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Tools for tasks in blended learning
Anne Hodgson BESIG Bielefeld 21 November 2010
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Learning is social
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Connected learning provides
• informaBon access across networks • the serendipity of incoming informaBon
• the ability to form lasBng, deep relaBonships based on shared interests and agendas
• opportuniBes to experiment, the wellspring of learning
• a challenge to tradiBonal roles & structures
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“Deep Bnkering”
geMng to the heart of what makes things work John Seely Brown, John Hagel
The Power of Pull, 2009
Connected learning enables
deep Bnkering
John Seely Brown, John Hagel: The Power of Pull (2009)
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Where I‘ve been
• Moodle for academics • Spotlight Online
• Nings: company courses & My English Club
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Online task culture
• Gear exercise to follow‐up exercise • Promote group responsibiliBes
• Clarify feedback procedures • Promote performance through peer pressure and the act of performing before an audience
• Make connecBon to face to face course clear
• Connect tasks to learner’s real environment
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Tools for wriBng
• ReflecBve: blog (Blogger, Posterous) • CommunicaBve: chat, forum, blog comments, social networking (Ning, Twi\er, Facebook)
• ExploraBve: forum/ case studies, expanding/reducing; wikis; chatbots (e.g. ESLfast); concordancers (e.g. Collins)
• Using and creaBng picture prompts (Tuxpi) • Slideshow: storytelling (Animoto) • Quotes as prompts (iWise) • Peer created quizzes; quizzes for revision (ProProfs)
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More tools for wriBng
Bitstrips
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Create a comic strip
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Xtranormal: text to speech cartoon
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Tools for reading
• Blogroll/ links on social network, Google Reader, RSS feeds
• social networking to discuss reading • Tag clouds for predicBon/ revision/reconstrucBon/ comparison (Wordle, Tagxedo)
• Visual thesaurus Vocabgrabber • Cue prompter (reading for gist/speed)
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Tools for listening
• podcasts, comprehension quesBons (news or e.g. Manager Tools, Business Spotlight
• create gapfills (keep it simple: just docs! Also possible : quiz apps like Quizlet or Hot Potatoes)
• dictaBon pracBce (e.g. Business Spotlight, LEO Network, English Club etc.)
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Tools for speaking
• visualisaBon sojware, mindmaps, sBckies • voice recording (GarageBand or Audacity, iTunes)
• Video (iTunes) • text to voice (iSpeech, Voki) • Skype • Pecha Kucha presentaBon
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Reading up
• Nik Peachey (tools) & Russell Stannard (teacher training videos) and many more!
• E‐ModeraBon StaBon by Nicky Hockly (The Consultants‐e)
• Task suites: Sean Banville’s Breaking News English, Sue Lyons Jones’s Esol courses and many more!
• My “community” tech blog Ask AunBe Web