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Digital Material Preparation for TESOL

Enhance TESOL professionals' material production skills in text, image, internet, screen capturing, media conversion, and audio production.

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Digital Material Preparation for TESOL

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  1. Digital Material Preparation for TESOL A TESOL Electronic Village Online Course John Allan

  2. Developers and mentors • John Allan, New Media Language Training • Jim Edgar, New Media Language Training • Stephen Roney, Writer & Consultant

  3. overview • Impetus • Course • Delivery • Results • Future

  4. Impetus • a reaction to the growth of Web 2.0 resources • functions of traditional software can be matched online assets • decided to test this premise • all resources must be free • self- contained • on a remote server • spamless

  5. Course description Goal: Enhance materials production skills for TESOL professionals in the areas of: • text document production • image editing • the Internet as a toolkit • screen capturing • converting media • audio production

  6. Example activities • text document production: create a text document with a specific tool • image editing: upload, edit and publish an image • the Internet as a toolkit: producing Interactive activities, produce cartoons, link to a TeacherTube video • screen capturing: recording, editing and publishing screen animations • converting media: converting file formats • audio production: recording, editing and publishing audio

  7. Example resources • text document production: Lorem Ipsum, LexTutor, Project Gutenburg, Dafont, Google Translate • Image editing: Picnik • the Internet as a toolkit: Spelling City, DocStoc, Bitstrips, Vocabgrabber, WordWizard, ClassTools, TeacherTube • screen capturing: Screen Toaster • converting media: Zamzar • audio production: Myna (Aviary)

  8. Module structure • materials development concept overview • a link to a relevant resource • a detailed explanation of the resource • a step-by-step procedure resulting in a product • an example of the product • a wiki/database for posting their own result

  9. Delivery • Moodle LMS • course structure • messaging • forums • wikis • databases • TappedIn scheduled chat sessions

  10. Communication multiple modes • messaging • Email • Web 2.0:Voki/VoiceThread • weekly, live chat sessions: polling decides chat timings • asynchronous forum discussions on pedagogical and technical issues • Calendar & Upcoming events for quick “info”

  11. Results • 208 registered 23 completed! • Six weeks • Worldwide (time zones) • Modified and open for general public at socialesl.com

  12. Future • Focused course in 2011 • “producing vocabulary learning objects”

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