Using Internet Resources and Digital Technology in Language Teaching.

WEB 2.0 LANGUAGE LEARNING

Can I tell you a secret?

Once upon a time...

There was a student in the 90s.

THAT

WANTED

TO BE

A TEACHER

She found a job ...

In a HIGH-TECH SCHOOL

But the problem was...

She didn´t know anything about computers.

Gosh!!

Back in the 90´s

She just used

her

grandfather´s

Typing machine

She didn´t know how to use a mouse or how to save and print a document!!

YES, sure she would learn.

But she was too attached to pen, paper and ink

She was a digital immigrant .

And a language teacher

She had to combine both things.

But how??

And then she googled

Online __(1)___ exercises (1) Vocabulary,grammar, writing,exam...

And came up with something!

She finally went to the ICT room

with the students

But THEN...

She felt she was LOST in a maze

Teacher,, teacher teacher !!

Where do I have to click? I have finishished , what can I do now? We haven’t done these words in class! It’s too difficult !

ZOINKS!

Teacher, teacher teacher !!

No , do not use google! No , you can’t write private messages! No , you can’t play or watch movies!

I will NEVER come to the ICT room AGAIN!

Back to pen paper and ink?

NO!

And she understood .

She was confronted with digital natives !

New Millennium Learners

But she wouldn‘t give up so easily .

She learned about the web 2.0 .

So...

She finally understood what she had to do!

Power Point

Presentations...

A native speaker student explaining her life as a child in Spain.

Mi casa era muy grande, tenía un jardín enorme y una piscina.

En invierno nevaba mucho, pero en verano hacía mucho calor.

A native speaker student explaining the Spanish “comunidades autónomas”

A student creating a poem using powerpoint.

S hall I tell you a story?

Lady Hope.

A terrible One?

Your Story?

Lady Hope.

But I have to warn you.

The Story isn’t fair.

It’s about a girl with red hair.

In the original poem she combined music and words.

The teacher using grammar games to learn the spanish vocabulary .

LECCIÓN 1

COMPARATIVOS

SUPERLATIVOS

CONCURSO! MÁS? MENOS?

Quién es el más fuerte?

En qué ciudad hace más calor?

The teacher using grammar games to learn the spanish grammar.

LECCIÓN 1

ADVERBIOS EN CASTELLANO

QUÉ HACE?

Corre___________

Qué hace?

Duerme_________

LECCIÓN 1

FUTURO INMEDIATO

Voy a…

And it worked

She could even use nice 3-D charts.

Gizmo charts or Richchart Live

The presentations even looked nicer.

Like this http://edusim3d.com/

And she could thumbalize her favourite websites

With Thumbalizr

Or get 280 more slides for powerpoint presentations

And share all these powerpoint presentations

Here http://www.slideshare.net

And it worked

The students were happy

Then she joined the largest whiteboard interactive community

Promethean Planet

Flipcharts, resource packs and weblinks!

Great ideas and best practises!

She found she could use google streetview to practise giving directions to different places on the map

Or make use of the subtitles in

To prepare interviews or songs in class!

Or even better…

She also learned 3 was the magic number

For a website, blog or online exercise to be understandable

It had to be simple

And easy

3 clicks with the mouse

And she created a simple blog

Edublog Wordpress Blogger

Journaling Blog Creative Blog Class Blog BLOG

Then she decided she would build-up her own games

And embed them into her blog

Arcade Game Generator

Dustbin Game

Random Name Picker

More animated games?

And why not use for language projects?

Or Flash cards?

But there were more free website tools

Small world, a virtual world where you can create your own space

Meta place. A virtual online community

The students were chatting

In her blog

Outside her blog

They could video-chat too

With other pupils around the world

And what about online tests and quizzes?

Then

she used a

stream live TV studio

for her blog.

She could

broadcast

her lessons

And they even edited their videos for free!

They could use

bubbles!

BUBBLEPLY IT !

BUBBLESNAP IT !

Fun , isn´t it?

Made animations!

Comics!

Puricute posters

with

vocabulary

learned in class!

They broadcasted

their own LIVE internet

talk radio station!

They were happy

And were ready to prepare their first podcast .

AND

Could listen to their own texts in their MP3s!

Then she started thinking about creating her own social network http:// www.yakitome.com / http:// www.yakitome.com /

OR

And what about

CONCEPT MAPS?

Group, order and brainstorm various concepts amongst other things.

Or

WEBQUESTS?

Then then students asked her

Why don´t we write an online book?

Why don´t we make websites?

High quality Flash Websites?

Why not?

So where did she learn how to use these programmes?

But of course she could always use what other teachers were doing.

Create Comment Share…

Now you know my secret

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

USING INTERNET RESOURCES AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN LANGUAGE TEACHING Víctor González ISB

Using Internet Resources and Digital Technology in Language Teaching.

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