The document presents a comprehensive overview of Web 2.0 tools that can enhance English Language Teaching (ELT) practices, emphasizing the importance of digital literacy in the 21st century. It discusses various tools for communication, collaboration, and creativity, including blogs, podcasts, social networks, and virtual worlds, and their potential to engage students and improve learning outcomes. Additionally, it provides links to resources and further reading on ICT competency standards for teachers and effective technology integration in education.

1. Powerful Web 2.0 tools for the ELT Classroom Best Affiliates’ Presentations TESOL Convention – New Orleans, March 16-19, 2011 Evelyn Izquierdo VenezuelaTESOL (VenTESOL) http://ventesol.ning.com

2. Aim This presentation offers an introduction to Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networking, etc) as a way to empower our ELT practice.

3. Digital literacy in the 21st century

4. Are teachers prepared for 21st century students?

5. According to UNESCO’s ICT Competency Standards for Teachers (2008) to live, learn, and work successfully in an increasingly complex, information-rich and knowledge-based society, students and teachers must utilize technology effectively. Within a sound educational setting, technology can enable students to become: • Capable information technology users • Information seekers, analyzers, and evaluators • Problem solvers and decision makers • Creative and effective users of productivity tools • Communicators, collaborators, publishers, and producers • Informed, responsible, and contributing citizens Digital Literacy: Competencies

7. Web 2.0 Web 2.0 facilitates communication, information exchange and collaboration under a dynamic environment where users participate in the design and production of the site. Web 2.0 sites allow the use of multiple artifacts, being able to generate and share information, organize social networks, exchange videos photos, wikis, blogs, podcasts, and folksonomies among other advantages.

8. Some tools for listening and speaking Video calls: Skype Podcasts Webbased recorders: Pod -O- matic Chirbit Voki Spreaker Software: Audacity Voice tools: Voicethread Voxopop Voki Images Videos: YouTube

9. Some audio tools and voice recorders

10. Samples Blogs Podcasts Glogster Digital coursebook Twitter Literature on Webheads in action’s site

11. Some tools for storytelling Images: Flickr Photopeach Fotobabble Glogster : Text, images, music, videos Phrasr Cartoon Voice/video tool: xtranormal

12. Some key tools/resources for reading skills Blogs E-books E-story sites Microblogging

13. Some tools for writing skills Blogs: Blogger Wordpress Posterous Penzu

14. Some tools for collaborative work Wikis Wikispaces Pbworks Wetpaint Google docs Diigo

15. Popular storage, online back up and sharing sites Dropbox Google docs BlipTV Scribd

16. Some bookmarking tools Del.icio.us Diigo Others

17. Virtual worlds Some popular virtual worlds are: Second Life , OpenSim , Sun Microsystems MPK20 , World of Warcraft , Eve Online , Club Penguin , WhyVille , Gaia , WebKinz , Neopets , HabboHotel , There , Kaneva , Stardoll , PixieHollow , and Virtual MTV , among others. The most famous of all is Second Life . Second Life is an online, totally free, 3D virtual world that offers its users opportunities to create, interact, having fun and learn through an avatar. It is a net of networks that allows users to organize in groups and communities of practice.

18. Popular social networks Facebook Twitter Ning StumbleUpon Digg (also social bookmarking) Groups: Yahoo, MSM, Google

19. Other popular tools Social networks: MySpace , Sonico , Hi5 , Tagged , Orkut , Bebo Sites to storage and share audio, create podcasts, leave audio messages or make phone calls: Podbean , Skype , etc. Photos: Flickr , Bubbleshare , Picassa , Photobucket etc. Videos: You Tube , TeacherTube , Bliptv , Metacafe , etc. Blogs (blogs): Blogger , Wordpress , etc. Microblogging: Twitter , Crowdstatus , etc. Wikis: Wikipedia , Wikieducator , Wetpaint , Wikispaces Doc and PPT storage sites: Thinkfree , Box.net , Google docs , Slideshare , Dropbox Learning environments, platforms or virtual rooms: Learning Times , Tapped in , Elluminate , WiZiQ , Moodle Virtual worlds: Second Life and others already mentioned; and Board markers: Wallwisher , etc

20. Further resources American Association for Higher Education (October, 1999) and the Council of Independent Colleges (February, 2004). Information Literacy Competency Standards of Higher Education. [Online] Available at: http:// www.ala.org /ala/ mgrps / divs / acrl /standards/ standards.pdf Retrieved April 15, 2009. Downes, S. (2007) What connectivism is . [En línea] Blog: Half an hour. [Online] Available at : http:// halfanhour.blogspot.com /2007/02/ what - connectivism - is.html Retrieved November 23, 2008 Educational Testing Service, International ICT Literacy Panel (2002). Digital transformation: A framework for ICT literacy (A report of the International ICT Literacy Panel). Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service. [Online] Disponible en: http:// www.ets.org /Media/ Research / pdf / ictreport.pdf Retrieved March 18, 2009 Izquierdo, E. y Verschoor, J. (2009). Social Bookmarks . Integrating Technology for Instruction and Learning. [Online] Available at: http:// www.slideshare.net / EvelynIzquierdo /social- bookmarking -1293488 Retrieved April 3, 2009 UNESCO (2008, en Eduteka). ICT Competency Standards for Teachers[Online, Eduteka Website] Available at http:// www.eduteka.org/EstandaresDocentesUnesco.php Retrieved January 18, 2009

21. Useful Web sites http:// avealmec.org.ve / http://evelynizquierdo.wordpress.com http://www.go2web20.net/ http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/ http://podcastingevo2011activities.blogspot.com/ http://sitesforteachers.com/ http://web2storytelling.wikispaces.com/ http://www.toolsforeducators.com/ http://www.webheadsinaction.org

22. Thank you! Evelyn Izquierdo MS in EFL, ESP teacher at Universidad Central de Venezuela , e-tutor, Web 2.0 trainer, current president of Avealmec (Venezuela CALL association), Webhead , e- moderator of several social networks and VenTESOL ’Communications Coordinator. Contact information: Universidad Central de Venezuela Email: [email_address] Skype: evelyn.izquierdo Twitter: @eveweb Second Life: Evelyn Michalski http://evelynizquierdo.wordpress.com/