 Easy,
 Tom
fun, meaningful tasks with technology
Walton
Do it #1
With a partner…
1. Show your partner an object of personal value
2. Find out all you can about your partner’s object
3. Photograph it
#1 Single digital image +text
Steps
• Take out (bring?) object of personal value to selves
• Show to partner
• Partner discovers all about object, why important
• Partner takes photo(-s) of object
• Partner writes text
• Swop roles
• Edit text and (single, best…) image
• Share texts and images (blog, Flickr, noticeboard…)
 Original idea: TechLearning.com “Portraits of Learning”
 Example: enmibolsillo.blogspot.com
Sharing photos
• On camera /phone
• Via Windows Explorer
• Noticeboard in classroom
• Flickr.com
• Blog
Easy, fun, meaningful tasks…
Easy…
Fun…
Meaningful…
•Uses technology
available in school
•Creative
•Tasks with “answers”
that matter to people
•Fast, easy to set up
•Free
•No installation
•Can’t go wrong (in
theory!)
•Limited post-class
production
•Technology-light
•Enjoyable
•Shared
•Motivating
•Successful
•Real questions
•Have an end-product
that is shared
•Lead to real language
use… and to language
learning
Using technology to create
and share end-products
Do it #2
With a partner…
1. Look around you for an object (possibly the
same one as before)
2. Photograph it from an unusual angle/very close
up
If you are waiting for a camera:
What are the advantages/disadvantages of using
a disposable camera for this project?
#2 Mystery pix on a disposable camera
Steps
• Single disposable camera provided to first pair
• Pair have 48 hours to take 3 photos of
“mystery objects” (no “telling”!)
mobile phone,
digital camera,
webcam
• Camera then handed on to the next pair
• Pictures printed, shared via noticeboard
blog, Flickr…
• Guessing game, orally/via pieces of paper
via blog
comments
 Original idea: Susana Ortiz
#2b Adv.+Disadv. of disposable camera
• Having to develop
(cost)
• Limited number of
photos
• Can’t upload (without
scanning first)
• Can’t edit (unless
scanned)
• …?
• Easy !!!
• Greater mystery
• Shared experience
• More of a challenge
• …?
#2b Alternatives…
• Eyes
• Feet
• Shoes
• Pictures of city…
• Etc.
Editing images
• Paint *
• Picnik.com *
• Picasa *
• Gimp *
• Fireworks, €400 (?)
• Photoshop, €985 (?)
*free
Do it #3
DON’T
just do it: CREATE it (#3)
In groups of at least 4…
1. Discuss when language learning actually occurs
2. Storyboard a tableau vivant using stick figures
3. Create tableau
4. Photograph it
Roles: Director, camera person, actors/actresses…
 Original idea: Tom Walton
#3 Language learning taking place
#3 Language learning taking place
Steps
• Discuss when language learning takes place, in
what circumstances, what factors affect it..
open class, but
poss. on blog, as
ppt. presentations
• Storyboard tableau vivant with stick figures
keep, share,
scan (?)
• Create tableau (roles: director, cameraperson,
actors…)
• Take photograph(-s)
• Share and present photographs (+text?)
 Original idea: Tom Walton
noticeboard,
PowerPoint,
blog…
This is my classroom…
door
whiteboard
window
www.
(a) where’s the technology…?
(b) what’s the technology being used for…?
 [email protected]
 www.ihes.com/bcn/tt/eltblog/blog/
what’s the technology being used for…?
• creation, sharing, engagement, interaction,
dialogue, owning and belonging…
where’s the technology…?
• not getting in the way of language learning
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 www.ihes.com/bcn/tt/eltblog/blog/