2015 Presentational Workshop


Engaging Students with Language Learning through Technology: 
Focus on the Presentational Mode

 

March 7, 2015 - Jones Hall #35 and online, University of Minnesota

 

I. Introductions
 

     Alyssa Bonnac, Marlene Johnshoy, Dan Soneson

     Local and remote participants

 

II. Pedagogical foundations
 

 

 

III. Activity Brainstorm, Part 1

Brainstorm possible presentational tasks.

Please add to this Group Brainstorm Google doc (find your color group on the page)

 

 

IV. Tools & Examples  

   Handout - Evaluation Grid Google Doc - make a copy of it so you can edit it

 

Tool (links to the tool's start page)  Examples of student projects 

Additional Information 

(check YouTube for tutorials!)

VoiceThread (three Threads for free)

La nouvelle vague

Chinese student project

successful project descriptions

Wiki page

FlipGrid (free to U of M teachers only)  
Use Stories
Vocaroo example (with a Google form to collect replies)  
AudioBoom example activity  
Screencast-o-matic

Language Learning Autobiography

Website Tour

 

Other screencast examples 
ExplainEverything (iPad to create) example tutorials 
EduCreations (iPad to create)

Spanish examples (student drawn, teacher voice)

Photo story (Spanish)

tutorial (ESL and teacher examples, too) 
Tellagami (edu paid version) French Menu - Chinese Example  
VideoAnt    
Voki example

lesson plan library

wiki page

Glogster (no longer free) example 1 - example2  

Blogs

Humans of New York - Tumblr 

ESL Student Blogger

 
Wiki -

Topics in Media 

- many more examples on this wiki's Wiki page

 

CLEAR Tools

Answer the questions 
(audio and video examples)
 
ComicLife (not free, already installed on lab machines)

German Example 1

German Example 2

Japanese Example

 
Storybird

2 French examples

variety of languages

Tutorial (PDF)

 

 

V. Activity Brainstorm, Part 2

 

 

Break - 15 min

 

 

VI. Create Presentational Tasks  

 

Breakout groups:

  

Additional tools: 

 

 

VII. Participant Demonstrations
 

     We'd like to see what you're experimenting with!  (we're not expecting perfection in half a morning!)

     Post a link to your test activities - whatever you're comfortable with, and we'd like to encourage embedding - give it a try!

 

     If you have created activities with other tools that you would like to share - please add links to your activity or to the tool on this page as well!

 

 

VIII. Wrap-up and Evaluation
    

 

 

 

Additional information/resources:

 

     Annenberg has a video series on "teaching Foreign Languages" - check out the lesson on presentational mode (and the other 2 modes!)

     NOVASTARTALK - has good screenshot tutorials for many tools