Moving Beyond Traditional ESL Classroom Instruction Through Social Media Integration. Presentation for NYS TESOL at the Teachers College/Columbia University Linguistics Conference on March 6th, 2016

1. MOVING BEYOND TRADITIONAL
ESL CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION
THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
INTEGRATION
Dr. Jasmin Bey Cowin & Fatma Ghailan
Westchester Community College
and EF - Education First
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Have you ever used any form of social media
in your teaching or learning? If so, how? If
not, how do you think they can be used?

3. What Social Media Integration can offer
you and your students:
▪ collaboration
▪ negotiation
▪ debating
▪ reviewing
▪ posting
▪ chatting
▪ emailing
▪ messaging
▪ texting and
▪ creating a final product posted on social media
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Motivation

4. Goals of the Workshop
First: Increasing students’ metacognitive awareness
Second: Providing a clear project structure
Third: Improving students’ understanding of and ability to accurately use English
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Developing a high communicative competence
through the integration of social media.

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6. To create a group:
1. Open WhatsApp and go to the Chats screen.
2. At the top of the Chats screen, tap the New Group button. Note: you will need to have an existing chat
before creating a new Group Chat.
3. Type in a subject or title. This will be the name of the group that all participants will see. Then click
NEXT
4. Add group participants by selecting (+), or by typing the name of the contact.
5. Tap Create to finish creating the group.
6. But for now, you can just join our existing group ALWC 2016
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WhatsApp Group Creation

7. Want to Vlog? First things FIRST
1) Sign Into Your Google Account.
Before you can start creating a YouTube account, you must sign in to your Google account.
(YouTube is owned by Google.) If you do not have an account, that’s okay! You can check out
our quick tutorial on How to Create a Google Account. Once you sign up and sign in then
move on to step 2 below!
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Vlog Nation

8. Vloging and Creating a YouTube
Channel Step 2
2) Click on My Channel.
After signing in to your YouTube account, click on the drop down arrow next to your avatar in
the top right corner. This is the same place where the, “Sign In” button usually is. After you
click on the drop down arrow, a new set of options are made available. The first thing you want
to do here is to click on: “My Channel”.
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9. Vloging and Creating YouTube
Channel Step 3
3) Decide the Name.
This is one of the most important steps when it comes to creating a YouTube channel. Deciding
your channel name! You can either use your name by default or you can choose a different name of
your choice by clicking on the “To use a business or other name, click here” button. Most people
like to choose a different name instead of using their own names.
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10. Vloging Continued
You want the name to represent and explain what your YouTube channel is about. For example,
if you wanted to vlog about the latest fashion trends, you could pick a name like, “Fashion
Trends Today” or “Carly’s Fashion Picks”. You get the point! Choose a name that describes
your channel. After deciding on a name, fill in the required fields below and be sure to read over
the page terms before selecting, “I Agree”. Once you finish filling in the information required,
click on, “Done”.
Fill In The Required
Fields
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11. Take the YouTube Channel Tour
Once you finish the naming process, you are taken to your channel page. You may also see an
option at the top right of your page that invites you to take a tour of your new channel. It’s
quick and it helps you get familiar with different options for editing your channel.
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12. Edit YouTube Account Settings
In order to edit your account settings, you must go back to the drop down menu
by clicking on the downwards arrow and then select, “YouTube Settings”.
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13. Creating a Custom YouTube URL.
▪ It’s always great to have a custom YouTube URL instead of a default one. For example, your
YouTube channel url may be “www.YouTube.com/user/blahblah8920128h0hd0dn0–9” etc.
Instead, you can have a custom url for your channel that is branded. It can be
“www.YouTube.com/user/YourChannelName”
▪ This can be of great help when it comes to promoting your channel and your students work. It
is something that others can remember more easily.
▪ So let’s create a custom URL for your YouTube channel. After reaching the YouTube
settings page, click on the, “Advanced” button.
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14. Continued
You are now taken to the channel setting page. Click on the, “create custom url” button on the
right of the default url.
Click on the Advanced Button
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15. Custom Channel URL
Now, you have the choice of creating a custom URL. Remember, these are the words that come
after “User/” in the URL of “www.YouTube.com/user/YourURL “. Pick wisely!
After deciding on a URL, click on create channel url. You now have your own custom channel
url.
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16. 1. use the browser mode in youtube
2. associate a website with your youtube Channel
3. use royalty free art work royalty free images and music
royalty free music and youtube audio library
4. use great descriptions of what the videos are about
5. use script and captions
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Video Blogging for Beginners

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What is a blog?
The word ‘blog’ is short for web log. Blogs generally have the following features:
● They are updated regularly
● They consist of a collection of posts
● Each post has a date
● The newest posts appear at the top of the page
● A blog can be very much like an online diary. Indeed, one of the most popular
blogs on the internet is called The Diary of Samuel Pepys. On this blog, a
new entry from Samuel Pepys’s Diary appears every day.

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What is the difference between a
blog and a diary?
Blogs don’t need to be written from a personal
perspective.

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Blooms Taxonomy

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What is your definition of a learning goal and objective?
What do you think are the differences between the two?
How are they coupled with Bloom’s Taxonomy?
(Quick Pair Share)
Aristotle’s FISRT STEP

21. General Goals
“What do I want my students to know or be able to do by the end
of this course?”
Learning goals are specific statements of intended student attainment
of essential concepts and skills.
Example Goal:
The student will increase writing skills from having minimal ability
to organize a paragraph for an essay, to being able to create an
organized paragraph with a topic sentence, main idea, and supporting
facts.
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22. KNOWLEDGE / REMEMBERING
Exhibits previously learned material by recalling facts, terms, basic concepts and answers. “The
big idea”/Pre- Draft
▪ Use diagram
▪ Prewrite
Find, choose, spell, outline, rephrase, extend, interpret words and language chunks.
Adjectives and superlatives
Create timeline for vlog, list technical requirements.
Pair share s/s
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Blooms Taxonomy Stages

23. APPLYING
Creating a Video Script
What is a video script?
A video script is a chronological run-down of scenes, shots, action and dialogue
specifying who is saying and doing what, and when they're saying or doing it. Each page of
the script represents roughly one minute of screen time.
How to Write a Stellar Short Video Script - Scripted
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Blooms Taxonomy Stages

24. Scripting
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Blooms Taxonomy Stages

25. Analyzing
▪Examining and breaking information into parts by identifying motives or causes; making inferences and
finding evidence to support generalizations. Adapt. change, construct, compare
▪modify writing to create a vlog script
▪add details
▪refocus topic sentence
▪correct spelling, grammar and lexis mistakes
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Blooms Taxonomy Stages

26. Remembering - Round 2
▪ memorize script
▪ fluency work: sentence melody & rhythm / pronunciation
▪ double check captioning text for spelling and grammar (S/S)
▪ fluency
▪ melody
▪ phrasing
▪ tempo
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Blooms Taxonomy Stages

27. Evaluating
▪ evaluating writing script in pair work and via google docs
▪ use of rubrics for evaluation evaluation rubrics home
▪ listen to other students’ recordings and analyze their recording S/S
▪ whatsapp share
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Blooms Taxonomy Stages

28. Creating
▪ record complete reading
▪ add and choose music and or pictures
▪ special effects
▪ using technology in creating a published project
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Blooms Taxonomy Stages

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30. Finished Student Projects
and the EF Youtube Channel
▪EF Project - Vlogs: student book reviews
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Blooms Taxonomy Stages

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32. Evaluation
▪rubrics -peer + teacher
▪peer assessment
▪blog
This is when the conversation starts
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Blooms Taxonomy Stages