From Cell Phones to Social

Networking: Low Cost/No Cost

Resources

… and great ideas for using them with adult learners!

http://webtwopointohinadulted.wikispaces.com/ACSA+Adult+Ed+2013

OTAN Presenters:

•Joyce Hinkson, Director

•Blair Roy, Project Specialist

•Penny Pearson, Distance Learning Coordinator

•Branka Marceta, Technology Coordinator

OTAN

One of the adult education leadership

projects,

OTAN’s mission is to support California’s

adult educators in the effective integration of

technology to benefit learners.

http://www.otan.us/

Objectives

Participants will:

• list and analyze more than 10 online and

other technology tools to integrate in the

adult education classroom and online

instruction

• experience Google Presentation, Infuse

Learning, Voki, and Brainshark for

educational uses

• identify professional development

opportunities offered by OTAN

Basic Skills for Computer Based

Testing (CBT) for 2014 GED •Evelyn Lenton

•Antelope Valley Adult School, Lancaster, CA

•GED site chief examiner

•2nd approved site for computer based GED test

by GED Testing Services in CA

•Currently offers 2002 test

•Preparing to offer the 2014 GED in January

•OTAN presenter

– online and conferences

Basic Skills for CBT - Mouse

•Palm Beach County Library

http://pbclibrary.org/mousing/

Basic Skills for CBT – Keyboarding

$

•Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

•EduTyping by B.E. Publishing

•Typing Instructor or Typing Quick & Easy

by

Individual Software, Inc.

•Typing Agent by SpeedSkin

Poll Everywhere

•http://www.polleverywhere.com/

•Live audience participation

•Variety of question types – multiple

choice/free text

•Control timing of poll

•Control number of votes/participant

•Vote from Smartphone or Web browser

Infuse Learning

Infuselearning.com

● Online learner response system

● Real time feedback

● Variety of question types + drawing

● Any device, any location

● Simple and easy to use

● Multiple languages

Let’s Try It!

● Take our your device

● Open your browser - not IE

● Navigate to student.infuselearning.com

● Type in Room ID (randomly assigned)

● Type your name

● Wait for your teacher to ask you a

question

● Draw or select answer

Google Voice Project by Palo Alto teachers

Mary Bazios & Nilou Shokrani

•Used Google Voice to Evaluate Outside Oral Assessment

•Conversation practice in classroom

•Introduction letter on school letterhead

•Student calls teacher’s Google Voice number

•Student asks community member a question -

– Where is Costco?

•Native speaker answers question while being recorded

•Student must repeat answer

•Teacher receives recorded conversation in their Google Voice

account

•Teacher has rubric to assess student’s interactions

Cell Phone Apps for Adult

Learners

● Words4U

● What’s Next?!

● USA Learns

● Future plans for expansion

● Do you have any favorites?

Words4U

● Supplemental

application for our

shared Moodle

course “College

Transitions and

Career

Preparation”

Available for iPhone only, free

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/words4u/id572012856?mt=8

What’s Next!?

● Fun and informative way to sharpen your

skills for preparing for college/job

● Aligns with “College Transition and

Career Preparation” shared course

● Two versions; school and job

● Free, available on Apple iTunes

Cell Phone Apps

Learn more about USA Learns applications at:

http://www.usalearns.org/apps Available on all platforms; Andriod, iPad and iPhone ($0.99)

Review: Apps for Adult Learners

● Words4U

● What’s Next?!

● USA Learns

● Future plans for expansion

● Do you have any favorites?

Social Media - Facebook

• Promote services to the local community

• Connect with current learners

• Follow-up with learners after they

complete the program

• Post about offerings, new catalogs,

celebrate, video, photo and writing

prompts

• Teachers use FB groups for sharing and

discussion

• List of adult schools on Facebook

Social Media

Twitter

Twitter

•Vocabulary

–Tweet

–Retweet

–@

–Follow

–# Hashtags

Getting Started with Twitter

•http://www.twitter.com

Create a Classroom Web Site

• teachers use Web sites to post resources

and syllabus

• Baldwin Park ACE - Susan Coulter ABE

Web site aligned to CDE AEO standards

• Fremont ACE- Sharon Ram VESL class -

learners create Web sites as electronic

portfolios

• popular free services: Weebly, Wix

Presentation Tools

Brainshark: Upload, narrate and share PPT

presentations, documents, videos, photo albums and

podcasts. (Free and subscription

Google: You are experiencing Google presentations

with us! We created this presentation (and shared it with

you) using Google Presentations!

Narrate My Brainshark

Dial: 617-612-7020

Enter access code: 8798-8050

Press 5, then slide number (2 through 10)

Press # when done recording. Hang up.

Once we are done, I’ll make it public. Phone Key shortcuts: 1 to record one slide. 5 to go to

specific slide, # to finish recording, 9 to hang up

Audio Tools

Voki, Voxopop, VoiceThread ($) Using audio tools helps differentiate teaching; it helps

language learners practice skills and it’s just plain fun.

Voki - visual avatar with single message, or as a discussion

board (Voki classroom $)

Voxopop - an online audio discussion board

Voicethread - upload media/documents, facilitate an online

discussion with text, audio or video.

Any other suggestions?

Creativity Tools - Comics

Creativity Tools - Wordle, Tagxedo

Creativity Tools - Memes

Creativity tools - ePosters

Glogster for Vocational and Technical Education - 2 point perspective

OTAN Can Help!

•Face-to-face and online workshops FREE

•Resources

•Lesson plans and class activity ideas

•Technology support

http://www.otan.us