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

Google DOCS and DRIVE apps

Google DOCS and DRIVE apps

iPad views of Google Docs and Drive

iPad views of Google Docs and Drive

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

Go to the Share & export menu

vertical

Click on the Share icon

Share it with vancestev@gmail.com

Google Docs Feedback - PC view

● Fewer

tools but ..

● Voice a

major

affordance

Docs app view

● More traditional

tool set

● But has Insert /

Image

● No voice

● Limited touch

functionality

iPad Desktop View

Word Clouds

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

Dragon, another free voice tool app

Helps work around constraints on typing

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/

Dani Coelho

Nery Alvarado

Vance Stevens

Ellen Doughtery

The iPad TESOL 2015 presenters