The Best Of Calico For K 12 Teachers

CALICO Teacher Education SIG

Lara Lomicka, Gillian Lord, Nike Arnold & Lara Ducate

Special needs of K-12 teachers Connect to students Use tools that are part of their daily lives Maintain 5 Cs approach in language

classroom Challenges faced by K-12 teachers

Privacy issues Limited connectivity/access Unequal resources

Share ideas, collaborate on group projects and build on each others’ work

Access course materials in an electronic format

Submit assigned work and receive feedback

Learn from your students Engage students; increase motivation

and excitement in topic

Social networking Podcasting Wikis Blogs Chatting Social bookmarking Video and Photo sharing Feed aggregators Other tools

• Facebook (www.facebook.com) MySpace (www.myspace.com) Ning (www.ning.com) Classroom 2.0 (www.classroom20.com) Whyville (www.whyville.net) Imbee (www.imbee.com)

virtual meeting place facilitates discussion immediate reaction

and response Share information

quickly with many contacts

safety and security identity theft time waster online harassment

and stalking

Space for school clubs or groups (German Club, French Club, etc.)

Place for classmates to communicate and share work

Simulation projects

Sample podcasting services: Gabcast (www.gabcast.com) Odeo (www.odeo.com) Podbean (www.podbean.com) Podomatic (www.podomatic.com) Podcast People (www.podcastpeople.com)

easily distributable people like the human

voice Access to native speaker allows for time / place

shifting automatic subscriptions accessible by anyone

not everyone has mobile devices

some would rather read than listen

Not easily searchable

Listen to a recipe and then make/cook food Create a radio show on a particular theme and ask

students to include jingles, advertisements, etc. Produce an auto narrative (story, poem, film

review…) Conduct an interview Listen to target language news, information Vocabulary learning with images Record oral histories Student critiques Develop a tour (museum, campus, school, etc.) Produce a scavenger hunt

used to create collaborative websites

Wiki tools Wet Paint (www.wetpaint.com) Wikispaces (www.wikispaces.com) WikiDot (www.wikidot.com) PBWiki (www.pbwiki.com)

No need to install HTML authoring tools

minimal training needed

can help develop a culture of sharing and working together (collaboration)

• collaborative wiki may suffer from a lack of a strong vision or leadership

• can be ineffective when there is a lack of consensus

• copyright and other legal issues regarding collaborative content

• may be difficult for Wikis to gain momentum

• can become disorganized as content grows

Micropedia: small version of wikipedia Branching Story: choose your own adventure Exegesis: simplify complex ideasAlso: study guides, vocab lists, travelogue, virtual tour of school, annotated virtual tour of library, collaborative book review, fan club for favorite person, travel brochure

web site with regular entries of commentary, descriptions, or other material

Microblogging: allows users to publish brief text updates or photos/audio clips ; can usually be submitted via text messaging, email, the web,

Blog tools Blogger (www.blogger.com) Edublogs (www.edublogs.org) Twitter (www.twitter.com) Edmodo (www.edmodo.com)

writing for an audience focus on content build community open interaction auto archives can edit work allows for creative

expression of ideas can build profile of

writer, share knowledge positive way to get

feedback

run out of things to say easy to start but hard to

maintain sometimes hard to find

interesting topics

Reading blogs: find NS blogs to read Writing blogs: write about open or assigned

topics; feedback from teachers/peers/NSs Travel blogs: keep friends / family informed

when students travel Write journals online (responses to book

class is reading, etc.) Student portfolios Class discussions Classroom management

Synchronous conferencing via computer audio/video conferencing or instant

messaging systems real time Chat services and sites

Live Mocha (www.livemocha.com) Palabea (www.palabea.net) Chatmaker (www.chatmaker.com)

Socialization quick and easy

communication promote interaction develop interpersonal

skills non-threatening

language practice opportunities for

negotiation of meaning

scheduling conflicts hard to go in depth on

topics abbreviating words and

phrases is common keeping up with pace/

multiple topics difficult to reach

consensus

With different types of group for different types of language practice (pairs, small groups, with teacher, with native speaker)

Thematic: discuss educational systems in different countries

Task oriented: work together to develop an itinerary for a trip to Spain

Information gap: find a roommate based on common interests

Method of storing, organizing, searching, and managing bookmarks

Usually public, but can be saved privately or shared with specified people or groups

Encourages users to organize bookmarks with informal tags rather than folders

Social bookmarking tools: Magnolia (www.ma.gnolia.com) Delicious (www.del.icio.us.com) Diigo (www.diigo.com)

accessible from anywhere

express different perspectives on information

creative dynamic learning communities

create joint library of resources/texts

easy to use

no standard to tags or organization

requires an extra step (time)

impossible to control vocabulary

inconsistency of terms lack of precision information overload

Create a resource document for a particular topic

Can be used as a support for class discussions

Can be used to start an individual or group project

Share texts for extensive reading (e.g., text recommendations)

[photo and video]

Occurs in online social networks and digital communities

Aggregate, upload, compress, host and distribute images, videos, etc.

Photo sharing sites Flickr (www.flickr.com) Adobe Photoshop Express (www.photoshop.com

/express) Video sharing sites:

You Tube (www.youtube.com) Teacher Tube (http://teachertube.com)

interactive (comments)

users can edit info access to authentic

materials easy to use variety of information useful and informative cultural information

public hard to control

content - teacher tube could be better option

Post photos/video when taking students abroad

Applications (software or web-based) that maintain subscriptions to feeds

Feed aggregator services iGoogle (www.google.com/ig)

Variable content Bloglines (www.bloglines.com)

Primarily blog feeds Pageflakes (www.pageflakes.com)

Variable content

latest updates quick way to search

web lessens clutter in in-

box spam free

no graphics or photos

some prefer receiving an email

id of source website can be confusing

Students can create social personalized start pages to organize interests of TL/TC

A software package used to display information, normally in the form of a slide show

Typically includes (at a minimum): an editor, a method for inserting and manipulating graphic images, and a slide-show system to display the content

Examples of social software: Letterpop (www.letterpop.com) [newsletters] Slideshare (www.slideshare.net) [upload and share] Animoto (http://animoto.com) [create] Voicethread (http://voicethread.com) [create]

LetterPopLetterPop SlideshareSlideshare

AnimotoAnimoto VoiceThreadVoiceThread

Skrbl (www.skrbl.com) Draw, text, scribble & share

on simple & useful whiteboard

Twiddla (www.twiddla.com) A web-based meeting

playground; mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas

WiZiQ (www.wiziq.com) Virtual classroom application

that includes 2-way audio, text chat, whiteboard, and file-sharing capabilities

Bubbl.us (www.bubbl.us) easy-to-use online,

collaborative concept-mapping/brainstorming tool

Doodle (www.doodle.com) Online scheduling and

polling Voo2Do

(www.voo2do.com) Easy to use and

collaborate on web-based to-do lists

IMPLEMENTATION

Considerations Which pedagogical benefits does the tool

offer? What are your linguistic/cultural goals? How do you want students to interact:

With you? With each other? With native speakers?

Considerations: Ease of use / learning curve Technical requirements

Design Goals? Context? Task? Real life / meaningful? 5 C’s? Follow-up?

Assessment Rubric? Student participation?

My district has filtering software and I can’t access the free tools!

There aren’t enough computers for my kids to use at school.

We don’t have time to use technology. I feel overwhelmed because the tools

change so quickly – I can’t keep up. My students know more than I do – I

feel inadequate.

In groups, discuss the technology/list of tools we indicate.

Consider its advantages and disadvantages and decide on a project design using this too.

Consider: The goals of the project The timeline of the project What will students do? How will the project incorporate the 5 Cs? How will the project be assessed?

Groups share projects Q & A

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