1. Making the most of
Bringing the to your classroom
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2. Tile Hill Wood School & Language College
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3. 1. Why?
2. How? OUTLINE
3. Case Study I – Year 9 Spanish (class to class)
4. Case Study II – Year 7 German (peer to peer)
5. Student voice
6. Next steps
7. Top tips!
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5. Source: Ruben R. Puentedura
www.hippasus.com
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6. TRANSFORMATIO 1. live video-calls, interactive
N presentations, live interviews, broadcast
new tasks, previously audio and video to whole class, bringing
inconceivable the outside world into your classroom
“alive” not preserved
Redefinition
Modification 2. add voice-over to
presentations, screencasts, voicethread, s
hare easily with a large audience (online)
Augmentation
Substitution 3. easier to edit sound file and carry with
you, email (Audacity)
direct tool substitute
ENHANCEMENT
4. recording speaking on mp3,
listenings on CD not on tape
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7. cultural speaking listening
awareness practice practice
exam inspiration authentic
preparation & purpose
challenge
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8. 1. Why?
2. How?
OUTLINE
3. Case Study I – Year 9 Spanish (class to class)
4. Case Study II – Year 7 German (peer to peer)
5. Student voice
6. Next steps
7. Top tips!
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9. 1. set up teacher accounts – practise
2. find partners (FLAs, personal
contacts, twitter, linkedin, education.skype.com, e-
twinning, cold-emailing/calling)
3. use teacher-to-teacher connection
4. recording software
5. set up student accounts
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10. June 2011 & June 2012, AS German
Topics: Body image, super models and the role of the media
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11. Ongoing, Year 10s & Izumi exchange partners
Topic: Preparing exchange – GCSE conversation topics
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12. January 2012, Year 9s Japanese –
Topic: Home Life
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15. February 2012, A-level Conference
Topic: Working for the European Union as a translator or interpreter
Partner: David Smith, Head of English Language Unit, EC
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16. March 2012, Y13 German
Topic: Effective development aid / Wealth and Poverty
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17. June 2012, Y12 Spanish
Topic: Working as a volunteer for the Spanish Red Cross
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18. June 2012, Y12 and Y13 German
Topic: Germany’s first high school shooting and
the role of aggressive computer games/lyrics
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19. January 2013, Y12 and Y13 French with Jawad in Paris
Topic: Racism
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20. 1. Why?
2. The story so far…
OUTLINE
3. Case Study I – Year 9 Spanish (class to class)
4. Case Study II – Year 7 German (peer to peer)
5. Student voice
6. Next steps
7. Top tips!
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21. • Skype session with CEIP número 54 de Alicante
• THW Year 9A students Year 6 students
• Structure of the skype session
• Outcomes (survey monkey)
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22. STRUCTURE (before during skype)
• Topic: los medios de comunicación (media)(mira 3/module
1)
• On completion of taught module, students prepare in
classroom the following questions in groups:
How do you use What films do you What is your What music do
your computer? like? favourite you like?
program?
• 24th of January (skype session takes place) Students
answer the five questions to Spanish students.
• 2 THW students read out the book they have created
through “storybird”.
• Students fill a “surveymonkey” after the skype session.
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23. Preparation in the classroom for skype session
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24. Preparation in the classroom for skype session
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33. What part of the skype session did you enjoy
the most?
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34. What part of the skype session did you enjoy
the most?
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35. How do you think the skype session helped you
with your learning of Spanish?
It helped us know how
fast the Spanish people
v
speak and how they
pronounce certain
words.
We listened to them and
sort of understand and we
improve our pronunciation.
I think it helped because we got to listen to
Because it boost my people talking at normal speed, which was
confidence in Spanish actually quite hard to understand. Also, it
speaking. helped us understand how to pronounce
certain words.
36. What did you enjoy most about the skype
session?
Hearing the Spanish
v
children speak to us in
English
Listening to the Spanish
students talking, and seeing
how their school was
different to ours.
I enjoyed listening to the
Spanish students the
most and asking them I enjoyed them coming up to the
questions in Spanish and camera and showing their names to all
in English. of us and waving because it looked like
they enjoyed the skype seesion with us.
37. How do you think skype sessions could be
improved?
have some more activities I think the skype sessions
to do and like have could be improved if we
v
personal group chats, like had one on one skype
every group has their own sessions with a student
computer and talk to a each.
certain group of Spanish
students. Talk to each other
independently.
More interactive activity; like It could of been improved
guess the picture! rather than by...Doing more activities
just questions and answers.
38. How do you think the skype session helped you
with your learning of English?
When i talked
v
with the pronunciation
Listening native
I learnt to pronounce better
speakers
39. What did you enjoy most about the skype
session?
When we spoke
v
English.
when I speak the rhyme of
bugs
When we played
with the fridges when they described the
school uniform.
40. How do you think skype sessions could be
improved?
Articulating more when
If the session v
we pronounce.
was longer
Doing more speaking English
activities.
41. How useful was this Skype session?
7
6
5
4
3
UK
2 ESP
1
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
not at all useful extremely useful
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42. 1. Why?
2. The story so far… OUTLINE
3. Case Study I – Year 9 Spanish (class to class)
4. Case Study II – Year 7 German (peer to peer)
5. Top tips!
6. Next steps
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43. 5. Klasse & Year 7 (11 years old)
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44. …but is it safe?
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45. 1. set up a google e-mail account
1. design small number of generic names, passwords and
usernames
Skype ID password
Waterloo Road1 waterlooroad
Waterloo Road2
Waterloo Road3
…
2. generate Skype accounts using the “google hack”
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46. tilehillwood+eins@gmail.com
tilehillwood@gmail.com tilehillwood+zwei@gmail.com
tilehillwood+drei@gmail.com
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52. How useful did you find this Skype session?
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
1 2 3 4
not at all useful
5 6 7 8 9 10
extremely useful
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54. 1. use existing contacts/links and skype.education
AND email/call organisations in TL country
TOP TIPS
2. match linguistic competence and/or age
3. plan carefully – consider both sides
4. test Skype in advance – day(s) before – use ethernet cables!
5. ideal session length (15-30 mins)
6. consider support during session (vocab list at hand, prepared
questions/answers, ‘live commentary’, paraphrasing native
speaker)
7. What are you going to do afterwards?
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56. 1. peer to peer session with 20 accounts
2. use two connected computer rooms to gain
confidence (staff and students) NEXT STEPS
3. extend collaboration before and after Skype
(peer assessment via blog)
4. embed consistently in SoW where appropriate
5. make it an entitlement for all students
6. mobile technology (Ipads)
7. group video calls (12 months free if on sign-up)
with education.skype.com
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