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Teaching
writing using
voice on iPads Vance Stevens
TESOL Toronto March 26 2015
http://tinyurl.com/vance2015writing
Revised from a brainstorming session
in Hangout on Air Mar 15, 2015
What this session is about
This presentation is a part of a workshop Thursday, March 26th
3:00 – 4:30 PM in the CALL-IS Electronic Village entitled
iPadagogy: A Bloomin' Better Way to Teach
presenters : Dani Coelho, Ellen Dougherty,
Nery Alvarado, and Vance Stevens
http://tesol2015ipadogogyabloominbetterwa
ytoteach.pbworks.com/
This presentation is here
Writing Apps presentation page
Listed in the CALL-IS Electronic Village
program: http://call-is.org/ev/schedule.php
● Google Drive, Docs, and Chromeo Docs app and
desktop views
● Educreations
● Word Clouds
● DocsStoryBuilder
● Dragon Dictation
Apps and sites mentioned here
Lindsay Clandfield says
writing returning to oral roots
(from recording onto scrolls): https://app.box.com/s/0xsjv54sbh18uqx3j01a
Writing returning
to oral tradition
Educreations, as an aside
● A graphics-rich
writing tool
● Augments writing
with mediao Used to create two
previous shots of
Docs on iPad
How I teach writing with Google Docs
● I organize it on PC for convenience
● Our students work on iPad
● iPad apps different from PCo Have both limited and enhanced functionality
● Typing difficult on iPad, but …o Can be overcome to some extent with
continuous speech recognition tools
Essential Google Docs Tips
Strike out tool - alt-shift-5 on PC (none on iPad)
Comment tool - ctrl-alt-m on PC (voice on iPad)
An organized Drive (with folders & subfolders)
● A File naming system with names and topics
● Use the search tool to bring up files in Drive
● Use Shared with Me and Recent to find files
You try it: Create a Google Doc
● This is how
my students
do it
● Launch the
app and click
the blue plus
Name your file: Your name and topic
● Important that
you can identify
student work
● that they can
distinguish their
many docs
● More traditional
tool set
● But has Insert /
Image
● No voice
● Limited touch
functionality
iPad Desktop View
How to insert pics into Google Doc
For a tutorial on
how to do thishttp://toolkit4learning.blogspot.
ae/2015/03/tutorial-on-posting-
images-to-google.html
Using voice with DocsStoryBuilder
From http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/
● On iPad you can
build your story
using the voice
tool
● Add music and
FINISH UP with a
URL to your
story; e.g.http://goo.gl/LlI7Y3
DocsStory Builder: Student examples
Brainstorming IELTS essays● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/UrwheJQun - Fast Food, jazzy
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/V0AYQdyjx - Abdullah & ghost writer
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/4lLSbXEAn - Driving fast, schmalzy
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/0zwCdc28j - Bicycles, driving beat
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/Y0d4XoBQV - Elderly, schmalzy
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/WcoeeZSRx - Public transport
Full tutorial next few slides
● Enter at least
two character
names
● You can either
type or use the
mic icon to
speak your
part
StoryBuilder Tutorial Step 1
● Start the
dialog for the
first character
● End with the
cursor on the
NEXT line
StoryBuilder Tutorial Step 2
● Click in the
next character
box down and
the name will
appear
● Position the
cursor on the
NEXT line
StoryBuilder Tutorial Step 3
● Starting on the
next line down
● Type or speak
the part for the
next character
StoryBuilder Tutorial Step 4
● Continue
entering parts
in the next
character field
DOWN
● Enter new
parts after
RETURN key
StoryBuilder Tutorial Step 5
● When finished,
add music
● Highlight your
selection
● The music
doesn’t play on
iPad (PC, ok)
StoryBuilder Tutorial Step 6
● Click on
FINISH UP
● Enter student
names & title
● URL
generated,
copy it & send
to teacher
StoryBuilder Tutorial Step 7
Teachers can use Dragon to model process
This
composition
created in class
while eliciting
input from
students
For more information
● This slide presentation - http://tinyurl.com/vance2015writingOn Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/teaching-writing-using-
voice-on-ipads
● Written text version:
http://tinyurl.com/vance2015writing-doc
● HoA to discuss preliminary work:
http://learning2gether.net/2015/03/15/learning2gether-with-vance-stevens-
and-tesol-2015-ipadagogy-preview/
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