1) This document is the author's digital portfolio showcasing various technological tools and artifacts they created for their English language teaching course, including reading reactions, an LMS, online presentations, cartoons, podcasts, and word clouds. 2) The author discusses their philosophy that technology is imperative for language teaching today given that students are "digital natives." They believe technology offers opportunities to make learning easier and more accessible anywhere, anytime. 3) The portfolio includes links to the various course artifacts the author created utilizing tools like Schoology, Edmodo, Powtoon, Toondoo, and Spreaker. They also review and reflect on mobile apps for English learning like Duolingo, English Tenses

1. My Digital Portfolio
By Alcibiades J. Lobo M.
I.D.: 6-710-2246

2. Table of Contents
• Introduction
• My Philosophy about using technology in ELT
• Tools Design
– My Reading Reaction
– My LMS
– My Online Presentation
– My Cartoon
- My Podcast
_ My Wordclouds
_ Mobile Apps and your impressions.
_ My choice
• Final Reflection

3. Introduction
Having in mind that technology has
become an important part in our life, it is
rather relevant to involve it in the process of
learning of any field of knowledge, including
any language.
This portfolio is a compilation of writings
and technological tools’ presentations
whose purpose is that the reader have an
idea of how many things can do in

4. the classroom when implementing the use of
technology.
You are going to read commentaries about
CALL topics, and to see the products of using
diverse tools or apps with educative purpose:
LMS, Powtoon, toondoo, Spreaker, Mobile
Apps, etc.
I hope you like it.

5. Philosophy
• Personally, I think the use of technology in
our classroom is not something optional, it is
quite imperative for teachers and instructors
to become familiar with the new
technological advances we have nowadays
that can enhance the process of learning,
specifically the learning of a new language
such as English.
• If the digital natives enjoy the use of
technology in daily life, it is an opportunity
that we as teachers

6. • to make easier the learning of any field.
• Technology may foster the learning of English
because it offers a great variety of tools that can
be used anywhere and anytime the learner
wish. Thus, cuurently it is not necessary to be in
a concrete classroom to become an expert or
master any subject.
• I really believe technology is probably the best
method to put into practice when teaching.

7. •Course Artifacts

8. My Reading Reactions
• Link: Here

9. My LMS - Schoology

10. Edmodo

11. • Schoology Code: 469QR-KGPCS
• Edmodo Code: iarp2w

12. My Online Presentation
Link to my presentation:
Here

13. My Cartoon
• Link:
http://www.toondoo.com/cartoon/9170814

14. My Podcast
Link: Here

15. My WordClouds

16. Mobile Apps
• Duolingo: it is an app to learn English and
other languages. Pros: it is free. It divides
the learning by levels and topics. It enhances
the vocabular acquisition. It has the feature
that learner can listen and interact with the
app. Cons: Automated voices reading the
words and phrases, it is stilted and
unnatural.

17. • English Tenses App: Pros: it has no cost of
use. It covers all the tenses in English. It
offers a section for practice. Cons: You can
only give feedback by clicking on answers,
you cannot write your own answers. No
listening or speaking skill is taken into
account in the app.

18. • Speak English: Pros: It is a nice app that allows
you to learn and practice speaking and listening
skills.
• It has beginner sessions and also advanced
sessions. It has pronunciation topics in which
you can record your voice as well as many other
subjects.
• Cons: If you want the complete version you
have to pay, although you can download the
free version if allowing ads on the app. Besides,
the English pronunciation is British.

19. • Cons: If you want the complete version you
have to pay, although you can download the
free version if allowing ads on the app.
Besides, the English pronunciation is British.

20. My Choice 1
• Thinglink: Click Here

21. My Choice 2
• Link: Here

22. Final Reflection
• During this course I have learned about what CALL is, its
use and implementation in our classrooms . Besides,
through the different readings I had, I could go deeper
into the knowledge of the discussed topics in the
classroom. The discussions and instructions we had in the
sessions complemented the little knowledge I already had
about CALL. It covered topics since it was initiated in the
60s until its development in the modern days. Currently
CALL has many varieties of uses due to the fact that the
design of CALL lessons generally takes into consideration
principles of language pedagogy, which may be derived
from learning theories. At the beginning of the course I
was a little anxious because technology sometimes can
make us feel that we don’t know about its use since the
great evolving it has everyday.

23. • New technological tools and new apps are developed
everyday in the education field, so we as teachers of a
new generation of digital natives must be updated, thus
we can meet the needs of our students in and out the
classroom.
• Now I realized that we are not only English teachers, but
we must be also experts using technology. That is the
future we are going to face, teaching via technological
means is becoming a reality. Thus, I have learned that
having technological skills is not an option but a must.
• Furthermore, I have known and learned about the use of
different online educative platforms such as schoology,
edmodo, and also about mobile apps which can be used
with our students.

24. • On the other hand, I consider that TESOL
teachers also have to take in consideration that
technology can both assist and enhance
language learning. We should allow
• Students to connect around the world via the
internet, voice tools, seconf life, and so forth.
The use of technology must be combined with a
qualified teacher in language skills. Besides, we
must be aware of our students’ skills, for
example, we cannot expect our students to write
entries in a blog if they don’t know how to use
or create a blog using any of the current
platforms.

25. • I don´t have any suggestion for the new
course, I think it is complete. Now is our duty
to continue enriching the seeds the professor
has sown.
• What I really like and appreciate to have
learned is the mobile apps that we can use
to make our work in schools or colleges
easier.

26. • Thanks a lot.