3 great tools for teaching and learning

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Russell Stannard
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Today’s Talk
 Quick bit of information about me
 3 tools and how they relate to

Getting our students speaking
Reflection
Collaboration
 Questions


When Rod Bolitho employed me


Russell Stannard
 Lecture on the MA in ELT at the University of Warwick
 Run www.teachertrainingvideos.com
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show teachers how to use technology in their teaching.
Won the British Council ELTons award for technology
Won the Times Higher Innovation award
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The Connected Classroom
 Frustrated in what I could get students to do for homework
 Frustrated with the amount of speaking I could get my
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students to do
Result of various experiments going back over nearly 10
years (Peter Schneider/David Kluge)
Practice a speaking activity in the class but do recordings at
home
Trying to find easy technologies that can allow even
technophobic teachers to try out my ideas
Looking at longer recordings ( assessment, e-Portfolios )

What type of Speaking
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Interviews
Explanations of typical day
What you did last weekend
Telling a story
Opinions on a topic
Read aloud
Basic personal information
Exam Practice in pairs/groups
Reflections
Descriptions

Vocaroo
 Simple website
 Click on a button, record yourself speaking
 Press another button and send the recording like an

email
 Teachers receive the email and can listen
 Great for getting students to talk
 Recordings can be collected and built up over a course.


MailVu-Webcam Tool
 Simple tools
 This tool includes use of Webcam
 Can record webcam/voice
 Click one button to record, one button to send

 Great for the Connected Classroom idea-used in a

series of experiments at the University of Warwick.


Easy Peazy Lemon Squeezy


Speaking using audio tools
 The more I connected the class and the homework the
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better the students did the recordings.
I can build up a collection of recordings and use them
in an e-Portfolio
Providing feedback can be a problem
Looking into peer feedback/self-evaluation
Students make recordings, evaluate/self evaluate and
choose 2 to put forward for formal assessment.


myBrainShark
 My favourite discovery of 2011
 Free site
 Allows you to load up Powerpoint, Word, PDF, Picture

and even video and then add voice
 myBrainShark packs the sound and files and then
produces a link which you can share/embed
 Great for low levels ( describing a picture) right up to
high levels doing a full PP presentation.


myBrainShark-so much potential
 Michelle-Doing EAP example
 Cecliia-Reflecting on a lesson

Speaking (pairs/groups)
Reflection on a lesson (teacher practice)
Reflecting on the development of your dissertation
Reflecting on what you learnt


PresentMe
 Site has been vastly improved
 Load PowerPoint, PDF, Word
 Add Webcam
 Share on internet

 Great for speaking/interviews/reflection
 Just started to work with the tool last week
 https://present.me/view/47956-wallwisher-activity-

feedback-reflection


Present Me
 Not used it enough yet
 Has potential for being used for exam oral practice in
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pairs, groups
Good for speaking activities
Great for reflection/peer reflection/peer feedback as
students often prefer to reflect by talking than writing
Can be used on distance courses
Very simple interface but needs fast connection.


References
 Lam, R and Lee, I. (2010). Balancing the dual functions

of portfolio assessment. ELT-J 64/1

 Kluge, D. Boosting Speaking Fluency through
Partner Taping ITESLJ-available at
http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Kluge-PartnerTaping.html

 Shneider P. Using Partner taping ITESLJ-available
at
http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Kluge-PartnerTaping.html


Help videos for all the tools I
showed you.
 Mail Vu

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/mailVu/index.html
 MybrainShark
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/brain/index.html
 PresentMe
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/presentme/index.html
 Vocaroo
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/vocaroo/index.html


Any questions…
 Russell Stannard
 www.teachertrainingvideos..com
 Twitter=russell1955


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