The Design, Adaptation and Use of Didactic Materials for the Learning and Teaching of a Foreign Language

The Design, Adaptation and Use of Didactic Materials for the Learning and

Teaching of a Foreign Language

MARÍA LUISA OCHOA FERNÁNDEZDpto. Filología Inglesa Universidad de Huelva

[email protected]

Módulo: APRENDIZAJE Y ENSEÑANZA DE LAS MATERIAS DE LA ESPECIALIDAD: LENGUA EXTRANJERA (INGLÉS). Máster de Enseñanza Secundaria

“Use technology when it helps you to achieve your lesson objectives”

(José Picardo)

OPTION 2: To search and use material already created on the web

by other authors

When integrating ICT in the teaching of a foreign language, we have two

options:

OPTION 1: To create our own material

How? With AUTHORING TOOLS:

Hotpotatoes, Jclic, webquests….

BYou can ADAPT the

material to your needs

AYou can use the material as it is

In BOTH CASES you definitely have to acknowledge the author.

Never use it without acknowledging it.When ADAPTING, state who has been

adapted by.

Adapted from http:/www………………. by Maria Luisa Ochoa

OPTION 1: Designing your own materials

Tailoring them to your teaching needs and the students´needs

Introducing HOT POTATOES

-The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware.-It was created by Victoria University (Canada). -The exercises created can be published on the Web.- On the web Ttere are plenty of examples of exercises created with this application.- They enhance autonomous learning as students are given all the necessary information and tools to be able to do the exercise on their own.

AUTHORING TOOL

Create your own interactive exercises

JQuiz

JCross

JCloze

JMatch

JMix

The HotPotatoes suite includes six applications. It is an easy application to create the folllowing types of

exercises:

• Crossword puzzle (JCross), • Matching exercise (JMatch), • Fill-in-the-blanks exercise (JCloze), • Multiple-choice and Short-answer Quiz (JQuiz) • Jumbled sentence exercise (JMix)

It consists of:

You can personalize your exercises: color, background, inserting pictures, videos, audios, etc.

It can be downloaded at http://hotpot.uvic.ca/index.php#downloads

Tutorials in different languages about how to use the programme can be found at:http://hotpot.uvic.ca/tutorials6.phphttp://platea.pntic.mec.es/~iali/CN/HotPot60/tutorial.htmhttp://www.isabelperez.com/webquest/taller/hot_potatoes.pdfhttp://www.welcom.net.nz/course/view.php?id=199http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBylzI4cVoQ&feature=related (Video)http://www.aula21.net/segunda/hotpotatoes.htm

Downloading HOT POTATOES

Sites you may want to visit before jumping in:http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/, http://www.finchpark.com/courses/hotpot/http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~db385093/hotpotato.htm

Understanding How It Works

Let´s see some examples:

http://www.educa.madrid.org/portal/web/educamadrid/hotpotatoes

http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/averroes/interlex/topics.htm

- You can embed videos, ppt presentations, audio files. - You can embellish your exercises, adding gifs, pictures, etc. Check http://www.isabelperez.com/tesllinks3.htm#design

JQUIZJCROSS

JMATCH

Introducing JCLIC

JClic is a set of free software for the development of multimedia educational activities.

The clicZone is a public service from the Ministry of Education of the Government of Catalonia created to give diffusion and support to the use of these resources, and to become a space of cooperation open to the participation of all the educators that want to share the applications produced using the programmes.

• Download: http://clic.xtec.cat/es/jclic/index.htm (Spanish)http://clic.xtec.cat/en/index.htm (English)

• Tutorial:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVu6oQlKcMo (video)

• Articles and manuals:http://clic.xtec.cat/en/documents/index.htm

• Sample Jclic activities:http://clic.xtec.cat/db/listact_es.jsp (in different languages)

Some examples of

JCLIC activities

- Download: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/games/index.htm

- It allows you to customize your games.- It consits of different applications. They are very

easy to use:- Memory Game Maker: example- Matching Game Maker: example- Sentence Game maker: example

Introducing GAME MAKERS (Languages Online

Australia)

Some examples of

GAME MAKERS

Introducing TREASURE HUNTS

& WEBQUESTS

Some common characteristics

• The teacher is a guide that helps in the students´ learning process. The actor is the student who is made responsible of his/her own learning.

• Interactive learning guided by the teacher but the student is the leader.

TREASURE HUNTS• La Treasure Hunt o Búsqueda del Tesoro es una actividad menor en relación a la WebQuest. • En esta actividad el alumno no debe llevar a cabo una tarea muy compleja, sólo tendrá que

hallar las respuestas a unas preguntas dadas en el contenido de los enlaces seleccionados previamente por el profesor. A veces se incluye una pregunta global que requiere que el alumno haga un uso más elaborado de la información, esta se denomina "la gran pregunta".

• En resumen, una Treasure Hunt o Búsqueda del Tesoro puede constar de los siguientes elementos:

- Una Introducción breve sobre el tema que puede incluir la explicación de la tarea que el alumno llevará a cabo.- Un conjunto de preguntas más o menos difíciles de responder, dependiendo del nivel y edad de los alumnos.

- La "gran pregunta" que deberá ser contestada tras la reflexión sobre toda la información obtenida.

- Los enlaces a las páginas web en las que los alumnos encontrarán las respuestas. - Un apartado de evaluación en el que se explique cómo se va a calificar la tarea realizada.Al contrario que las WebQuests, el modelo de la Treasure Hunt es más flexible y no es necesario que incluya todos esos elementos para ser considerada una Treasure Hunt.

• La Treasure Hunt no equivale a una comprensión de un texto, ya que, por un lado utiliza recursos y textos varios y, por otro, no se trata de alcanzar una comprensión al mismo nivel que se hace en una actividad de comprensión de textos. En muchas ocasiones cada pregunta encontrará respuesta en páginas distinta

Creating a Treasure Hunt

You can use a treasure hunt generatorhttp://www.aula21.net/cazas/caza.htm

Example 1Example 2

To know more about TREASURE HUNTS: http://www.aula21.net/cazas/ayuda.htm

What is a WEBQUEST?

• Desarrollado por Bernie Dodge en 1995. • Actividad orientada a la investigación donde

toda o casi toda la información que se utiliza procede de recursos de Internet.

• Desarrolla actividades estructuradas y guiadas que permiten un correcto proceso de investigación desde un enfoque constructivista del aprendizaje.

• Estructura: Consta de Introducción, Tarea, Recursos, Proceso, Evaluación y Conclusión.

From www.isabelperez.com

From www.isabelperez.com

You can use a WEBQUEST generator:http://www.isabelperez.com/webquest/index.htm#plantilla

Some exampleshttp://www.isabelperez.com/webquest/ejemplos.htm

http://www.carmengomez.com/webquest/salem/salem_index.htm

Creating a Webquest

http://www.aula21.net/Wqfacil/webquest.htm