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Vance Stevens presents and discusses a course on presentation skills which he designed. Working with EFL college students who each have laptop computers, he engaged them in communicative and constructivist task-based activities in working with Web 2.0 software tools he introduced to the students: Prezi, Jing, Blogger, and SurveyMonkey. This talk presents results of a poll of the students on their attitudes toward using Prezi in place of PowerPoint, and presents evidence from their blogs and from their choice of SurveyMonkey as a tool for creating their own questionnaires, of their enthusiasm for learning and using these tools for academic communications.
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ENGAGING STUDENTS WITH TECHNOLOGY IN WEB 2.0 ENGLISH CLASSESVance Stevens
A Virtual Presentation fromHCT/CERT Abu Dhabi
to the ELTAI Conference, India, July 19, 2012
Slides:http://slideshare.net/vances Writeup:http://vancestevens.posterous.com/a-small-research-project-on-student-attitudes
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT? First-year male college students One-to-one laptop setting Enrolled in “Academic Communication” (presentation) course Tasked to research and produce academic presentations Facilitated through the following Web 2.0 tools
1. Prezi http://prezi.com to mount online presentations
2. SurveyMonkey http://surveymonkey.com to gather data in online surveys
3. Google Docs http://docs.google.com to negotiate content and language interactively
4. Jing http://jingproject.com to capture charts from SurveyMonkey
5. Slideshare http://slideshare.net where students display their PPT slide shows online
6. Blog http://blogger.com to reflect on what students had learned
7. Wiki http://acommunication.pbworks.com to serve as a portal to display student work
TASK-BASED PROJECT COMPONENTS1. Textbook Present yourself2: Viewpoints by Steven Gershon
2. Students created Prezis on mottos/slogans for the environment1. Link to student Prezis at wiki portal http://acommunication.pbworks.com
http://acommunication.pbworks.com/w/page/52696874/earthday22april#SeewhatyourfellowstudentsaredoingforEarthDay
2. Earth Day connection, April 22, 2012 http://www.tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej61/int.pdf
3. Teacher modeled use of SurveyMonkey to poll reactions to Prezihttp://vancestevens.posterous.com/a-small-research-project-on-student-attitudes
4. Students created surveys using SurveyMonkey http://acommunication.pbworks.com/w/page/55088316/Weeks16-19#HerearesomeSTUDENTsurveysyoucantakeinSURVEYMONKEY
1. Captured charts using Jing
2. Preview them in Google Docs, say what they mean, explain them to class
3. Create PPT presentations, upload them to Slideshare, present results formally
WHY PREZI? Piques student interest, challenges them to learn
something new Mind-map approach similar to that adopted by Gershon:
ViewpointsSee this Prezihttp://prezi.com/dsmfwjggmhvz/prezi-why-and-how/
MODEL PRESENTATION CHARTS GENERATED FROM SURVEYMONKEY
CHARTS IN SURVEYMONKEY CAN BE CAPTURED USING JING
STUDENTS LIKED PREZI AND THOUGHT IT WAS EASY TO LEARN
THEY FAVORED THE MIND-MAP APPROACH
THEY’D USE PREZI AGAIN AND THINK WE SHOULD TEACH IT TO OTHERS
THEIR BLOG POSTS SHOW APPRECIATION FOR PREZI
All student blogs: http://acommunication.pbworks.com/w/page/53399451/week8#SeewhatblogsyourfellowstudentshavecreatedThis blog: http://nc13striver.blogspot.com/2012/05/during-my-school-time-i-did-many.html
THANK YOUVance Stevens
HCT / CERT / Naval College, UAE
July 19, 2012Slides:http://slideshare.net/vances Writeup:http://vancestevens.posterous.com/a-small-research-project-on-student-attitudes
