1. ICT- thinking outside the classroom box [email_address] www.chrisfuller.typepad.com where all of todays presentations will be available to download www.edgehillcollege.typepad.com

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First, important things to know...

I AM NOT AN ICT EXPERT!!!

• I am a Spanish teacher, who was taught how to use PowerPoint 4 years ago.

• I do not know how the Internet works, I just push buttons, especially the back button when things go wrong.

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First, important things to know...

• 2) The ideas that I pass on in this session are not...

• Completely comprehensive

• They will not destroy your life

• • 3) No notes needed- will be onwww.chrisfuller.typepad.com

4. If school is to be a truly rewarding experience for todays students, it must be relevant to them. Connected magazine, Learning and teaching Scotland 5.

what a blog actually is

ways to use a blog to enhance teaching and learning

how to use moblogging to complement and enhance use of a blog

how to create podcasts and add them to iTunes

how podcasts can be used in the classroom

how mobiles and ipods can be used to enhance learning beyond the classroom

During this session we will look at 6. Is this the future?

Young peoples familiarity with ICT offers a great opportunity to language teachers. It seems to us that a determined commitment to use this world, which is so familiar to young people, is a key to increasing the engagement of young people of all ages with languages. New technologies can facilitate real contacts with schools and young people in other countries. They can also provide stimulus for creative and interactive work .

(Lord Dearing - Languages Review March 2007)

7. What is a blog?!?!?!

Blog=web log

• Traditionally used as an online diary

• A typical blog combines a variety of media forms

• Key element is huge increase in interactivity- INFORMATIONCOMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY.

Blogging 8.

Who uses blogs?

• Teachers for motivation

• • www.edgehillcollege.typepad.com

• • www.roydslanguagesdepartment.typepad.com

• • Teachers for reflections / to share ideas

• http:// tinyurl.com/ycdamq (Neil Jones, resources)

• www.boxoftricks.net(Jose Picardo, ideas)

Blogging 9.

What can we actually use a blog for?!?!

• Showing pupils work

• Sharing files

• Showing pupils videos etc

• Increasing Assessment for Learning

• Increasing self-evaluation

Blogging 10. Why useblogs?

Motivation - make the world your classroom wall

• Learning no longer confined to exercise books

• Who is the audience for work which goes into an exercise book?

• Truly global perspective

• • Can be demonstrated by visitors maps on blogs

Blogging 11. The last 100 visitors to the Spanish blog 12. Why useblogs?

Writing

• Increased motivation- will be viewed by more than just the teacher

Blogging 13. Why useblogs?

Reading

• pupils constantly reading and re-reading each others work

• • Allows for dissemination of good ideas

• Allows free choice of which sections to read

• Aids pupil independence

Blogging 14. Why useblogs?

Speaking

• Pupil and teacher generated podcasts

• Speaking tests / exercises

• =learning opportunity rather than just an assessment opportunity

• - can be done in the form of vokis, podcasts etc

• Provides a platform for pupil-made videos

Blogging 15. Why useblogs?

Listening

• To podcasts (on the blog or via links)

• To videos (pupil created, music, adverts, football commentaries etc)

• To peers work

Blogging 16. Why useblogs?

Assessment for Learning

• Comment function allows peer assessment using Two Stars and a Wish formula

• • = 2 positive elements

• • + 1 element to work at next time

• Self-assessment as pupils comment on their own work and thus self target set.

Blogging 17. Music video - great cultural input - an interesting homework to find body parts/ weather types - Year 8 pupils were mostly humming the song round school for next few days Ideas for use Blogging 18. Pupil-made videos -high level of motivation - Provides for easy review of work which might otherwise be lost Blogging 19.

www.voki.com

- Pupils write scripts

Peer assess

Practise

Record

High level of enjoyment

Blogging 20.

Year 8 wrote Guess Who style self-descriptions

For next homework, pupils read the descriptions and left a comment saying who they were

Blogging 21.

Who provides the blog facility?

TypePad-www.typepad.com

• Easiest for inserting fun stuff (provider that I use)

Blogger - www.blogger.com

Edublogs - www.edublogs.org

Wordpress - www.wordpress.org

Many, many more

Blogging 22. To learn about further tools to complement blogs

www.slideshare.net - embedding .ppt

www.blip.tv - uploading pupil videos easily

Blogging 23. Frequently Asked Questions

Wont it all take ages?

Will anyone actually look at the blog?

What effect will it have on my department?

What about Child Protection?

Blogging 24. Effective use of Podcasts and iTunes 25. Podcasting What is a podcast? - effectively an audio file which is then put onto the Internet 26. Podcasting How have I used them? - Grammar series - role-play raps - pupil recordings - pupil grammar explanations 27. Podcasting Grammar series created to help reinforce grammar learning OUTSIDE of the classroom - responding to a request by a pupil - FANTASTIC for audio learners 28. Podcasting Role-play raps Created to strenghten knowledge of key role-play scenarios - each set to a different musical style to aidrecognition 29. Podcasting Pupil grammar explanations - benefit of explaining to others - need for script - peer assessment on podcasts - minimal teacher input, maximum output - pupils then have an immediate revision tool 30. Podcasting

Sounds hard, but isnt!

Record podcast...

31. Podcasting

How to record a podcast...

Recording material

Audacity for PCs-www.download.com

+ LAME FE

(allows you to export as MP3)

ORGarageband for Macs

32. Easy way to change volume levels Highlight sections then delete Podcasting 33. To finish the podcast, export as MP3 Podcasting 34. Podcasting

So we have our finished podcast, now what?

Insert it into a blog post as an .mp3 file

Add it to iTunes- very easy to do thanks towww.podomatic.comandwww.jellycast.com

35. Using mobiles in the classroom 36. Using mobile phones

Issues:

Banned in many schools

Risks of inappropriate behaviour

Fear of pupil intercompetition

Concern of pupils not having a phone

37. Using mobile phones

However, there are huge benefits...

Enjoyment and motivation- MFL becomes cool again

Speaking the pupils language whilst teaching them ours

Increasing range of services available via WAP

• e.g. YouTube

• Extension of learning beyond classroom

38. Using mobile phones

Useful tools available on most mobile phones...

Voice recorder

Camera

Video camera

Stop-watch

Bluetooth

Ability to play-back videos and music

How much would it cost a department to have enough of these to share between 2? 39. Using mobile phones

Ideas for video projects using mobiles...

Describing school as go round it

Describing local area

Guide to saving the environment

Following and giving directions

Describing friends

Recording grammar explanations during the lesson

40. Issue: how to get the recordings back to the teacher Options- 1) bluetooth them to a computer 2) bluetooth them to teachers phone 3) other options? Using mobile phones 41. For example, directions: - in pairs, pupils decide which room they will give directions to -write script - walk around the building and record the directions - swap phones / bluetooth to each other and follow the instructions - find out whether they followed instructions appropriately FOR EXAMPLE Using mobile phones 42. House and home - pupils build up to estate-agent styledescription of their house - free choice of recording manners - mobile phone - voice recording - video on camera Using mobile phones 43.

Key = extending learning beyond the classroom

- more and more we will also need to think about how to capitalise on the power of ipods

quizzes produced usingwww.iquizmaker.com

videos converted usingwww.zamzar.com

podcasts

mobile slideshows /role-play raps

Using mobile phones 44. For more info www.chrisfuller.typepad.com (where this presentation will be available to download) [email_address]