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Using fun web publishing resources for project and task-based work

Presented By Ann Foreman

Session Details

Want to get your students to draw on their creative capacities and use their language skills in an authentic environment? If so, this session will be for you.
In it we will be looking at some fun web resources that are particularly apt for project and task-based work including:

  • Vokis – for creating animated characters that speak
  • VoiceThread – for presentations, anecdotes and storytelling
  • Animoto and Kaltura for creating web-based videos

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What working with web resources implies for me
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You can find supporting

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Submitted by Ann Foreman on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 09:55.

You can find supporting material for this talk on my blog, Encouraging learner autonomy

 

What for me lies behind the

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Submitted by Ann Foreman on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 09:44.

What for me lies behind the session's title:

  • moving away from the “I teach, you learn” model of education, towards a more participatory, collaborative form of learning
  • taking students’ experience of learning English beyond the confines of the classroom
  • encouraging learner autonomy 
  • catering for multiple intelligences 
  • engaging students in tasks and projects that have real outcomes 

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