With the holiday season coming for many of us, we can actually find some time to concentrate on developing our own skills, so that's what I have been doing. I decided to write this series of tasks to help teachers upgrade their own skills and develop the kinds of literacies and resources that I believe are becoming essential for teachers and students all round the world.
These are the first five of what i hope will be a longer series.
Task 1: Create your learning journal
So here goes. The first task is based around Penzu and you can download the task or read it on Scribd. In this task you'll create an online journal that you can use to reflect on the other tasks you'll be doing, so you should do this one first.
- Read the task
- Download Task 1 (pdf)
Task 2: Create online storage for your teaching images
In this task you will create a Flickr photo sharing channel. You'll need to do this to enable you to best do some of the later tasks as they come up, but having your own store of images online that you can use for various teaching purposes is always really handy.
- Read the task
- Download Task 2 (pdf)
Task 3: Create an online speaking activity
In this task you'll learn how to create an online speaking activity using VoiceThread. So if you have never done that before try the task and see how your students like the activity you create.
- Read the task
- Download Task 3 (pdf)
Task 4: Create a blog with a video activity for your students
In this task you'll create a simple blog and use it to make a video based activity for your students. Many of you may already have your own blog, but it's a good idea to have a separate one that you can use to experiment with and create activities for students. Once you have created the blog you'll be using it for other tasks as you work through them.
- Read the task
- Download Task 4 (pdf)
Task 5: Create digital books with illustrations
In this task you will create a digital image book based around a short text. Once you have created the book you will embed it into the blog you created in the previous task.
- Read the task
- Download Task 5 (pdf)
I hope you find these tasks and the materials they help you to create useful.
I'll try to add some more in the new year.
Best wishes for 2011.
Nik Peachey | Learning Technology Consultant, Writer, Trainer
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Comments
This article is very interesting and useful at the same time.Thank you very much about the models and the help that you give to us in these days when the usage of the technology is at the basis of our teaching classes.Bye.
Hi Nik!
I'm loving the bookr thing, but when I go to the pimpampum website I don't get a 'search' or 'tag' option - so can't add photos! Help?
Some nice ideas in this article - I would however also like to encourage some explicit development of e-literacy skills, which in my experience are often lacking in EAP contexts. For more see for example http://www.tell.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/callejonline/journal/10-1/jarvis.html
Edublogs is also giving tutorials this month. It is for beginners.
This a nice rounded approach with varied tasks.
As a full time teacher, my personal journey was to hit the road through needs and interest.
I also have started to use a different tool each time with my private students to allow me more opportunities. The student learns English through new edutechnologies and I get to walk through the whole process with a student model before I walk into class. I then post the example web tool that they used to create something on the class blog, and this helps the class with a visual model as well. This is how I am finding more time to learn to "Teach with Technology."
Thanks for your article which is very useful and interesting at the same time. Nowadays, the usage of the technology is at the basis of our teaching classes.