Create a Contact list using Skype IDs available in our Participants' Profiles pages and the ict4eltteam page. See table with moderators' ID and availability after task 5.
Join a moderator's Skype group for some mobile learning discussion and tasks.
Explore Skype and its features, including voice chat, by joining any of the moderators and other participants for chats or conferences (group chats), and reflect on its potential in TEFL/TESL
Task 2
Read the text on mobile learning and share your ideas using the SAMR model referencehere
Join Nicky Hockly's live session of the week about mobile learning on Tuesday, January 17, at 14 GMT
Information on the "Live Sessions" is found on Live Session Event Page.
YOU CAN also FOLLOW Live Streaming on our Live Session Wiki site and participate in Chat here.
Post your comments about the live session to the Wiki
Task 3
Explore the audio and video tools offered below. Add one or more of your recorded messages to the Padlet wall, sharing with us your perspective on one or two of those ideas
- how you would use audio or video tools in teaching listening and speaking?
- how do you use or would use the mobile devices your students bring to class (BYOD) with these tools or implementing some of the ideas you have seen this week?
(From week 3 on, you will be able to make a link to or embed your audio/video recordings in the blog/wiki that you will create).
Posting your audio or video recording on our Padlet wall is very easy to do, just double click anywhere on the wall, write your name and country, a short description and add a link of your audio or video message.
Also, share your Products in the Production Page. Follow example which is posted there. To post audio, video, or any hyperlink you should click on the + sign on the bottom and add the link and then click on OK.
Task 4
Read this week's readings (links to readings are at the bottom of this page) and comment on the readings for the week in the G+Community)
Task 5
Explore Twitter and take part in a Tweetmeet. You should be using this hashtag #ICT4ELT to take part in our tweetmeet.
Explore other text tools such as Todaysmeet in meetings with co-moderators
>>>1st Chat: Jan 15 at 11 GMT
Scheduled chat sessions - Link and Time in GMT
To join the chat room, open the link. As your nickname, enter your first name and country you are from. No account needed in TodaysMeet, just click on the link and add your first
name and country.
Tentative topics
1. Revisiting Week 1 (ideas and resources)
2. Using Padlet in teaching
3. Challenges for implementing ICT
4. Using WhatsApp in teaching
5. BYOD approach (What to do with Student's devices?)
A free web tool to record unlimited audio messages or upload mp3 files to embed in your website or blog. It's easy as no account or software is needed.
A good tool for creating group discussions and practice listening and speaking. It has been used for TOEFL practice. It cannot be embedded, but it can be shared in many blogging hosts and social networking websites.
Another video messaging tool that allows you to send video messages. Once a video message is created, you can get replies and have a threaded video discussion or conversation. Winkball messages can also be embedded into your website.
It is a video and text messaging tool that allows you to create chat rooms logging in to your Facebook or e-mail. After creating the room, you can invite your students to join in. It is good for IOS and Android mobile devices or PCs.
More tools
Please check this Padlet with some more tools to explore
English Language Teaching Global Blog, 25 ideas for using WhasApp with English language students There are some obstacles to the use of technology in ELT, such as availability of technology and internet connection in the classroom, teacher techno-phobia, and perhaps knowing how to use it for language learning purposes. WhatsApp or similar messaging services can help overcome these obstacles.
English Language Teaching Global Blog Oxford University Press, Sep 2012 Social Media and ELT A short blog post giving some reasons why and explaining how teachers could use social media in their classes.
Additional readings
BBC Active. QR codes in education A short post explaining what qr-codes are and how they can be used in class.
Mahmoud, Salameh S. (2013). The Effect of Using English SMS on KAU Foundation Year Students’ Speaking and Writing Performance . American International journal of social science, Vol. 2, No. 2. (This study aims at investigating the effect of using English short messaging service (SMS) on the development of the foundation year students‟ speaking and writing skills at King Abdulaziz University (KAU). Written and oral tests developed by the researcher were used to measure such development.
Peachey, N. (2012). Tech Tools for Teachers: Podcasting. (A comprehensive overview article on podcasting and how it can be used to help students develop their listening and speaking skills both inside and outside the classroom.)
Hockly, N. (2016). Five-Minute Guides: Issues in Mobile Learning This post is a follow-up to a panel discussion and summarises the issues brought up by the audience as well as some of the views of the panel.
Vilà, C. A. (2010). Skype in the EFL Class. Humanising Language Teaching, Year 12, Issue 4, August 2010. (Skype has become a very popular tool for making calls on the web. In this article, Cristina Arnau Vilà briefly explains what Skype is, how it works, and gives some tips on ways to use it in the classroom.)
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