The web tools and apps we use

today

Elba Méndez García

Markee’s Theoretical Framework (2001:120)

“Proposals for qualitative change in pedagogical materials, approaches, and values that are perceived as new by individuals who comprise a formal (language) education system”

Three web tools and apps

• EnglishCentral

• AudioBoom

• VoiceThread

• It is a website and an application for iOS and Android which allows users to listen to, record and share sound files.

• It is a tool that allows you to load up pictures and videos and then record yourself and others talking about them.

• It allows you to take a course and speak and learn English online with a speech recognition system, vocabulary and pronunciation tools.

English Central

It allows you to take a course and speak and learn English online with a speech recognition system, vocabulary and pronunciation tools.

Audio Boom

It is a website and an application for iOS and Android which allows users to listen to, record and share sound files.

Voice Thread

It is a tool that allows you to load up pictures and videos and then record yourself and others talking about them.

Share three!

Our web tools and apps

• Why using them?

• What area(s) of language learning are enhanced with each tool/app?

• What can our language learners do with it?

Implementation of innovation

Implementation of innovation (Markee, 1997)

• P5: Innovation is an inherently messy, unpredictable business

• P6: It always takes longer to effect change than originally anticipated

Implementation of innovation (Markee, 2001)

Acto

rsChange agents

Adopters

Resisters

Adoption of innovation process (Markee, 1997)

Gaining knowledge of innovation

Being persuaded of its value

Making a preliminary

decision to adopt it

Implementing decision to adopt

innovation

Continuing decision to continue using it

Psychological profiles

Early-adopters Laggards

S-shaped diffusion curve: adopters who implement an innovation

Being persuaded of its value

Being persuaded of its value

• https://voicethread.com/myvoice/#u756032.b1283689.i12682446

Being persuaded of its value

• https://voicethread.com/myvoice/#u756032.b2134586.i11392758

Being persuaded of its value

• https://voicethread.com/myvoice/#u756032.b2092992.i11150162

Persuading others of its value

Being persuaded of its value

• https://audioboo.fm/boos/1918671-cinema-answer

Persuading others of its value

Being persuaded of its value

• www.englishcentral.com/

“Innovations themselves possess attributes which tend to promote or inhibit their adoption” (Markee, 2001)

Relative advantage to

PA

Compativility with previous

P

ComplexityTrialability

Observability

Adoption of innovation process (Markee, 1997)

• Identify opinion leaders• Articulate collaborative work with early

adopters• Provide late adopters opportunities to use it• Promote ownership of innovation• Bear in mind the diffussion curve• Smile: you are a change agent now

References

• Markee, N. (1997). Managing curricular innovation. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press

• Markee, N. (2001). The diffusion of innovation in language teaching. In Hall, A. and Hewings, A. (eds.) (2001). Innovation in English Language Teaching. Routledge: London, pp. 118 – 126.

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