly
10 years
Basic finding is that we need to connect the classroom
part of the lesson with the homework part
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8. Help Videos-5 tools I use for Connected
Classroom
Eyejot
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/eyejot/index.html
MailVu
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/mailVu/index.html
Jing
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/Jing/index.html
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/jingInReality/index.html
AudioBoo
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/audioboo/index.html
myBrainShark
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/brain/index.html
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/brain2/index.html
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10. Vocaroo.com
They don’t come easier than this tool
Click the button, record yourself speaking
Then click button, write in an email address and send
it
Limited to 5 minutes
Can embed player into a blog , wiki too
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11. Experiments with Vocaroo
Interviews
Explanations of typical day
What you did last weekend
Telling a story
Opinions on a topic
Read aloud
Basic personal information
Students/Teacher
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12. MailVu and EyeJot
Simple tools
This tool includes use of Webcam
Can record webcam/voice
Click one button to record, one button to send
Great for the Connected Classroom idea-used in a
series of experiments at the University of Warwick.
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13. First experiment
Group of 25 Japanese students-not my class
IELTS-5.5 –level not important
Part One
Started lesson by drawing a time line on the board and
writing in some important dates in my life
Began to talk about the dates
Encouraged students to ask questions
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1979 1983 1986 1988 1993 1999 2002 2009 2011
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14. Part Two
Ask students to draw their own line
Encouraged them to think of different things to add
Put the students in pairs.
Students talked about their timelines (a to b/b to a)
Moved around listening
Took notes and provided feedback
Part Three
Introduced Mailvu
Told students to make recordings at home and send
them to me
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15. Results
Several students made recordings of 10 minutes
All students did the exercise
Not one student thought the activity was odd-speaking
at home and sending recordings to me
Very positive feedback from students
Little transfer-only one student used the technology
for something else
Could be useful for e-portfolios
Played the best examples in the next class
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16. The problems
Feedback
Listened, took notes and gave notes to students in next
lesson
Listened to each recording twice
Enormous amount of data and language to deal with
e-Portfolios-students choose what to put in. Could
make several recordings over a term then choose one
to get feedback on
Peer feedback could also be a solution
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17. The Connected Classroom
Most successful exercise yet
Had done several previously
Began to realise how important the link between the
lesson and the homework was really important
Technology breaks down the barrier between the class
and the homework/coursework
But more than that-really the lesson plan was one
whole-the class part and the homework part were
totally linked. It was really just one lesson plan.
E-Portfolios (eyejot, brainshark, jing)
Apps for iPhone iPad etcwww.teachertrainingvideos.com
18. myBrainShark
My favourite discovery of 2011
Free site
Allows you to load up Powerpoint, Word, PDF, Picture
and even video and then add voice
myBrainShark packs the sound and files and then
produces a link which you can share/embed
Used in business, teaching for distance courses,
training, OER,teacher/students
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19. myBrainShark-can do more
Mix video, pictures, PPT etc
Embed the presentations as well as send as e-mail
Edit, add or change audio at click of button
Change order of videos
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20. Examples of myBrainShark
http://www.teacherphilisictinelt.blogspot.co.uk/searc
h/label/powerpoints
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