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- 1. Technology Tools for Language Instruction Language Learning Center December 12, 2012
- 2. Types of technology • Social networking tools • Apps and games for learning • Activities that use technology
- 3. Social networking tools • Screen capture • Audacity • Slideshare • Social Bookmarking • Polling • Blogs • Discussion Groups
- 4. Screen capture • ScreenR - 5-minute limit – Java-based CAN be played on iOS devices – No download – Public • Jing - 5-minute limit – Flash-based (no iOS devices!) – Download – Can be private or public • Evan Ashworth on Jing on LLC YouTube • Example
- 5. Audio tools • Audacity • How to Record MP3 Files Using Audacity
- 6. Presentations • Slideshare • Create presentations, find and use other people’s presentations • Different CC licenses • Levels of privacy (paid membership) • Can embed in Learn
- 7. Social Bookmarking • Social Bookmarking in Plain English • Delicious.com
- 8. Polling • Poll Everywhere https://www.polleverywhere.com/login
- 9. Blogging Tools • UNM’s Learn has a blog feature built in. • WordPress has both hosted and self-install versions, both free. It's one of the best blogging platforms, and the most popular by far. Probably want to use the hosted version (Wordpress.com) • Blogger is a great free blogging platform from Google that offers nice templates, widgets, mobile blogging. They also offer unlimited bandwidth and let you use your own domain for free. • Tumblr is probably the best blog platform for microblogs. It's very simple and easy to use, but they do provide advanced features like detailed visitor statistics. You will find that a lot of blogs are picture or video blogs with very little text content. • Posterous is free and designed to make mobile blogging as easy as possible. Users can post new entries on their websites by sending e-mails from their PC or cell phone, and even include. It's integrated with a variety of social network services like Twitter, Flickr and Facebook. • Weebly is a free web site creator which allows users to make webpages and blogs with a few clicks, simply by choosing a theme and the widgets they'd like to use. They don't have any kind of bandwidth restrictions.
- 10. Discussion Groups • Students as (co)moderators • Fast feedback
- 11. Games & quick activities • Anki • www.20Q.net • http://www.lyricstraining.com - Work in groups to decipher lyrics
- 12. Questions? The End