Workshop "Mind the App". Simple internet tools to engage EFL learners.

Embedded PowerPoint VideoBy PresenterMedia.com

Thomas Strasser

Vienna University College of Teacher Education

www.learning-reloaded.com [email protected] | @thomas_strasser

25.06.2015@Tagung der AusbildnerInnen Englisch(Nürtingen)

Simple but effective internet tools in the foreign language classroom.

www.learning-reloaded.com

http://sellyourstoryuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Old-and-Young-Computer.jpg

Credits: Steve Wheeler

WTF!? Grandfather ‘s got a

Facebook account?

*Image by 35066966@N07 via Flickr

It‘s not about ‘[…]

pedaling the latest

digital snake oil.‘http://oliversycamore71.wordpress.com/tag/technology/

http://de.slideshare.net/hiddenpersuader/quotes-for-presentations

*Image by 49462908@N00 via Flickr

*Image by 15636319@N00 via Flickr

Change of paradigm!?

3-clicks-Edu-Apps

Didactics in, technology out.

Heckmann, V. & Strasser, T.

(2012)

www.wordle.net

*Image by 56866600@N00 via Flickr

www.tagxedo.com

*Image by 39966480@N00 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Text interpretation

• Song analysis

• biographies

• Mind mapping

www.cueprompter.com

*Image by 34936309@N00 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• News reporter

• Presidential speech

• castings

• reading

• Spot the mistake

www.padlet.com

*Image by 57634636@N00 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Brainstorming

• Mind mapping

• Feedback

• Word of the Day

• Who am I?

www.polleverywhere.com

www.spreaker.com

*Image by 40659633@N02 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Professional podcasting

(quick ‘dirty)

• Radio shows

• Audio learning diary

• Audio book report

• Etc.

*Image by 75098596@N00 via Flickr

Audioboo.fm & www.vocaroo.com

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

Potential

• This is me

• Productive skills

• Controversial discourse

• Chain story

• Radio show

Voki.com

*Image by 31096745@N08 via Flickr

• This is me

• Talk about various topics

• Reading (newspaper article)

• summaries

• Reviews

• celebrities

www.create.kahoot.it

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Quizzes

• Surveys

• Discussions

www.learningapps.org

*Image by 10557450@N04 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Create various quiz types

Storybird.com

*Image by 13370398@N08 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Text production within a creative context

• Text production with visual inputs

www.toondoo.com

*Image by 57793440@N00 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Cartoons

*Image by 53819037@N00 via Flickr

www.nicertube.com

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• No distractors

www.classtools.net

*Image by 82851865@N00 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Create various quiz types

• Fakebook

• Fake SMS

Mailvu.com

*Image by 36444962@N06 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Receptive skills

• Video quiz

• Summaries, reviews, etc.

• Students produce videos

• Feedback assignments

www.flipsnack.com

*Image by 86672083@N00 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• „Pimp“ handouts

• Tourist brochure

• portfolio

• Create newspaper

www.easydefine.com

Penzu.com

*Image by 25309380@N04 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• portfolio

• Share material

• Learing diary

www.tricider.com

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Expressing your point of view

• Controversial discourse

Edupad.ch

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Collaborative text production

• “Netiquette“

• Brainstorming

• Backchannelling

• Feedback

www.littlebirdtales.com

*Image by 57634636@N00 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Various text types (audio, written)

Markup.io

*Image by 70899394@N08 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Website analysis

• Reviewing sources

• Language detective

• Web quest

• Dynamic discourse

Crocodoc.com

*Image by 27703797@N06 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Text analysis (register, metaphors, etc.)

• Working with citations

• Sayings, idioms, etc.

• Picture dictionary

Todaysmeet.com

*Image by 76035894@N04 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Backchannelling

• Feedback

• Quizzes

• FAQs

• Link provider

www.signgenerator.org

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• „pimp“ handouts

www.tripline.net

*Image by 76016871@N00 via Flickr

*Image by 58693053@N00 via Flickr

• Present field trips visually

• Sight seeing

• Present your own country

*Image by 29701778@N05 via Flickr*Image by 40603140@N07 via Flickr*Image by 40603140@N07 via Flickr

*Image by 41664681@N00 via Flickr

Dr. Thomas Strasser

Vienna University College of Teacher

Education

[email protected]

www.learning-reloaded.com

@thomas_strasser

www.helblinglanguages.com/mindtheapp

https://facebook.com/thomas.strasser969