Keeping Up With Educational Technology Trends From Your Desktop

Keeping up with Educational Technology Trends from your Desktop Alicia Cundell Qatar University [email_address] http://del.icio.us/acundell http://qutechnews.edublogs.org

Why use technology in Language Learning?

Why Technology?
Today’s youth are growing up with constant digital stimuli
This constant interaction with digital stimuli has lead to different learning processes
These changes have resulted in physiological changes to the brain
We need to prepare them for their futures after their education

Technology: how?
As a solution
To be more productive
To do things we couldn’t do without them

Web 1.0 for professional development
Online journals & magazines
TESL-EJ
The Internet TESL Journal (ITESL)
Teaching English with Technology
Listservs
TESLCA-L
TESL-L

How is learning changing now?
Students “can either be passive receivers of media messages or they can be digital content creators and critical thinkers.”
Source : Retrieved January 18, 2008, from video in the classroom.com : http://www.needleworkspictures.com/vic/

Web 2.0: The Read/Write Web
anyone can be an author
no knowledge of programming necessary
connecting and collaborating with others

Web 2.0 for professional development: Blogs
What are blogs?
Individuals share their knowledge, expertise and experiences in practical applications
Organizational blogs as a means of keeping faculty updated
As a personal tool for internalizing your own experiences

Web 2.0 for professional development: Blogs
Example ELT Technology Blogs
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day
Technology for QU Faculty
ELT Notes
Language Lab Unleashed

Web 2.0 for professional development: podcasts
What are podcasts?
Like a blog, but in audio format
Often follow interview or talk show formats with guests and experts
Can be downloaded onto mp3 players and played in the car, on the bus, etc.
Examples of ELT podcasts
ELT Podcast – The Teachers’ Lounge

Web 2.0 for professional development: wikis
What are wikis?
Web sites that can be written by a group of people
Facilitate collaborative learning
Draw on knowledge, expertise and experience of many people as opposed to one
Examples of wikis devoted to technology
QU Foundation Classroom Technology
The web 2.0 for EFL teachers
99waystouseapodcast

Web 2.0 for professional development: rss
Technology that works for you by pulling only new information from a blog, wiki or Web site and putting it all in a central location
Video: RSS in Plain English

Web 2.0 for professional development: rss
Aggregators that use RSS technology
Feedblitz - uses email to deliver content
Web-based aggregators
Google Reader
Bloglines
Netvibes
Learn more about RSS

Web 2.0 for professional development: social bookmarking
What is social bookmarking?
Saving your bookmarks online to a Web page and organizing them with tags
Most popular Social Bookmarking tool: del.icio.us
Watch the CommonCraft video

Web 2.0 for professional development: social bookmarking
How can bookmarking be social?
Having bookmarks online makes them public: anyone can see what you save
Follow your favourite professionals through rss to find out what they are bookmarking (use rss!)
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Web 2.0 for professional development: online videos & tutorials
Search the Web for tutorials or info using video search engines in YouTube, Google, Yahoo
Example Sites expressly for tutorials
Teacher Training Videos
Commoncraft – technology in Plain English
Atomic Learning – subscription required, but some free demos available

Web 2.0 for professional development: online conferences, lectures & workshops
Web 2.0 technology has made it possible to broadcast live events over the Web
Examples:
'The Web 2.0 for EFL Teachers: Podcasts , Blogs , Wikis , Virtual Worlds and Digital Games' Web-based conference Nov. 2007
Webheads in Action – regular chats & webcasts

Web 2.0 for professional development: Webquests
WebQuests are guided inquiry-based lessons where research is done on the Internet and then reported and usually applied.
WebQuests always have the same structure:
Introduction
Task
Process
Evaluation
Conclusion

Web 2.0 for professional development: Webquests
Examples of WebQuests as professional development tools
A WebQuest – Blogs and RSS
Digital Natives: Reading, Writing and Learning in the 21 st Century
A WebQuest on WebQuests : An Introductory WebQuest for In-service EFL Teachers
A WebQuest about…Creating WebQuests

Web 2.0 for professional development: Second Life (SL)
What is Second Life?
An Internet-based virtual world where residents where socialize, connect and collaborate with others.
What can you do in SL?
Buy, sell, rent property
Set up a business
Hold a conference

Web 2.0 for professional development: Second Life (SL)
Examples of SL professional development
SLanguages 2007 – hosted by Edunation
Free seminar series – Edunation
Language learning in Second Life – Lancelot & Eucation

Web 2.0 for professional development: other tools
Social Networking: Facebook, My Space, Twitter
Slideshare: online presenations
Yahoo!Groups
Discussion Boards
Online chats
Online paid courses

Example Technology Tools
Mainstream technologies: discussion boards, blogs, wikis, podcasts, multimedia production (PowerPoint, Photo Story 3 , VoiceThread )
Students make comic strips or animated movies with dialogue boxes using Web 2.0 tools, such as make beliefs comix & Dvolver ,
Students send speaking task audio files via email through springdoo as homework
Students share poems, stories online and share with others for commenting with: PowerPoint, VoiceThread , The Sims On Stage ,

Follow up resources
Web 2.0 Tools
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Keeping Up With Educational Technology Trends From Your Desktop

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