Using Web 2.0 in ESL Classroom TESOL 2012

1. Cynthia S. Wiseman
Asst. Prof., BMCC, CUNY
Joshua P. Belknap, Director, BMCC ESL
Lab

2. Features of Web 2.0
•Speed
• Web-based software and applications
• Platform-based services
• User generated content
• Rich media content
• Complex social interactions

3. How is Web 2.0 valuable in the
classroom?
•Collaboration
•Socialization
•Authenticity
•Creativity
•Sharing

4.  Qrafter
 Penzu
 Listen & Write
 Forvo
 Wordle
 Wallwisher
 280 Slides
 Comic Life
 Wikispaces
 Xanga

5. Generate & Scan Generator & Qrafter
 Barcodes, Inc. Generator
 http://www.barcodesinc.c
om/generator/qr/
 Qrafter (iTunes)
 http://itunes.apple.com/u
s/app/qrafter-qr-code-
reader-
generator/id416098700?
mt=8

6. Penzu
Simple online tool for creating a
personal journal http://penzu.com/
Entries are automatically
dated
Easy editing: Ss can add
titles and text as well as
images
Registration required to
save entries requiring only
email address.
Sharing by email and/or
printed.

8. How to use Penzu with students
Online presentation
Listening and viewing tasks
Student video projects (pro)
Student-created materials

9. Listen and Write
Listening & dictation tool. http://www.listen
Create your own -and-write.com/
dictation.
Ready-made dictation
exercises in a number of
languages.
Track students progress
Create homework tasks.
Competitions: keep a
class scoreboard to show
which students are doing
best.

11. How to use it with students
Set listening for homework
Let students select the listening
Create your own activities, e.g., your
own dictation activities

12. Forvo
•A multilingual user-generated
pronunciation dictionary.
•Search for the pronunciation of http://forvo.com/
words
•A range of languages.
•Add words and record pronunciation
•Add words to find pronunciation for
and wait for someone to record the
word.
•Additional information about the
nationality, ethnicity, geographical
origin of the speaker
•Multiple pronunciations of words to
compare different accents.
•Input from such a range of sources.

13. How to use this with students
Pronunciation research
Request pronunciations
Demonstrate different accents

14. Wordle
•Create colorful graphic
representations of texts based http://www.wordle.n
on word occurrence from any et/
given text.
•Feed in the text either by
copy and paste or by
specifying a URL
•Analyze text and creates a
colorful representation with
more frequently occurring
words appearing much larger
than less frequent words.
•Adjust colors and designs to
suit your taste.

16. How to use this with students
Review/Summarize/Retell text
Prediction
Dialogue reconstruction
Short poems / Haiku
Text comparison
Personal information
Topic research tasks
Learner training

17. Wallwisher
•a virtual sticky notice-
board, http://www.wallwisher.com/
wall/teachersweb20
•post stickies with text
images, links to websites
and even videos.
•simple to use
•set access rights
•easy to create a wall
•collaboration very
simple and quick too.

19. How to use this with students
Video tasks Treasure hunt
Theme based walls Fan walls
Share resource links Image-based tasks
Create debate Grammar walls
Wishing walls

20. Quia
•Create web-based http://www.quia.com/web
interactive quizzes &
games, e.g., concentration
•Create multiple-choice
quizzes
•Online grade book
•Track students results

21. 280 Slides
A web-based
presentation tool http://280slides.com/Editor/
Create presentations
with a series of slides
Embed rich web-based
media into the
Deliver presentations
online, embed them into
blogs or websites or
download them to a
computer hard drive
integrate media into
online presentations
w/out downloading it

22. How to use this with students
Online presentation
Listening and viewing tasks
Student video projects
Students created materials

23.  www.wikispaces.com
 Wiki
 Collaborative projects
 Repository of
materials
 Discussion boards
 Announcements

25. Q&A