Moving beyond traditional esl classroom instruction

MOVING BEYOND TRADITIONAL ESL CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION

THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA INTEGRATION

Dr. Jasmin Bey Cowin & Fatma Ghailan Westchester Community College

welcome video

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Have you ever used any form of social media in your teaching? If so, how? If not, how do you think they can be used constructively?

What Social Media Integration can offer you and your students:

▪  collaboration

▪  negotiation

▪  debating

▪  reviewing

▪  posting

▪  chatting

▪  messaging

▪  texting

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▪  negotiation

▪  debating

▪  reviewing

▪  posting

▪  chatting

▪  messaging

▪  texting

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▪  negotiation

▪  debating

▪  reviewing

▪  posting

▪  chatting

▪  messaging

▪  texting

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Motivation

Goals of the Workshop First: Increasing students’ metacognitive awareness

Second: Providing a clear project structure

Third: Improving students’ understanding of and ability to accurately use English

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Developing a high communicative competence through the integration of social media.

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To create a group:

1.  Open WhatsApp and go to the Chats screen.

2.  At the top of the Chats screen, tap the New Group button. Note: you will need to have an existing chat before creating a new Group Chat.

3.  Type in a subject or title. This will be the name of the group that all participants will see. Then click NEXT

4.  Add group participants by selecting (+), or by typing the name of the contact.

5.  Tap Create to finish creating the group.

6.  But for now, you can just join our existing group ALWC 2016

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WhatsApp Group Creation

Want to Vlog? First things FIRST 1) Sign Into Your Google Account.

Before you can start creating a YouTube account, you must sign in to your Google account. (YouTube is owned by Google.) If you do not have an account, that’s okay! You can check out our quick tutorial on How to Create a Google Account. Once you sign up and sign in then move on to step 2 below!

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Vlog Nation

Vloging and Creating a YouTube Channel Step 2

2) Click on My Channel.

After signing in to your YouTube account, click on the drop down arrow next to your avatar in

the top right corner. This is the same place where the, “Sign In” button usually is. After you

click on the drop down arrow, a new set of options are made available. The first thing you want

to do here is to click on: “My Channel”.

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Vloging and Creating YouTube Channel Step 3

3) Decide the Name.

This is one of the most important steps when it comes to creating a YouTube channel. Deciding

your channel name! You can either use your name by default or you can choose a different name of

your choice by clicking on the “To use a business or other name, click here” button. Most people

like to choose a different name instead of using their own names.

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Vloging Continued You want the name to represent and explain what your YouTube channel is about. For example,

if you wanted to vlog about the latest fashion trends, you could pick a name like, “Fashion

Trends Today” or “Carly’s Fashion Picks”. You get the point! Choose a name that describes

your channel. After deciding on a name, fill in the required fields below and be sure to read over

the page terms before selecting, “I Agree”. Once you finish filling in the information required,

click on, “Done”.

Fill In The Required Fields

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Take the YouTube Channel Tour Once you finish the naming process, you are taken to your channel page. You may also see an option at the top right of your page that invites you to take a tour of your new channel. It’s quick and it helps you get familiar with different options for editing your channel.

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Edit YouTube Account Settings In order to edit your account settings, you must go back to the drop down menu by clicking on the downwards arrow and then select, “YouTube Settings”.

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Creating a Custom YouTube URL. ▪  It’s always great to have a custom YouTube URL instead of a default one. For example, your

YouTube channel url may be “www.YouTube.com/user/blahblah8920128h0hd0dn0–9” etc. Instead, you can have a custom url for your channel that is branded. It can be “www.YouTube.com/user/YourChannelName”

▪  This can be of great help when it comes to promoting your channel and your students work. It is something that others can remember more easily.

▪  So let’s create a custom URL for your YouTube channel. After reaching the YouTube settings page, click on the, “Advanced” button.

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Continued

You are now taken to the channel setting page. Click on the, “create custom url” button on the

right of the default url.

Click on the Advanced Button

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Custom Channel URL

Now, you have the choice of creating a custom URL. Remember, these are the words that come

after “User/” in the URL of “www.YouTube.com/user/YourURL “. Pick wisely!

After deciding on a URL, click on create channel url. You now have your own custom channel

url.

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1.  use the browser mode in youtube

2.  associate a website with your youtube Channel

3.  use royalty free art work royalty free images and music royalty free music and youtube audio library

4.  use great descriptions of what the videos are about

5.  use script and captions

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Video Blogging for Beginners

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What is a blog? The word ‘blog’ is short for web log. Blogs generally have the following features: ●  They are updated regularly ●  They consist of a collection of posts ●  Each post has a date ●  The newest posts appear at the top of the page ●  A blog can be very much like an online diary. Indeed, one of the most popular

blogs on the internet is called The Diary of Samuel Pepys. On this blog, a new entry from Samuel Pepys’s Diary appears every day.

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What is the difference between a blog and a diary?

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What is the difference between a blog and a diary?

Blogs don’t need to be written from a personal perspective

a great free blogging website is wordpress.com

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Blooms Taxonomy

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please use the provided index cards to take notes

What is your definition of a learning goal and objective?

What do you think are the differences between the two?

How are they coupled with Bloom’s Taxonomy?

(Quick Pair Share)

Aristotle’s FIRST STEP

General Goals

“What do I want my students to know or be able to do by the end of this course?”

Learning goals are specific statements of intended student attainment of essential concepts and skills.

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General Goals

“What do I want my students to know or be able to do by the end of this course?”

Learning goals are specific statements of intended student attainment of essential concepts and skills. Example Goal: The student will increase writing skills from having minimal ability to organize a paragraph for an essay, to being able to create an organized paragraph with a topic sentence, main idea, and supporting facts.

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Objectives

Short Term Objectives or Benchmarks: When given an assignment to write a paragraph, the student will include a topic sentence that introduces the main idea of the paragraph. When given an assignment to write a multi-paragraph essay, the student will organize his ideas in an outline with a thesis.

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Objectives

Short Term Objectives or Benchmarks: When given an assignment to write a paragraph, the student will include a topic sentence that introduces the main idea of the paragraph. When given an assignment to write a multi-paragraph essay, the student will organize his ideas in an outline with a thesis. Definition: Learning objectives are brief statements that describe what students will be expected to be able to DO by the end of school year, course, unit, lesson, project, or class period. SWBAT - Student Will Be Able To Do

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KNOWLEDGE / REMEMBERING Student can recall facts, terms, basic concepts and answers “The big idea”/Pre- Draft ▪  Use of a diagram ▪  Prewrite Find, choose, spell, outline, rephrase, extend, interpret words and language chunks. ▪  Adjectives and superlatives - grammar objective ▪  Create timeline for vlog, list technical requirements - outline ▪  Pair share - communicative work

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Blooms Taxonomy Stages

APPLYING Creating a Video Script

What is a video script? A video script is a chronological run-down of scenes, shots, action and dialogue specifying who is saying and doing what, and when they're saying or doing it. Each page of the script represents roughly one minute of screen time.

How to Write a Stellar Short Video Script - Scripted

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Scripting

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Analyzing

▪ Examining and breaking information into parts by identifying motives or causes; making inferences and finding evidence to support generalizations.

▪ Adapt, change, construct, compare

▪ Modify writing to create a vlog script

▪ Add details

▪ Refocus topic sentence

▪ Correct spelling, grammar and lexis mistakes through pair work

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Remembering - Round 2 ▪  memorize script

▪  fluency work: sentence melody & rhythm / pronunciation

▪  double check captioning text for spelling and grammar (S/S)

▪  fluency

▪  melody

▪  phrasing

▪  tempo

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Evaluating ▪  evaluating writing script in pair work and via google docs

▪  use of rubrics for evaluation evaluation rubrics home

▪  listen to other students’ recordings and analyze their recording S/S

▪  whatsapp share

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Creating

▪  Record complete reading

▪  Add and choose music and or pictures

▪  Special effects

▪  Use of technology in creating a published project

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What is the project you want students to create? Write down your project on index card

Refocus your learning goals! Rewrite

Record your project idea and learning goals on WhatsApp SHARE YOUR RECORDING

Aristotle’s SECOND and THIRD STEP

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Jasmin & Fatma’s Finished Student Projects

▪ EF Project - Vlogs: student book reviews

▪ WCC google drive shared projects

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THANK YOU Dr. Jasmin Bey Cowin

[email protected]

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Fatma Ghailan

[email protected]

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Moving beyond traditional esl classroom instruction