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Chris Fuller
Blogs, podcasts and all sorts of fun!
www.chrisfuller.typepad.com – where all of today’s presentations will be available to
download
Feel free to get in touch whenever
you need help / advice
Who am I?
a Spanish (and a bit of French) teacher
not a techy
a presenter at national events
SSAT Lead Practitioner (2008 /09)
not an ICT obsessive
someone who believes language teachers have to work far too hard
BloggingUsing mobile
phones MobloggingPodcasting
“If school is to be a truly rewarding experience for today’s students, it must be relevant to
them.”
Connected magazine, Learning and teaching Scotland
a blog (and how to blag it)
What is a blog?!?!?!
• Blog= web log – Traditionally used as an online diary
– A typical blog combines a variety of media forms
– Key element is huge increase in interactivity- INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY.
Blogging
Blogging
What is a blog?!?!?!
– a type of website– very easy to use– automatic archiving– offers interaction with the “Post”;
comments
Blogging
Why use blogs?
• Motivation- make the world your classroom wall
– Learning no longer confined to exercise books
– Who is the audience for work which goes into an exercise book?
– Truly global perspective
• Can be demonstrated by visitors maps on blogs
Blogging
100 visitors to the Spanish blog
Jane Croft, Ridgeway School, Plympton
Royds School, Leeds
Why use blogs?
Reading
• pupils constantly reading and re-reading each other’s work
• Allows for dissemination of good ideas
Writing
- audience?
- National Literacy Trust
Blogging
Why use blogs?
Speaking
- platform for recordings, Vokis etc
- audience?
Listening
• to each other’s work
• to materials you can choose to put on
Blogging
Why use blogs?
• Assessment for Learning
– Comment function allows peer assessment using “Two Stars and a Wish formula”
= 2 positive elements
+ 1 element to work at next time
– Self-assessment as pupils comment on their own work and thus self target set.
Blogging
Why use blogs?
• Access to learning
How would you normally make the following available to pupils / parents?
- chants about Fernando Torres in Spanish
- cartoons
- daily national front pages
- links to important sites
- videos made by pupils
- a video of the 3 Kings in Barcelona
Blogging
www.wallwisher.com Magic websites
http://mmeperkins.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/01/mes-animaux--un-petit-sondage.html
www.xtranormal.com
Magic websites
http://www.nottinghamhighmfl.co.uk/2009/12/6th-form-pupils-make-more-spanish-videos/
Blog vs VLE
Blog
• open access – global perspective
• real world
VLE
- closed, hyper-controlled
- audience?
- does have uses, but pupils aren’t motivated by them
Blogging
Who provides the blog facility?
• TypePad - www.typepad.com
– Easiest for inserting fun stuff (provider that I use)
• Blogger - www.blogger.com
• Edublogs - www.edublogs.org
• Wordpress - www.wordpress.org
• Many, many more…
Blogging
Further tools to complement blogs
• www.slideshare.net - embedding .ppt
• www.blip.tv - uploading pupil videos easily
Blogging
Key blogs for resources / ideas• www.joedale.typepad.com
• www.boxoftricks.net
• www.rachelhawkes.typepad.com
• www.mfljones.wordpress.com
• www.lisibo.blogspot.com
• www.allsaintslanguagesblog.typepad.co.uk
• www.languagesresources.wordpress.com
Blogging
Plenary- Frequently Asked Questions
• Won’t it all take ages?
• Will anyone actually look at the blog?
• What effect will it have on my department?
• What about Child Protection?
Blogging
Effective use of Podcasts and iTunes
Podcasting
What is a podcast?
- effectively an audio file which is then put onto the Internet
Podcasting
How have I used them?
- Grammar series
- pupil recordings
- pupil grammar explanations
- role-play raps
Podcasting
Grammar seriescreated to help reinforce grammar learning OUTSIDE of the classroom
- responding to a request by a pupil- FANTASTIC for audio learners
Podcasting
Pupil grammar explanations
- benefit of explaining to others
- need for script
- peer assessment on podcasts
- benefits of editing
- minimal teacher input, maximum output
- pupils then have an immediate revision tool
Podcasting
Role-play raps
- finding DIFFERENT ways to revise / learn
- musical recognition techniques
- learning on the move
Podcasting
How to record a podcast...
1) Recording material
Podcasting
How to record a podcast...
1) Recording material
2) Audacity for PCs- www.download.com
+ LAME FE
(allows you to export as MP3)
OR Garageband for Macs
Easy way to change volume levels
Highlight sections then delete
Podcasting
Podcasting
So we have our finished podcast, now what?
a)Insert it into a blog post as an .mp3 file
b)Add it to iTunes
In iTunes (free!!), go to the podcast section Podcasting
• Scroll down, and you will see this box
• You want to Submit a Podcast
Podcasting
PodcastingAdding the podcast to iTunes
-Motivation
-Can put onto MP3 players / computers and listen to work again, rather than just forgetting it
(www.podomatic.com)
•Create topic podcasts
- ANYTHING your imagination can think of- even to replace some speaking tests?
Podcasting
•Make a radio advertisement
e.g. for biscuitsLanguage needed: comparisons
basic adjectives of taste / cost / health
Podcasting
•Create a Slidecast
- using www.slideshare.net pupils can upload a PowerPoint and then
record a voiceover for each slide- can be embedded into a blog
Podcasting
•www.voki.com- Pupils write scripts
- Peer assess
- Practise
- Record
- High level of enjoyment
Magic websites
www.ed.voicethread.com Magic websites
For more details look up Jo Rhys-Jones on Talkabout Primary MFL Ning
Podcasts as listening materials...1) Coffee Break Spanish
-excellent topic explanations
2) Notes In Spain - come with supporting materials- based around topics affecting life in Spain
Podcasting
Podcasts as listening materials...3) Elliot school podcasts
- KS5 topics, with exercises
4) iTunes as a podcast search engine
Podcasting
My goals as a language teacher...
motivate and demonstrate a real purpose
improve listening
improve speaking
improve reading
improve writing
increase cultural awareness
raise the profile of my department
My EXTRA tools
blogs, podcasts
podcasts, videos
blog as platform
blog
blog, podcasts, videos
blog, podcasts, videos
blog, podcasts
BloggingUsing mobile
phones MobloggingPodcasting
For more info…
www.chrisfuller.typepad.com
(where this presentation will be available to download)
@chrisfullerisms
