Oral production and interaction in a foreign language through online ICT tools

SPEAKAPPS PARTNERS

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Jagiellonian University in Krakow

University of GroningenUniversity of Jyväskylä

Dublin City University

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. All here provided information and documentation reflects the views

only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Website: www.speakapps.euPlatform: moddle.speakapps

Twitter: @speakapps

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)Office of Learning Technologies

Av. Tibidabo, 43. 08003 Barcelona. SpainTel.: + 34 93 253 23 00Fax: + 34 93 417 64 95

Email: speakapps@uoc.edu

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SpeakApps is

A collaboratively-based repository of supporting activities and methodologies to be carried out in your classroom.

An online platform to access the tools and organize your virtual classrooms at your wish.

A series of free online tools to enhance oral skills among your students. Useful both in face-to-face courses or online courses.

A multilingual European project involving 6 languages (English, Catalan, Dutch, Irish, Polish and Swedish) and 5 countries (Spain, Netherlands, Ireland, Poland and Finland).

Enter our Moodle platform by creating a free account and try out our tools and methodologies. Tell us what you think.

The SpeakApps tools are Open Source. Download and install. Help us develop further.

Visit our Open Educational Resources repository. Browse, download, upload and comment on existing activities. You can copy and adapt them to your needs using the OER editor.

Join our community and share your ideas and experiences on language learning, specially related to oral skills, with other teachers.

Help us adapt SpeakApps to other languages or even other learning contexts.

There are several ways to start collaborating with us:

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20 Slides and other documentation available through SlideShare

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Teacher training sessions & Online teacher training programme

visits to the website, with more than 7.000 unique visitors and nearly 27.000 page views

25Videos on YouTube, with more than 3.000 views

Open educational resources (OER)+ Projects, activities and tasks available for all 6 SpeakApps languages. + Multiple search criteria possibilities: by type, language, tool, CEF level, etc.+ Useful contents for face-to-face, blended and distance learning, whether using SpeakApps tools or not.+ Built within a wiki environment, easily allowing contributions, collabora-tions and feedback.

Working environment:+ The online environment to access project tools and resources. + Available in up to 6 languages.

SpeakApps Moodle platform:

Community+ Twitter: stay up to date and comment about SpeakApps in 140 characters.+ Create a group in the SpeakApps platform and share ideas and experiences.+ Technical Support Blogs for every tool and for the platform.

A system to allow your students to conduct videochat sessions, record them and archive them in very few clicks.

An application for administering materials to students engaged in information gap activities in real time, either inside or outside the classroom

A blog with audio and videofunctionalities for practicing oral production and easily assess your students.

+ These tools are available in all 6 SpeakApps languages and open to be adapted to many others. + There are also InfoBlogs available, with user-guides and pedagogical guides.

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Organised as an open source software community: all materials, activities and tools are available for download, online use and further development.

Open Source Software Community

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