ICT Teaching and Learning Tasks for the LOTE Classroom

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MLTAV Conference 2006 April 28th, 2006
ICT Teaching and Learning Tasks for the LOTE
Classroom Kelly Beattie beattie.kelly.l_at_edumail.vi
c.gov.au ICT Teaching Learning LT Berwick
Secondary College LOTE Centre of
Excellence www.bsclotecoe.vic.edu.au
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Why embed ICT into your classroom teaching?

• VELS
• Domain of Information and Communications
  Technology in the Interdisciplinary Learning
  Strand
• ICT Domain dimensions for Levels 3-6
• ICT for visualising thinking
• ICT for creating
• ICT for communicating

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Why embed ICT into your classroom teaching?

• ENGAGEMENT!

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The interdisciplinary domain of ICT

• ICT for Visualising Thinking
• Organise ideas
• Explore processes and test hypotheses
• Problem solving and organising ideas, concepts
  and issues
• EG Mind Maps

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The interdisciplinary domain of ICT

• ICT for Creating
• Use multimedia
• Create documents
• Manipulate images
• Produce products for different audiences
• Create and maintain digital evidence of learning
• Design and create products to meet user needs and
  intellectual property laws
• Project manage the creation of ICT products

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The interdisciplinary domain of ICT

• ICT for Communicating
• Email and search engines
• Messaging and uploading work to public web space
• Use complex search strategies
• Use blogs, websites or other public forums
• Use online forums in an appropriate manner

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So how can I do this?

• Ideas, technology and software to be explored
  today
• Webquests and web-based learning tasks
• Film technology including
• Moviemaker
• Photo Story
• Monkey Jam
• Web-based tools including
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Furls
• Google Earth
• Podcasts
• Software including
• Task Magic
• Fun with Texts

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Web Based learning tasks

• Create them yourself (with a little help!)
• Use templates together with FrontPage, Dream
  Weaver or any other web editor
• Make them accessible to your students by
• Hosting live on the web
• Hosting on a school intranet/network
• Share them with other teachers

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Web based learning tasks

• Hotlists
• Use for open exploration of a topic
• A collection of sites already compiled for
  students to visit
• Varying quality of resources
• Does not contain the exact learning required of
  students
• Similar to providing a reading list
• China Hotlist

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Web based learning tasks

• Multimedia Scrapbooks
• Similar to a hotlist
• Links are to a range of media
• Photographs, Maps, Stories, Facts, Quotations,
  Sound clips, Videos, Virtual reality tours
• Students download or copy the media that they
  find important intro a pre-determined format
• Newsletter, slide presentation, collage, bulletin
  board etc.
• Students produce richer and more sophisticated
  work
• Offers a more student centred approach that
  encourages construction of meaning
• Students can synthesise a large selection of data
  and experiences.
• China Scrapbook

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Web based learning tasks

• Treasure Hunts
• Find web pages that hold information (text,
  graphics, sound, video etc.) that is essential to
  understanding the topic
• Pose one key question for each site you link to
• Discovering the answers to these questions
  provides a continuing thread that runs throughout
  the topic
• Finish the task with a big question that brings
  the learning together
• World Cup 2006 Treasure Hunt

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Web based learning tasks

• Subject Sampler
• Students are presented with a small number of
  intriguing websites organised around a main topic
• Choose websites that offer something interesting
  to do, read or see
• Students are asked to provide their perspective
  on the topic
• Good for making students feel connected to a
  topic
• China Subject Sampler

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Web based learning tasks

• Web Quest
• A webquest is an inquiry-oriented activity in
  which some or all of the information that
  learners interact with comes from resources on
  the Internet... Bernie Dodge, Creator of
  WebQuests
• A webquest can be used for
• Student Motivation and authenticity
• Developing Thinking Skills
• Cooperative Learning

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Web based learning tasks

• Elements of a webquest are
• Introduction
• Task
• Web based sources
• Process
• Guidance
• Evaluation
• Conclusion
• Making a webquest
• Should I or shouldnt I?
• Uncovering the question/task
• Finding your resources
• Bringing it all together

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Web based learning tasks

• Sample webquests
• Bali Webquest
• Bastille Day
• Influential German Speakers
• The Spice Trade
• The Webquest Direct search engine
• Web Quest Direct
• Visit the BSC LOTE Centre of Excellence site for
  more resources and information

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Working with film

• Incredibly powerful tool
• Use to tell stories and share culture
• Good for creative, visual and kinesthetic
  learners
• Equipment
• Digital video camera
• Digital still camera with video capacity
• Web Camera
• Software
• Movie editing software
• Movie Maker/iMovie/Adobe Premiere
• Other film software
• Photo Story/Monkey Jam

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Movie Maker

• Part of Windows XP Operating System
• Download/Import video, audio, still images
• Edit movies
• Apply special effects
• Build into a movie
• Instructions on Movie Maker can be found at
  Berwick CoE website on film page.

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Photo Story

• Free download from Microsoft
• Simple, easy to use software that build movies
  out of images, sound and text
• Learning photo story and link to download
• Windows Photo Story site

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Monkey Jam

• A free stop motion program much like stop
  motion pro
• Allows students to create stop motion animation
  movies such as claymation.
• Available for download from
• Giant Screaming Robot Monkeys

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Film Ideas for the classroom

• Instructional films have your students teach
  others how to do something, in the language they
  are learning. It might be a recipe, how to play a
  game, how to build something. They are limited
  only by their imagination. Easy to plan and
  execute.
• Documentaries show people from the country whose
  language you are learning something about your
  life, your school, your city. Prepare the entire
  documentary in their language, so that your
  culture can be shared with them.

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Film Ideas for the classroom

• Music Videos using karaoke backing music, or
  live work, students write and record their own
  song in their target language. They then create a
  video clip to support their song.
• Documenting activities LOTE departments are very
  active teaching and learning areas. Document the
  classroom activities, excursions and camps that
  are conducted, and package them into a film.

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Film Ideas for the classroom

• Fairy Tales and other stories students show
  their creativity by writing and shooting their
  film, be it based on a fairy tale or something
  original, it must be in the target language.
• Film Competitions Film competitions such as that
  run by the Goethe Institute, are great
  opportunities for students to demonstrate their
  language skills. Look out for competitions to
  enter, or run your own. Make sure it has a theme
  to work from.

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Web based tools - Blogs

• What is a blog?
• Definition A website with dated entries,
  presented in reverse chronological order and
  published on the internet
• The word blog comes from an amalgamation of the
  two words web log, which is the original name for
  a blog
• People who maintain blogs are called bloggers,
  posting to your blog is called blogging and the
  collective world of blogs is known as the
  Blog-o-sphere

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Web based tools - Blogs

• Key features of a blog
• Personal editorship
• A hyperlinked posting structure
• Frequent updates
• Free public access to the content via the
  internet
• Archived postings
• Paquet 2003

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Web based tools - Blogs

• How might I use a blog in the classroom?
• Group blogs
• Using a blog much like you would a bulletin board
  to facilitate discussion
• Multiple users will contribute
• Grouping under topic headings
• Publishing writing
• Provides students with a real audience for their
  work
• Can give and receive feedback
• Used for practicing writing skills

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Web based tools - Blogs

• How might I use a blog in the classroom?
• Field notes and journals
• Use to report on experiences (in a journaling
  form) for practical or field subjects.
• Allows for critical reflection
• Research journal
• As a record of the research process, to show
  scaffolding of learning
• Learning journal
• A reflection process of what has been learnt in
  the classroom
• Others...
• From Blogging to Learn, Anne Bartlett-Bragg,
  University of Technology, Sydney, 2003

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Web based tools - Blogs

• FREE blogs on the web!
• www.blogger.com
• www.livejournal.com
• www.spaces.msn.com
• www.modblog.com
• www.xanga.com
• Visit my blog
• Technology for teaching LOTE blog
• Visit a classroom blog
• 7L Blog

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Web based tools Wikis

• What is a wiki?
• Definition A website which allows the reader to
  also be the author
• The term wiki comes from the Hawaiian word which
  means quick, fast or to hasten.
• This is in reference to how rapidly content can
  be updated and altered
• The most famous wiki is wikipedia
• Wikipedia - Main
• Wikipedia - Source

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Web based tools Wikis

• How might I use a wiki in the classroom?
• Create a wiki around a topic that the class will
  be studying
• Give it some basic headings
• Learners will add to the wiki, delete things,
  rearrange it and flesh it out with things they
  discover throughout the topic
• In the end it will show not only what they have
  learnt, but how they have learnt it.

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Web based tools Wikis

• How do I prevent it from descending into chaos?
• You have to let go, but
• A strong community ethic amongst your students
  should prevent things getting out of hand and
• You can monitor what is going on!
• The key to the wiki is a strong sense of
  ownership by the students, this is their work.
• Should anything go wrong, you can roll back the
  wiki to a point before it was messed up
• Wikipedia works in this way, and with volunteers
  checking things, nasty contributions are
  prevented from getting through

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Web based tools Wikis

• Free wikis
• Wikihost.org
• www.wikicities.com - you must make a submission
  to wikicities for a wiki to be created by them.
  Look into this first
• Other options
• Proprietary software or Content Management
  Systems sometimes have wiki software
• A Google search may help reveal some options, get
  your techie to help!
• Example www.mediawiki.org

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Web based tools Discussion Boards/Forums

• Can be used to for a written discussion of an
  issue or a contentious topic
• Students assessed on number of contributions,
  grammar and spelling, language level, arguments
  and content
• Opens up opportunities for students who do not
  like to contribute vocally in class
• School CMS often support feature
• Free web-based forums could be used
• http//www.forumup.org/
• http//www.nicenet.org/
• Try a Google search to find more

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Web based tools Furls

• Allows you to create an online list of favourite
  sites by saving a personal copy of them
• Sites can be ranked and evaluated
• Furl list is publicly accessible, great for lists
  for students
• Free, but need to create an account
• www.furl.net - My Furl

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Web based tools Google Earth

• Fantastic FREE access to satellite images of
  earth that is easily navigable
• Take them to the countries they are studying.
• Download from earth.google.com

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Podcasts

• Makes use of the iPod phenomenon
• Allows students to plan and create a spoken
  activity/program, which can be shared with a wide
  audience via the web
• Students plan scripts, record their podcast and
  post to the web for access by the wider community
• A good starting point for information on how to
  podcast and resources for education can be found
  at the following sites
• www.ipodcast.org.uk
• www.ipodder.org
• www.apple.com/podcasting
• http//edmarketing.apple.com/adcinstitute/wp-conte
  nt/Missouri_Podcasting_White_Paper.pdf
• An example of a language podcast iTunes

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Working with other software

• Task Magic
• Simple program that allows you to create dynamic,
  interactive language games based on simple
  vocabulary lists.
• Can use sound and images
• Trial version available from
• Task Magic Australia
• Fun with texts
• Challenging program that allows use of large
  passages of language to generate language
  activities
• www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/fwt.htm

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Working with other software

• Pivot stick figure animator
• Can be used by students to enhance their work
• Creates fun, interactive .gif animations using
  stick figures
• Free download from Snapfiles

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Where to now?

• Merely an overview
• Investigate in greater detail
• Most of this technology is explored at length at
  www.bsclotecoe.vic.edu.au
• Experiment
• Review
• Share what youve done
• Have fun!!

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Any Questions?
Thank you for your time