tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69199974350682898012024-03-04T23:14:12.396-08:00HERRAMIENTAS DE BLOGJesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-90310548998146653932010-12-21T04:59:00.000-08:002010-12-21T04:59:12.469-08:00READING<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #a9501b;">Prompting reading speeds</span></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is a really handy little tool which is doing the rounds at the moment. It's called </span><a href="http://www.cueprompter.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #a9501b; font-size: small;">CuePrompter</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> and it's an online Teleprompter.</span> </span></h3><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a name='more'></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one is very simple to use and you simply cut and paste your text into the field, choose screen size, text size and colours and click a button and you are off.</span><br />
<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Some possible tasks:</span></span><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paste in a news text and actually get your students to read it as it scrolls. You could repeat and gradually increase the speed. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Put students in pairs / groups to read out load the parts of plays or dialogues. With short dialogues you could get them to read through a few times and then play the mirror image and see if they can still remember and follow the dialogue. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Play the text through in it's mirrored inversion first and see how much Sts understand (make it a short text though and don't expect too much) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With short texts you could try to get students to read the text the write down what they have read. You'll need to re-show the text a number of times if you want them to get every word, or they could just summarise after a couple of times through. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Try playing your text through at high speed the first time and get students to try to guess what it's about and then gradually slow down the speed each time so they develop a better understanding. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To get students doing some TPR ( Total Physical Response), write a list of instructions and get the students to do them in the order they appear on the prompter. It might also be fun to gradually increase the speed of the text and see if the students can keep up!</span></li>
</ul></div></span>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-50046994409726585212010-12-21T04:36:00.000-08:002010-12-21T04:36:25.780-08:00SOUNDS<a href="http://soundtransit.nl/index.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sound Transit</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a really wonderful formulation of an idea. It's not just a huge collection of Mp3 sound files from all over the world, but the sounds have been tagged by country and described and a visitor to the site can take a sound journey around the world.<br />
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<a href="http://soundtransit.nl/ima/b_soundtransit_header.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://soundtransit.nl/ima/b_soundtransit_header.gif" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /></a><br />
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<a name='more'></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can search the database of individual files by country, keyword or creator and just download the sounds you want. All the sounds are licensed under </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">creative commons 2.0</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> so you can save and reuse them according to the limitations defined by that license.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can hace access to the database of sounds go by clicking </span><a href="http://soundtransit.nl/search/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Search for sounds</span></strong></a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">How to use this with students</span></span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can use the sounds for visualisations. Get the students to listen with closed eyes then write about what they heard. Or they can create a story from what they heard. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could collect four or five clips for students to listen to and then get them to create a chapter / episode of a story around each one. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could use them for grammar practice ( e.g. present continuous "Someone is speaking." etc.) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could get the students to use the site to plan a holiday with four or five destinations then use the descriptions in the itinerary to say what they 'will / are going to' do at each place. They can then choose the best holiday. For past tense practice they can tell other students what the did on their holiday while the students listen to the sounds. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For vocabulary practice they could just listen and say the things they hear. This will probably involve a lot of guessing, so you could extend this for practice of modals of probability (e.g. It might be someone eating, It can't be in Argentina. That must be a car door etc.) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could use this site to give students inspiration to collect their own sounds and to tell the rest of the class about them. They could even upload them to the site and share them. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They could create their own sound journeys ( e.g. Going to school, what they did at the weekend etc.) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could play 'Guess the sound' as a warmer with student and award points to each student or team.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could ask students to find their favourite sounds or talk about what the sounds remind them of. (e.g. This is one of my favourites. It's the call to prayer. This one was recorded in Delhi, but it reminds me of when I lived in Cairo. I went out to Giza one evening and listened as thousands of mosques from all over Cairo erupted in to a grand symphony of sound.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can use the sounds to create atmosphere for story telling activities or student plays. </span></li>
</ul><a href="http://soundtransit.nl/mp3/0338.Matthew_Sansom.Delhi.dawn_call.mp3" target="_blank"><br />
</a>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-1649367190581711312010-12-07T16:23:00.000-08:002010-12-07T16:23:40.142-08:00CREATING YOUR OWN STORIES<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #a9501b;">Creating multimedia stories</span> </span></h3><div class="post-header-line-1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know that it's easy to be cynical about Microsoft, but every now and then they do produce great things for free! Photo Story 3 is one of those great things, and yes it is free!<br />
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Photo Story 3 a piece of free software that you can download to your PC and use to create multimedia photo stories complete with images, transitions, effects, text, background music and your own voice narration.<br />
</span><div class="post-body entry-content"><ul><li><a href="http://technogogy.org.uk/photostory/tutorial.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a 2 minute Flash movie</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> showing you how to use it and some of the features. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a movie I created with it to show off my Second Life office. There are two versions </span><ul><li><a href="http://technogogy.org.uk/photostory/sl_office.wmv"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silent with better image quality </span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(2.1 Mb wmv) </span></li>
<li><a href="http://technogogy.org.uk/photostory/sl_office_small.wmv"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lower quality one with music</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (500k wmv)</span></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know there are a lot of online Web 2.0 ap that do all of this too, but for those of us with slower, unreliable or more expensive connections, it's nice to have a bit of software that can do the job for us without using any bandwidth at all (apart from downloading it of course).<br />
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You should be able to download Photo Story 3 from </span><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=92755126-a008-49b3-b3f4-6f33852af9c1&DisplayLang=en"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</span></strong></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a 5 Mb download, so that shouldn't take too long even over a dial up connection.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">How to use this with students</span><br />
You can use it to create multimedia materials for your students, whether is for use in class or to take home for homework. Here's some things you can do:</span><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Create some narratives for them to view </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Create narratives which illustrate grammar points </span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Create a series of pictures and words which illustrate different sounds from the Phonemic alphabet .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having software like this that can produce a professional looking end product can be really motivating for students and really help them to push themselves to produce accurate polished work. Here's some things you can get your students to do:<br />
It's ideal for presenting the results of project work.</span><br />
<ul><li>Get the students to take photographs and upload them to tell their own stories to the class </li>
<li>What they do each day </li>
<li>What they did at the weekend / on holiday </li>
<li>Stories about their family </li>
<li>Get some pictures from <a href="http://flickr.com/"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b;">Flickr</span></strong></a> and get the students to order them and create a story around them.</li>
</ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;">What I liked about it</span><br />
<ul><li>It's free </li>
<li>Easy to use and quick to learn </li>
<li>Really liked some of the filter effects </li>
<li>Liked the way you can easily create a wide range of background musics </li>
<li>File sizes were quite reasonable and exports pretty easily for a number of different devices</li>
</ul></div>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-21751263891435378532010-12-07T16:16:00.000-08:002010-12-07T16:16:25.460-08:00SOUNDS<a href="" name="463174857482453284"></a> <h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #a9501b;">Soundscapes from Soundtransit</span> </span></h3><div class="post-header-line-1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><a href="http://soundtransit.nl/index.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sound Transit</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a really wonderful formulation of an idea. It's not just a huge collection of Mp3 sound files from all over the world, but the sounds have been tagged by country and described and a visitor to the site can take a sound journey around the world.<br />
</span><a href="http://soundtransit.nl/ima/b_soundtransit_header.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://soundtransit.nl/ima/b_soundtransit_header.gif" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You just choose your country of origin, your destination and how many stops you want to make. You then get offered a choice of itineraries with stops at various destinations and descriptions of what you will hear there. You choose the one you want and then the site edits together the individual sounds to create a unique sound journey for you. You can then download your mp3 sound journey, listen to it online or send it to a friend. </span><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To try this go to the </span><a href="http://soundtransit.nl/book/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Book a Transit</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> part of the site. It's just like booking a flight on an airline website (except that it's free and a lot more user friendly!!)</span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alternatively you can search the database of individual files by country, keyword or creator and just download the sounds you want. All the sounds are licensed under </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">creative commons 2.0</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> so you can save and reuse them according to the limitations defined by that license.</span><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To access the database of sounds go to </span><a href="http://soundtransit.nl/search/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Search for sounds</span></strong></a></li>
</ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">How to use this with students</span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can use the sounds for visualisations. Get the students to listen with closed eyes then write about what they heard. Or they can create a story from what they heard. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could collect four or five clips for students to listen to and then get them to create a chapter / episode of a story around each one. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could use them for grammar practice ( e.g. present continuous "Someone is speaking." etc.) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could get the students to use the site to plan a holiday with four or five destinations then use the descriptions in the itinerary to say what they 'will / are going to' do at each place. They can then choose the best holiday. For past tense practice they can tell other students what the did on their holiday while the students listen to the sounds. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For vocabulary practice they could just listen and say the things they hear. This will probably involve a lot of guessing, so you could extend this for practice of modals of probability (e.g. It might be someone eating, It can't be in Argentina. That must be a car door etc.) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could use this site to give students inspiration to collect their own sounds and to tell the rest of the class about them. They could even upload them to the site and share them. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They could create their own sound journeys ( e.g. Going to school, what they did at the weekend etc.) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could play 'Guess the sound' as a warmer with student and award points to each student or team. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could ask students to find their favourite sounds or talk about what the sounds remind them of. (e.g. This is one of my favourites. It's the call to prayer. This one was recorded in Delhi, but it reminds me of when I lived in Cairo. I went out to Giza one evening and listened as thousands of mosques from all over Cairo erupted in to a grand symphony of sound.)<a href="http://soundtransit.nl/mp3/0338.Matthew_Sansom.Delhi.dawn_call.mp3" target="_blank"><br />
<strong><span style="color: #a9501b;">Listen here</span></strong></a> </span></li>
<li>You can use the sounds to create atmosphere for story telling activities or student plays </li>
<li>You can play the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_cage" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b;">John Cage</span></strong></a> game and just get the students to sit silently and listen to the sounds around them in the school classroom ( for 4 mins and 33 seconds) then talk about what they heard. You could also tell them about the famous John Cage composition <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b;">4'33"</span></strong></a> afterwards and ask them what they think of it.</li>
<li>You can play "Where am I?" by playing them one of the sounds and asking them to guess where you are. Try this one. <a href="http://soundtransit.nl/mp3/1015.Dmitry_Urupin.Moscow.The_noise_in_Moscow_cafe.mp3" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b;">I'm in a cafe in Moscow getting some coffee</span></strong></a></li>
</ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">What I liked about this site</span><br />
<ul><li>It's a wonderful free resource with a huge collection of sounds. </li>
<li>It can really get students thinking about the sound environment they live in. </li>
<li>I love the idea that the sounds are tagged to countries and that students can book a sound journey. </li>
<li>The creative commons license </li>
</ul></div>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-83317382829181075292010-12-07T16:07:00.000-08:002010-12-07T16:08:24.672-08:00WORKING WITH IMAGES<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you enjoy working with images with your EFL students, especially on an IWB (interactive whiteboard) or a data projector, then PicLens is exactly what you need.<br />
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PicLens is a plugin (small program) that works within your web browser (there are versions for Firefox, Safari and IE 7) and it converts many of the standard image sharing websites, like </span><a href="http://flickr.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">flickr</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photobucket</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://images.google.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Google Images</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://images.yahoo.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yahoo Images</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> etc. into "3D immersive environments"!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">How to use this with ELT students on your data projector or IWB</span></span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pull up a wall of images and describe one while your students try to guess which one it is. Then get a student to describe an image and the others guess which one. (This will work best with quite similar images). You can then get students to do this in pairs.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Type in a search term and ask students to describe the connection / relevance of the image to the term (This works best when you enter abstract nouns like politics, alienation, paranoia etc.) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use the resource for any new vocabulary words that come up in your lesson. Simply collect the words, type them in and find images that relate to the word. (This won't work for every word) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get students to compare and contrast two images (A common task in EFL exams such as FCE) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Play just a minute and select an image for each student, they then have to talk for one minute about that image with repeating them selves or pausing (This is difficult to do, so don't expect too much) award points for the student who manages to speak for the longest. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Put students with their back to the images, select one and the other students (in two teams or groups) have to describe the image to the student who can't see it. The student then has to guess which image they described. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pull up a single image and ask students to think about the photographer's intention.</span> <ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why did the photographer take the image?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What did they want to say?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is their relationship to the image content?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What were they doing before, after they took the image?</span></li>
</ul></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students can select their favourite image and explain why they like it, or the one they like least. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students can try to use their imagination to describe the space around the image that you don't see.</span> <ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What's happening around the photographer that you don't see?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is the photographer wearing?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What's happening behind the photographer? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Describe the photographer (age, gender, nationality, personality etc.)</span></li>
</ul></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What I like about it</span></span> <ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Plugin is free and very simple to download and install and less than 2 Mb </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The interface is really easy to use and very attractive </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It really highlights the images and frees then from the textual distraction that you often find on a web page </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's no advertising on it </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You get access to some really fantastic images in class without having to download them or violate anyone's copyright </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most recent version also enables you to create immersive walls of videos from YouTube !!! <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fantastic!</span></span></li>
</ul></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want to use PicLens then you can download it from here:</span><br />
<ul><li><a href="http://www.piclens.com/site/ie/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Version for Internet Explorer 7</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.piclens.com/site/safari/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Version for Safari 2 + 3.0</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.piclens.com/site/firefox/win/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Version for Firefox</span></strong></a></li>
</ul>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-28615657964096743772010-12-07T15:58:00.000-08:002010-12-07T15:58:12.579-08:00STICKY NOTICEBOARDS<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the last few days I've been playing with </span><a href="http://www.wallwisher.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WallWisher </span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a handy tool for creating online noticeboards that you can add sticky notes to.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><ul><li>You can see a wall created by Nick here with some notes about <a href="http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/teachersweb20" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b;">Web 2.0 Tools for EFL ESL Teachers.</span></strong></a></li>
</ul>It's very easy to create your own noticeboard, just click where it says 'Build a Wall' and you'll see a new wall with some options on it that you need to complete. Basically these are:<br />
<ul><li>Uploading an image </li>
<li>Choosing colours </li>
<li>Adding title and subtitle </li>
<li>Creating your password </li>
<li>Deciding who can see and add to your wall</li>
</ul><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFR2NyvHBHL0JOF2rq06UZuNwkshSVGOQdRIt9TfHvUtpp5dPBbj2TZl9nKZ5oiO92Y8XUWkUuVmpPqm-97OTPDGajMiFJySqAKH3h4-UtLPgVEc4iJCANlsOynNkSjSAYKZU9N4TvmnPK/s1600-h/Wallwisher.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324218029363642386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFR2NyvHBHL0JOF2rq06UZuNwkshSVGOQdRIt9TfHvUtpp5dPBbj2TZl9nKZ5oiO92Y8XUWkUuVmpPqm-97OTPDGajMiFJySqAKH3h4-UtLPgVEc4iJCANlsOynNkSjSAYKZU9N4TvmnPK/s400/Wallwisher.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 233px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once you have done this you just click the big 'Done' button and you are almost ready to start adding content to your wall. Before you start to add content you'll need to check your email account where you should find your password. Then you just log in to your wall and double click on the wall to start adding the sticky notes.<br />
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5GuL4ygj6smHKtY_Pk8ZbCR_wE8-f3_QHhKAf16nynkOl2ezCjlTLG-4E3yIrBVrH5JysclmbGTcZJCpeku2x7jrgCZDnt5byeAUHqIE8VVfzu7TmaAIMFaOlfwLGtGnM0OOFZfW15saU/s1600-h/sticky.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324218465632425346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5GuL4ygj6smHKtY_Pk8ZbCR_wE8-f3_QHhKAf16nynkOl2ezCjlTLG-4E3yIrBVrH5JysclmbGTcZJCpeku2x7jrgCZDnt5byeAUHqIE8VVfzu7TmaAIMFaOlfwLGtGnM0OOFZfW15saU/s400/sticky.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 219px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 245px;" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sticky notes are quite simple, you just add some text and you can either link to an image, a video or a web page.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The nice thing about this is that when users click on the link it opens in a pop up browser over the wall. This means that you can use your wall to focus students access to sites like flickr or Youtube and stop them drifting into other content. It also means that you can use the wall to set up specific activities and get your students to post their responses on the wall (as long as you have selected 'Everyone' to allow others to post to the wall)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">So how do we use this with students?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><ul><li>We can create video tasks and get students to post responses to the wall by leaving it open for everyone to contribute. Here's a wall that I created about <a href="http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/Ramadan" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b;">Ramadan</span></strong></a>. This wall has been left open for anyone to contribute to. </li>
<li>We could use the wall to collect different links to various resources around the web for students to explore, a little like a web quest or treasure hunt. </li>
<li>We could give students a theme and get them to create their own walls based around that theme. </li>
<li>We could get students to create fan walls based around a favourite band or celebrity. </li>
<li>You can use the wall to collect and share resources like this one on <a href="http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/IELTSvideos" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b;">IELTS </span></strong></a></li>
<li>You could use the wall to set up video or image based activities. Here's a video activity that I have set up for teachers based around a <a href="http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/MrBeanVideo" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b;">Mr Bean Video</span></strong></a>. Feel free to contribute. </li>
<li>This activity uses an image to get students to practice using <a href="http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/photocomment" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b;">present continuous</span></strong></a>. </li>
<li>You can use the wall to create debates. You can do this either by posting your own contentious opinions or using videos from sites like <a href="http://bigthink.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b;">BigThink.com</span></strong></a> and get students to respond. This could be a way of dealing with sensitive issues and enabling students to be able to express opinions that they might not feel comfortable doing in the classroom. <a href="http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/legalisation" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b;">Here's an example</span></strong></a> </li>
<li>We can even create grammar walls and get students to post what they know and examples of different verb tenses or grammar points. </li>
<li>We could even get students to post their wishes on it using third conditional. </li>
<li>Or last but not least we could use it to notify our students or parents of homework assignments and keep them up to date with what's happening in class.</li>
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</span></span>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-85834123959731589712010-12-07T15:51:00.000-08:002010-12-07T15:51:25.432-08:00QUOTATIONS<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've always found wise (and sometimes not so wise) quotes really useful, both within the classroom with students and as a way of introducing a topic when writing materials. I've used lots of different websites to find quotes over the years, but </span><a href="http://www.iwise.com/index.php" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">iWise</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is certainly about to become my new favourite as it seems to have taken wise quotes to a new level.<br />
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj13Z-HMoCplLt2qOBg1KjOBN5gMAzdDot5h0jifBQnOrZv1VHfjrMe8WLVLDIy0V7poHMZ5W5FyURnHK38NId94hqLI-veNTfZ1GtKMJyaHkEk5OBWywWbcNgSExd6B5ZpdTufKqlsvwXc/s1600-h/iWise-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361245697135512530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj13Z-HMoCplLt2qOBg1KjOBN5gMAzdDot5h0jifBQnOrZv1VHfjrMe8WLVLDIy0V7poHMZ5W5FyURnHK38NId94hqLI-veNTfZ1GtKMJyaHkEk5OBWywWbcNgSExd6B5ZpdTufKqlsvwXc/s400/iWise-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 287px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can search for quotes by keyword, look at quotes of the day, browse quotes by topic or just click for a random quote.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg40ln7GjHfz3MP6TntylKeOhsK_eNPWQLJFPyQnnbLCdtUFNwwS8cE0iLJDXR5U7wkXPgC9k2l0ACsjbjsnPUvoK446EKxuUxgjgkcRQRLMvp3dqVdiOptqjUPw9PQ6KJLaxoCUGsruMEa/s1600-h/technology+quotes-+iWise+search-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361245904273493522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg40ln7GjHfz3MP6TntylKeOhsK_eNPWQLJFPyQnnbLCdtUFNwwS8cE0iLJDXR5U7wkXPgC9k2l0ACsjbjsnPUvoK446EKxuUxgjgkcRQRLMvp3dqVdiOptqjUPw9PQ6KJLaxoCUGsruMEa/s400/technology+quotes-+iWise+search-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 167px;" /></span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some suggestions:</span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get students to find a random quote and translate it into their own language or find a parallel quote in their own L1. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Collect 8 - 10 quotes on a similar topic and get students to discus them and see which ones they prefer / most agree with. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get 8 - 10 quotes and cut them in half to create a matching activity. Get your students to match the two halves of each quote. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get you students to match the quotes to the writer of the quote. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Give your students a list of 6 - 8 topics and ask them to find their favourite quote on each topic, then compare them in class and discus / have a class vote on which is the best (students should try to convince others in the class that theirs is the best quote) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get two+ quotes on the same topic. Print them up and put them around the class get the students to stand by the one they most like / agree with and discus why. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Choose 2 -3 people and get your students to find their best quotes, then compare that quotes and try to decide which of the people is the wisest. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Give the first part of some quotes to your students and see if your students can write an ending to it. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Find some quotes about someone and see if the students can guess who they are about. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use a single quote at the start of each lesson to lead in to the theme of the lesson. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use a single quote at the start of each lesson as a warmer and ask students if they agree / disagree with the quote. They could give it marks out of ten too. Keep a league of favourite quotes.</span></li>
</ul>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-14976866878051151892010-12-04T17:02:00.000-08:002010-12-04T17:02:34.158-08:00PRONUNCIATION GAMES<div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry"><a href="" name="6818404857227564940"></a><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Phonology can be fun and free </span></h3><div class="post-header-line-1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Phonetics Focus is a really wonderful new free resource produced by </span><a href="http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cambridge English Online</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ltd.<br />
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Basically it is a collection of interactive multimedia Flash based games and resources that can be accessed through the CEO website at </span><a href="http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What is it?</span><br />
In all there are almost 20 different interactive tools all accessible through the one page. These vary from an interactive phonemic chart where users can click on the symbols to hear the sounds and so develop their knowledge of the chart and the phonemic alphabet, through to more fun games which involve shooting the correct sounds to make a word in a ‘duck shoot’ type game.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What I liked about it</span><br />
All of the activity types are pretty intuitive as they draw on standards like hangman, odd one out, word searches etc and they all have clear instructions. Many of the games and quizzes also have more than one level so this isn’t just for beginners.<br />
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Some of the really exceptional features are:<br />
</span></div></div></div></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Record and Practice’ which is a small tool that users can download to help them record and listen back to what they </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Flashcard Maker’ which helps you to make your own flashcards by either using images from an image library or sketching you own pictures on the program, and adding phonemic symbols to them. You can then print them up for use in class.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Entry and Exit’ tests so that students can check their level before using the tools and then check again as often as they want afterwards.</span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusion</span><br />
I have to say that it’s rare to find really good computer based pronunciation materials, but to find them for free is a real exception. They are really nicely designed, work well, load pretty quickly and have made really good use of multimedia. This is a fantastic free resource that will be useful for teachers and for students of any level or age too.<br />
</span>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-25521843743498462162010-12-04T16:53:00.000-08:002010-12-04T16:53:43.532-08:00HOW TO PRONOUNCE WORDS IN ENGLISH<div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="5531151679913760476"></a><br />
<div class="post-header-line-1"></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been looking this week at </span><a href="http://forvo.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forvo</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, which is a kind of web 2.0 pronunciation site. The site allows users to request, and add audio clips of the pronunciation of different words from a huge </span><a href="http://forvo.com/languages/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">range of languages</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, so if you want to know how a word is pronounced you can either do a quick easy search for the word and then listen to it, or if the word isn't already within the database, you can add it and request a pronunciation.</span><a href="http://forvo.com/_presentation/img/forvo.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://forvo.com/_presentation/img/forvo.gif" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div></div></div></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The site also</span><a href="http://forvo.com/tags/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> categorises words into lexical areas </span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">such as brands, acronyms, sports etc which is very handy<br />
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You can also be helpful and add the pronunciation to words which have been requested in your language.<br />
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The site offer free registration, but you can find words, request words and pronounce words without registering. The benefit of registration is that you'll be notified when someone pronounces your word for you.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What I like about it</span></span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a great idea and it's free </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very easy to use interface </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of different languages </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sound clips load quickly and a reasonably good quality </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Registration isn't required </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Potentially a huge and growing resource</span></li>
</ul>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-82977517082387500492010-12-04T16:47:00.000-08:002010-12-04T16:48:03.502-08:00DICTATION ACTIVITIES<div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="1768508195058032783"></a><br />
<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span style="color: #a9501b;">Dictation goes Web 2.0</span> </h3><div class="post-header-line-1"></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes and why not? Seems hard to see how this would be accomplished but it certainly does seem to be the case at the </span><a href="http://www.listen-and-write.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #a9501b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Listen and Write - Dictation</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> website. What's more it seems to have been done in a pretty impressive way too.</span><br />
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This site features quite a number of audio files all of which can be accessed through quite a cleverly designed dictation activity. The users get to listen to parts of a sentence and they then have to type in the words of the sentence to a text field which only allows the words if they are correct. They are able to listen over and also get some help by setting the activity to auto complete the words as they type them in (cuts down on the frustration for EFL students of not being able to spell what you can hear).<br />
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The other nice aspect of it is that you get a score as you go and so you can work against yourself to try to improve the score.</div></div></div></div>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-3293897841829077702010-12-04T16:40:00.000-08:002010-12-04T16:41:43.678-08:00Writing phonetic transcriptions<div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="7101239060152914779"></a><br />
<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: small;">Adding Phonetic Symbols to a Webpage </span></span></h3><div class="post-header-line-1"></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><a href="http://ipa.typeit.org/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #6c82b5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TypeIt.org</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a handy tool that allows you to add phonetic symbols to a webpage. It doesn't just have the ones for English, but has a few other languages too. Seems like you just type in the consonants from the keyboard and click on the additional symbols to add them. Then just cut and paste the script into your page.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After you copy text from the above box and paste it into your word processor or e-mail message, make sure you <b>choose a Unicode font with IPA symbols in your word processor</b> or e-mail application. Otherwise, phonetic symbols may not display correctly.</span></li><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recommended IPA fonts available on various platforms: </span></li><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Windows XP: <strong><u><span style="color: red;">Lucida Sans Unicode</span></u></strong></span></li><br />
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<ul></ul></div></div>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-28894031695513005462010-12-04T16:31:00.000-08:002010-12-04T16:31:31.548-08:00PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTIONS<div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry"><a href="" name="5769510107132705456"></a><div class="post-header-line-1"></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><a href="http://www.photransedit.com/Online/Text2Phonetics.aspx" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #6c82b5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text2Phonetics </span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is a very handy site if you like to use phonemic script with your students. It can take a lot of the hard work out of transcribing text to phonetic symbols. You just paste in a short piece of text, click a button, and it does it for you.<br />
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You can then copy and paste the text into websites or documents.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span> </div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Here's a few ways you might use it.</span></span><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get students to type example sentences using new vocabulary words and convert them to script. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Produce some sample sentences in script for your students to decode and read. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Produce some examples of script and the original text and add some pronunciation errors to the script and see if they can spot the errors. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get students to translate short texts or sentences to script and then use the site to compare and check their own transcriptions. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Create transcribed versions of conversations or dialogue and get students to draw on the intonation patterns to show where the intonation rises or falls. You could actually use short exerts from film or TV scripts to do this and then find the clip on YouTube so they can listen to hear the intonation. </span><a href="http://www.script-o-rama.com/tvscript.shtml" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #6c82b5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drew's Script-O-Rama</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a good place to find TV scripts.</span></li>
</ul></div></div></div></div>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-67539148287488542562010-12-03T15:57:00.000-08:002010-12-03T16:02:27.205-08:00CUSTOMIZE YOUR VIDEOS<h2 class="date-header"></h2><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6919997435068289801&postID=6753914828748854256" name="1569529612168751146"></a> <br />
<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><a href="http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2010/01/cropping-youtube-videos-to-create.html"></a> </h3><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Using YouTube videos with students can be really great, but finding a video with the exact language you want and at a suitable length with too many other distractions around can be really difficult. That's why </span><a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" target="_blank">SafeShare.TV</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> is so useful.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/">SafeShare.TV </a>is a tool that has two primary functions. The first is to enable you to share YouTube videos using a direct URL that frames the video without the advertising and other distracting features that might cause students to wander off into less suitable materials.</li>
<li>The second and perhaps even more useful function of <a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/" target="_blank">SafeShare.TV</a> is that it enable you to crop the video clip so that only a particular part is shown. This is particularly useful when you want to build activities or tasks around clips that focus students on particular linguistic features.</li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">How to use SafeShare.TV</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First find a YouTube clip that has a section that you would like to use. I chose this one from ‘Room with a View’ </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tehft3GDw6k" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tehft3GDw6k</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. At 9 mins it's quite long so I just wanted to use a few sections.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Copy the URL and then go to: </span><a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" target="_blank">http://www.safeshare.tv/</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Paste </span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the link into the field then click on ‘</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Generate safe link</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">’.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxjNS-yoaQat2BIQMyvyzEoLcIeUnOKJTxmBipgfBOcSbdEy_JufJMJ_RiSIRddJL-j9PtWer6NjyqZla4-EPJMaDCMXpmsSm4r7lyTgPEFmcLoA_RyCeoSWI1L8LeCX95Ia_L_c2qmzvC/s1600-h/SafeShare.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426237420822826546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxjNS-yoaQat2BIQMyvyzEoLcIeUnOKJTxmBipgfBOcSbdEy_JufJMJ_RiSIRddJL-j9PtWer6NjyqZla4-EPJMaDCMXpmsSm4r7lyTgPEFmcLoA_RyCeoSWI1L8LeCX95Ia_L_c2qmzvC/s320/SafeShare.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 213px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This will create a new link to the video which you can then use with your students to show them the clip.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEURD8VEOwVE_Bcl-7qqh9DFpdO4Ckzh-UF-2-Nesx6KU4fhyphenhyphenZfZFnDbFgLVwmUAGExxFSSp-4K_L60MECSgpZ_ImoCXCN8FIi-QxSRdoNd7AEe5txhyZbPDxAXGj95EEz8u04eVJoIJ8i/s1600-h/SafeShare2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426237051102961938" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEURD8VEOwVE_Bcl-7qqh9DFpdO4Ckzh-UF-2-Nesx6KU4fhyphenhyphenZfZFnDbFgLVwmUAGExxFSSp-4K_L60MECSgpZ_ImoCXCN8FIi-QxSRdoNd7AEe5txhyZbPDxAXGj95EEz8u04eVJoIJ8i/s320/SafeShare2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 177px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When the students open the link they will only see the single video clip with its title.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you want to crop the clip so that only a short part of it shows, then generate your safe URL and then click on the link that says '</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Do you want to only share a part of the video? click to crop</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.' This will open a small video viewer. Click the video to watch it, then click on ‘</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Set Start</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">’ at the beginning of the segment you want students to see. Watch the segment and click ‘</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Set End</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">’ at the end of the segment. Now click ‘</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">OK</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Once you have clicked '</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">OK</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">' your safe link will be adapted to only show the section of the video you have selected. You can then either copy the link to share with students or share it through a variety of social networking mediums.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">How can we use this with students?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clipping videos makes it much easier for us to create activities and tasks that focus on specific areas of the video clip without having to watch the whole thing.</span><br />
<ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>You can select example phrases to show the use of language in context, such as a telephone call or a scene that shows someone booking into a hotel etc.<br />
Here’s an example: <a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/v/rQK_ggxbO44?b=05:25&e=06:42" target="_blank">Booking a hotel room</a> This was trimmed from a much longer clip on YouTube</li>
<li>You can show students the beginning to a clip and ask them to predict what’s ‘<span style="font-weight: bold;">going to</span>’ happen next.<br />
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Here are two examples:<br />
1. <a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/v/Tehft3GDw6k?b=00:01&e=00:08" target="_blank">What's going to happen? </a><br />
2. <a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/v/Tehft3GDw6k?b=05:35&e=06:09" target="_blank">What's going to happen? </a></li>
</ul><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>You can show the beginning and end of a clip and ask students to predict what ‘<span style="font-weight: bold;">has happened</span>’ in between.<br />
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Example:<br />
They watch <a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/v/Tehft3GDw6k?b=00:01&e=00:08" target="_blank">this one</a><br />
Then <a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/v/Tehft3GDw6k?b=00:32&e=01:01" target="_blank">this one</a></li>
</ul><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>You can show students a number of sections from the same clip and ask them to order them either by using linguistic or visual clues and explain their rationale.<br />
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Here are 5 clips for you to try to order:<br />
<a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/v/Tehft3GDw6k?b=03:23&e=03:44" target="_blank">Clip 1</a><br />
<a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/v/Tehft3GDw6k?b=05:35&e=06:09" target="_blank">Clip 2</a><br />
<a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/v/Tehft3GDw6k?b=00:01&e=00:08" target="_blank">Clip 3</a><br />
<a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/v/Tehft3GDw6k?b=02:57&e=03:12" target="_blank">Clip 4</a><br />
<a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/v/Tehft3GDw6k?b=00:32&e=01:01" target="_blank">Clip 5</a></li>
</ul><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>You can show each student in a group a different sections of the clip (like the 5 sections above) and then ask them to work together to describe the part they watched and put the different sections into the correct order as a group.</li>
<li>You can use the sections to focus on the use of specific structures, like this one for ‘<span style="font-weight: bold;">should have</span>’ <a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/v/Tehft3GDw6k?b=02:57&e=03:12" target="_blank">Should have clip</a> or this one for the use of <span style="font-weight: bold;">3rd conditional</span> <a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/v/Tehft3GDw6k?b=03:23&e=03:44" target="_blank">3rd conditional clip</a></li>
<li>At the end of these types of activities you can show them the complete clip. <a href="http://www.safeshare.tv/v/Tehft3GDw6k" target="_blank">http://www.safeshare.tv/v/Tehft3GDw6k</a></li>
</ul><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">What I like about it</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>It’s free and easy to use</li>
<li>It gets your students right to the part of the video you want them to see</li>
<li>It allows you to easily split videos into shorter clips</li>
<li>there’s a simple ‘bookmarklet’ that you can drag to your favourites bar, then whenever you find a YouTube clip your want to use you just click on it to get the SafeShare.TV link.</li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">What I’m not so sure about</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>Sometimes it doesn’t work on my MAC</li>
<li>It would be great to have an embed code as well as a URL</li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well those are some suggestions to get you started cropping YouTube videos. I hope you find them useful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-33050599178611283572010-12-03T15:12:00.000-08:002010-12-03T15:12:50.167-08:00CREATE A VIDEO QUIZ<h2 class="date-header"><span></span></h2><a href="" name="4202929057819662626"></a> <h3 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="http://quickshout.blogspot.com/2009/07/create-esl-efl-video-quiz.html"></a> </h3><a href="http://www.eslvideo.com/" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ESLvideo.com</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> is a great free site that enables you to create your own quizzes based on video clips from popular sharing sites like YouTube or BlipTV.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You have to register and log in and then you just grab embed codes for the video you want to build you quiz around. The site is multilingual so it doesn't just have to be an English language video.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then you just add your questions and then embed the finished quiz into your blog or site. There are </span><a href="http://www.eslvideo.com/create_quiz_tour.php" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" target="_blank">instructions here telling you how to create your own video quiz</a><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As well as this the site has a huge collection of quizzes that have already been created by users and you can grab the code for these and add them to your blog.As users create quizzes they also classify and level them so it makes it very easy to choose something for your class even if you are in a hurry.</span>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-74135945319776600302010-12-02T16:08:00.000-08:002010-12-02T16:20:35.733-08:00A QUICK ONLINE POLL<a href="http://vorbeo.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vorbeo</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> must be one of the quickest and easiest poll creators I've ever seen. All you need to do is to go to there website at: </span><a href="http://vorbeo.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #6c82b5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://vorbeo.com/</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Type in your question add different answers each one on a new line, choose your colour and size etc. As you do that, a code is generated lower down on the page.<br />
This is really no frills stuff, but it is simple, quick and easy and also free. You don't even need to register or part with your email address. All user responses are anonymous.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">This is a great tool to use with students</span></span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All responses are anonymous so you can use this to get some honest feedback on your teaching if you are doing action research. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can create opinion polls based on videos from YouTube (just embed the video and poll questions in your blog page) or text. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can get students to create their own research polls for their peers and then discuss the results in class. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can use it to get some feedback on your blog. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students who write blogs can use it to get quick responses from readers. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could even use it as a comprehension check for online text audio or video activities that you create for your students.</span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can create a number of questions and embed the code for each one in the page, so you aren't limited to just one question, but you are limited in terms of giving students some response to their answer. </span>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-15474276843961737362010-12-02T15:22:00.000-08:002010-12-02T15:55:23.344-08:00SURVEY CREATION<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.ask500people.com/">Ask 500 People</a> is a really simple single question survey tool.You just give your survey a name, then decide on the type of questions you want to ask.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are four types</span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Simple Yes / No </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Multiple choice answers </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clines (degrees of agreeing vs disagreeing) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Image select (user select one of a range of images)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other nice thing is that you get a choice of embed codes to either add the survey to a site page or sidebar as well as a hyperlink you can share.</span><br />
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</script> </a></span>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-28866642761032327862010-12-01T16:38:00.000-08:002010-12-01T16:39:57.506-08:00MASHPEDIA<a href="http://mashpedia.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #6c82b5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mashpedia</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a combination of a search engine and an encyclopedia. It's very simple to use, you just type in a search query and hit search.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The site will then generate a page of information links about your search topic. It collects information from multiple media and different sources from books, blogs , text images to video and even Twitter references.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some possible reading / research tasks you could use which would work for most topics:</span><br />
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<ul><li>Get students to look at the information and use it to create a quiz on the topic. They find information that interests them and write questions to quiz the rest of the class. </li>
<li>Set students to find 5 - 10 facts about a topic. You could stipulate some of these need to be negative aspects and some positive to make it more challenging. </li>
<li>Get students to search the page and decide which of the sources it links to is the single most informative or interesting. </li>
<li>Get students to research a topic and create a multimedia poster about it using text, images and video embedded. </li>
<li>Get students to research a topic and create a short documentary or news report about it. If you have access to a video camera you could video their presentations.</li>
</ul></span>Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919997435068289801.post-770526597611431402010-12-01T16:33:00.000-08:002010-12-01T16:46:33.853-08:00CREATING POLLS AND QUESTIONNAIRES<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://urtak.com/">Urtak </a>is a web based social polling application that enables you to very quickly and easily create online polls and questionnaires.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once your poll is complete you can either link to it via the URL or embed it into a web page</span>.Jesús Núñez Muñozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05945381951639858094noreply@blogger.com0