First of all she told us that it is very important to create interactive learning materials for use in the digital classroom in order to maintain student attention and motivation. Secondly she told us that technology means everything is fast and immediate. So materials have to be inviting, enticing and rewarding.
She then asked us to complete a google form and almost immediately we received a certificate in our email. This shows that we can use google docs to communicate things with our students almost immediately if the students complete a certain amount of a form which you can specify, they can receive feedback.
She then showed us some animated presentations she made using https://plotagon.com/ These were clever and would definitely engage students. I personally have made several videos using moovly and powtoons.While watching my only thought was how long it takes to make these. I will have to play later and see.
She then talk about using screencast tools (in her case youcam) to create videos which she can embed in emails as well as courses. I am lucky that I seem to have quite a good and simple screen casting tool. Here Nellie pointed out that some students don't like too much technology or creating lots of new accounts and Nives concurred with this. She hopes to see the ability to embed videos in google docs introduced in the future like you can with google slides.
We then looked at some videos on using various tools.
First of all we looked at a video about audacity which is a good free audio tool which I already use. At the end of a lesson, especially with students with pronunciation problems, I make an audio of the relevant vocabulary which I then upload for them to download and they can then practise at home.
She and Nellie mentioned that you can use audacity to make the audio and then upload it to soundcloud .
Then we looked at a slide presentation by Nives, she told us that the title of her presentation was because amongst other things teaching goes hand in hand with learning, teachers do learn as they progress and with each year of teaching and teachers can learn form social networks. She told us that learning by watching is exciting, learning by making your own videos is better and learning by helping others to make the videos is the best way to learn.
Doctor Nellie seems to be her hero, mentoring and leading the way for us all. Collaborating is also a valuable way of learning and she shared a list of people that she has collaborated with including some members of the audience! For people that complain that they can't collaborate in their country, technology allows us to communicate with people from all over the world. We can create our own PLN by using technology including (among others) Twitter and Facebook.
She then went on to talk about google forms and blogging.
There are links to all the tools mentioned on the slideshow available here. This was a very interesting and practical session with lots of ideas and tools to experiment with - several of which I had not tried before. Thank you Nives, for this presentation.
She and Nellie mentioned that you can use audacity to make the audio and then upload it to soundcloud .
Then we looked at a slide presentation by Nives, she told us that the title of her presentation was because amongst other things teaching goes hand in hand with learning, teachers do learn as they progress and with each year of teaching and teachers can learn form social networks. She told us that learning by watching is exciting, learning by making your own videos is better and learning by helping others to make the videos is the best way to learn.
Doctor Nellie seems to be her hero, mentoring and leading the way for us all. Collaborating is also a valuable way of learning and she shared a list of people that she has collaborated with including some members of the audience! For people that complain that they can't collaborate in their country, technology allows us to communicate with people from all over the world. We can create our own PLN by using technology including (among others) Twitter and Facebook.
She then went on to talk about google forms and blogging.
There are links to all the tools mentioned on the slideshow available here. This was a very interesting and practical session with lots of ideas and tools to experiment with - several of which I had not tried before. Thank you Nives, for this presentation.
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