Digital Material Preparation for TESOL

A TESOL Electronic Village Online Course

John Allan

socialesl.comPresentation (slideshow)Course itselfArticles related to courseHands on activities

overviewTeamEVOImpetusCourseDelivery/resultsFuture

Developers and mentorsJohn AllanJim EdgarStephen Roney

ESL teachers with experience teaching English overseas & Canada applying educational technology to TESL developing instructional materials

EVOElectronic Village Onlinehttp://evosessions.pbworks.com (WIKI)An extension of the TESOL ConventionsAnnual eventJan - Feb (5 weeks)Non-TESOL individuals are welcome

Electronic Village Onlinehttp://evosessions.pbworks.com (WIKI)An extension of the TESOL ConventionsAnnual eventJan - Feb (5 weeks)Non-TESOL individuals are welcome

Impetusa reaction to the growth of Web 2.0 resourcesfunctions of traditional software match online assets decided to test this premise

all resources must be freeself-contained (modular)hosted on a remote serverspamless

EVO as the vehicle

Online!Course preparationCourse delivery

Communicationmultiple modesmessagingEmailWeb 2.0 tools: Voki/VoiceThreadweekly, live chat sessions: polling decides chat

timings asynchronous forum discussions on pedagogical

and technical issuesCalendar & Upcoming events for quick “info”

DeliveryMoodle LMS

course skill area structureMessagingforumsglossarieswikisdatabases

TappedIn scheduled chat sessions

Course Goal

Enhance materials production skills for all TESOL professionals.

Develop Skills in…document production

(text) image editingthe Internet as a toolkitscreen capturingconverting media formatsaudio production

Module structurematerials development concept overviewa link to a relevant resourcea detailed explanation of the resourcea step-by-step procedure resulting in a

product (outcome)an example of the outcomea wiki/glossary for posting results

Enhance skills by doing…. image editing: upload, edit and

publish an image

Concepts

Step by step instructions

Results….

Enhance skills by doing….

text document production: create a text document

with a variety of tools

Results….

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Results….

Results…. http://www.lextutor.ca/

Enhance skills by doing….

Internet as a toolkit:

producing Interactive activities, comics, link to online videos, locate copyright free images

Worksheets

Results….

Results

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Results

Links to videos

Results

Enhance skills by doing…. screen capturing: recording, editing and

publishing screen animations

Results -link

Enhance skills by doing…. converting media: converting file formats

Enhance skills by doing…. audio production: recording, editing and

publishing audio

Results

Resourcestext document production: Lorem Ipsum, LexTutor,

Project Gutenburg, Dafont, Google TranslateImage editing: Picnikthe Internet as a toolkit: Spelling City, DocStoc, Bitstrips,

Vocabgrabber, WordWizard, ClassTools, TeacherTubescreen capturing: Screen Toasterconverting media: Zamzaraudio production: Myna (Aviary)

Interface

organizers

VoiceThread for introductions

Chat Transcripts

Voki

Announcement blocks

Word Clouds

Participant Showcases

Wikis

Countdowns

Time zone clocks

Animated Avatars

Calendar

Checklist

Forums

Resource Glossary

Became…

Results208 registered 23 completed!Six weeksWorldwide (time zones)Modified and open for general public at

socialesl.comParticipant contributons “glossary of

resources.”

Futurecourse in Jan – Feb 2011“producing vocabulary learning

objects”register after January 3, 2011