A presentation prepared for HUPE Zagreb branch meeting of teachers of English as a foreign language, on 9 March 2012.
The presentation is about the use of the wiki with students who participate in "Talking Cultures" project by British Council.
2. Talking Cultures:
• organised by British council
• students collaborate on a wiki
• celebrates cultural differences
• an opportunity to compare British
culture with our own
• sharing our culture with students
from other countries
3. School Year 2010/2011
• Talking Cultures: Armenia and Croatia
• http://talkingculturesd.wikispaces.com
4. School Year 2011/2012
• Armenia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Israel, Kazakhstan,
Macedonia, Russia, Ukraine
• our cluster 7 wiki:
• http://007talkingcultures-2011.wikispaces.com/
5. Collaborating on a wiki
Wiki = Quick in Hawaiian
http://pbworks.com/
http://www.wikispaces.com/
6. Wiki: why and how?
http://weplayandlearnenglish.pbworks.com
7. The benefits for students
• access to lessons
• autonomous in work
• collaborate
• share
• authentic communication
• protected environment
8. The benefits for the teacher
• easy to set up
• easy to monitor
• free
• easy to start or join a project
9. Setting up a wiki for students
• settings
• content
• design
11. Task 1: Introducing a friend
• learning doesn’t
end with the end of
the lesson
• collaborative
writing
• peer correction
• work stays on
display forever
12. Task 1: Introducing a friend
• Voki avatars
(http://www.voki.com/)
recording voice and
listening to others
• learning while using
the tool
• learning about the
internet
13. Task 2: Our town and country
• sharing
research results
• collaborative
writing
14. Our country –
using web 2.0 tools
• Google maps
• Glogster
http://edu.glogster.com/
16. Task 3: Food
• Writing our
recipes:
-vocabulary building
-responsible use of
the internet
17. Task 4: Famous people
• presenting our
country
• critical thinking
• fodey
http://www.fodey.com/
18. Task 5: Festivals
• turning a real life
event into a lesson
• comparing different
cultures
• glogster
19. More web 2.0 tools
Voicethread
http://voicethread.com/share
/1727091/
-comments in voice and
writing
Wallwisher
http://www.wallwisher.com/
- Sticky notes plus
attachments
20. More web 2.0 tools
• Bighugelabs
http://bighugelabs.com/
• Photopeach
http://photopeach.com/
album/ihrj6d
22. The Impact on Students
• more confident in the use of
language
• more confident in the use of
technology
• think critically about topics and
problems
• collaborate