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A Virtual Resource Chest: Blogging as a sharing tool for EFL teachers. VIII Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres. Tarragona, Novembre 2009.

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Blogging as a sharing tool in TEFL. PART 1: Creating new materials for your EFL classroom

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Materials we can create using Internet resources: Listening with video files. Listening with audio files. Reading activities. Writing activities. Internet research activities. Webquests.

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Listening with video files: http://topicsefl.blogspot.com/2009/03/gday-elke.html

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Listening with audio files: http://ennismorereuseoi3.blogspot.com/2009/11/cashback.html

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Reading activities: http://ennismorereuseoi3.blogspot.com/2009/11/cashback.html http://eoivirtualchest.blogspot.com/2009/11/world-on-wheels.html?zx=cdb83ed064c01b87

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Writing activities: http://ennismorereuseoi3.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-is-british-food.html

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Internet research activities: http://ennismorereuseoi3.blogspot.com/2009/11/cashback.html

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Webquests: http://ennismorereuseoi3.blogspot.com/2009/11/cashback.html http://sites.google.com/site/chicago1929/

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But what is the process to create materials to use in class?

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STEP 1: Choosing the kind of activity you need.

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STEP 1: Choosing the kind of activity you need. Listening? Reading? Writing? Grammar? Others?

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STEP 2: Doing some research to find the materials that better suit your needs.

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STEP 2: Doing some research to find the materials that better suit your needs. http://www.youtube.com youtube? metacafe? google video?

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STEP 3: Creating the students’ and teacher’s materials.

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STEP 4: Testing the new materials in class.

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STEP 4: Testing the new materials in class. Some advice… Don’t rely on your Internet connection. It’s better to download all the materials beforehand. Useful tools

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To download videos: Savevid.com Keepvid.com Real media catcher There’s no need to convert them. You can play them as flv files with any flv players which you can keep in your pendrive. But if you want to, Super© is a great software tool.

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STEP 5: Uploading onto blogs/websites for students’ further review (if needed). http://ennismorereuseoi3.blogspot.com/

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STEP 5: Uploading onto blogs/websites for students’ further review (if needed). http://ennismorereuseoi3.blogspot.com/

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Blogging as a sharing tool in TEFL. PART 2: Sharing your new materials.

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STEP 1: Setting up a Google account.

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STEP 2: Creating a blog. You have to decide What? and Who with? you are going to share.

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STEP 3: Roles. Master vs. collaborators.

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STEP 4: Settings. Who will be able to see this? A Creative Commons Licence.

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STEP 4: Settings. Who will be able to see this? A Creative Commons Licence.

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http://creativecommons.org/

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STEP 5: How to do it. Am I going to use “only-posting” or am I going to use some uploaded documents?

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All-posted blog:

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All-posted blog:

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How to do it? Copy the video “embedding code” and paste it onto your blog post as html. Write your questions/answers, etc. In your post as text.

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Posts with documents that can be downloaded:

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Posts with documents that can be downloaded:

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How to do it?: Embed your video file onto your post as html. Upload your worksheets onto Google Sites or any other “virtual drives”. Set a link to your worksheets so that they can be downloaded by clicking on a particular word, picture, etc.

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STEP 6: Tagging. It is important to set some clear rules of how we can tag our posts to avoid confusion: Using levels can be very useful: intermediate, etc. Or Common European Framework scales: A2, B1… Topics are always helpful. What kind of activity is it? Any special features (AmE, culture, etc.)?

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This is what it should look like…

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Blogging as a sharing tool in TEFL. PART 3: Managing your materials.

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STEP 1: Overview of any available materials (using tags).

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Adding a search engine as a gadget can be very useful when your blog includes many entries.

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STEP 2: Choosing what can be useful for you.

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STEP 3: Doing modifications/adaptations if needed.

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STEP 4: Using the materials in class.

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STEP 5: Posting assessment as a comment in the blog. Adding any modifications to it if they somehow improve the original.

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Blogging as a sharing tool in TEFL. PART 4: Let your virtual resource chest grow with time. (just needs some watering!)

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Blogging as a sharing tool in TEFL. ANNEX 1: Possible problems we will have to face.

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Foreseeable problems: Lack of time. Broken links. Teachers’ lack of motivation. Blog is “forgotten” after some time. If activities become very popular, we won’t know if our students have already done them.

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Blogging as a sharing tool in TEFL. ANNEX 2: Other ideas?

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Posting videos using eslvideo:

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Posting videos using eslvideo: http://ennismoreonlinevideo.blogspot.com/2009/10/polar-ice-caps-melting.html

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Add a sindication link and everybody will know when a new post has been published.

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Add a sindication link and everybody will know when a new post has been published.

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www.savevid.com and www.keepvid.com (to download your videos). applian.com/download-videos/ (Real Media Catcher, to download audio-video files). www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html (Super, complete free programme to convert files). creativecommons.org/choose/ (Choose a CC license and paste it onto your blog). www.google.com and https://www.blogger.com/start?hl=en (to create your blog). Examples of the work shown in this presentation: topicsefl.blogspot.com (the original project). topicsefl.blogspot.com/2009/01/home-rules.html (example of home rules). ennismorereuseoi3.blogspot.com (one of my current class blogs) eoivirtualchest.blogspot.com/ (an example created for this presentation). ennismoreonlinevideo.blogspot.com/ (a collection of video activities created with www.eslvideo.com). Useful links:

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Blogging as a sharing tool in TEFL. A presentation by j. luis garcía manzanero (based on the project Sidney Martin and myself started working on at the end of 2008)