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Going Green with GlogsSabine Thépaut
Intensive English Language Institute
TexTESOL Houston 2013
The Environment in ESL Textbooks
Glogs
“Short for graphics (or graphical) blog, glog is the name used to describe a publicly accessible graphical blog. A person or organization's glog is actually an interactive multimedia image that looks similar to a poster, but readers of a glog are able to interact with the content.” (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/G/glog.html)
http://tangxiaowen.edu.glogster.com/jazz-at-unt/
American Communication and Culture Program: Multimedia Project
Assignment:Create a minimum of two glogs, or digital posters, with a partner on the following topics:
1. One aspect of American culture you are interested in2. A cultural/social activity you participated in
Include some text and pictures as well as a sound file or a video You must write your own words. Do not copy anything from the Internet! You should create your own video or sound file. You may interview some people and record the conversation. Ideally, you will also include pictures that you have taken.
Glogs
• http://litianyun.edu.glogster.com/green-at-unt
“I can see the sustainability of green in everywhere in
UNT from our dormitory to the road to rubbish bin even to toilet paper. Can you find some other examples in our daily life about UNT to save
the environment?”
Glogs
• http://wangxiaoshuang.edu.glogster.com/sustainability-efforts-at-unt/
After two weeks exploring the
campus, the value of sustainability blows
us away.
Intensive Language program: Speaking Test
Project Steps: 1. Provide cncrete background information about a sustainability issue2. Organize a tour of a local facility which uses sustainability measures, such as a tour
of a LEED certified building.3. Assign the project: Create a glog on a sustainability issue that personally affects
you. Use text, pictures, and video to describe a problem in their home, school, hometown or country. You should give sustainable solutions for the problems.
4. Assess glog presentations using a customized rubric
Step 1: Concrete Background Information about Sustainability at UNT
1. Guest speaker from the Office of Sustainability: Environmental Sustainability Efforts in at UNT and across the U.S.• Handout to introduce main point of lecture and pre-teach vocabulary• Ideas to think about before the lecture• 30-minute presentation, recorded for future use• Post-listening: Post-reconstructive cloze
2. Tour of platinum LEED certified football stadium
Step1: Concrete Background Information about Sustainability at UNT
3. Other Resources• Listening
o UNT dining services and sustainability: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pARzZc7wdkU#t=171
o UNT recycling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Fl5lQwtRw
• Reading and Reporting to Group Memberso Built environment and grounds: http://sustainable.unt.edu/built-environment and http://sustainable.unt.edu/groundso Energy: http://sustainable.unt.edu/energyo Recycling: http://sustainable.unt.edu/recyclingo Dining services: http://sustainable.unt.edu/dining-services
Step 2: Project Assignment
For your next speaking test, you are going to create a glog (digital poster) on an environmental sustainability issue that personally affects you, and you will present this glog to the class. Your glog must use text, pictures, and video to describe an environmental problem in your home, school, hometown, or country. It must also give sustainable solutions for the problem. For example, in Texas we use too much electricity (more than any other state in the U.S.), and much of this electricity comes from coal power plants. One possible solution is to use more solar power in homes and businesses.
You need to work by yourself (no presentations by two students working together).
Step 3: Glogster Training
• 30-minute training by instructor or student assistant• How to log onto Glogster• How to create a glog
Suggestions• Create user IDs and passwords that students can easily remember. Use
lowercase only.Yes: tomwangieli No: TomWangIELI or IELIStudent12
• Remind students to click the “finish” button when they finish their glog • Ask students to email the link for their glog to their instructor one or two days
before their presentation.
Step 4: Glog Presentations
Your presentation should be 3 minutes. Think about these questions when you are planning your presentation:• How are you going to catch your audience’s attention?• What are you going to say in the introduction?• What are you going to talk about in the body of the presentation? You should
present the information that you include in your glog. You should also describe the pictures and video.
• What are you going to say in the conclusion? Presentation tips:• You can use 3” by 5” cards for notes, but do not read your presentation to the
audience.• Make eye contact with the audience throughout your presentation.• Practice giving your presentation several times.
Glog Presentations
• http://ielistudent66.edu.glogster.com/traffic
Glog Presentations
• http://ielistudent13.edu.glogster.com/beijing-air-pollution
Glog Presentations
• http://ielistudent62.edu.glogster.com/sistainability
Step 5: Assessment
• Customized speaking rubrico Vocabularyo Content and organizationo Pronunciation and intonationo Grammaro Deliveryo Fluencyo Visual aides
Suggestions
Tell students to:• clearly identify the topic. The glog should have a title (what and where).• Identify (1) the problem and (2) offer suggestions. The problem should be at
the top or on the left of the glog, and the solutions should be at the bottom or on the right.
• Choose videos in English if possible. If the video is in another language, students should turn the volume down and summarize the clip when presenting their glog. They should show more than 20-30 seconds of the clip.
