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TESOL and Technology:
‘e-(sl) learning in a new age’
Kaplan PLI 2013 – Session 2
Sara [email protected]
Please open the workshop blog page: sarayuentesol.blogspot.ca and click on the ‘Kaplan PLI June 2013’ tab.
Recap of Session 1:
Google docs, formsBlogsVocarooSoundcloudWordle Tagxedo
Wallwisher.comGlogster Edububbl.us
digital literacy: “the ability to effectively and critically navigate, evaluate and create information using a range of digital technologies. It requires one "to recognize and use that power, to manipulate and transform digital media, to distribute pervasively, and to easily adapt them to new forms.” (Wikipedia, n.d.)
Today:
More Web 2.0 Tools – project-based learning & digital storytelling
Digital Citizenship
Developing your PLN
Best Practices
Web 2.0: sites that are not static; “allow users to interact and collaborate with each other…as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community”(Wikipedia, n.d.)
What is Digital Storytelling?
“the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories” (University of Houston)
text, images, recorded narration, music, video clips
personal stories that we want to share
using our own voice, thoughtful & expressive story creation
Digital Stories… are short (2 to 4 minutes long)
are interesting & meaningful to the storyteller
are clearly narrated
have interesting pictures that match the story
are ‘from the heart’
Why?
Project-based language learning
Writing: brainstorming, outlining, draftingExpressivist writing: finding YOUR (English) voice
Speaking, Listening, Pronunciation, Vocabulary
Editing: peer/self/instructor
Purposeful language use, with an audience in mind
Digital literacy
Identity, self-expression
Sharing, collaborating, learning
www.cnhelsadsp.weebly.com
Steps to Making a Digital Story
Screening Party!
concept written story
digital story
Other alternatives to using iMovie or MovieMaker:
Voicethread.comMyBrainshark.com…..?
Task: Try your hand at workshop task (using MyBrainshark.com on the TESL Canada presentation blog:
Digital Citizenship
What is it?
The norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use (Ribble, 2011).
The 9 elements of Digital Citizenship (Ribble, 2011)
Digital Citizenship (cont’d)
Think before you post!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/17/us-teacher-blog-odd-idUSTRE71G4WQ20110217
Digital Citizenship (cont’d)
Think before you posthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbpKawqA6VQ
Digital tattoo - What’s yours? http://digitaltattoo.ubc.ca/
www.digizen.org
Checklist/Questions to consider:
Does your school have a policy about Internet and technology use?
Developing your Personal Learning Network
"A personal learning network is an informal learning network that consists of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from in a personal learning environment. In a PLN, a person makes a connection with another person with the specific intent that some type of learning will occur because of that connection." (Wikipedia, n.d.)
Don’t Knock ‘Em…
Best Practices for TESOL & Technology:
Let’s go back to our goals/questions from the questionnaire:
Parting words:
It’s not really about “what we can do online, but why and how we are going to do it. Content alone will not transform our teaching approach. We need to think about how students can best interact with the content, the medium, and each other, in a quest for connectivity and meaning” (Felix, 2002, p. 3)
The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed.
-William Gibson
