Week#21 - Productive Distractions

Vocab Sites

• VocabAhead.com
• Vocabtest.com
• Playknoword.com
• FreeRice.com

TOEIC Speaking Practice

Podcasts of Potential Interest Relationships Love Me Single Because: True Stories of Love, Dating and Other Misadventures Modern Love The Dating Advice Girl Dates With Kate The Psychology of Attractiveness Confessions of a Terrible Husband Stronger Marriages: The Anatomy of Marriage Podcast Dating Den List of Relationship Podcasts Travel 9 Travel Podcasts New, Money, Politics ABC News - Nightline - Podcast APM: Marketplace Freakonomics Radio Planet Money   Storytelling NPR: StoryCorps Podcast The Moth Podcast This American Life

Closing Ceremony Slideshow Contributions

Session#3 TILL To Do List

During Session#3 TILL time, please work on one or more of the following.  There will be exhibition of your work at the end of the session.

• Build Your course website
   
• Make teaching screencasts
   
• Add to your digital portfolio

Create a blog post this week that outlines your TILL plans for the remainder of the program. 

Building a Teaching Website

The main project for the remainder of  TTP2018 is for each trainee to build their own teaching website.  This can be for a particular class or for your teaching resources in general.  This week we are going to check out some of the options for hosting your site (and continue revisiting the buffet).

Course Website Options

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A Blog (Blogger, Wordpress, or Edublogs)

Former Trainee Examples: Claire's English Playground, Happy English w/Xena  SmartLearning,
Undertaker's English, Coffee with Jackie, Humming English,

Jeff's Sites:  Writingbridges    BUFS GSIT  BUFSENG  EnglishwithJeff 

Edublog Megalist of Class Blogs

• Mscassidysclass.edublogs.org 
• Global Explorers (Madame Pratt)
• Chez Baird
• The Electronic Pencil
• Luna Language School
• Dept de ingles Instituto Carreño Miranda

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An LMS (Learning Management System)

Schoology Schoology.com
Schoology (video introduction) Schoology Tutorial Playlist

TTP Experimentation Course: 9W4DQ-NJ3SK

Google Classroom https://classroom.google.com    Video Guide: Google Classroom for Everyone its finally here! NEW 2017 Features
   Presentation Guide: Intro to Google Classrom

    TTP2018 Sandbox: Go to Google Classroom, click the + , and enter o99f9y
   You will be in 'student mode'.
    To see teacher mode, log in with 'ttptrainees@gmail.com'  P/W TTP-Power

Revisiting the TILL Buffet

Trainees will soon begin building their own course websites and creating digital portfolios containing materials to be used in their future teaching.  Before doing so, let's take another look at the buffet of TILL Tools and Resources. Look through this list and spend a couple hours getting familiar with items of most interest.  Post a summary of activities on your blog.  If you are overwhelmed by this megalist below, go to the bottom of this post and follow the simplified 'What should I do?' instructions. 

• Go to Feedly and check out recent blog posts from current TTP'ers and TILL alumni
• Build a collection of your favorite Kahoots, Charades sets, and Quizizz and/or start creating your own. 
• Create a Padlet, Wordart.com, or Storyboardthat comic strip and post it on your blog  Site Building Tools
• Work on a Prezi, Google Presentation, or Powtoon and post it on your blog   Presentations Guide
• Create your own Quizlet or Memrise set and post on your blog or try to set the TTP Scatter Record with your Activity Guide
• Use one of the puzzle makers listed in the  Activity Guide to make a crossword puzzle or word search. 
• Use Windows Movie Maker or another video editor to edit a video. Video Guide  Overview Screencast
• Add videos to YouTube playlists and/'or create your own.   Video Guide  How-to Screencast
  TTP  MegaPlaylist      Elementary MegaPlaylist    Secondary Megaplaylist   ELT Songs Playlist
• Create a screencast using Ocam or  Screencast-o-matic.com   How-to Screencast Screencast
• Brush up on your phrasal verb, tag questions, collocations, or other skills.  Activity Guide
• Check out more Google+ Communities, or Facebook Groups on the Social Networking Guide
• Download some audio books or podcasts that you can listen to on your way to BUFS.    Audio Guide

• Gather some interesting reading materials for students Reading Resources
• Create your own Google map or add locations to the TTP2018 Google Map      Mapping Tools
• Creating an audio recording using Audacity, Voki, or Clyp.it and post it on your blog.    Audio Guide
• Use Google Translate to practice pronunciation  
• Create a class survey using Google Forms - example  Google Form How-to Screencast
• Create Mindmaps or Graphic Organizers and post them on your blog.
• Upload photos (or organize your photos) at photos.google.com  or 
• Continue looking through the megalist of CALL websites or the LearningCall Diigo group or network and add bookmark sites with Diigo.
• Use text to speech tools (or grab a nearby native English speaker) to create mp3 files of texts and dialogues.  Audio Guide   Text to Speech Links
• Go to the   Digital Storytelling Guide and create a story with Storybird or a comic strip with Storyboardthat.com
• Go to the   Reading Resources page, find some materials of interest to your students and psot on your blog. 
  
  Check out a few things we skipped on our first lap around the buffet
• Create your own Hot Potatoes Activities      Hot Potatoes Guide
• Create some funny images with sites like Photofunia and post on your blog Site Building Tools
• Information about finding copyright friendly images, sounds, and other media Copyright & Fair Use
• A little grammar fun   Eli Hinkle's Teaching Tips
  (swf files: Tenses   Prepositions   ..ing)

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I'm overwhelmed!  What should I do?

• Go to Quizizz.com. Log in with your Google account.  Create a quiz for either your TTP class or your school class.  Make it a 'homework assignment' and post the code on your blog.
• Go to Tagul.com and make a word cloud for one of your class activities.  Post it on your blog.
• Add videos to the TTP MegaPlaylist , Elementary MegaPlaylist , or Secondary Megaplaylist   r make your own and post the playlist on your blog. How-to Screencast
• Make a screencast with Ocam,   upload the video to YouTube (unlisted) and post it on your blog.  This can be a 'how-to' or 'show and tell' video in English or Korea.
   How-to Screencast Screencast, 

Screencasting Guide

• Install Debut (free version here)
  Video Pad Editor (free version here)
• Use it to record a one minute screencast video that includes computer sounds, voice narration, and on screen annotation (pointer, drawing, etc).
  Narration can be in English and/or Korean.
   
• Upload the video to your Google Drive or (unlisted) to Youtube and post on your.blog or share it with just your classmates and Jeff. 

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Why?

• Why play a recording of yourself in your own class? 
• Why spend the time planning, recording, and re-recording an instructional presentation you’ve done many times before in front of a ‘live classroom audience’.

‘How?’   

• How do you technically produce a watchable screencast video as painlessly as possible? 
• Perhaps more importantly, how do you organize the content and design the presentation of a screencast to be engaging and effective?

Potential benefits of educational screencasting

• Flipping - Students can watch these instructional videos outside of traditional class time to prepare for the more hands-on application work they will do in class.
  
• Remediation - Students that process information more slowly can watch (and rewatch ) videos as needed.
• Enrichment - Students that are ready for additional content or challenges can use your recorded screencasts to extend their learning.
• Differentiation - There is only one of you, but there can be loads of videos you have created, allowing students to explore different content as needed or desired.
• Consistent Quality- You can give the same instructional presentation five or six times in class with varying degrees of effectiveness or take time to prepare your best and use that multiple times.
• Attention Options - Since you don’t have to focus your mental energies on ‘instruction’. you can focus on student attention and understanding
• Reflective Practice -Even if you don’t use the recording in your classroom, the process of organizing, practicing, and reflecting on how you present lessons will make your teaching better.
• Engagement - we have become a screen obsessed society. Students can be more likely to pay attention to a video than a human, especially personalization and humor are included.

Screencast Software
Free (or freemium) screencasting tools

• Debut (screencast guide) 
• Filmora Scrn
• EZVid
• Screencast-o-Matic
• TinyTake
• Loom 
• Screencastify
• Snagit
• Ocam (BEWARE!)

Commercial

• Camtasia
• Screenflow (Mac)

Pointer Tools

• Pointer Focus

Guides

• Khan Academy Tips for Blackboard Style Videos 
• Technology in the Classroom: Why, How to Screencast
• University of Waterloo’s Screencasting Best Practices

Examples

• Khan Academy: Grammar SAT Reading & Writing Practice
• Writing SMART Goals | English Grammar Teaching Techniques
• Jeff's TILL Screencasts

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• Install Debut
• Use it to record a one minute screencast video that includes computer sounds, voice narration, and on screen annotation (pointer, drawing, etc).
  Narration can be in English and/or Korean.
   
• Upload the video to your Google Drive or (unlisted) to Youtube and post on your.blog or share it with just your classmates and Jeff.