Collaboration/Sharing Russell Stannard-TeacherTrainingVideos.com

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• Information about me (very quick).• Why collaborate?• What role can technology playTools that facilitate collaborationUsing technologies in a collaborative wayFeedback• Conclusions.

Thanks to Macmillan for inviting me to come and present.

Russell Stannard

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• NILE associate trainer.• Part-time lecturer at the University of Warwick.• Run www.teachertrainingvideos.com. • Last year 350,000 visitors.• Provides FREE help videos to show teachers how to use

technology.

• Example help video on TeacherTrainingVideos.com

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Collaboration

• What business wants.• We don’t see the same things.• It’s how we learn.

-Blooms-Think of Vygotsky-Communicative Language Teaching

Technology

Tools that facilitate collaboration.• Edmodo/Padlet/Todays Meet

Using tools in a collaborative way.• MyBrainShark Present.Me

Speaking skills

Class Homework Feedback

Part collaborative

• We did a lesson in English around preparing a ‘Guide’ for visiting different cities……

1. In class do the lesson2. At home comment/reflect on the lesson3. Teacher listens to the recordings and provides feedback.

Example from JonathanTechnology

Collaborize

Part one• In class students looked into the First Certificate Oral exam.• They focused on section 1. They read about the examThey watched 2 videos regarding the examThey worked in pairs and created typical questionsThey then• They prepared typical questions.• They practiced the exam.

Collaborize

Part two• Go to labs/home/ create recordings and send to the teacher

Part three• Feedback

Example with Iwona

Review 2nd example

• Working together in the class to talk about the FC exam.• Making lists of questions.• Working in pairs to practice the questions.• Creating the recordings at home in pairs/groups 3.• Feedback

• Lots of collaboration but in structured tasks and using the technology a specific task to do.

Feedback

• Emerging debates around technology and learning.• Responsibility for evaluation .• Students will be learning more alone.• Need to be able to reflect/evaluate their own progress.• Students could peer review each other’s work

Example 3

• Students had to prepare a PowerPoint presentation and record their voice.

Part 1• In class we watched a video and discussed what makes a good

presentation.• We looked at staging a presentation, the process, the slides,

the language.Part 2• Students created their own presentations and added their

voice.Part 3• FeedbackExample The Technology

Collaborize feedback

• Students could have done presentations in pairs/groups.

• Feedback could have been done collaboratively/self refection

Feedback questions

• Students could peer/self evaluate.

• Feedback Sheet• PowerPoint Presentations • The slides• How much writing did you have on each slide? Do you think it might distract the listener?• Have you got consistent title sizes and font sizes?• Have you used any pictures? Do you have permission to use them?• Did you read off the slides or talk around them?• Is the design of all the pages equal?• Are the font sizes big enough to read?• • • The Process• What did you do to plan your presentation?• Did you practice before doing the recording• How many times did you do your recording before sharing it?• Did you have notes to help you add your voice to the slides?• Did you write down useful vocabulary or language to help you when making the slides?• Did you play back your recording before sending it?• • The Recording• Are there any pauses in your recording?• Do you talk between slides?• Do you ever go off point/topic?• Do you read from the slides rather than talk around them?• Do you think your voice sounds engaging?• Do you start with an introduction where you explain what you are going to talk about?• Do you finish with a set of conclusions?

Collaborize

• In the class•Out the class•Approach to Feedback

Role of technology…

2-Tools

Edmodo

Conclusions

• Collaboration is important. Work, Society, Learning.• Technology can play its role.

Technology can offer tools that facilitate collaborationTechnology can help to create ‘tasks’ ( use technology in a collaborative way)• Collaboration can play a role in any part of the learning cycle.Feedback

References

• About work and educationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoSJ3_dZcm8• Tony Wagner talking about the future of jobs and educationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS2PqTTxFFc• Interview with key researchers at the media labhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quYDkuD4dMU• ICY Lee /Ricky Lam (2010)/ Balancing the dual functions of

portfolio assessment. ELT J 64/1

Russell

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