Using web tools to support
language learning and teaching
Susanne Winchester
[email protected]
What do we want our students to do?
Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning
Amanda Romjue, http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ofeoDFY61rsgrh0o1_400.png
How can technology support the learning
process?
How can web tools help?
The Evolution of the Web
Web 1.0
• static
• information transfer
Web 2.0
• user-centric: content created by user
• spread of social media
Web 3.0
• bringing the best of web 2.0 to mobile devices
• more intelligent systems through smart tagging improved search facilities
• improved infrastructure: cloud architecture
Using web tools to support teaching and
learning
Why?
How?
Reasons for using web tools
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To supplement what the module materials and VLE already offer
To engage students
To motivate students
To support learning
To provide opportunities for “overlearning”
To cater for different learning styles
To extend the learning environment beyond the VLE
To encourage digital literacy development
To widen participation and access
To support teaching
devised by A. Churches
http://www.edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Blooms_Digital_Taxonomy.jpg
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
(devised by A. Churches)
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/c4/fc/09/c4fc09da3945c15a78c976d324313148.jpg
http://designi
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Advising for (Language Learning)
From an article by Marina Mozzon-McPherson on “Language Advising”
https://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/gpg/93.html
My checklist for choosing web tools
What does it offer that is different from what we have?
What is the educational benefit of using the tool?
What do I want to achieve with it?
How easy is it to use it?
Is it platform-bound?
Is it suitable for the learner group and the learning context?
Is it open or is an account needed?
Is it free?
Digital vocab trainers – livebinder
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1198937
Quizlet
https://quizlet.com/
Example 1 – Quizlet SW sets
https://quizlet.com/SusanneWinchester
Vocabulary/factual
learning
Visualisation/explanation
Padlet
https://padlet.com/
Poplet
http://popplet.com/
Example 1 – Poplet
http://popplet.com/app/#/2829275
Example 2 – Padlet
http://padlet.com/s_winchester/4g6cumra4ozx
Example 3 – Padlet
http://padlet.com/susannefw/tqfysovr4wsa
Bubbl.us
https://bubbl.us/mindmap
Mind42
http://mind42.com/
Coggle
https://coggle.it/
Mind mapping
Example 1 – Mind42
https://mind42.com/public/ec7d5c7c-6d4d-4733-9521-ebf15a95e38d
Example 2 – bubbl.us
https://bubbl.us/?h=2f51f9/67169e/31Flct24OMu9E&r=1783452116
Example 3 - Coggle
https://coggle.it/diagram/Vxf8sLNkoHV0rgE/f1b28430220d944e6ac22805f0efae084ab9e26d1faf739dfba660e6142ea0f4
Vocaroo
http://vocaroo.com/
Tools for listening/audio
production
Voice Thread
https://voicethread.com/
Example 1 – Voicethread
https://voicethread.com/share/3432847/
Example 2 – Voicethread
http://voicethread.com/share/4017805/
Example 3 – Tellagami
https://tellagami.com/gami/FR93WA/
Twitter
https://twitter.com/
storybird MFL
http://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/
Makebeliefcomix
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
Tools for reading & writing
Example 1 - StoryJumper – French
http://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/22292/L-oiseau-vole
Example 2 – GoAnimate – French
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6KE24-XvtiY
Example 3 – Twitter -susannefw
https://twitter.com/susannefw
IM translator
http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/
Pronunciation
acapela
http://www.acapela-group.com/
voki
http://www.voki.com/
sound of text
http://soundoftext.com/
forvo
http://forvo.com/languages/de/
text to speech google
https://translate.google.co.uk/
Example 1 – voki reminder
http://www.voki.com/site/pickup?scid=2313903&width=575&height=323&chsm=ec8387be25d5ff04e0248ad59ca3
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Example 2 – IM translator
http://tts.imtranslator.net/YR7V
Example 3 – google text-to-speech message
https://translate.google.co.uk/#auto/en/Ich%20w%C3%BCnsche%20Ihnen%20viel%20Gl%C3%BCck%20bei%20T
MA%203
Screencasting
Jing
https://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
Screencastomatic
http://screencast-o-matic.com/home
Jing for Feedback and Instruction Presentation
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B82iZfn6606EWm1Ga0ZEdy1rTms/view?usp=sharing
Example 1 - Screencastomatic
http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/c2ijF1nGJ6
Example 2 – Screencastomatic
http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/c21hQtngye
Example 3 – Jing – labelled image
http://screencast.com/t/X2tyylsdPz
Example 4 – Jing – instructions
http://screencast.com/t/RqLTywT6P
Digital archiving
Example 1 – livebinder: Earth Day Project
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=874283
Example 2 – livebinder: French
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=879513
Example 3 – livebinder: German Teaching and Learning
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=52674
Example 4 – livebinder: Academic English
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1573972
Example 5 – livebinders: flashcards
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1198937
Open Educational Resources
Languages Open Resources Online
http://loro.open.ac.uk/
Images for teaching
Photos for class
http://www.photosforclass.com/about/citing-photos
Flickr Commons
http://www.flickr.com/commons
ELT pics
http://www.eltpics.com/
Picfindr
http://www.picfindr.com/
Free digital photos
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/
Example 1 - Vocaroo & popplet
http://popplet.com/app/#/2829275
My take on “app
smashing”!
Example 2 - Jing & storybird
http://screencast.com/t/L4xBMu9IF
Example 3 – Jing & OU Live
http://www.screencast.com/t/XslMoXKQ
Example 4 – Jing & mod. Materials in pdf
http://www.screencast.com/t/bWs7zTORV
Example 5 – Jing & tutorial summary in OU Live
http://www.screencast.com/t/f2aZLcFdCq
Example 6 – Jing image & screencast
http://screencast.com/t/KeDihathD
Example 7 – Quizlet test & forum
https://quizlet.com/42138856/test?written=on&matching=on&mult_choice=on&tf=on&prompt-with=1&limit=42
Example 8 – Rundblick vocab on Quizlet & livebinder
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1825592
Example 1 – Twitter: Joe Dale
https://twitter.com/joedale
Continuous Professional
Development
Example 2 – Twitter: #twitterati
https://twitter.com/hashtag/mfltwitterati?src=hash
Example 3 – Twitter: Russell Stannard
https://twitter.com/russell1955
Example 4 – Blog: Nik Peachey
https://nikpeachey.blogspot.co.uk/
Example 5 – Alan Carrington
http://designingoutcomes.com/the-padagogy-wheel-v4-0-the-next-generation/
Example 6 – Jürgen Wagner, Landesinstitut Saarland für Pädagogik und Medien
(a provider of free webinars on the use of media in the (languages) classroom; a list of
recorded webinars in French, English and German; Alan Carrington discussed his
„Pedagogy Wheel in the Flipped Classroom“ on 18.7.2016:
http://www.lpm.uni-sb.de/typo3/index.php?id=4161
Explore in your group one or two of the areas covered in the
presentation (e.g. pronunciation; app smashing). If you have
access to the livebinder or the links, you can check some of
the examples. If not, exchange your experience of the tools
and how you could integrate them into your teaching.
THANK YOU!
SUSANNE WINCHESTER
[email protected]