Audio Project Feedback

 

Why to keep the best just or yourself? Let's share the experience.

TASKS

1. Insert link to your audioproject to the first Topic in Moodle (2 of them are already there as examples).

Add a range of max 2 minutes of our project you consider to be the best - we will play them at the end of the lesson. (example: 2:05-3:15).

2. Summarize your experience (one input per group). 

• How did you choose the topic? 
• How did yo organize the recording?
• What technology did you use?
• Any special effects?
• What was your approach/feelings at the beginning and at the end?
• How useful did you find the project - from various angles (role-play & dramatization, pronunciation, cooperation & organisation, literary studies, technology skills...)?

Insert your summary into the comments to this blog entry.

Instructions for adding the link:

1. Open the course. In Topic 1  choose Audio Project Links - Edit settings. 
2. Write the name of your audio project and mark it.
3. Click Add link (the chain icon).
4. Tick Open in new window Box.
5. If the project is located elsewhere, just Copy Paste the Url and save.
6. If the project is uploaded to Moodle, choose Browse repositories, and find your project folder.
7. Open the folder, click the file. Choose Link to the file. Click Select this file.

Done! :)

Space and Colours, or Applied Psychology

TASK 1

Read the text on  Colours in the classroom.

Compare its graphics with this article.

Focus on fonts, colours, layout. 

Which of the texts is easier to read+comprehend? Which is easier to navigate? Which offers more consistent information?

TASK 2

Look at several professionally designed, information oriented web sites - e.g. 

https://www.skynews.com.au/

https://www.gov.uk/

https://www.elmundo.es/

https://www.leparisien.fr/

https://www.bbc.com/

https://www.stern.de/

Observe how they use colours and layout.

List your suggestions of do's and don't's into the comment to this blog entry.

Summary of required skills:

you should be able to

• recognise and respect (use) the effect of various colours (shades, space, intensity) on human brain
• apply columns/table formatting in html or doc to use the space wisely
• effectively combine texts and relevant illustrations

TASK 3

1. Open nvu or any web editor you prefer. 
2. Focus on your moodle topic. Collect at least 8 items of different type (you can use those you already have)  - text paragraphs, headlines, images, links, graphics (arrows etc.).
3. Organise these items into a html file, getting as much info as possible into a single screen: the user/reader should be able to access as much material as possible without the need to roll down.

Tips:

Insert a table to keep full control about the layout. 

Each row/column/cell parametres can be edited separately (right-click on the borderline to get the menu).

Use different font sizes and colours wisely.

Statistics

 

Summary - What should we know?

1. The meaning and method of Average, Mode, Median
2. The meaning and method of counting the Weighted Average
3. The meaning and formula for Correlation
4. The ways of recording and analysing the raw data
5. Choosing a suitable graphical representation of the survey results

Analysing research data

Task 1 

1. Download an example spreadsheet from capsa - go to folder PCSkills, file PcSkillsZakladyStatistiky.xls

2. Use the sum, average, mode and median formulas to get the first results. THINK about the type of data you are using and consider you want to learn - use the predefined questions and hypotheses.

3. In some surveys it is very important to mutually relate various findings -  to prove or disprove a correlation between two facts/answers. Identify the possibilities and explore the correlation within the data.

4. Prepare a graphical presentation showing the results. Decide which types of graphs are the most suitable.


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Task 2 - Supporting activities

1. Downolad the excel file KorelacePriklad.xls form capsa. Use the formula explained in this link: Korelace v excelu - příklad to find out the correlations among the given sets of data.

2. Downolad the excel file Verejny... .xls form capsa and explore the formula used for counting individual teaching loads: =DSUMA(I7:J116;"Úvazek";L1:L2). How does it work, what does it summarise?

3. Study the articles linked below. You should understand, and be able to explain and apply at least the descriptive statistics. Ask the tutor for help if necessary.


Tips:
Pie graphs are used only when describing the split of a limited sum of recipients or other data.
Example: Identifying the use of potatoes in the kitchen:  50% get boiled, 25% are mashed, the rest is used to make soups.

Focus on the examples - try to understand the information in the data before dealing with the methods.
Consider real-life examples,  or use the real data to experiment with descriptive statistics.

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Help:
Vážený průměr
Weighted Average in Excel
Excel Help - Weighted Average
Excel Help - Descriptive Statistics


Descriptive statistics - Distribution, Central Tendency (Average, Mode, Median), Dispersion, Standard Deviation
Correlation example

Úvod do popisné statistky
Popisná statistika
Co je korelace?
Čtyřpolní a kontingenční tabulka
Měření závislosti, korelace a regrese

Kahoot, Mindmeister, Prezi et al.

  Do you know kahoot?

It is a fast developing commercial platform which aims at techers, offering a space to create fast quizzes to be played online - on a PC or a phone. The scores are registered and compared, which makes the game highly competitive and motivating. Therefore the platform becomes still more popular among the teachers and students.

TASK 1

1. Play this kahoot quiz (click the link, choose play as a guest, wait for generating the PIN. then go to www.kahoot.it and enter the pin).
2. Summarise the advantages and disadvantages of such activity in English language teaching. Consider both the views of students AND teachers. Write your opinions in this blog entry comments.

TASK 2

1. Make pairs. 
2. Register into Kahoot and create a quiz of your own.
3. List the types of questions which are offered (including the premium version). Compare with the types available in Moodle.
4. In pairs, try out the quizzes you made. Share the links in the excel chart, so that more people can try them out. 

To consider:

Would you prefer Moodle or Kahoot for constant teaching/learning support? What are the criteria? Enter your considerations into the comment to this blog.

TASK 3

Go to https://prezi.com/. Explore the possibilities. 

What do you prefer, prezi or powerpoint? Why?

TASK 4

Go to https://www.mindmeister.com/. Explore the possibilities.

Is this an useful tool for you? How does it help?

Would you like to include a mindmap into your topic presentation?

CALLing for Practice

 

CALL = Computer Assisted Language Learning

e.g. Moodle, Duolingo... or any other way of studying with the support of ICT

even has its own journal!

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Usual techniques for practice and testing

• yes-no/true-false
• matching
• ordering
• multiple choice
• gap fill/cloze test
• open questions
• creative production

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TASK 1

Study the pros and cons of various test types HERE. Any disagreements?

What is your favourite test technique - from the different point of view:

1. as a  student
2. as a teacher

Add your answer into the comments to this blog entry. Sign your comment.

Read the other comments and try to identify the  reasons why people prefer specific techniques - and what are the T's and Ss' reasons.

More techniques to consider: which can be used to practicing language skills, and which focus mainly on memorised factual knowledge? 

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TASK 2 - see the Moodle Blog entry.

Working with sound

  

Audio material is regularly used when teaching speaking and listening in foreign languages. Therefore the teachers and the students should be able to edit and modify audio as well as texts.
Probably the best freeware available for editing sound is called AUDACITY.


Audacity Basics - you should be able to
- install Audacity and the lame library which enables export to mp3
- open a file in Audacity
- edit the file: cut and paste, fade in/out, change speed, delete, add silence
- create a new file
- combine two files (e.g. speech + background music)
- insert silence (e.g. as a space for an answer)
- change the speed or pitch (carefully!) to make understanding easier (or to have fun)

TASK 1 - WEB SEARCH

Choose an online audio resource - a podcast or TED you consider useful for an English teacher. Listen, and share the link and your opinion in the comments to this blog entry.

Inspiration/hint: What does the word "podcast" mean? Go to Podomatic, create an account and browse the site. How can we use it in teaching English?

Good examples - Teacher Luke, Splendid Speaking for advances learners
Podcast on podcasting in ELT

More online podcasts and streams
Ted Talks on Education - free online lectures!
Paramind
Oxford University Podcasts

Free text to audio:
http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/

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TASK 2 - THE CREDIT PROJECT

• to be done in groups of max. 4 people
• Product: high quality audiorecording 5-10'. 
• Content: audio dramatisation of a literary scene according to your own choice; may include special sound effects.

Objectives:

• to practise pronunciation, including peer correction; 
• to revise British and American literature and support learning for lit. exams; 
• to master basic sound editing skills in Audacity; 
• to design a system for recording within online communication; 
• to develop cooperation and organisation skills; 
• to list a set of  criteria and evaluate the schoolmates' projects objectively.

Tips:

• Prepare a scenario. Rehearse before recording. Give each other feedback on pronunciation and acting.
• Find a silent space for recording, avoid unwanted background sounds (a train, a lorry, a neighbour's parrot...)
• Record, listen, re-record, listen, re-record... focus on quality!
• Edit the recording in Audacity. Create and add appropriate sound effects if suitable. 
• Make the drama credible :) explore your acting talent.
• Finalise the file, export it and save as mp3, and add to your personal webpage (each member of the group).

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EXTRAS
Sound files extensions:
wav -  Standard audio file container format used mainly in Windows PCs. Commonly used for storing uncompressed (PCM), CD-quality sound files, which means that they can be large in size—around 10 MB per minute. Wave files can also contain data encoded with a variety of (lossy) codecs to reduce the file size (for example the GSM or MP3 formats). Wav files use a RIFF structure

mp3 - compressed, MPEG Layer III Audio. Is the most common sound file format used today

flac - Free Lossless Audio Codec
ape - Monkey's Audio lossless audio compression format
ogg - A free, open source container format supporting a variety of formats, the most popular of which is the audio format Vorbis; compression similar to MP3

webm - Royalty-free format created for HTML5 video
aiff - Standard audio file format used by Apple. It could be considered the Apple equivalent of wav

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_file_format



Sluchové pole (nebo oblast slyšitelnosti) je rozsah všech zvuků, které dokáže lidské ucho vnímat. Vnímání zvuku je u člověka omezeno slyšitelnými frekvencemi (přibližně 16–20 000 Hz). U každé frekvence je odlišný rozdíl intenzit, jež slyšíme. Lidský sluchový orgán je nejcitlivější v oblasti frekvencí 1–5 kHz.

http://www.wikiskripta.eu/index.php/Pr%C3%A1h_sluchu_a_sluchov%C3%A9_pole

Moodle tasks all in one place

TASK 6  20.4.2022

Student's view on Moodle 

Make pairs. Try out each other's materials and offer feedback.

Following the tutor's presentation, THIS video and this LINK, find out which data about the student's progress you can gain through the tests.

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TASK 5     23.3.2022

Test techniques - focus on Multiple Choice.

Focus on feedback in your test. A good feedback should

• present appropriate input - high amount of correct language
• be positive! do not criticise, rather include hints and ideas (not solutions)
• bring new information outside language
• be true
• prompt and motivate

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How do I make a good feedback in multiple choice?
Just follow these simple tips:
- DO NOT use capitals, exclamation marks, "NO!" "Unfortunately..." etc.
- be positive :) - do not start the feedback with "Sorry, no..."
- add extra information, eg.
Where do lions live? Chosen answer: "India"
Feedback: "Tigers live in India, but lions live in Africa."

*Examples of inacceptable feedback:
Sorry, try again
Are you serios?
almost THEREEEEE
you should have studied mnore
No way.
You should think before you click.
This is not the right answer.

Examples of suitable feedback:
Q: What do you use for reading?
A a book
B a toy        FDB: We use toys for playing. (IMAGE)
C a table      FDB: We eat on a table. (IMAGE)
D a dog        FDB: Dog is a friendly animal. (IMAGE)

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TASK 4     16.3.2022

1. Find an audio link you want to add to your topic. Consider the length, language quality and info reliability!
2. Add the link into your moodle space. Include questions/tasks, e.g.: "Based on the audio, define... describe... decide..." YOu can either add an URL only, or a whole page.
3. Add a quiz to the listening - use the MATCHING technique. 

https://moodledocs.phil.muni.cz/cinnosti/test/nastaveni-testu/

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TASK 3         9.3.2022

Make pairs. Visit each other's moodle topics and compare the approaches  - give your friend a valid and useful feedback! e.g.

• What is missing in the planned structure? 
• Would you prefer a different approach?
• Is the text understandable and correct?

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 TASK 2       2.3.2022

In the view of today's lesson (How our brain works), consider the structure of your Moodle task. 

1. Presentation should include the main facts about the problem (focus on learning the knowledge) and  involve as many senses as possible. (e.g. use colours to mark keywords).
2. To support connecting information and critical thinking, add questions to be answered after studying the introductory  material.
3. Practice should give the user a chance to apply the knowledge and train the targetted skill. Add several types of tests, ordered form the simple to most difficult level.

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TASK 1     23.2.2022

1. Go to moodle ujep - https://moodle.pf.ujep.cz/course/view.php?id=1177
2. Open menu Course Administration/Sprava kurzu; check the settings
3. Go to the the main screen (https://moodle.pf.ujep.cz/course/view.php?id=1177&notifyeditingon=1)
4. Click on Turn Editing On/Zapnout rezim uprav - upper right
5. Scroll down, choose Pridat temata, add one; 
6. Edit its heading: use your own name + the chosen topic instead of TopicXX/TemaXX.

            example: Novak_The Age of Shakespeare

Now you have created your personal training field :)

    7. Search the web, find a useful site related to your topic, and add the URL to your area. Explore         the settings available.

Photos, images and Hoaxes

  

SUMMARY

The principles defining a good (=memorable) photograph are identical to principles enhancing acquisition, learning + remembering. Therefore, they should be applied in teaching, especially when using images as visual support for presentation or language production.

TASK/HOMEWORK

1. Take some pictures of your hometown. Be creative :)

2. Make a collage of two or more chosen photos from your set of pictures. Insert the final photo with a suitable comment into your Homepage (index.html) and publish online. 
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Visual support is vital in any teaching situation. As English teachers, we use pictures of objects to teach vocabulary, photos of situations to stimulate communication, authentic visual materials to teach realia and culture...

What characteristics of an image influence its effect on remembering the vocabulary?

• context or the absence of context
• vivid colours
• contrast
• golden ratio
• the size of the target object

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Language production

One image is worth a thousand words. One image can stimulate thousands of words. 

How can you use images in language teaching? Take a photo and...

The image in ELT - pdf to download

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Compare these two photos:

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Making a simple collage in Photoshop:

1. ^A^C^V inserting img2 into img1

2. ^T for transformation - shift, rotate... place img2

3. Mask  - cover all (a black mask)

4. B - brush - paint into the mask (white brush) and uncover img2

5. X - switches between black and white brush (undo)

experiment with the brush settings (krytí, hustota)

Making a collage in GIPM - Youtube

inspiration Martin Stranka

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 WHAT ARE THE KEY SKILLS IN THE FIELD OF PHOTOGRAPHY FOR  THE ENGLISH TEACHER TO MASTER?

My suggestion:
1. Basic knowledge of the electronic image formats and their specifics.
2. Basic editing abilities: crop, contrast, colour adjustment
3. Basic photo-making skills and knowledge (to be able to prepare original materials, and to document school events, projects, students'activities and products).

4. Advanced editing abilities - collage (to create more original materials, and to be resistant to hoax), inserting text to the image...

Typical Viral :D

Any other suggestions?
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What shall we know?

1. How to compose a photography

Golden ratio - zlatý řez

Digineff-  základy kompozice

Practical tips:

concentrate on a single idea, object, feeling

get closer, fill almost the whole field with the target object/situation

2. How to save an image

raw - full data

jpg - compressed (lossy)

tiff - for print, usually lossless; can handle CMYK

bmp - full data (bitmap)

gif - small (and animated); saves only used colours; 8bit

png - lossless, successor of gif, 8-24-48 bit

For web, an image with the longer side of 1600px is big enough, Let's say the size limit is cca 50KB - to save space.

When reducing the size, always keep the original untouched! Save the small version as a new file, say, IMG2345_Small.jpg. 

JPEGS reduce the size exponetially, so if you reduce the original at 80%, the amount of data may be reduced form 12MB to 1,5 MB. 

More in Wiki (in Czech)

and Wiki (in English)

Formaty pro ukladani fotografii

3. The basic editing skills you should master:
1. Compressing, saving in various formats (with different extensions) and size
2. Crop (ořez)
3. Changing brightness, sharpness, hue and other basic features
4. Making a part of the image transparent

Collage in Photoshop - tutorial in Czech
List of  Photoshop Hotkeys - EN
List of  Photoshop Hotkeys - CZ

Useful Photoshop Hotkeys
B - Brush
C - Crop
H - Hand
J - Healing brush
L - Lasso
S - Stamp
W - Wand

TIPS
How to make things transparent in Photoshop:
New Image - Background transparent
Import the image into a new layer
Magic wand - choose parts which should be transparent

Layer - Mask - Hide the choice (Vrstvy - maska - skrýt výběr)

How to make things transparent in GIMP:
Layers – Transparency – Add alpha channel
Choose the background using the magic wand.
The simplest method is to use Edit → Clear

You can also test transparency in Word - add the image into text and choose Formát obrázku - pozice - před textem.


Want a top quality image legally?
Visit Getty.
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... want to know more?

http://digineff.cz/

http://www.digimanie.cz/

http://www.fotoradce.cz/

http://fotoroman.cz/

Interesting sites

Data visualisation Beta

100 Tools for teachers

CUP Digital Week: A teacher’s experience of… using technology in language teaching

Memory, Acquisition and Learning

 How does human brain work?

TASK 1

Browse the internet. Try to find answers to the following questions:

1. What does language acquisition mean?
2. Do all human brains acquire the first language the same way?

TASK 2

What is the function of Brocca's area and Wernicke's  area? 

When were they discovered?

Find and download an unlabeled image of a human brain. Label the two areas there. 

TASK 3 - Moodle

In the view of today's lesson, consider the structure of your Moodle task. 

1. Presentation should include the main facts about the problem (focus on learning the knowledge) and  involve as many senses as possible. (e.g. use colours to mark keywords).
2. To support connecting information and critical thinking, add questions to be answered after studying the introductory  material.
3. Practice should give the user a chance to apply the knowledge and train the targetted skill. Add several types of tests, ordered form the simple to most difficult level.

Publish or perish

The first issue to solve is a place to share all projects. In general,  we have 3 possibilities:

1. To use a simple preset website - e.g. estranky or webnode, or even some blog site - it is a service which enables editing the text, links and images - and not much more. There you can share links to projects saved somewhere else (permanent drives - ulozto, gdrive, capsa, dropbox...)

2. To use a professional hosting service, e.g. webzdarma, which offers full control - and requires basic html editing skills, at least at the WYSIWYG level (NVU editor installed in CS226). - See below.

3. To use a teaching platform with a complex structure and plenty of features - in our case, MOODLE.

TASK 1

Decide which of the three possibilities you will use for sharing your projects. Explore the offers and conditions. Always go for a free programme!

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Working with Moodle will be a continuous project; the tasks will appear in this blog one by one.

Gradually, you should build the knowledge about available possibilities, and the skills necessary to use them for effective teaching and learning.

Let's start with the basics:

TASK 2

1. Go to moodle ujep - https://moodle.pf.ujep.cz/course/view.php?id=1177
2. Open menu Course Administration/Sprava kurzu; check the settings
3. Go to the the main screen (https://moodle.pf.ujep.cz/course/view.php?id=1177&notifyeditingon=1)
4. Click on Turn Editing On/Zapnout rezim uprav - upper right
5. Scroll down, choose Pridat temata, add one; 
6. Edit its heading: use your own name + the chosen topic instead of TopicXX/TemaXX.

            example: Novak_The Age of Shakespeare

Now you have created your personal training field :)

    7. Search the web, find a useful site related to your topic, and add the URL to your area. Explore         the settings available.

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To be able to publish anything online, we should understand how things work there - above all, how links among files work.

BASIC RULES:

1. Save, save, backup, save... 3 copies: HDD+PenDrive+Cloud
2. Keep all files to be published in one folder. 
3. No spaces, no diacritics in filenames.
4. First save the files, then create the links.

First think, then click!

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How to create your own web on webzdarma:

Task 1: ACCOUNT

Create a free account on webzdarma.cz.
Read the conditions and other information available.

Task 2: SOFTWARE

Beginners: download and install nvu http://www.nvu.com/

Advanced: Feel free to use any html editor you prefer. 

fast tags help - jakpsatweb

Task 3: STRUCTURE

Create a folder named PCSkills on your hard drive.
Create the index.html file in NVU. Save it into the PCSkills folder. (CASE-SENSITIVE!)

Add some images into the same folder.

JAK ZOBRAZIT PŘÍPONY SOUBORŮ:

Otevřete Průzkumník souborů - ve složce zvolte menu Zobrazení a zaškrtněte políčko Přípony názvů souborů.

Klikněte na lupu -> Možnosti Průzkumníka souborů -> Zobrazení -> Odškrtnout "Skrýt příponu souborů známých typů"

Task 4: EDITING

All:

Insert some texts into the file index.html.  
Insert a link to the KAJ Dept. page.
Insert a picture you dowloaded or took (avoid copyright problems!) and saved into the folder.

Advanced users: 

Experiment with formatting, colours, consider the role of images and graphics. 

Organise and design the space of your homepage (you can use tables, or css styles, or any other formatting).

Study some of these articles:

Color and Depth Perception (Psychology)

Web Design Color Theory

Color Psychology - Infographics

Task 5: UPLOAD

Upload your index.html and the image into webzdarma administration (SPRAVCE SOUBORU).

Add your web URL to the group Google sheet.

Bask in glory, admiring your first hand-made web page!

Information Technologies and English Language Teaching - Credit Requirements

 

CREDIT REQUIREMENTS

• active participation, working on weekly tasks
• 80% attendance
• Projects as defined below: (finalised before April 26, 2022, presented in the last three lessons)

 

1. In pairs: create a hoax webpage.

• Format: Include text, photoshopped images, audio/video, fake links and comments.
• Objectives: 
• to recognize how easy it is to claim any nonsense online; 
• to browse and analyse other hoaxes and their spreading - what types of people believe and share hoaxes? Why?

update 28.2.2022: the hoax site is no longer compulsory. The reality overcame all nightmares... Do not create anything which can cause problems - e.g. a mock site approving the Russian aggression at Ukraine. Explore the world of hoaxes and fake news independently. Think, search, verify.

2. In groups of 4: Audio project.

• Product: high quality audiorecording 5-10'.
• Content: audio dramatisation of a literary scene according to your own choice; may include special sound effects.
• Objectives: 
• to practise pronunciation, including peer correction; 
• to revise British and American literature and support learning for Lit. exams; 
• to master basic sound editing skills in Audacity; 
• to design a system for recording within online communication; 
• to develop cooperation and organisation skills;  

 3. Individually: Study material

• Product: Moodle-based multimedia summary + practice of any exam topic in one of the courses covered in your second term of studies at KAJ: British Literature 1 or Phonetics+Phonology
• Target group: Your schoolmates.
• Content: structured, correct, understandable presentation and explanation of any chosen topic, including examples, FAQs and practice (min. 2 tests in 2 different formats)
• Format: multimedia - should include text, images/graphs/illustrations, audio or video, references.
• Objectives: 
• to understand the topic; 
• to be able to present and explain clearly; 
• to apply student's experience with online covid teaching; 
• to experience the role of the teacher; 
• to explore the Moodle platform features.

 Please register the topics in the google chart - one topic can have only one coverage. 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ObfZ4pPl6GBID7oudwi9BGTbMusF8j9X/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111076814283848817398&rtpof=true&sd=true

Course topics

7125 Jazyk a komunikační technologie 1                Wed   11-13 (1. ročník solo)

 

Week	Topic	HW
16.02.	Computer vs. human brain	register to Moodle training field
23.02.	elearning tools - Moodle
02.03.	Webpage basics; brain vs. structure+colours
19.03.	Images + fakes;  hoax project
16.03.	Audio + Podcast - Audacity
23.03.	Testing techniques in Moodle
30.03.	Kahoot, mindmaps, Prezi, Mindmeister
06.04.	sportovní den rektora - výuka odpadá
13.04.	Excel + basic statistics
20.04.	Graphics in teaching - Moodle+web (page layout, colours, fonts...)
27.04.	projects feedback
04.05.	projects feedback
11.05.	projects feedback + extras
18.05.	credit week

Hi world, I want to learn languages!

TASK 1

Visit the sites of Duolingo and Babbel - explore each for at least  15'. Choose a language you do not know and try the activities.

1. What do the two sites have in common?
2. How do the teachers approach the learnes? 
3. What methods do they use?
4. What is your feeling about the site, would you like to use it systematically?

TASK 2

Go to www.duolingo.com/classroom/eqwduk

Follow the instructions.

 

TASK 3

Learning from each other is the most natural thing in our life. Browse the web, search for more sites offering support for learning various languages.

1. Choose one site you like most. Enter the URL into the comment to this blog. 
2. One student - one site! Check in the comments whether your choice is not already taken by someone.
3. Evaluate the chosen site and add the info to your comment entry. Include a set of basic information: 

• types of support (from complex teaching to specialized  practice, e.g. idioms only)
• how many languages are available 
• free/paid range of service
• site navigation 
• page design 
• positives
• negatives

WebQuest presentations

 Register into the comments below. Just write the letter  of the chosen slot and your group names :) First come, first served.

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Presentation requirements:

• topic
• target group
• product
• process
• organisation
• objectives + goals

10' per each WebQuest presentation, 5' feedback

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WQ:  2 leves: 1 info collection, 2 info analysis + synthesis, solving a problem

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16.11.2021

• A - Haubert, Patočka: Building a Hotel
• website troubles
• lots of show, little info
• what is a product? what is your  inteded product?
• limitations necessary to be able to support with HQ websites 
• lots of possibilities, opens lots of doors of info
• target group?
• objectives?
• B - Glückselig - Opening a ZOO
• do not use diacritics :)
• TG +- 15, a pre-WQ
• a motivating topic
• reasonable limitations (different classes, 3 animals only)
• product - essay  - makes it CopyPaste: any other format possible?
• money, locality and area limitations? a touch of reality
• why to do it in English?
• well designed evaluation - reflects the objectives
• C - Hendrychová, Kepičová - Mount Everest Expedition
• why a historical period of the 50'?
• a clearly structured task  + product
• https://www.rnz.co.nz/collections/siredmundhillary/edmund-hillarys-diary
• defintely catchy, with a high potential
• clear goals 
• language development

• D Vavrincová+ Klaudyová - Let's talk taboo
• a blog as a product - a good idea, but how to avoid CopyPaste? individualisation!
• target group? teenagers 15-18: a GREAT difference. pretty risky. This is a topic for adults. 
• groups of 2-4 - quite a wide range different style of work
• specify the professional target group and situation
• E - Bouda, Škaloudová - Travelling
• free-lance journalist writing an article on tr. without an agency
• choice of destinations
• personal experience?
• age group?
• transport, accomodation, shopping, sightseeing, red tape
• clear, open, copy/paste (Lonely Planet)
• set some limiting specifics!
• ++ lots of reading required
• G- Zelenková, Marešová - Surviving on Mars
• 15-18 - a wide range, will require different resources
• length - do not expect any WQ to be finished at high level in a week
• ++ NASA team, 6 specialized units - that's hou it really works!
• avoid "presentation" as final product

jazyk! when we would, 6 group, 

30.11.2021

• F - Vávra -Game Development
• a fictional game studio, create your own game
• 7-9th grade??? 13-15 a wide range, diffrent abilities
• realia - funding (how to find a producer?)
• product: essay + game description + presentation to sell it

• H - Habel, Špet Japan's Paradise (Calhoun experiment)
• links to the experiment itself?
• three groups (size?) - three cities
• age - 18+
• J - Cicko, Kropáček - Dystopian society - mankind vs. technology
• age 16-18
• a long intro, without a direct reason to do the task
• 3 students to choose? or groups of three? 
• art x fashion?
• LINKS! 
• 3 informations?
• product -ppt presentation
• dressing up to the roles
• https://www.pastemagazine.com/tech/gadgets/the-20-best-gadgets-of-the-decade-2000-2009/#15-flip-video-ultra-2007-

• K - Klihavcová, Rennerová, García - D-Day
• various age groups 16+
• product: write your D-day participant story 
• objectives: historical knowledge, "personal experience"
• what is the role of the group? 

• L - Lichoň, Techl - Victorian England
• age 17-18
• difficulty influenced by the links
• comparison helps avoiding copy-paste
• what is the problem to solve?
• background story?

• M - Paur, Sentenský - Dinosaurs
• age 12-15, 
• groups of 2, explorers
• why working only at class?
• why wiki only?
• task 2 - draw a real dino? current research!
• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170918-what-if-the-dinosaurs-hadnt-died-out

• N - Derynková + Bedanová - Ancient Greece
• age 18-20
• a nice background story!
• product - a book + cover
• 3 roles - balance? cannot they "travel" together and then do their separate work? the task is about responsibility for one part of the product.
• location - Athens only? era limitaion? 
• a good example of a master modifiable to any historical era

• O - Musov, Sluka - Medieval life
• age 12-18??
• adventurous approach, clearly specified situation + period
• in pairs: a squire + a knight
• clearly defined,  detailed tasks, creative
• problem phase missing - focus on one question
• suitable for a school project week  
• ppt may be quite a boring product! outher ideas? dramatisation?

• P - Přibyl - Vikings
• age 12-15
• helping the VIkings to prepare for spring raids
• 4 roles
• first phase - find info about the specified field
• phase 2 - ? a raid plan?

Multiple Choice Questions

 

1. Read the article on MC used in general surveys. Are the +/- applicable in ELT?

2. Study the examples and try to formulate tips for making a valid MC task. Enter your suggestions into the comments below.

3. Go to Moodle - Správa testu - Banka úloh. Create at least three MC questions on your chosen topic. Looking at the Question Bank content, you should realize how necessary it is to give each question a suitable name!

Moodle: grammar drill

Moodle from a teacher's point of view:  using tests for drilling grammatical items.

1. How to create a gapfill exercise?

•     technology
•     content

2. What is the role of feedback?

• summative
• formative

TASK 

1. Go to the the main screen (https://moodle.pf.ujep.cz/course/view.php?id=1177&notifyeditingon=1). Your registration is still valid.
2. Click on Zapnout rezim uprav - upper right
3. Go to your personal Topic and rename it using your name: Surname_Firstname
   
4. Choose a grammatical topic (e.g. using articles; irregular past; perfect tenses; etc.) and create a gap fill exercise. Use a CONTEXT, not isolated sentences.  Minimum 20 gaps. Consider well how to place the gaps!
5. With greatest care write the feedback - you should add 3 different fdbs according to the reached score. Include learning tips and links to sites which offer theory + practice in the chosen field.
6. After finishing, publish your test.
7. Try out your colleagues' tests.

Random tips for sites:

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/artikel.htm

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/articles/article-index.htm

https://www.myenglishpages.com/english/grammar-exercise-articles-2.php

https://myelearningworld.com/top-10-free-online-quiz-makers-for-teachers-and-educators/

https://www.flippity.net/