Webinar The T ip pi ng Point Pete Sharma November 2012

1. Webinar The Tipping Point Pete Sharma November 2012 10 Ideas for using Technology in language courses

2. Sheffield ‘Steel City’

3. Director of training at PSA EAP lecturer Reviewer Learning Technologies SIG

5. Overview www.psa.eu.com Blog 10 Teaching ideas • Technology affordances • Pedagogy • Practical idea

6. The Tipping point

7. The Tipping point • Technology • Affordances Pedagogy Value to language learning Idea Language teaching

8. Practical ideas – part one Prezi / Wiki / IWB / Voting devices / Toggling

9. Prezi

12. Prezi PEDAGOGY Driven by the real world Encourage creativity • TECHNOLOGY • Zoom in and out • Non-linear option www.prezi.com IDEA Planning / A3 Complex topic - environment / culture

13. Wiki Writing course Falling numbers Class wiki

14. Wiki PEDAGOGY A & B – writing an essay Time + distance History button – process writing TECHNOLOGY What? Editable website Allows multiple authorship IDEA Refutation “Pros and cons of censorship”

15. Interactive whiteboards Do you teach with an Interactive whiteboard? Mimio E-beam

16. IWB • TECHNOLOGY • Dual users PEDAGOGY Memorable presentation Better review Saveability Kinesthetic students IDEA Handwriting recognition software “Beat the tool”

18. Learner voting devices

19. Learner voting devices PEDAGOGY different outcomes with anonymous voting surprise element debate • TECHNOLOGY IDEA Controversial issues

20. Toggle Digital blank canvas

21. Toggling PEDAGOGY unite power of publisher-produced software Personalisation TECHNOLOGY Active book Teachers’ Area Digital blank canvas Customise IDEA Create a parallel, customised course

22. New Inside Out Digital Heads up Vaughan Jones

24. End ofpart one Prezi / Wiki / IWB / Voting devices / Toggling

25. Practical ideas – part two IELTs / Dictionary app / Dragon / Sounds / QR codes

26. Task • Do you have a Smartphone? What about your students?

27. Apps – some useful distinctions • Different operating systems • e.g Android / Apple IOS • Classroom vs ‘On the move’ (Hockley) • Authentic vs ELT • Free vs cost • Free-standing – Internet essential

28. IELTS Reading

30. IELTS app • TECHNOLOGY • Affordance - • Disappearing text PEDAGOGY Motivating! Autonomous IDEA Demonstrate - learning to learn

31. Dictionary apps

33. Word frequency PEDAGOGY Frequency *** 2500 ** 5000 *7,500 Black Productive vs receptive • TECHNOLOGY • Dictionary apps IDEA Select five words from different categories

34. Word frequency

35. Interactive phonemic charts

36. ELT J (2012) 66 (3): 407-409

37. Sounds PEDAGOGY Learner autonomy Pron practice done ‘privately’ • TECHNOLOGY • Pronunciation app IDEA Lesson monitor sheet

38. Dragon – naturally speaking

39. Dragon – speaking naturally • TECHNOLOGY • Speech-to-text • app PEDAGOGY We speak faster than we write Can create a willingness to practise IDEA Student drafts writing through speaking

40. QR codes

41. QR codes • TECHNOLOGY • Quick Response code • Scannable barcode • ‘Digital destination’ • e.g. Website • Text • Power Point PEDAGOGY Motivating ‘Digital paper!’ IDEA Treasure hunt

42. End of part two IELTs / Dictionary app / Dragon / Sounds / QR codes

43. www.psa.eu.com Q & A

44. Blended Learning - updates Macmillan website

45. Webinar The Tipping Point Pete Sharma November 2012 Thanks for attending! 10 Ideas for using Technology in language courses www.psa.eu.com