INNOVATIVE USES OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHING ORAL SKILLS

Panelist: Kristi Reyes, kreyes@miracosta.eduMiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA

Web 2.0 Tools for Student Oral Projects Video sharing sites Slideshow sharing Blogs Wikis Podcasting VoiceThread Glogster Handout and PowerPoint at http://snipurl.com/krtesol09

Video sharing sites

YouTube, TeacherTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, blip.tv

blip.tv allows uploads of 1 GB video max.

Sample Commenting by text

Online slideshows

authorSTREAM Upload PowerPoint

presentations with narrated slides or inserted audio

Sample Commenting by text authorSTREAM directions Sample Past Tense Regula

r Verbs with audio

Common Irregular Past Tense Verbs with audio

Blog

Blogger Audio files uploaded to

other sites can be embedded; Many blogs allow direct uploading of video (100 MB on Blogger.com, for example)

"Speaking with the Stars" team project pre- and post-taping

Mock Job Interview Team Project

Commenting by text Blogger directions

Wiki

Shared class Web page; students can have their own wiki pages; with most wikis, uploading a video file straight to a wiki page will take up a lot of space, so consider first uploading to a video sharing site (YouTube, TeacherTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, blip.tv, etc.) and then embedding on a wiki page

Sample student video with comments on student wiki page of class wiki, using Wikispaces

Commenting by text but audio and video commenting possible

Podcasts

Web-based audio broadcast, but many podcast sites now permit posting of video

PodOmatic Upload video files or record

with webcam, upload audio files or record with computer microphone, upload images; audio/video media files up to 350 MB; 500 MB total storage with a free account

Sample of Mock Job Interview Project (second taping) on class podcast page

Commenting by text PodOmatic directions

VoiceThread

Upload images, documents (PowerPoint, PDF, Word, Excel), or video files and narrate or comment by text, voice (computer microphone, phone, uploaded audio file), video (webcam)

VoiceThreads are saved on the site but can be emailed or embedded on a Web page or blog

Sample

VoiceThread

Others found through site search using "ESL":

Class Basic Conversation Basic vocabulary Intermediate vocabulary Pronunciation of vowels Pronunciation of consonants

Speaking practice for a class Talking about the news Tell a story about a picture 

Student oral responses to pictures 1 and 2 Pronunciation of /l/ through song Class interviews with instructor feedback 1 and 2 (video)

VoiceThread directions VoiceThread Manual VoiceThread Tutorials

Glogster

Multi-media online scrapbook pages: posters that combine uploaded user images, video (uploaded from your computer, hyperlinked, or embedded from video sharing sites like YouTube), and audio (music, sound effects, voice recordings) with text and designs

Each “glog” is saved to the site but can also be emailed or embedded on a Web page or blog

Sample Student Project 1

Glogster

Glogster edu provides master accounts for teachers, integrating all student accounts and keeps accounts private

Sample Student Project 2

Commenting by text Glogster directions

Any Questions?

Feel free to email me

kreyes@

miracosta.

edu

Thank you!