ICT in ELT - Credit Requirements

 

Welcome!

CREDIT REQUIREMENTS

active participation, working on weekly tasks
80% attendance

Projects (submission deadline April 11, 2021) - to be published in your personal website

1. Interactive Board material (A SINGLE FILE includes: T's information = target group, objectives; topic presentation and explanation, various tasks for practice, audio, video = link to youtube, illustrations, active links, inner links - ALL ACTIVITIES PRACTISING THE SINGLE CHOSEN TOPIC) - an individual task or pairwork, according to your own choice
2. A WebQuest or a Scenario - to be done in pairs

Link for registration

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Task 1
Read the following article: https://www.myenglishpages.com/blog/ict-tools-and-english-language-teaching/
Note down any terms you have never encountered, and tools you have never used. Make a personal plan - choose which of the unknown tools you will try out dusring the semester.
TIP: Always note your plans down - writing supports logical thinking, reasoning, timing, and enables final check.

Task 2
Watch the video HERE.
Who made it? How? For what purpose?
What do you think of the video? Summarise your opinions in the comment to this blog entry.

Task 3
For publishing and sharing anything, you need a space you can edit freely. Let's create a private website!

Create a folder named PCSkills on your pen drive.
Create the index.html file in NVU. Save it into the PCSkills folder.
Write a short introductory text into the file index.html. You will improve it later.

[WYSIWYG editors for Mac]

Experiment with formatting, colours, consider the role of images and graphics...

• Insert a link to the KAJ Dept. page.
• Insert a picture you took (avoid copyright problems!).
• Create an Avatar HERE and add the link into your index.html.

Create a free account at webzdarma.cz. Design a catchy name for your domain.
Upload your index.html and the image to your site in webzdarma.

Bask in glory, admiring your first hand-made web page!

Experiment with formatting, colours, consider the role of images and graphics. Check the links below for ideas:

Inspiration:

http://www.colorpicker.com/

http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/

http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Simple-Webpage-Using-Notepad

Psychologie barev
ColorSchemes
Colors for web - Theory 
WebcolorsWiki

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Internet Survival Guide

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HOMEWORK
1.  Prepare texts you will publish in your website, e.g. personal profile, hobbies etc. (see the Credit Requirements for details). Save the texts in .txt file (poznamkovy blok).

2. Choose a topic and target group for your project - example:
target group - 5th grade (11 years), elementary
topic - domestic animals
textbook - Project English 1

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WORKING WITH PC AND WEB - BASIC RULES:

1. Save, save, backup, save...
2. All files in one folder.
3. No spaces, no diacritics in filenames.

First think, then click!
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LESSON SUMMARY:
You should be able to:

• create and format a html file in NVU
• choose the appropriate structure of the page and suitable graphics
• insert links and images into your webpage
• start a website at webzdarma.cz
• create a speking avatar and add it into your web

Organisational issues

Dear students.

due to the virus crisis, it is almost certain we will not see each other face to face in this term any more. Nevertheless, we managaed to cover the most important topics, setting at least the basis to your projects.

Therefore, the credit requirements stand (apart from lessons participation), including the deadline, as descibed in the first blog entry of this semester.
EDIT: Do not send the projects by email, as you will block my ujep account. The project must be available form a permanent online shared drive - e.g. google drive, dropbox etc. (not uschovna). Just send me the link and/or the password :)

Please feel free to contact me by email any time to ask for help, or send your projects under construction for feedback and advice.
If you read this, pls write your name into the blog comment - just as a fast feedback for me to see how far this message got. And of course, please inform your colleagues :)

I wish you all good luck.
JP


To make things easier to find, I wil not add any more entries to this blog - if you search for more, please scroll down to the previous entries and find detailed instructions and tips to various topics and issues.

Interactive Board for Beginners

No matter what IWB software you use, some basics remain identical - both from the points of view of technology and methodology.

IN THE CLASS:
Explore Activ Inspire and Smart Notebook, try the basic functions, get the feeling of both softwares.
Follow the list of compulsory items below and practice these basic skills both in Activ and Smart.

Browse some shared interactive board materials, to get an idea :)
http://www.veskole.cz/
http://www.jazykyinteraktivne.cz/
http://www.pekarjeucitelonline.cz/
http://www.gymnaziainteraktivne.cz/
http://www.activucitel.cz/

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When creating IWB material, focus on offering:

• INPUT
• PRODUCTION OPPORTUNITIES
• CREATIVE TASKS
• HIGH QUALITY FEEDBACK

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Homework
1. Check the specifications of Smart Board (*.notebook files) and Active Inspire (*.flipchart files).
Look here:
AV Media
Promethean Planet
2. Install both softwares into your PC. Follow the instructions given in the lesson.
3. Continue working on your project.
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What can we use the Interactive Board Material for?

1. To identify the purpose of the material:
Intro – topic, aim, target group
Source – textbook
Credits

2. To identify the resources:
References – texts, audio, images resources (last page)
create your own images!

3. To suggest how to use the material:
– create a Teacher’s book (could be in side notes, or in the last page, or hidden within each page)
– instructions to tasks (focus on organization, variability)

4. To enable easy navigation: Insert links
In Activ Inspire - use commands "Another page" and "Open a website"
In Smart - right click at the object, use "Odkaz"

5. To use visual and auditory input: insert images, audio and video
In Active Inspire: go to Resource Browser (the symbol of 2 music notes)
In Smart: go to Gallery (the symbol of a picture)
In both: download an image, and drag it to the chosen page

6. To integrate games and animations into a lesson:
Explore the resourcepacks
Modify Flash animations (Smart)
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Interactive Board Project compulsory items:
- teacher book with target group, objectives and instructions on the use of your material
- enough functional and effective visual support (images, graphics, illustrations)
- a listening task (+ audio with tapescript)
- a reading task
- a speaking task
- feedback to all tasks
- links to T's Book from all pages (and links back!)
- active URLs (with tasks)
- a link to a youtube video - focused on the topic, with tasks!
- enough space for the students'work
- a page with all references


You can find examples and instructional files online, and also at http://prekladani.capsa.cz
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Project Tips:

1. Explore the imbedded galleries. Look also for animations!

2. Create activities to practise the set of vocabulary you chose for your project. For each task, include the feedback; a good tip is to duplicate the page, and solve the exercise there.

3. Use the last pages as T's book - write there the standard info (topic, target group) and methodological instructions for the Teacher. Link the T's book to the first page and vice versa.

4. Do you know how to get the IWB material online?
Tip: if the file is too big to be put into webzdarma directly, save it into some permanent online space (e.g. dropbox) and enter the link into your web.

Ucit se je radost

Promethean Planet: Examples of IWB tasks
Youtube tutorials
How to use Containers
Multiple Containers
How to make a magic box
Creating Action Objects
Magic revealer window

Lesson Activity Toolkit  - Smart
5 Tips and Trick  - Smart



TIPS:

USING CONTAINERS
1. Text to be moved:
Identification: Name = Panda
Contain: Return if not contained = True

2. Image or a space where to put the text/answer:
Can Contain = Specific object
Contain Object = (Select Object) Panda
Contain Rule = Completely contained

Česká verze:
1. Text (objekt), s nímž se bude pohybovat:
Identifikace: Název = Panda
Kontejner: Vrátit, pokud není obsaženo = Pravda

2. Objekt (obrázek), kam se text/odpověď přesouvá:
Může obsahovat = Konkrétní objekt
Obsažený objekt = (Vybrat objekt) Panda
Pravidlo pro obsah = Úplně obsaženo

Promethean - Activ Board User Guide pdf

WebQuest

A WebQuest is an effective tool for USING English. In the following weeks, you will find out how it works, and we will discuss the design of your first WebQuest.


REMEMBER: A good WebQuest
- uses Internet resources (written in good authentic English)
- requires independent thinking, not mechanic copying from references
- is based on information processing: the students search for facts, evaluate, and come to their your own conclusions



TASK 1 - Order the main characteristics of a webquest according to their importance.
TASK 2 - Suggest a WebQuest topic (incl. defining the target group and final product).

Put both into the comments to this blog entry. 
You can work individually, in pairs or in groups of three.
Do not forget to sign your entries!

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Students projects at https://pcskills-ujep.blogspot.com/2019/12/webquest-presentations.html

WebQuest Home Page

Example: Greece or China?
A tool for making and publishing presentations online


WebQuest characteristic:
• information search
• information processing (THINKING, evaluating, comparing, choosing, combining, analysis, synthesis…)
• creativity
• autonomy
• fun

What is necessary:
• clear instructions
• clear description of the final product
• adequate choice of internet sources, with comments

WebQuest from the T’s point of view:
• choosing topic and task
• TIME – web search, detailing the process, clear and logical instructions
• focus on information processing – prevent plagiarism
• focus on authentic English resources

WebQuest from the Ss point of view:
• TASK
• instructions
• tips + web URLs
• final product
• autonomy + freedom of choice
• creativity


Look at the WebQuest template to learn more about its structure.

Inspiration:
WebQuest - Animals
WebQuest - A Trip to Egypt
WebQuest  - A Diary of the Survivor

Credit Requirements 2020

active participation, working on classroom tasks

80% attendance

Projects – to be done in pairs (submission deadline April 14, 2020)

TWO of the following (own choice):

1. Interactive Board material 

(a single file including: T's information = target group, objectives; topic presentation and explanation, various tasks for practice, audio, video = link to youtube, illustrations, active links, inner links -- ALL ACTIVITIES PRACTISING THE SINGLE CHOSEN TOPIC)

2. Scenario – free choice of topic + target group

3. WebQuest – age group 15+, free choice of topic

Scenarios

Scenarios are decision-making games, stories or simulations, which can be used both for fun or for professional traning - e.g. for doctors, nurses, military personnel, drivers, social workers...

The branching enables the reader to decide - and to live through the consequences of his decisions immediately.

In the world of fiction, you might have read a series of fighting-fantasy books by Steve Jackson - for example Khare, Cityport of Traps.

Task 1
Play some of the following scenarios. Which of them would you choose for:
A military personel
B the final year of a vocational school
C 2nd grade of "osmilete gymnazium"

Enter your suggestions into the comments to this blog entry. Include the reasoning!

Examples of scenarios:
http://www.worldwarfighter.com/hajikamal/activity/
Home Alone
Escape
Being Elderly and Wise
Driving Home
Medieval Journey
http://sunil-rao.com/wp-content/uploads/Inner-Vision.swf

While writing the scenario, syou should always define the following:
1. Target group - age, proficiency
2. Task - what the class should do, identifying the final outcome and product
3. Aims and objectives: what the class will learn in these fields:
factual knowledge
language (vocabulary, reading skills...)
communicative skills
social skills

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TWINE engine bor making scenarios to download:
Twine homepage
HELP for TWINE

More at
http://blog.cathy-moore.com/2011/07/sample-branching-scenario-cool-tool/
http://blog.cathy-moore.com/2010/05/elearning-example-branching-scenario/
http://blog.cathy-moore.com/2018/04/3-ways-to-help-people-learn-from-mistakes-in-branching-scenarios/

WebQuest

A WebQuest is an effective tool for USING English. In the following weeks, you will find out how it works, and we will discuss the design of your first WebQuest.


REMEMBER: A good WebQuest
- uses Internet resources (written in good authentic English)
- requires independent thinking, not mechanic copying from references
- is based on information processing: the students search for facts, evaluate, and come to their your own conclusions



WebQuest Home Page

TASK
1. Explore the web to find out what a WebQuest is. What is the difference between a WebQuest and a LanguageQuest?
2. Identify an example of good practice - a WebQuest which you consider to be of a high quality - and enter its URL to the comments of this blog.

Example: Greece or China?
A tool for making and publishing presentations online


WebQuest characteristic:
• information search
• information processing (THINKING, evaluating, comparing, choosing, combining, analysis, synthesis…)
• creativity
• autonomy
• fun

What is necessary:
• clear instructions
• clear description of the final product
• adequate choice of internet sources, with comments

WebQuest from the T’s point of view:
• choosing topic and task
• TIME – web search, detailing the process, clear and logical instructions
• focus on information processing – prevent plagiarism
• focus on authentic English resources

WebQuest from the Ss point of view:
• TASK
• instructions
• tips + web URLs
• final product
• autonomy + freedom of choice
• creativity


Look at the WebQuest template to learn more about its structure.

Inspiration:
WebQuest - Animals
WebQuest - A Trip to Egypt
WebQuest  - A Diary of the Survivor