Online language learning for LCOnline
- 1. The Web, my browser and me Melanie Leggatt IT and CALL Officer Modern and Medieval Languages http://www.flickr.com/photos/83633410@N07/7658181994/
- 2. What you can achieve with a computer, a network connection and your inspiration
- 3. And no money
- 4. A bit of a gallop so lots of supporting links available online after the session
- 6. Primarily – that this isn't you
- 7. Quite the opposite – that you're bubbling over with ideas
- 8. You just need the tools to make it happen
- 9. Introducing you to these tools, where to find them and the possibilities is the focus of this session
- 10. Caveat emptor
- 11. First rule of web design - start with pencil and paper The appropriate use of technology
- 12. Only when you've successfully defined your goals should you start using digital tools Otherwise you risk going round and round in circles
- 13. Getting the basic building blocks right will make using and creating cool stuff later on much easier
- 14. Traditional language labs were very expensive and often left students bored and unenthused
- 15. With Web 2.0 things have changed! Today there are too many excellent resourc
- 16. Before we go any further, an aside about Web 2.0 – just what is it?
- 17. Initially with Web 1.0 we all tooled up and went shopping, then something changed. . . We stopped being merely consumers and started creating instead. Web 2.0 meant write access for all!
- 18. Lots of people posted their own resources and made them freely available for sharing
- 19. Writing for the Web became accessible and easier – no longer the sole domain of geeks
- 20. Today, the challenge lies in developing the skills to find what you want
- 21. So, we have whole world of digital creativity to explore
- 23. Chargeable proprietary, proprietary at no cost vs freely distributed
- 24. Free offerings from commercial companies, or are they? If it seems to good to be true, is it? An informed choice
- 25. 1. Creating and storing
- 26. Writing online. Offerings from e.g. Google and Microsoft
- 27. Sharing online. With colleagues, friends or students
- 28. Downloading free office suites and then storing your files online at no cost
- 29. Photo storage and editing and sharing Flickr now offer 1 terabyte of storage
- 30. And video storage and editing too!
- 31. Services like Jolidrive provide a one-stop portal for you to access your documents and storage
- 32. They can even tell you how much storage you can amass Over 20 gigabytes of storage are on offer here
- 33. But there is no excuse for not keeping a local backup of your files
- 34. 1. Creating and storing REVIEW Creating Storing Editing All at no cost
- 35. 2. Sharing
- 36. Collecting other people's resources – legitimately sharing your own
- 37. Using other people's materials legitimately means you can relax about posting your work online
- 38. And you can chill out knowing you've reciprocally shared back
- 39. So how do we find all this stuff?
- 40. One-stop shop The Creative Commons 1,000s images, sound and video files
- 41. Listings of online radio stations Or newspapers
- 42. cultural and educational media sites
- 43. And guides to television channel listings
- 44. Reviewed listings of the best sites
- 45. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel
- 46. So you've created or found lots of content How do you take it to the next level?
- 47. GETTING SOCIAL
- 48. One of the best potted definitions of social media around
- 49. Clearly, some aspects of social media are more relevant to your professional life than others
- 50. Places to be seen. . .
- 51. Sharing resources, discovering new ones, joining groups, making contacts
- 52. Lots of very active groups out there
- 53. Follow the most productive blogs
- 54. Use the review sites to make the most of the specialist social media sites
- 55. Which neatly takes us back to systems like diigo to help us manage all this information
- 56. Other social media sites probably aren't so useful. What of FB?
- 57. Too much leakage. Keep your personal and professional profiles separate
- 58. 2. Sharing REVIEW Searching Getting social Being seen All at no cost
- 59. 3. Publishing and curating
- 60. 3. Publishing and curating
- 61. So you've acquired all this great stuff LEARNING You want to organise it for yourself TEACHING You want to share it with students IDENTITY You want to include it in your site to establish your online profile
- 62. Thankfully for us, publishing is now as easy as falling off the proverbial log
- 63. Achieving it with style and elegance still takes some skill though
- 64. The best of the best publishing tools
- 65. Scoop.it – curating and displaying your favourite content created by you and others
- 66. User-friendly content systems like Wordpress (or Blogger) make creative publishing easy
- 67. If you can insert an image in a Word document you CAN drive Wordpress
- 68. Excellent support, customisation and content integration
- 70. Ernesto Priego's Wordpress site is a good example of what an individual can achieve on their own
- 71. More examples
- 72. a superior film criticism website with post-doctoral contributors Why not invite contributors to your site?
- 75. Benny Lewis' Over 500,000 readers
- 76. Bab.la – check out what other people have done
- 77. for pure interdisciplinary inspiration http://ted.com
- 78. Some advanced inspiration for teaching. . .
- 79. Forums and Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) Get hands-on and interactive with your students
- 80. Moodle is free and can run on a very modest computer The Computing Service can host it, or you can pay for a commercial site
- 81. The OU system is based on (an albeit very customised version of) Moodle
- 82. Fluency practice Writing development Managing and mashing together content Quizzes Grading Student interaction with and without your input All possible in VLEs like Moodle
- 83. All these tools can be fully integrated – do as much or as little as you like
- 84. What next?
- 85. All these tools can be fully integrated – do as much or as little as you like
- 86. Explore the links on the page we'll supply you with
- 87. What next. . .
- 89. Email with ideas