The document discusses blogs, wikis, and podcasts as language learning resources. It provides an overview of each tool, including definitions, examples of how they can be used for language teaching, and steps to implement them in the classroom. Blogs allow for diary entries, reactions to class topics, and interaction between students. Wikis enable collaborative writing and provide a non-linear structure. Podcasts make audio files accessible for listening and language practice. The document explores advantages and considerations for using each tool and provides example platforms.
This presentation is delivered regularly with faculty at our institution to discuss the possibilities of open education and open educational resources. I keep this presentation up to date, so please feel free to use it to share open practices and open pedagogy!
Last updated May 2014
The Non-Disposable Assignment: Enhancing Personalised Learning - Session 1Michael Paskevicius
Slides from our first meeting of three from a course redesign series on creating non-disposable assignments.
As advertised:
Do you want to offer students an opportunity to bring their passions, personal interests, and individual strengths into their coursework?
How can we design assessment which students feel connected to, value, and are proud to share with their peers?
Are you interested in learning how to create a non-disposable assignment for your students?
This 3-part assignment redesign workshop will take you through the steps to create a non-disposable assignment from beginning to end.
Disposable Assignments: "are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away” (Wiley, 2013).
This series is about creating a non-disposable assignment. The three sessions will blend a combination of some pre-reading, discussion, and in session time to flesh out the details of a rich assignment that allows students to co-create knowledge, be creative and engage in a personalised learning experience.
We’ll focus on crafting projects which meet your existing or redesigned course learning outcomes, explore tools for students to demonstrate their learning, and identify strategies for conducting peer-review. In the end you’ll end up with plan for implementing your redesigned assignment in Spring 2018 or Fall 2018.
Throughout the three-part workshop we will also be collectively exposing our own learnings to others in the group through a live reflection and blogging site to support our work. We hope faculty can attend all three parts as they are planned with the intent you are coming for the whole series.
This presentation is delivered regularly with faculty at our institution to discuss the possibilities of open education and open educational resources. I keep this presentation up to date, so please feel free to use it to share open practices and open pedagogy!
Last updated May 2014
The Non-Disposable Assignment: Enhancing Personalised Learning - Session 1Michael Paskevicius
Slides from our first meeting of three from a course redesign series on creating non-disposable assignments.
As advertised:
Do you want to offer students an opportunity to bring their passions, personal interests, and individual strengths into their coursework?
How can we design assessment which students feel connected to, value, and are proud to share with their peers?
Are you interested in learning how to create a non-disposable assignment for your students?
This 3-part assignment redesign workshop will take you through the steps to create a non-disposable assignment from beginning to end.
Disposable Assignments: "are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away” (Wiley, 2013).
This series is about creating a non-disposable assignment. The three sessions will blend a combination of some pre-reading, discussion, and in session time to flesh out the details of a rich assignment that allows students to co-create knowledge, be creative and engage in a personalised learning experience.
We’ll focus on crafting projects which meet your existing or redesigned course learning outcomes, explore tools for students to demonstrate their learning, and identify strategies for conducting peer-review. In the end you’ll end up with plan for implementing your redesigned assignment in Spring 2018 or Fall 2018.
Throughout the three-part workshop we will also be collectively exposing our own learnings to others in the group through a live reflection and blogging site to support our work. We hope faculty can attend all three parts as they are planned with the intent you are coming for the whole series.
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The Internet revolution has facilitated the concept of openness now more than ever. A number of current technologies support the paradigm of modern education in terms of creation, communication, and collaboration. Various open educational learning resources, tools, and pedagogical approaches are used in teaching and learning. Open educational resources (OERs) is one of examples that represent a global phenomenon in an innovation approach that promote unrestricted access as a possible solution for bridging the knowledge divide in higher education. OERs open up opportunities to create, share, and facilitate learning and ethical practice by creating, using, and managing by offering a wider array of educational resources among a greater diversity of global learners. Its trends and movements have become more prominent as not only a phenomenon but as a way of improving the quality of education. OERs alone are not sustainable on their own dimension. It has to combine concepts from different inter-disciplinary areas such as education for sustainable development and business perspectives. Therefore, this seminar focuses on the discussion of current trends, issues, and example of current global practices of OERs and MOOCs.
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Presented at the Excellence in Teaching 2017 conference on February 10, 2017. Abstract: Have you ever considered using an open textbook in your class? How about open courses, quizzes, lab manuals, or other course materials? Open Educational Resources (OERs) are free and free to reuse resources or course materials that you can repurpose in your classes, including both written and multimedia content. There are OERs available for every subject matter and academic level. Tarleton librarians, Margie Maxfield Huth (Systems Librarian) and Amy Castillo (Periodicals & Electronic Resources Librarian) will discuss what OERs are, and how they can be used in the classroom. They will also show resources for identifying OERs that might be appropriate for use in your classes.
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The Non-Disposable Assignment: Enhancing Personalised Learning - Session 2Michael Paskevicius
Slides from our second meeting of three from a course redesign series on creating non-disposable assignments.
As advertised:
Do you want to offer students an opportunity to bring their passions, personal interests, and individual strengths into their coursework?
How can we design assessment which students feel connected to, value, and are proud to share with their peers?
Are you interested in learning how to create a non-disposable assignment for your students?
This 3-part assignment redesign workshop will take you through the steps to create a non-disposable assignment from beginning to end.
Disposable Assignments: "are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away” (Wiley, 2013).
This series is about creating a non-disposable assignment. The three sessions will blend a combination of some pre-reading, discussion, and in session time to flesh out the details of a rich assignment that allows students to co-create knowledge, be creative and engage in a personalised learning experience.
We’ll focus on crafting projects which meet your existing or redesigned course learning outcomes, explore tools for students to demonstrate their learning, and identify strategies for conducting peer-review. In the end you’ll end up with plan for implementing your redesigned assignment in Spring 2018 or Fall 2018.
Throughout the three-part workshop we will also be collectively exposing our own learnings to others in the group through a live reflection and blogging site to support our work. We hope faculty can attend all three parts as they are planned with the intent you are coming for the whole series.
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Trends and issues in open educational resources and massive open online coursesAva Chen
The Internet revolution has facilitated the concept of openness now more than ever. A number of current technologies support the paradigm of modern education in terms of creation, communication, and collaboration. Various open educational learning resources, tools, and pedagogical approaches are used in teaching and learning. Open educational resources (OERs) is one of examples that represent a global phenomenon in an innovation approach that promote unrestricted access as a possible solution for bridging the knowledge divide in higher education. OERs open up opportunities to create, share, and facilitate learning and ethical practice by creating, using, and managing by offering a wider array of educational resources among a greater diversity of global learners. Its trends and movements have become more prominent as not only a phenomenon but as a way of improving the quality of education. OERs alone are not sustainable on their own dimension. It has to combine concepts from different inter-disciplinary areas such as education for sustainable development and business perspectives. Therefore, this seminar focuses on the discussion of current trends, issues, and example of current global practices of OERs and MOOCs.
Using Web Tools To Enhance Teaching & Learningguest64acb3a
Presentación sobre el uso de herramientas de la Web 2.0 en dos cursos graduados que ofrezco en la Escuela Graduada de Ciencias y Tecnologías de la información, en la UPR. Presentada en la Conferencia Anual de HETS, enero de 2010.
Library 2.013 MOOCs and Constructivist LearningValerie Hill
Librarians explore the rise of MOOCs and the need for information literacy in social learning environments. The recording is posted at http://www.library20.com/page/2-013-recordings.
Open educational resources: What are they and where do i find them?Amy Castillo
Presented at the Excellence in Teaching 2017 conference on February 10, 2017. Abstract: Have you ever considered using an open textbook in your class? How about open courses, quizzes, lab manuals, or other course materials? Open Educational Resources (OERs) are free and free to reuse resources or course materials that you can repurpose in your classes, including both written and multimedia content. There are OERs available for every subject matter and academic level. Tarleton librarians, Margie Maxfield Huth (Systems Librarian) and Amy Castillo (Periodicals & Electronic Resources Librarian) will discuss what OERs are, and how they can be used in the classroom. They will also show resources for identifying OERs that might be appropriate for use in your classes.
Introduction to Open Educational Resources for New Teachers Michael Paskevicius
Slides presented to new teachers in our Bachelor of Education Program at Vancouver Island University. Provided an overview of the landscape for content creation, fair dealings, public domain, embeddable content, and Creative Commons
The Non-Disposable Assignment: Enhancing Personalised Learning - Session 2Michael Paskevicius
Slides from our second meeting of three from a course redesign series on creating non-disposable assignments.
As advertised:
Do you want to offer students an opportunity to bring their passions, personal interests, and individual strengths into their coursework?
How can we design assessment which students feel connected to, value, and are proud to share with their peers?
Are you interested in learning how to create a non-disposable assignment for your students?
This 3-part assignment redesign workshop will take you through the steps to create a non-disposable assignment from beginning to end.
Disposable Assignments: "are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away” (Wiley, 2013).
This series is about creating a non-disposable assignment. The three sessions will blend a combination of some pre-reading, discussion, and in session time to flesh out the details of a rich assignment that allows students to co-create knowledge, be creative and engage in a personalised learning experience.
We’ll focus on crafting projects which meet your existing or redesigned course learning outcomes, explore tools for students to demonstrate their learning, and identify strategies for conducting peer-review. In the end you’ll end up with plan for implementing your redesigned assignment in Spring 2018 or Fall 2018.
Throughout the three-part workshop we will also be collectively exposing our own learnings to others in the group through a live reflection and blogging site to support our work. We hope faculty can attend all three parts as they are planned with the intent you are coming for the whole series.
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1. Blogs, Wikis, and Podcast.
Language Learning Resources
University of Caldas
School of Arts and Humanities
Foreign Languages Department
Master in English Language Teaching
Instructor:
Yamith José Fandiño Parra
Presenters:
Paola Andrea Lizarralde Duque
Luz Dary López Chica
Maria Eugenia Martinez Tabares
Luz Alieth Naranjo Cardona
2. Blogs, wikis, and podcast
Social software
Blogs in language teachings
How to start using blogs with learners
Wikis in language teaching
How to start using a wiki with learners
Podcasts in language teaching
How to create learner podcasts
3. Social Software
“Computer tools which allow people to connect, to
communicate, and collaborate online”.
Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly (p. 86)
Conversational
interaction
Social networks
Social feedback
groupsIndividuals
Estimates
contribution to a
group
Visible links
between groups
and individuals
Group communication
software
4. Previous knowledge
Match
Blog An audio or video file that is
broadcast via the internet and can be
downloaded
Wiki A web page with regular diary or
journal entries.
Podcast A collaborative web space,
consisting of a number of pages that
can be edited by any user.
7. Blogs in Language Teaching
Tutor blog Student blog Class blog
Set homework Personal and family
information (including
photos)
Reactions to a film,
article, class topic,
current affairs.
Provide a summary of
class work
Extra writing practice
on class topics.
Things learners
like/don’t like doing in
class.
Provide links to extra
reading/listening
material.
Regular comments on
current affairs.
Class project on any
topic.
Question and answer
(e.g. about grammar,
class work)
Research and present
information on a topic
(e.g. an English
speaking country).
Exam/Study tips A photo-blog on
learners’ country, last
holiday.
8. Advantages and
Disadvantages of blogs
Advantages
“Real-world” tool to practice
English
Opportunity of interacting with
other students
It is publicly available on the
internet
Comments can be selected only
for invited members
Disadvantages
It is time demanding editing
students writings
Students can feel insecure due to
the public accessible.
Teachers need to establish a clear
rubric to assess the students
entries.
9. How to start using blogs
with learners
• Setting up a sample blog (1-2 hours)
Teacher’s model illuminates students.Step 1
• Setting up student blog (1 hour)Step 2
• Posting to and visiting blogsStep 3
• Follow-up (2 or 3 hours or several lessons)Step 4
11. Set up your own blog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvd7F9Tlvz0&nohtml5=False
12. What is a wiki ?
A wiki is a Web page that can be viewed and modified by
anybody with a Web browser and access to the Internet.
Wikis are able to incorporate sounds, movies, and pictures; they
may prove to be a simple tool to create multimedia presentations
and simple digital stories.
Open editing.
Non linear structure.
Links pages.
14. Who’s doing it?
Educators and students, as well as amateurs and
professionals (artists, writers, collectors).
15. Why are the wikis
important?
Collaborative communication tool for developing
content-specific Web sites.
People can address a variety of pedagogical needs
student involvement, group activities, and so on.
Easy access.
Automatically saved.
16. What are the wikis pros
and cons?
It may have some risks.
Time-consuming
Over time, the values, perspectives, and opinions of
its users can become embedded in a wiki.
Bias.
17. Where are they going?
Since wikis are easy to edit, they carry an inherent
potential to change how we construct knowledge
repositories on the Web. Wikis allow groups to form
around specific topics.
The low barrier to entry makes them the equivalent of
shared digital paper—literally anyone with access to
the Web can post, modify, and delete content on that
site.
18. What are the implications
for teaching and
learning? A wiki’s versioning capability can show the evolution of
thought processes as students interact with the site and its
contents.
wikis are being used as e-portfolios, illustrating their utility
as a tool for collection and reflection.
Wikis might also prove to be an ideal vehicle for soliciting
ongoing input for research or projects where community
input can help inform and direct subsequent investigation.
Wiki enabled projects can provide various levels of site
access and control to team members, offering a fine-tuning
element that enhances the teaching and learning
experience.
19. How to start using a wiki
with learners?
• Preparation before the lesson: Setting up
the first page of a wiki (30-60 minutes).Step 1
• Descriptions: Ss write a description of a
famous person (some factual errors) (1 hour)Step 2
• Corrections: Allocate one description to
each pair. Edit and correct (1 hour).Step 3
• Alternative: (3 or 4 hours or several
lessons)Step 4
22. Podcasts
what is it?
“Podcasting” is a term inspired by Apple Computer Corporation’s iPod-a
portable digital audio player that allows users to download music from their
computer directly to the device for later listening. The term is no longer
specifically related to the iPod but refers to any software and hardware
combination that permits automatic downloading of audio files (most
commonly in MP3 format) for listening at the user’s convenience.
It differs from broadcasting and Webcasting in the way that content is
published and transmitted via the Web. Instead of a central audio stream,
podcasting sends audio content directly to an iPod or other MP3 player.
“Podcasting’s essence is about creating content (audio or video—vodcasts)
for an audience that wants to listen when they want, where they want, and
how they want.”*
23. Who is doing it?
Podcasting can involve practically anyone with an Internet
connection. With its roots in the blogging world, part of the appeal
of podcasting is the ease with which audio content can be
created, distributed, and downloaded from the Web.
26. Why is it significant ?
Allows education to become more portable than ever before. Podcasting
cannot replace the classroom, but it provides educators one more way to
meet today’s students where they “live”—on the Internet and on audio
players.
Barriers to adoption and costs are minimal.
The tools to implement podcasts are simple and affordable.
Podcasting is predicted to soon become a mainstream application, much like
video-on demand recorders (such as TiVo).
Recordings of lectures for those students unable to attend the lecture in
person;
Audio recordings of textbook text by chapter, would allow students to “read”
or review texts while walking or driving to class (significant aid to auditory
learners)
27. What are the downsides of
podcasting?
Users must have sufficient bandwidth to download the podcast.
Beyond access, there are potential issues with the format.
Podcasting is primarily an audio delivery technology and, as such, has
limited usefulness for the hearing impaired.
Podcasting is not designed for two-way interaction or audience
participation. Podcasters are essentially “sound amateurs” producing
and publishing audio feeds.
The quality of speakers’ voices, speech patterns, intonations, and
other sound effects may not be the same as those of a professional
broadcast. Faculty who wish to record their lectures or other
instruction for podcasts may need some training, both in handling an
audio-only medium and using the technology
28. Where is it going?
Podcast enthusiasts see no limit to the potential uses of this technology,
particularly in education, and the number of podcast aggregators (sites
that collect, categorize, and then make available podcasts for subscribers)
is growing. It is possible that specialized higher education–based
aggregators will emerge, offering students access to missed lectures,
instructions for laboratory experiments, and so forth. Interlacing podcasts
with video applications—listening to a podcast while viewing related
material on the Web—is another area of experimentation in education.
29. What are the
implications for
teaching and learning?Podcasting allows students to use their technology-based entertainment
systems (iPods, MP3 players) for educational experiences.
Students are already familiar with the underlying technology, podcasting
broadens educational options in a nonthreatening and easily accessible
manner. For example, podcasting allows lectures or other course content to be
made available to students if they miss class.
Podcasting can provide access to experts through interviews. Podcasting is not
limited to content delivered to the student, however; students can create their
own podcasts—as a record of activities, a way to collect notes, or a reflection
on what they have learned
34. References
Dudeney, G., & Hockly, N. (2007) Blogs, wikis, and podcasts. In
How to teach English with technology (pp 86-102) Pearson
education, series editor:Jeremy Harmer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvd7F9Tlvz0&nohtml5=False
http://en,wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast
https://audioboom.com/
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7003.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/user/edublogssuport