TTP Week#9 - Maps, Mindmaps, & Graphic Organizers

 Graphic Organizers & Mindmaps

Take a look at the guides for Graphic Organizers and Mind Maps.
Try to create a simple mindmap or graphic organizer and post it on your blog.

Examples:  Lesson 2 Flowchart  Information Transfer Activity   K-12 Templates

Maps

Look at the Mapping Guide.
After experimenting with Google Maps, try to add a placemark to the TTP Special Places map or the TTP' Down Under' Map.
You can also try embedding those maps on your blog and/or creating your own map and posting that.

************Review Hour************

Things to Do

• Go to Feedly and check out recent blog posts from other TTP'ers, grad students, and TTP alumni
   
• Check out more Google+ Communities, or Facebook Groups on the Social Networking Guide
   
• Create some funny images with sites like Photofunia and post on your blog Site Building Tools
   
• Create a padlet, Wordle, or comic strip and post itn on your blog  Site Building Tools
   
• Start a Google+ Hangout-on-air with a classmate or two and post the recording on your blog.  Google+ Hangouts
   
• Work on a Prezi, Google Presentation, or Powtoon and post it on your blog   Presentations Guide
   
• Create a Quizlet set from our class notes or other vocabulary  Activity Guide
   
• Creating an audio recording using Audacity or a Voki   Audio Guide
   
• Use Google Translate to practice pronunciation   Week#3
   
• Redesign your blog (new template) or add some gadgets    Blogger Guide
  
• Create Mindmaps or Graphic Organizers and post them on your blog.
  
• Add to the TTP Special Places map or the TTP' Down Under' Map.
  
• Create a personalized map (special places, travel destinations, etc.) and post it on your blog. 

TES531 Weeks #9 & #10: The Rest of the CALL Buffet

During the next two weeks, we'll be covering an assortment of items left on the Buffet of CALL tools.

Week 9/10 Overview Screencast

Part#1 Site Building Tools

Take a look at the Site Building Tools Guide and watch the Site Building Screencast.  (Coming soon)

To Do: 

• Create a Padlet and Wordle and post them on your blog.
• Use one of the photo manipulation tools to create a funny photo and post it on your blog and/or Google+ space. 
• (Optional) Create a Comic Strip panel and post it on your blog.

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Part#2 Social Networking


Take a look at the Social Networking Guide

Explore some of the ELT groups and communities on Google+, Facebook, Diigo, LinkedIn, and elsewhere .
Join ones of interest, bookmark them with Diigo, and/or create a blog post about any interesting discoveries.

If you're feeling ambitions, join twitter, finds some people to follow (including Jeff)  and send out your first tweet.

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Part#3: Graphic Organizers,  Mindmaps, & Maps 

Take a look at the guides for Graphic Organizers and Mind Maps.
Try to create a simple mindmap or graphic organizer and post it on your blog.

Examples:  Lesson 2 Flowchart  Information Transfer Activity   K-12 Templates

Maps

Look at the Mapping Guide.
After experimenting with Google Maps, try to add a placemark to the TES531 Special Places Map.
You can also try embedding that map on your blog and/or creating your own map and posting that.

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Attendance Task:  By the end of Week#10, please write a post on your blog describing which of these tools might be useful in your teaching and learning and how you might apply them.

Screencasts

Week 9/10 Overview	Padlet	Wordle
Photo Fun	Social Netorking	Graphic Organizers MindMaping

FYI, did you know that YouTube has a closed captioning button that will add subtitles to most recent videos? It's not perfect but might be of help if you can't understand what someone (like Jeff) is saying in a video.

TTP Week#8 - Social Networking

Take a look at the Social Networking Guide

Explore some of the ELT groups and communities on Google+, Facebook, Diigo, LinkedIn, and elsewhere .
Join ones of interest, bookmark them with Diigo, and/or create a blog post about any interesting discoveries.

If you're feeling ambitions, join twitter, finds some people to follow and send out your first tweet.

************Review Hour************

Things to Do

• Go to Feedly and check out recent blog posts from other TTP'ers, grad students, and TTP alumni
   
• Check out more Google+ Communities, or Facebook Groups on the Social Networking Guide
   
• Create some funny images with sites like Photofunia and post on your blog Site Building Tools
   
• Create a padlet, Wordle, or comic strip and post itn on your blog  Site Building Tools
   
• Start a Google+ Hangout-on-air with a classmate or two and post the recording on your blog.  Google+ Hangouts
   
• Work on a Prezi, Google Presentation, or Powtoon and post it on your blog   Presentations Guide
   
• Create a Quizlet set from our class notes or other vocabulary  Activity Guide
   
• Creating an audio recording using Audacity or a Voki   Audio Guide
   
• Use Google Translate to practice pronunciation   Week#3
   
• Redesign your blog (new template) or add some gadgets    Blogger Guide

TTP Week#7 - Site Building Tools, Gadgets, & Options

Take a look at the Site Building Tools Guide

Part#1

After looking at the examples, try to create a Padlet and/or Wordle and post it on your blog.

TES531 Week#7 - Presentations & Midterm Prep

Part#1 - Presentations

Take a look at the Presentation Guide.  (screencast overview here)

Things to Do

• Look for presentations of interest on Slideshare, Authorstream, or Prezi and post them on your blog. 
• Create your own simple Prezi, PowToon, or Google Presentation and post it on your blog. 
• Use Diigo to bookmark at least three presentations and/or presentation sites of interest.

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Part#2 Midterm Prep
Your midterm will be a 15 minute Hangout  session with Jeff.  During this time, we will...

A) review  the tasks you completed so far and discuss any challenges, confusions, or ideas you have about the tools used

B) discuss which materials and skills you would like to develop during the second part of this course.  While I will still introduce a few new tools and resources in weeks 9~14, most of that time will be spent  having you develop CALL-related materials for your current and future teaching environments.

C) share any other thoughts and questions about this course and how to make the second part of it as useful as possible for you.

Please make sure your Task Checklist is up-to-date by April 20.  Check the Week#7 update sent to your Gmail account for a link to your personalized checklist.

Midterms will take place between April 21~26.  You can schedule your Hangout time in the TES531Midterm Schedule Doc by writing your name in your desired time slot.  Please sign up for  time slot by April 17.

This week's virtual sessions

Thursday, April 17 9pm     *    Saturday, April 19 11am

TTP Week#6 - Presentations & Photos

Part#1 - Presentations

Take a look at the Presentation Guide.

Things to Do/Try

• Look for presentations of interest on Slideshare, Authorstream, or Prezi and post them on your blog. 
• Create your own Prezi, Voicethread, PowToon, or Google Presentation and post it on your blog. 
• Leave a response on Jeff's TTP Voicethread
• Find presentations relevant to your teaching on Waygook.org Lesson Materials
  (Login required: you can use bufsttp/4ttp-fun)

Part#2 Photos

After looking at the Photo Editing Guide, experiment with cropping and resizing photos using Irfanview. 

Then take a look at your class album.  Tag yourself if you like or save the photos and upload them to your Google space.  You can also experiment with using the Google Photo Editor. 

TES531 Week#6 - Audio

Week#6 Overview Video
Please see the update at the bottom of this post regarding the alternative to Dropbox. 



Explore the Audio Guide.  I'll be uploading some 'how-to' screencasts soon, so don't get stuck for too long trying to figure anything out.

Things to do/try

•  Explore the audio-related sites listed in the Audio Guide.  Use Diigo to bookmark at least three interesting sites (from there or other sources). These can include audio activity sites, podcasts, audio utilities, or anything else that is related to the use of audio for language learning.
• Register at Voki.com, create a Voki chatbot, and post it on your blog.  Screencast Guide here
• - Download and install Audacity and Lame Encoder.
  -Record and edit an audio file with Audacity.
  You will need some kind of external mic or headset to do this. This can be on any type of monologue or conversation (e.g. an overview of your past week,  highs and lows of the CALL course so far, an interview with a family member, or anything else you'd like to record).
  - Export it as an mp3 file.
  - Then either
       - (easy) upload it to your Google Drive and share it with pufslebow@gmail.com
       - (more challenging) updated!  Because new Dropbox accounts no longer support 'public links' , if you want to to post it on your blog with a flash player like this
  
  you'll need to use PBWorks.  PBWorks Guide here.