This document discusses three types of web-based activities for language learning: WebQuests, Hot Potatoes exercises, and digital storytelling. WebQuests involve completing tasks using pre-selected online resources, while Hot Potatoes creates language exercises. Digital storytelling allows students to create multimedia stories using images, audio, and video. Sample tools are provided for creating digital stories, along with guidelines for developing stories and integrating the activities into teaching.
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Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/steam and http://pear.ly/b7Vlf
LSE SADL Workshop 2 2014 Academic Practices: reading and researchLSESADL
The second SADL workshop covered how students approached assignments, and the tools and techniques they could use to read more efficiently and conduct research more effectively.
Presentation by Taunese Saili about Customer Service which is every interaction with a customer. Customer service is looking after the customer's needs by providing and supplying professional, helpful, high quality service and support to ensure customer’s requirements are met from the start and throughout to the end.
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http://www.skillmaker.edu.au/hourly-service-charge/
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These lesson plans include a set of sequentially organised tasks and use digital tools appropriate for the potential development of 21st century skills.
The content and activities included challenge students to use ICT tools for learning, communication, collaboration and knowledge construction. The lesson plan design is inspired by the pedagogical model proposed in the Future Classroom Toolkit (FCT) http://fcl.eun.org/toolkit. The lessons can be adapted for use in a single school, or for collaboration with schools from the same or from different countries. The final product could be a digital artefact (website, audio, blog, video) in a foreign language related to one of the themes.
Assessment is formative, conducted through feedback triggered by the teacher on products created and reflections recorded by students.
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4. WebQuests
• Emerged in 1995: Bernie Dodge
• Activities based around learner-centered
discoveries.
• Usually an ordered series of webpages
with links to outside information. The
students read and explore (preselected)
information to help them solve a task.
6. WebQuests
• Can be long or short-term (focus on different skills).
• Can be individual or group tasks (group often
divided into specific roles).
Issues:
• WebQuests based around static websites (limited
interactivity).
• Product of Quest often written report or oral
presentation (no collaboration, limited negotiation
of meaning, etc.).
• Meaningful communication in tasks?
7. WebQuests
Easily create a WebQuest (use your Google account
and create a Google site):
• Tutorial
• A PDF tutorial
• WebQuest Template for Google Sites
• Sample WebQuest (Google Site)
8. Hot Potatoes:
• Series of six tools to create language learning
activities (i.e., exercises).
• Once created, you can embed the activities in your
own webspace.
• Activities: multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-
sentence, crossword, matching/ordering, and gap-
fill exercises.
• Also see Quandary (i.e., choose your own
adventure)
9. Let’s try it out
• Work with a partner
• Go to the website (download the Java version, if it’s
not already on your computer)
• Create an activity using one of the activity types.
• Save and export as a Standard V6 Page (i.e., html).
Email it to me at Jonathan.Smart@nau.edu
10. Digital Storytelling
• First evolved in historical documentaries (e.g., Ken
Burns). Essentially a picture slideshow with a voice-
over.
• Multimedia projects: stories created using images,
movies, voice, animation text. Can be interactive
or not.
• Teachers can create for learners or learners create
their own (or both)
11. Digital Storytelling
• Why? Create a meaningful product that requires
integrated skills, piques students’
interests, collaboration, planning, etc.
• Challenges: Accessibility to technology (browser-
based, recording A/V). Technology should be the
tool, not the learning goal.
13. Steps
1. Think and plan story
2. Research & collect materials for the story
3. Write and define the story
4. Create digital sequence
5. Refine story and reflect
(Poltavtchenko & Iannotti, 2011)
14. Digital Storytelling in
your teaching
• Write down two ideas for digital storytelling topics or
tasks that you could use in your own teaching
experience.
15. Resources
• Dozens of dozens of tools to create Digital Stories.
• Students: use their own pictures, record AV using
cellphones, library equipment, laptops.
• Use Pre-existing media (e.g.,):
o http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryMedia
16. Activity
Develop a short digital story by exploring one of the
tools for storytelling. Steps:
1. Find a partner to work with, get an application to
use.
2. Look at the application, look at samples, learn how
to use the application.
3. With your partner, create a short digital story.
4. Send the URL to me and post it on your blog. Share
your story with the class and discuss the
application.
17. Storytelling Tools
Group A: http://storybird.com/ Group F: http://www.myebook.com/
Group B: http://www.mixbook.com/ Group G: http://goanimate.com/
Group C: http://www.vuvox.com/ Group H: http://www.capzles.com/
Group D: http://voicethread.com/ Group I: http://www.zooburst.com/
Group E: http://www.storyjumper.com/
If your group has an iPad, you may want to try Blurb Mobile instead.
If your site doesn’t work, for any reason, try an alternative:
http://domo.goanimate.com/
http://www.xtranormal.com
http://www.dfilm.com/moviemaker/index.html
http://www.littlebirdtales.com/
If you can’t embed/create a link to your story, use this site: http://embedit.in