eurocall2014 speakapps presentation - speaking practice
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European Lifelong Learning Project SpeakApps - Speaking practice for language learningTRANSCRIPT
SpeakApps 2: Speaking practice in a foreign language
through ICT tools
Christine Appel, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl, Dublin City University (Ireland)
Adriana Prizel-Kania, Jagellonian University (Poland)
Sake Jager, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands)
Project Overview
SpeakApps 2 speakapps.eu
Lifelong Learning Programme
KA2 LANGUAGES, Accompanying Measures
Nov 2013 – Oct 2014
Partners Associated Partners
• Institut Obert de Catalunya• University of Southern Denmark• University of Nice• University of Jÿvaskÿla• Ruhr-Universitat Bochum• Polskie Towarzystwo Kulturalne "Mikolaj Kopernik“• Fundació Pere Closa
Project goals
Increasing practice time and facilitating quality feedback on:
Oral Production
Speaking Interaction
• SpeakApps Concept• New SpeakApps Languages• Secondary Education• Teacher Training • SpeakApps Tools and Mobile Devices• Open Educational Resources• Building a community • Telecollaboration • How to use SpeakApps• What’s next?
Overview
SpeakApps Concept
New Languages
• French• Spanish • German• Italian • Croatian
• More languages are always welcome!! • Contact us at:
Secondary Education
IOC Bell-Lloch , Girona
Teacher Training
• Series of teacher training course
• Online and blended delivery
• Local and global training
• Teacher training Handbook & CC materials
• http://moodle.speakapps.org/course/view.php?id=132• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkN4vv3AjsY#t=119
SpeakApps Tools and Mobile devices
• Langblog, Tandem and Moodle Classroom work inside browsers on mobile devices
• Langblog being reviewed to establish which features should be accessible via mobile and which are more suitable for other devices• Recording on mobile phones
• Use of Tandem in F2F classrooms available and being piloted
• Browser-independent apps for different mobile devices are also in development and should be available in the near future
Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources• Quality Assurance mechanisms being established
• Self-evaluation and peer evaluation
• User and Usability issues influencing rating and feedback mechanisms• Mechanism taken from Social Networks stars or likes • Number of downloads• More significant feedback / self-evaluation being considered
• Significance for Author reputation and links into knowledge sharing and community building in terms of following an author etc.
• Feedback from participants, have your say – likes or stars!
Building a community
• Increased visibility of authors
• Technical support to include community feedback i.e. members can post issues and other SpeakApps users can comment as well as SpeakApps Technicians
• Teacher Training feeding into the community and other dissemination activities
Telecollaboration
SpeakApps platform as a neutral meeting point for partners engaged in telecollaboration
Telecollaboration: Tandem MOOC • 6 week course (27thOct- 5thDec)• Level: B2 & B1+ EFL/ELE• Learning objectives:
▫ Learner strategies for online speaking interaction with a native speaker▫ Speaking skills
• Free (registration & certificate)
We need help to identify native speakers of English learning Spanish Levels B2 & B1
Using SpeakApps tools in the future?
The tools are not stand alone programmes.
When you want to use these tool in the future you can…
1. Use the tools via the SpeakApps platform.
2. Have the tools installed in your local LMS (Blackboard, Moodle etc)
a) Installed locally by LMS administrator
b) Installed and run off the SpeakApps cloud infrastructure
• Request a classroom from us and try the tool!
Thank you!
www.speakapps.eu / @speakapps