Teacher's Toolkit for Shared Learning: Shownotes for Web 2.0 toolkit for presentation skills

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http://elearning.hct.ac.ae/edutech/edtech-lounge

The event was here: http://tinyurl.com/oct14vanceETL

The recording is being searched for, hopefully will be found

On October 14, 2012, Vance Stevens presented an hour long mini-workshop entitled "Web 2.0 toolkit for teaching and learning academic presentation skills" as a part of the online series of professional development webinars organized by the EdTech Lounge, an initiative of the EdTech Innovation Centre, Higher Colleges of Technology UAE.

More details

For a recording of a 20-minute presentation on this topic at the 2012 ELTAI conference in India, and a write-up at that point, visit:
http://vanceposterous.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/a-small-research-project-on-student-attitudes/
For a blog portal designed to introduce teachers to the concepts face-to-face:
http://toolkit4earning.blogspot.com/
An update published in TESL-EJ: Stevens, V. (2012). Web 2.0 Toolkit for Teaching and Learning EFL Presentation Skill. TESL-EJ, Volume 16, Number 2, pp. 1-11: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej62/int.pdf. Also available at:http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume16/ej62/ej62int/

Summary of the EdTech Lounge presentation:

The presenter recently developed an academic communication course for students at the UAE Naval College, where there are serious challenges in gaining and holding students’ attention and keeping them on task, compounded by the fact that each student has a laptop and is easily distracted. The solution was to utilize the laptops through designing a task-based course that introduced a series of Web 2.0 tools which the students would have to familiarize themselves with and then apply in some aspect of the communications skills they were learning. Participants in the session may have already encountered the tools used (e.g. Google Docs, Prezi, Survey Monkey, Jing, Blogger, Slideshare.net) so the presentation will emphasize how the tools were used to underpin a coherent course incorporating elements such as mindmapping, creating viable surveys, harvesting and analyzing results, capturing screen shots, making effective presentations both in Prezi and PowerPoint, keeping a reflective blog, and documenting the semester’s accomplishments in simple ePortfolios. The presenter will briefly discuss results of action research on student attitudes to the course, using data from a survey created to model the technique to students, and from their reflective blog posts.

This is where people were told to start (this page):
http://toolkit4learning.blogspot.com/2012/10/shownotes-for-web-20-toolkit-for.html

The event was staged as a weekly event on Learning2gether, http://learning2gether.pbworks.com
Archived here: http://learning2gether.net/2012/10/14/vance-stevens-web-20-toolkit-for-academic-pre/

These are the shownotes for the presentation

Context:

Naval college: each student has laptop
Aviation college: ILC setting, students come just 2-3 times a week

Students

attitudes
language skills

Course organization

Adapted from the syllabus available at the bottom of: http://acommunication.pbworks.com/
Based on the DIYLMS model of courseware development:
Stevens, Vance. (2012). Learner-centered Do-it-yourself Learning Management Systems. TESL-EJ, Volume 15, Number 4, pp. 1-14: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej60/int.pdf. Also at http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume15/ej60/ej60int/

We looked at the tools in tabs at http://toolkit4learning.blogspot.com/