Digital Material Preparation for TESOL

A TESOL Electronic Village Online Course

John Allan

Developers and mentorsJohn Allan, New Media Language Training

Jim Edgar, New Media Language Training

Stephen Roney, Writer & Consultant

overviewImpetus

Course

Delivery

Results

Future

Impetusa reaction to the growth of Web 2.0 resources

functions of traditional software can be matched online assets

decided to test this premiseall resources must be freeself- contained on a remote serverspamless

Course descriptionGoal: Enhance materials production skills for TESOL

professionals in the areas of:

text document production

image editing

the Internet as a toolkit

screen capturing

converting media

audio production

Example activitiestext document production: create a text document with a

specific tool

image editing: upload, edit and publish an image

the Internet as a toolkit: producing Interactive activities, produce cartoons, link to a TeacherTube video

screen capturing: recording, editing and publishing screen animations

converting media: converting file formats

audio production: recording, editing and publishing audio

Example resourcestext document production: Lorem Ipsum, LexTutor,

Project Gutenburg, Dafont, Google Translate

Image editing: Picnik

the Internet as a toolkit: Spelling City, DocStoc, Bitstrips, Vocabgrabber, WordWizard, ClassTools, TeacherTube

screen capturing: Screen Toaster

converting media: Zamzar

audio production: Myna (Aviary)

Module structurematerials development concept overview

a link to a relevant resource

a detailed explanation of the resource

a step-by-step procedure resulting in a product

an example of the product

a wiki/database for posting their own result

DeliveryMoodle LMS

course structuremessagingforumswikisdatabases

TappedIn scheduled chat sessions

Communicationmultiple modes

messaging

Email

Web 2.0:Voki/VoiceThread

weekly, live chat sessions: polling decides chat timings

asynchronous forum discussions on pedagogical and technical issues

Calendar & Upcoming events for quick “info”

Results208 registered 23 completed!

Six weeks

Worldwide (time zones)

Modified and open for general public at socialesl.com

FutureFocused course in 2011

“producing vocabulary learning objects”