This is the powerpoint for the Plenary session delivered by Susan Gaer for
ADAPTING NEW TOOLS TO YOUR TEACHING STYLE
Annual English Teaching
Conference
2009
Centro Cultural Domínico-Americano
Santiago and Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic
1. Bridging the Digital Divide Teaching with Technology as a Tool. Developed by Susan Gaer June 8, 2009 [email_address] Instituto Cultural Dominico Americano Annual Conference for Teachers of English 2009
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3. Start Now! What is Web 2.0? How many Web 2.0 tools can you name?
5. human-computer interaction personal connections--from words, pictures, video, and audio authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication open, flexible collaboration data and applications opened to creative use by the public harnessing collective intelligence collaboration/participation/collective intelligence second generation of services Web as a platform the wisdom of crowds creative amateur is cherished “ democratizes” media amoral authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication collective judgments user-generated content safety in numbers participative Web collective power community Web changing from “medium” to “platform” user actions provide value architecture of participation bookmarking >>> social bookmarking transparent selves…transparent Web interactive, community-based Internet applications What is Web 2.0?
6. Photo Sharing Collages Albums Descriptions Writing Prompts Blogs/Wikis Class Roster School/Class Events Scrapbooking Digital Photo Stories
14. Pix2fone “ Record your podcast via a toll-free call from any phone. Never even touch a computer!” Start your cellphones
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16. Miscellaneous “ online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.” -- group audio blogging to enhance group communication and reflection “ captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere” “ Enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. Customize your Voki to look like you…Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.”