Thursday - Presentational Mode

Using Technology in Second Language Teaching 

 

Focus on the Presentational Mode 
     (students presentations, oral or written)

 

I. Review of Wednesday 

               Brief feedback session - Activities Google doc

 

II. Pedagogical foundations
 

• What is the Presentational Mode?
• Sample assignments for the Presentational mode 
• Everyone into Zoom! 
• Brainstorm possible presentational tasks - Part 1
• Please add to this Group Brainstorm Google doc (find your color group on the page)

          (colors: Red, Purple, Orange, Blue, Green)
 

• What presentational tasks do you ask your students to do now?  (you don't need to think technology here!)
• What tasks would you like to assign that you currently don't?
• Considerations:
• purpose of the presentation
• who is the audience
• “text” type — genre 
• authenticity of the task 

 

• Multi-modal is common:  pre (students learn/interpret) - during (interpretation/presentation) - post activities (presentation/interpersonal) 

 

III.  Presentational Mode Example Activities   

                  Use this Evaluation Form  (Gform)

 

• Importance of practice and feedback  (VoiceThread)
• student practice presentation + teacher feedback
• student final presentation 
• FlipGrid -  Summer Fun. Password: CARLA2018
• BookCreator - Life Cycle of a Butterfly

 

IV. Explore Presentational Mode Examples   

       Use this Evaluation Form (Gform)  

 

Tool	Examples of student projects
VoiceThread	La nouvelle vague Chinese student project How to change a bicycle tire
Instagram (cell phone app)	Word of the Week
WeVideo	President's Emerging Scholars Program at UMN Preston's Digital Story Celina's Digital Story
Screencast-o-matic	Language Learning Autobiography Website Tour Instructor Presentation
ExplainEverything (iPad to create)	example
EduCreations (iPad to create)	Spanish examples (student drawn, teacher voice) Photo story (Spanish)
Tellagami	French Menu - Chinese Example
PowToon	The SAMR Model explained by students
Blogs	Humans of New York - Tumblr
ComicLife	See examples in this article about the Benefits of Comics
Storybird	Sign up for a free account.  Then explore the different kinds of "stories" available in lots of different languages. picture-book, longform-story, comics, flash-fiction, poetry
Digital Story (iMovie, PowerPoint, etc.)	The Apple Tree Symbols Lucinda

 

 

V. Activity Brainstorm, Part 2 and Debrief

• Look at the list of activities you developed from Part 1 
• Think of an appropriate tool or two that would work for each task you listed in Part 1
• Everyone back into Zoom!  
• Please add to the Group Brainstorm Google doc (find your color group on the page) 

  

 

VI. Create Presentational Tasks  

Design a presentational activity for your students. Use the tools presented above, or choose from the Additional Tools below, or choose something you've heard about. Create a model presentation that your students could use as an example in preparing their own presentations. 

Add your activity to your Google doc

 

Tool (links to the tool's start page)	Additional Information  (check the app's Help or YouTube for tutorials!)
VoiceThread (3 Threads for free)	successful project descriptions Wiki page
FlipGrid (now free for all!)	Educator's Guide to FlipGrid
WeVideo (90 day free trial, $6.63-$199 year	WeVideo Basics
Screencast-o-matic  (free)	Screencast demo for K-12 Social Studies example
ExplainEverything (iPad to create -- $25 per year)	German example: Die Zelle
EduCreations (iPad to create)	tutorial (ESL student and teacher examples)
Tellagami (edu paid version -- smartphone, tablet to create)
VideoAnt
Storybird	Tutorials
Blogs Blogger (Google)  WordPress EduBlogs
ThingLink	student creations now only available through a paid teacher account

 

 

 

Additional Tools: 

• SoundCloud is a site for loading, storing and sharing sound files. For language teachers, Sound Cloud offers a useful feature, time-stamped comments. With this feature, teachers can bring a new level of precision and review-capability into feedback on student audio recordings.

• Canva is a web-based application that gives you access to hundreds of templates for posters, comics, banners, etc.  

• Google Slides - for collaborative presentations or presentation preparation

• PowToon is a tool for creating animated presentations 
• PowerPoint - you know this one!  record voice on each slide, then upload to SlideBoom or other places, or export as a movie and upload 
• Prezi - could record voice-over with a screencast recorder   
• iPad apps - the teacher uses most of these, but what about having the students create with them?
  (see more iPad apps on the mobile learning page in this wiki)

• Tumblr - blog

• Padlet - text, upload other media

• blipfoto.com - photostory

• Piktochart - free tool to create infographics

• YouTube - if your students have Google accounts, they can create a "channel" in YouTube through their Gmail accounts. Getting Started Tutorial

• SeeSaw - tool for creating digital portfolios 
• Adobe Spark 
• Moovly - a tool to create a professional looking video, with video material, images, etc. Limited version free to educators 

 

• We welcome your suggestions for other tools that you like! Post them at the bottom of this page using the Comments feature. 

 

VII. Participant Demonstrations

We'd like to see what you're experimenting with!  (we're not expecting perfection!)
Add your activity to your Google doc

If you have created activities with other tools that you would like to share - please add links to your activity.