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Jess McCulloch
Apr 7, 2008, 6:15:55 AM4/7/08
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Here are some conversation starters on different topics related to
language teaching and technology. Please have a read through, hit
reply, and let us all know your thoughts! It is not my intention for
this list to only be emails from me with links to things.
Blogging
Who else out there has a blog? Are you blogging with your students? Would you like to? Got any ideas what to use blogs for? Let us know!
SMART Boards:
I have made a commitment to improved SMART Board use this term. You can read about it on technoLOTE.
Who out there is using a SMART Board or other Interactive Whiteboard?
What are some ideas you've got for using it in your LOTE classroom? I'd love to get a conversation going about how we can best use them.
ICT Projects
What ICT projects are you working on this Term? What would you like to know how to do with technology in your language classroom? you're all part of this list because you want to know more about this sort of thing, so please let me/us know what you are thinking of or want to learn.
Looking forward to the conversations!
Jess
Blogging
Who else out there has a blog? Are you blogging with your students? Would you like to? Got any ideas what to use blogs for? Let us know!
SMART Boards:
I have made a commitment to improved SMART Board use this term. You can read about it on technoLOTE.
Who out there is using a SMART Board or other Interactive Whiteboard?
What are some ideas you've got for using it in your LOTE classroom? I'd love to get a conversation going about how we can best use them.
ICT Projects
What ICT projects are you working on this Term? What would you like to know how to do with technology in your language classroom? you're all part of this list because you want to know more about this sort of thing, so please let me/us know what you are thinking of or want to learn.
Looking forward to the conversations!
Jess
Matthew Absalom
Apr 7, 2008, 6:53:14 AM4/7/08
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Hi technoloters,
I wanted to let you know about a great software package I’ve been working on with a software designer at Melbourne Uni. It’s called WebWiz and you can use it to create exercises which embed multimedia objects (either your own or ones you source from the Internet). It integrates a media editor and an internet capture feature. It’s purpose-built for languages and cross-platform...have a look http://webwiz.arts.unimelb.edu.au
Best, M
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Matthew Absalom
Italian Studies Program
School of Languages and Linguistics
The University of Melbourne
I wanted to let you know about a great software package I’ve been working on with a software designer at Melbourne Uni. It’s called WebWiz and you can use it to create exercises which embed multimedia objects (either your own or ones you source from the Internet). It integrates a media editor and an internet capture feature. It’s purpose-built for languages and cross-platform...have a look http://webwiz.arts.unimelb.edu.au
Best, M
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Matthew Absalom
Italian Studies Program
School of Languages and Linguistics
The University of Melbourne
Greg Dabelstein
Apr 16, 2008, 5:58:46 PM4/16/08
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Hi all
IWB/SmartBoards are GREAT! I've got one in my classroom and I have to say it is the greatest thing to happen to language teaching since the invention of the casette tape!!
My suggestions are as follows:
1. I scan pages out of our course book and make flipcharts out of them. I add media to them to enrich the course. This includes embedding audio, video, word docuemnts, pdfs and websites. This provides an immediacy that is not always possible.
2. This then allows me to annotate the pages just like a student might in their textbook...at the end of the year you can clear these annotations and start with a fresh 'book' as it were....think of rubbing out all your answers in a course book to start again with a new class....very clever.
3. The flipcahrts then become a reference resource for the students. They can donwload these at home and play with them on the free viewers available for student use at home.
Of course, this does not go into all the interatcive games you can create...especially drop and drag type things....even the use of colour to highlight particular parts of the fklipcharts can be incredibly powerful.
At our school we use Promethean ActivBoards with ActivStudio. I teach Japanse and use the board to record the stroke order of characters and even record movies of the animations/annotations I put ot the flipchart...kids who miss lessons can then use this and see the progress of the lesson.
Hope this helps
regards
Greg Dabelstein
Head of Asian Languages
Brisbane Grammar School
IWB/SmartBoards are GREAT! I've got one in my classroom and I have to say it is the greatest thing to happen to language teaching since the invention of the casette tape!!
My suggestions are as follows:
1. I scan pages out of our course book and make flipcharts out of them. I add media to them to enrich the course. This includes embedding audio, video, word docuemnts, pdfs and websites. This provides an immediacy that is not always possible.
2. This then allows me to annotate the pages just like a student might in their textbook...at the end of the year you can clear these annotations and start with a fresh 'book' as it were....think of rubbing out all your answers in a course book to start again with a new class....very clever.
3. The flipcahrts then become a reference resource for the students. They can donwload these at home and play with them on the free viewers available for student use at home.
Of course, this does not go into all the interatcive games you can create...especially drop and drag type things....even the use of colour to highlight particular parts of the fklipcharts can be incredibly powerful.
At our school we use Promethean ActivBoards with ActivStudio. I teach Japanse and use the board to record the stroke order of characters and even record movies of the animations/annotations I put ot the flipchart...kids who miss lessons can then use this and see the progress of the lesson.
Hope this helps
regards
Greg Dabelstein
Head of Asian Languages
Brisbane Grammar School
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Matthew Absalom
Apr 16, 2008, 6:11:42 PM4/16/08
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Morning all,
Joe Lo Bianco opened the International Year of Languages and Languages Education online seminar series organised by Phil Mahnken from University of the Sunshine Coast last night. If you would like to listen to his talk go to http://callisto.usc.edu.au/p79035458/
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Joe Lo Bianco opened the International Year of Languages and Languages Education online seminar series organised by Phil Mahnken from University of the Sunshine Coast last night. If you would like to listen to his talk go to http://callisto.usc.edu.au/p79035458/
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