1. Technology Tools
for Senior Projects
阮枝賢教授
Steve C. Yuen, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor
National Kaohsiung Normal University
Professor Emeritus
The University of Southern Mississippi
yuen.nknu@gmail.com
Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages. Kaohsiung, Taiwan
December 14, 2012
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2. The 7th Graduation Exhibition
Department of Foreign Language Instruction
Wenzao Ursuline College of Language
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3. Graduation Exhibition
• Format
– Theme
– Tracks
– Concurrent Sessions
– Poster Sessions
• Professionalism
• Conference Programs
• Conference Regulations
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4. Senior Projects
• Strengths
– Good use of digital audio and video
– Development of instructional and learning
materials (books, CDs, teaching aids, games,
and etc.)
– Having both oral and poster presentations
– Team effort
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5. Senior Projects
• Areas of Improvements
– Online learning materials
– Student-centered activities
– Interactivity
– Use of cloud-based applications/services
– Project focus
– Consistent quality
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6. Senior Projects
• Recommendations
– Learner-centered design
– Evaluations (formative and summative)
– Students’ reflections
– Digital collection (blogfolios)
– Cloud-based technology tools
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7. Recommended Technology Tools
• Audio editing tool (Audacity)
• Blog (Blogger)
• Interactive poster (GlogsterEdu)
• Online image editing (PickMonkey)
• Online publishing (Scribd, Slideshare)
• Podcasting (Podomatic)
• Video (YouTube)
• Online file converter (online-convert.com)
• Cloud storage (Google Drive)
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8. Audacity
• Open source software for recording and
editing sounds.
• Available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows,
GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
• Record live audio.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
• Download at [audacity.sourceforge.net]
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11. Audio Recording and
Editing with Audacity
http://steveyuen.org/howto/audacity/
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12. Blogger
• Free blogging platform
• Hosted by Google
• Provide variety of attractive themes, plug-ins, and
widgets
• Add photos and videos to your post
• Provide many features: Spell-check, Add labels,
Mail-to-Blogger, Gadgets
• Allow a team blog or private blog
• Offer many templates
• Available in 41 languages
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14. www.blogger.com
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15. How to Create a Blog
on Blogger
http://youtu.be/rA4s3wN_vK8
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18. Glogster
• A Web 2.0 tool launched in 2007. (www.glogster.com)
• Users create public or private “glogs” – short for graphic
or graphical blogs – which are similar to interactive,
multimedia posters.
• Allows users to create free, interactive posters, or glogs.
• Introduces students to 3-D communication skills, enabling
them to communicate and evaluate information and
meaning.
• Users can incorporate vibrant multi-sensory resources on
their glogs such as images, photographs, graphics, text,
video files, and sound files.
• Users can also comment on each other’s glogs
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19. Glogster EDU
• An educational component called Glogster EDU
(edu.glogster.com)
• Allow teachers to create virtual classrooms and permit
closer monitoring of content by teachers
• Allow the glogs to be viewed either publically or only by
the class
• Ensure that students are displaying proper digital
citizenship and can protect them from content that might
be inappropriate for their age level
• Glogster does not permit children under the age of 13 to
register for the main site. Children under 13 can use
Glogster EDU as a member of a teacher-created virtual
classroom
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20. edu.glogster.com
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21. http://tehescmarts.edu.glogster.com/frog-dissection/
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22. http://liebermanc.edu.glogster.com/glog-9993-8940/
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23. http://tehescmarts.edu.glogster.com/periodic-table/
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24. http://pbarto.edu.glogster.com/gwbush/
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25. http://pbarto.edu.glogster.com/ot-riders/
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26. Register and Sign In
• Go to http://edu.glogster.com/
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27. Create a New Glog
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28. http://wenzao-yuen.blogspot.tw/2012/10/creating-
interactive-poster-with.html
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29. PicMonkey
• Simple online photo editing
• Doesn't require a log in or register
• Just visit the site and drag an image into the drop
zone to get started
• Offer real-time online editing tools to crop, rotate,
resize, sharpen, adjust exposure, color, and apply
effects
Can overlay images and text
• Get creative with a collection of effects, fonts,
shapes, and frames
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30. www.picmonkey.com
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32. Scribd
• www.scribd.com
• A free, web-based, document sharing community
and self-publishing platform
• Let you publish, distribute, and share your own
documents with the world
• Support PDF, Postscript, Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Rich text, plain text,
and other OpenDocument formats
• Allow you to print your document and view it full-
screen
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36. SlideShare
• www.slideshare.net
• Let users upload their presentations and share them online
through a YouTube-like interface
• Accept PowerPoint (ppt & pps), PDF, & OpenOffice (odp)
files with a maximum file size of 30 MB for each
presentation file
• Presentations can be tagged, and comments left by viewers
• Slide transcripts are automatically generated from text
elements of your individual slides
• Each slide has its own URL for reference
• Has a Slidecasting capability that allows authors to
synchronize slides with an audio file
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37. www.slideshare.net
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40. Podomatic
• Find, create, distribute, promote, and
listen to both audio and video podcasts
• Record a podcast or vodcast directly to
the Web
• Handle RSS feeds and allow your
listeners to subscribe to your podcast in
iTunes
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41. www.podomatic.com
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44. http://wenzao-yuen.blogspot.tw/2012/05/
podcasting-for-your-classroom.html
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45. YouTube
• Online video streaming service that allows anyone
to view and share videos
• Accept many video formats (wmv, 3gp, avi, mov,
mp4, mpeg, flv, and mkv)
• Videos can be up to 2GB in size and 10 minutes
long
• Unlimited uploading
• Allow linking and embedding clips to your blogs or
Websites
• Students can create projects with video and share
them on the Web
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46. www.youtube.com
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47. www.youtube.com/editor
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49. How to Use YouTube's
Video Editor
http://youtu.be/F1RoZafZGeU
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50. File Conversion
• www.online-convert.com
• Free online file conversion
• Support 5 different file format conversions
– Audio
– E-book
– Document
– Image
– Video
– Archive
• Receive converted files via email
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51. www.online-convert.com
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52. Google Drive
• Store your files in a cloud
• Access everywhere
• Available for PC and Mac, Chrome OS,
iPhone and iPad, and Android devices
• Share files with exactly who you want and
edit them together, from any device
• Collaborate with Google Docs
• Get started with 5 GB of free space
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53. drive.google.com
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55. The End
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