The document provides guidance for an activity where students will create a PowerPoint presentation with audio explaining how information and communication technologies (ICT) can enhance language teaching and learning. Students will discuss how ICT helps education and is useful for teaching English as a foreign language. They will also explore three Web 2.0 tools they could use in their English classroom and explain how. Students will upload their presentation, with audio, to Slideboom and post the link in the forum for others to view, receiving feedback from peers on two presentations. The goal is for students to reflect on using technology in their current or future experience learning English.

1.
TEACHING UNITS
COMPETENCE TO DEVELOP:
The student makes an effective use of computers in teaching and learning English
processes, viewing this as an educational tool that has a positive effect on
increasing communication skills in foreign languages.
RESULTS OF LEARNING:
Using different tools of Web 2.0 and 3.0 applied to English teaching and learning
TOPICS: ICT – WEB TOOLS – English teaching and learning
GENERAL COURSE AND ACTORS RECOGNITION ACTIVITY - ACTIVITY
GUIDE
Aim:
To reflect about the importance of Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT) to enhance language teaching and learning and identify the usability of Web
tools in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL).
Topics:
Technology and education; TEFL; Web 2.0 tools; resources, strategies and methodologies
to teach English as a foreign language.
Expected product:
Each student will post in the forum a message to introduce him or herself with a link
to the site “Slideboom” where peers and tutor will see a video based on a Power
Point presentation about the use of ICT in education and some Web 2.0 tools to
enhance TEFL.
Post a flash video in “Slideboom” according to the following indications:
1. Make a Power Point presentation with no more than twelve slides, in which
you will include text, pictures and audio.
2. You must explain each slide with audio, even the front page, in which you will
introduce yourself saying in the audio a greeting, your name, where from,
location, the title of your presentation, and date. The front page must include
the title of the presentation, your name, code, group number, tutor, program,
course, place and date.
3. Based upon your reflection on the following issues, design creatively as many
slides as you consider necessary to talk about:

2. a. How do ICT help improve education?
b. Are ICT useful in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)? Why?
In addition to text, you can use pictures, graphics, etc. It’s better if you include
animations and transitions. Prepare a script for your audio to explain each slide.
When all the presentation is finished, you will use the option “Record presentation
with slides” to add your voice to each slide.
4. Watch attentively the following video: Technologies for Students, available
at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqN07FPdDo0 and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltOZSc1MNc Take note of the
different Web 2.0 tools presented on the video and choose three of them
that you would like to use as an English student in your classroom (virtual
or face-to-face). Design creatively the slides you need to explain the three
selected Web 2.0 tools. You ought to define them and indicate in general
terms how you would use them as an English student. You don’t need to
give at this point very detailed information about such use. Include text,
pictures|, and graphics. Avoid large amounts of text. Once again, prepare
a script to explain these slides with audio.
5. At the end, include a “Thank you” slide. In the audio of this slide be thankful
and say good-bye.
6. When the presentation (maximum 12 slides) is ready with the front page, text,
pictures, graphics, animations, and transitions giving answer to above points 3
and 4, and the final slide (being thankful), go to the tab “Presentación con
diapositivas” in Power Point and use the option “Grabar presentación con
diapositivas”. You must have your script at hand. Start recording the
presentation with the animations and transitions while you are recording your
voice explaining each slide. In this way, the whole presentation will include the
audio of your voice.
7. Convert your presentation in a Flash file. You will need to download iSpring.
(http://ispring.softonic.com/descargar).
8. Once you have converted your Power Point into a flash file using iSpring,
upload this last file to “Slideboom” (http://www.slideboom.com/). You have to
register first. Be sure your presentation is public, not private, so that any
person can access it from the link you will share.
9. Post a participation in the forum, greeting your tutor and partners and inviting
them to watch your presentation at slideboom site. Write the title of your
presentation and paste the link. NOTE: In the forum you are to paste the link
with the final presentation uploaded at Slideboom. You don’t have to attach
your Power Point in the forum.
10.Comment in a meaningful way at least two of your partners’ presentations in
the forum. Talk about the relevance of the information presented by your
partner.
Enjoy this activity. We hope it will be suitable for you to start or improve the
use of technology in your current or future experience as an English student.
If you have any questions, ask your tutor by internal mail.

3. Go ahead!!!
EVIDENCE ACTIVITY
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Slides and video.
KIND OF EVIDENCE Performance Knowledge Product
DESCRIPTION: Links slides and video posted on slideboom
DELIVERY DATE Three weeks
% ACTIVITY 25
EVALUATED ITEM SCORE
Post of link of presentation in the
forum
Suitable use of text, images,
animations, and audio in the
presentation.
Structure of presentation
Coherence in reflection about ICT
related to education and technology
Explanation or three web 2.0 tools to
be used in the English classroom
(virtual or traditional)
Activity socialization and group
interaction.
Total Score