Using Technology in Second Language Teaching:
Focus on the Interpersonal Mode
I. Review of Tuesday
Lingro: web tool to display glosses to aid reading comprehension
II. Pedagogical foundations
Log in to ZOOM!
The Interpersonal Mode
The AIR model. presentation (Beth Kautz)
for K-12 partners, check out ePals.com
for post secondary, UNI Collaboration
III. Examples - test and evaluate
Go to http://www.appear.in: (We'll give you a number: lcmac01, lcmac02, etc.)
Allow Appear.in to "Share Selected Devices" and put on your headset.
Partner A
Partner B
- Let's go eat! -- Backchannel Chat
Use a backchannel chat application to negotiate a good place to have lunch in the area.
Additional tools:
- VoiceThread as an asynchronous tool
IV. Create Interpersonal Activity
As you're working, put links to your demonstration activities in the your activity Gdoc to share them.
Tools for Interpersonal Communication - use one of these, or another of your choice
Tool |
Need a User Account |
Able to Record |
Public/Private recordings |
Number of people |
Appear.In (Safari not supported) |
No |
No |
No - via 3rd app |
4 maximum |
Zoom.us |
Yes |
Yes |
downloadable to computer with free account,
or to the cloud with license
|
25 maximum |
Google Hangouts on Air |
Yes |
Yes |
Public |
10 maximum |
Skype |
Yes |
No |
Private |
5 maximum
|
BackChannel Chat |
No |
Yes |
Private |
30 maximum |
V. Participant Demonstrations
We'd like to see what you're experimenting with! –We're not expecting perfection!
See links to your demonstration activities in your Gdoc.
Have you created activities with other tools that you would like to share?
Post them at the bottom of this page using the Comments feature.
Additional information/resources:
More on Zoom:
Other resources:
Here is a PDF of Colleen Coffey's book with lots of AIR examples.
Reaching for the Skype in Language Magazine - article about using Skype in the language classroom
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