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https://www.novinky.cz/ekonomika/456112-znechucene-firmy-prchaji-z-youtube.html

Podcasting - using online audio

Definition of podcast: A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download and listen to. It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user's own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player.

Podcasts are mostly used as a reliable source of information and high-quality language.

TED

Interesting links on finding and using podcasts in ELT:
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/sandymillin/using-podcasts-develop-listening-skills
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/podcasting-elt
http://busyteacher.org/22450-podcasts-esl-classroom-top-9-ways.html
https://www.fluentu.com/blog/educator-english/teaching-esl-podcast/
https://sites.google.com/site/journaloftechnologyforelt/archive/3-2-april-2013/4-technology-enhanced-elt-using-podcasts
https://www.podcastsinenglish.com/

https://www.teachthought.com/technology/51-education-podcasts-for-the-21st-century-teacher/

It is easy to listen to something the others prepared for you.
But what about actually recording some podcasts?

TASK: Create your own podcast on poetry.

1. Make groups of 3-4.
2. Each group will develop one chosen topic taken form your current literary programme. Focus on one poem only. Consider what YOU think about it, not what somebody else does! Do not copy analyses and summaries, anybody can do it.
Your task is to summarise your personal opinion and approach to the poem. 
3. Write a scenario to be recorded, OR pre-prepare a free discussion on the poem.
4. Record the podcast (minimum length 5 minutes, maximum length 2 minutes per person). Save it in mp3 format.
5. Add a catchy, informative title to your podcast. Choose some illustrations.
6. Submit the finalised mp3 and other materials to the administrator to upload. Tomas Holec was appointed the administrator: he will start a group account in Podomatic and upload all projects as podcasts.
7. Enter the link of your podcast channel + the title and group members' names into your personal website.
8. Enjoy what you and your mates created!

https://www.podomatic.com

Online resources: BBC + Dictionaries

TASK 1 - a professional ELT site

Go to https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
Explore the site and try to find ansers to the following questions:

1. Who are the target audience of the site? Why?
2. How many full-load admins the site requires? (make your best shot)
3. What are teaching tools?
4. Where do you find interactive online games for young learners?
5. Find and download a teaching listening poster.
6. Watch the video called How to draw people and actions. Try to draw a figure in action.
7. What are Cuisenaire rods and how can they be used in ELT?
8. Who is a 21st century boy?

Hypothesis:
The site https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ can satisfy almost all English teacher's needs, concerning methodology and teaching resources.
TRUE OR FALSE, WHAT IS YOUR OPINION?

Bonus - Improve your vocabulary!




TASK 2 - Online Dictionaries

Which of them offer classroom activities?
List the specific features of one chosen dictionary in the comment to the blog. Focus on suprising, innovative, inventive features. Suggest how to use them in an English lesson.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/
https://www.merriam-webster.com/
https://www.urbandictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com/
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/
https://www.ldoceonline.com/

Testing in Moodle

Do not forget:
Most often, e-learning tests work as practice and self-evaluation, not only for evaluation or assessment. Therefore, sufficient feedback is vital!

Go to
https://moodle.org/demo/
Choose Moodle Sandbox
register as teacher/sandbox

Use My First Course
Turn editing on (a button on the upper right)

Choose Add an activity or resource
in any Topic
Choose Quiz and read all info available.
Add the quiz and explore the settings.

Click on the new test name. Choose Add a new question (on the right side!) and explore the available formats.

Add at least three questions of three different format. Explore the setting possibilities.

Good luck :)


FINAL TASK:
Create a moodle test with 10 different questions.
Target group: your classmates
Field of study: Morphology OR Literature - preparing for a real test/exam
Enter your real name and surname into the name of the quiz.

Organisation:
Row 1 - insert your quiz to Topic 1
Row 2 - insert your quiz to Topic 2
etc.

You have 50 minutes! In the remaining ten minutes before the reset, try out the quizzes made by your colleagues. Who of them made a better quiz?

Moodle for beginners

E-learning is a popular and worldwide form of supporting students, especially in distance programs.
E-learning materials reflect the content and form of a textbook, and add the necessary feedback which in a real class would be provided by the teacher.
E-learning can offer resources in any format, from text and images up to online videos and interactive test. Neverthless, all these can always be found somewhere... what remains REALLY important is not the material, but the supportive STRUCTURE of the course.
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When creating an e-learning course, we usually use one of the free platforms available; during the years, Moodle became probably the best known and most used platform. The platform enables the user to create a course in the same way we create textbooks or worksheets: adding information, resources, references, tasks, tests...

PROBLEM 1 - WHAT IS E-LEARNING?
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A quotation from the discussion forum:

The difference between online learning and classroom based computer generated material
francis charters
Neděle, 25. říjen 2015, 02.37

I am a newcomer to Moodle and I am confused.

I have been teaching, and using computer generated materials in the classroom for many years.  Since looking at the Moodle sites of various colleges I have seen a lot of tutors putting exactly the same online as they used in the classroom.  Is this common practice?

Surely a powerpoint, for example, that has me in front of it talking about it, eliciting discussion about it, verbally picking out specific parts of it, should be a largely different design to a powerpoint that is meant to be accessed by a student with no tutor input?

How much can the tutors be asked to produce/edit material so that the students are progressing online efficiently?

Any thoughts?
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TASK 1: What should be the difference between e-learning course based on Moodle, and the materials prepared for face-to-face lessons?

Please publish your ideas in the comments to this blog entry.
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PROBLEM 2 - THE SOFTWARE

When creating the material, we consider (apart form the learner, aims, teaching situation and other features of the real life) the FORM and CONTENT.

The FORM includes the logical organisation, navigation, graphics, icons, images...
The CONTENT includes the topic, the information we present, and the ways they are processed.

TASKS: 
1. Go to https://moodle.org/login/signup.php?
Create your personal moodle account.

2. While the accout is being processed, find out more about Moodle at moodle.org.  Explore the site. You might try this page first: https://docs.moodle.org/33/en/Features

3. Log in at moodle.org.  Explore the site again; read the discussion at https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=322107.
Then go to http://school.demo.moodle.net/ - Mount Orange School - and explore how Moodle works; view the courses from several different roles!

Example of a simple course

4. Use the Mount Orange site as sandbox.
Experiment with the courses, tests and various settings. READ the available comments!
https://moodlecloud.com/en/

5. What did you learn about Moodle?
What features surprise you?
What new aspects apear in e-learning, comapred to your experience and expectation?
Write your answers into the comments to this blog entry.


More links:
Moodle home 
General features
Sandbox
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