Healey-Tech tools for busy teachers

Technology Tools Overview

Deborah Healey, dhealey@uoregon.eduUniversity of Oregon, American English

Institutehttps://sites.google.com/site/techtoolsforbusyelteachers/

http://www.deborahhealey.com

Your tool collection?

Agenda Beliefs about teaching, learning,

and technology Resources

Planning tools Teaching/learning tools Assessment and feedback Motivators

Starting us off

What are your beliefs about teaching and learning?Thumbs up/thumbs down

The Internet is a great resource for English languagematerial.

Students always do exactly what teachers want them to do.

Teachers always make the right choices about online material.

Thumbs up/down Teachers need to create a good

environment for learning. Technology is a distraction in the

classroom. Students would rather talk to other

students than to their teacher. Teachers always have lots of time. Students are experts in learning

with technology.

Beliefs => use

Planning tools

Lesson plans and articles: iteslj.org lp art tech

List of topics: eleaston.comOrganizing your links: www.delicious.com

ITESLJ Lesson Plans

Internet TESL Journal

EL Easton

EL Easton – www.eleaston.com More links than you could ever

imagine Business English sample page For language learners?

NO!

EL Easton

Organize and find your web linksFrom any computer

Tap into what others have found and saved

“Social bookmarking”

Delicious.com

Delicious Sample

Controlled material

www.breakingnewsenglish.com sample search

Ready-made activities for use in class or outside of class – Everest mp3Easier: Football sample mp3

Special English: www.voanews.com/specialenglish advice ...

Authentic material

Sources of academic texts: www.deborahhealey.com/digitallibraries.html

DOAJ: www.doaj.org/ ol Openj-Gate: www.openj-gate.com/

(not now)

Literature – why digital? Project Gutenberg:

www.gutenberg.org home audio popular

ConcepTest

When learners use a website, the teacher should do which of the following:

a) Give them the web address and tell them to try it.

b) Give them a list of suggested activities and have them choose one.

c) Assign a specific task related to information on the website as homework.

Online teacher tools

readabilitywww.twurdy.com ol – critical thinking

authoring www.lessonwriter.com ol TIBSample

visual vocabulary www.visuwords.com screencast

Register to create lessons Add a text; choose vocabulary,

grammar points, pronunciation from the text It’s a machine- read carefully to be sure

grammar and vocabulary are correct Add graphic organizers, comprehension

questions Save or print

Assessment

Rubrics withrubistar.4teachers.org sample1 sample2-revised

Surveys with Google Formsdocs.google.com => Forms

Feedback and sharing Word tools – sample - video

Insert Comments Track Changes – Compare documents

Sharing with Google Docs: docs.google.com Simultaneous editing from different

locations Screencasting: ScreenR, Jing,

Screencast-o-Matic Sample writing conference

Motivation to learn

What motivates people to learn? What motivates students to learn? Your ideas...

Authentic audience

Tandem learning www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/etandem

/etindex-en.html ol

Projects to join http://www.iearn.org/ ol

www.thinkquest.org/en/projects/ ol

Authentic audience

Blog – individual or class: www.blogger.com

Web page (wiki): http://sites.google.com ol

Student Forums at Dave’s ESL Café http://forums.eslcafe.com/student/ ol

TakingITGlobal – student awareness and cultural forums: www.tigweb.org/ ol

Class discussion

Focus on writing Any topic – chosen by the teacher

or the class Plan ahead

Have students work in groups Use as homework due in a week “Inverted classroom” ...

Class discussion

Nicenet: www.nicenet.org Yahoo group: groups.yahoo.com Google group: groups.google.com Facebook - create a class

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/

“Inverted class”

Time to reflect…

Best use of technology in YOUR classroom?

Overall..

How much time could you save with good tools?

How much motivation could students gain?

QuickWrite

Take 2 minutes and write down three things that You learned and You will share with someone else

Write another two things that You will try to use

“It’s not so much the program, more what you do with it”

(Jones, 1986)

Thanks!

Deborah Healeydhealey@uoregon.eduwww.deborahhealey.com

https://sites.google.com/site/techtoolsforbusyelteachers/