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Eurocall2014 SpeakApps Presentation - Speaking Practice
The document provides an overview of the SpeakApps 2 project, which aims to increase foreign language practice time and feedback through information and communication technologies. The project involves developing speaking and interaction activities for languages like French, Spanish, German, and Italian using tools on the SpeakApps platform that can also be integrated into learning management systems. It discusses expanding to new languages and contexts like secondary education and teacher training. The project also focuses on developing open educational resources, building an online community around language learning, and facilitating telecollaboration between partners.
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- 1. SpeakApps 2: Speakingpractice in a foreign language through ICT tools Christine Appel, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl, Dublin City University (Ireland) Adriana Prizel-Kania, Jagellonian University (Poland) Sake Jager, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands)
- 2. Project Overview SpeakApps2 speakapps.eu Lifelong Learning Programme KA2 LANGUAGES, Accompanying Measures Nov 2013 – Oct 2014 Partners Associated Partners • Institut Obert de Catalunya • University of Southern Denmark • University of Nice • University of Jÿvaskÿla • Ruhr-Universitat Bochum • Polskie Towarzystwo Kulturalne "Mikolaj Kopernik“ • Fundació Pere Closa
- 3. Project goals Increasingpractice time and facilitating quality feedback on: Oral Production Speaking Interaction
- 4. Overview • SpeakAppsConcept • New SpeakApps Languages • Secondary Education • Teacher Training • SpeakApps Tools and Mobile Devices • Open Educational Resources • Building a community • Telecollaboration • How to use SpeakApps • What’s next?
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- 6. New Languages •French • Spanish • German • Italian • Croatian • More languages are always welcome!! • Contact us at: speakapps@uoc.edu
- 7. Secondary Education IOC Bell-Lloch , Girona
- 8. Teacher Training •Series of teacher training course • Online and blended delivery • Local and global training • Teacher training Handbook & CC materials • http://moodle.speakapps.org/course/view.php?id=132 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkN4vv3AjsY#t=119
- 9. SpeakApps Tools andMobile devices • Langblog, Tandem and Moodle Classroom work inside browsers on mobile devices • Langblog being reviewed to establish which features should be accessible via mobile and which are more suitable for other devices • Recording on mobile phones • Use of Tandem in F2F classrooms available and being piloted • Browser-independent apps for different mobile devices are also in development and should be available in the near future
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- 12. Open Educational Resources • Quality Assurance mechanisms being established • Self-evaluation and peer evaluation • User and Usability issues influencing rating and feedback mechanisms • Mechanism taken from Social Networks stars or likes • Number of downloads • More significant feedback / self-evaluation being considered • Significance for Author reputation and links into knowledge sharing and community building in terms of following an author etc. • Feedback from participants, have your say – likes or stars!
- 13. Building a community • Increased visibility of authors • Technical support to include community feedback i.e. members can post issues and other SpeakApps users can comment as well as SpeakApps Technicians • Teacher Training feeding into the community and other dissemination activities
- 14. Telecollaboration SpeakApps platformas a neutral meeting point for partners engaged in telecollaboration
- 15. Telecollaboration: Tandem MOOC • 6 week course (27thOct- 5thDec) • Level: B2 & B1+ EFL/ELE • Learning objectives: ▫ Learner strategies for online speaking interaction with a native speaker ▫ Speaking skills • Free (registration & certificate) We need help to identify native speakers of English learning Spanish Levels B2 & B1
- 16. Using SpeakApps toolsin the future? The tools are not stand alone programmes. When you want to use these tool in the future you can… 1. Use the tools via the SpeakApps platform. 2. Have the tools installed in your local LMS (Blackboard, Moodle etc) a) Installed locally by LMS administrator b) Installed and run off the SpeakApps cloud infrastructure • Request a classroom from us and try the tool!
- 17. Thank you! www.speakapps.eu/ @speakapps speakapps@uoc.edu