OhioTESOL Technology Fair 2007

Friday

Saturday

Friday, November 18th 2007 (3:40-4:30, Session E, Juniper C)
Presenter	Title and Description
Dawn Bikowski Director of Graduate Writing and Oral Communication Ohio University	Hot Potatoes JMix for Writing This session presents the use of hot potatoes for writing structure exercises. Students can work in pairs or independently on combining independent and dependent clauses and different types of punctuation in order to produce grammatically-correct and meaningful sentences. Student-generated sentences can be shown to the class for discussion and feedback. http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~bikowski/sentenceconnectors/sentconna.html
Stephanie Buechele Ohio University Linguistics MA Candidate	How to Use iMovie to Create Educational Material Apple's iMovie was used as a starting point for creating a series of educational material that was developed to supplement an ESL class at Ohio University. Based off the content focused on in the film, educational materials was created which touches upon each of the language skill areas including listening, speaking, reading, writing and grammar. These materials show how videos can be created and incorporated into the ESL classrooms using a simple computer software. http://www.ohioenglish.com http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~sb704206/Automatic.mov
Mike Dombroski Ohio University Linguistics MA Candidate	Working Toward a Goal: Using Internet Resources to Help Students Create a Final Project This session will look at how you can use a combination of resources found on the Internet to allow students time to explore their use of English over a longer period. This type of lesson is intended for older students to have more time to develop and reflect on their use of the language by working a little more independently outside of the classroom in order to create a personal project. We will see examples of how you can use podcasts, Google Docs, Moodle, Hot Potatoes, and Gong to create an integrated lesson so that students can have the support they need to finish the project. As an example, we will be using the NPR series "This I Believe" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4538138
Jonathan Freeman, Kyle Hildrebrandt, Maryani Maryani & Barbara Schwenk Ohio University Linguistics MA Candidate	Pronunciation project UFUK This projects seeks to assist intelligibility of Turkish speakers learning English, which will lead to greater ease of communication on many levels of international communication. Based upon data collection, digitally, via moodle, sound files and email from students enrolled in the English Language Teaching Program at UFUK University in Ankara, Turkey, a curriculum portfolio was created and distributed to the participants. http://Ohioenglish.com/
Christopher Hill Ohio State University Academic Program Specialist	YouTube / Google Maps Mashup YouTube and Google Maps have become extremely popular examples of Web 2.0 applications. Much of their popularity comes from the ease with which users can share content on these two platforms. In this YouTube / Google Maps mashup, student-created videos are linked to points on a map in order to give a virtual tour of the Ohio State campus as well as parts of Columbus.
Cynthia Minniear Ohio University Linguistics MA Candidate	Moodle I have been using the Moodle to incorporate student speech journals via the use of Gong and Audacity. Once a student has provided a 2-5 min. speech journal I respond with follow-up comments and/or corrections to their pronunciation, intonation, grammar, etc.
Asmaa Shehata Ohio University Linguistics MA Candidate	A moodle for teaching Intermediate Arabic class This moodle presents different activities that are designed by using hot potatoes, audacity, i-movie, PowerPoint and word documents. These activities aim at teaching language skills i.e. Speaking, listening, writing, reading and grammar. In addition, some activities integrate these skills together.
Juan Soto Ohio University Instructional Technology Ph.D. Candidate	Teachers’perceptions of L2 learners of English use of the Internet as a language learning tool In this pilot study I’m looking at teachers’ perceptions of L2 learners of English use of the Internet as a language learning tool to enhance their language skills. Such skills include listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar. This study was carried out at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). A group of 19 English teachers were surveyed with a follow-up interview. Preliminary data show that the majority of English teachers’ perceive students use of the Internet enhances their language skills.
Li XinYing Ohio University Linguistics MA Candidate	iMovie iMovie is a video editing software application which allows users to edit their own home movies. iMovie imports video footage to the Mac using the FireWire interface on most MiniDV format digital video cameras. From there, the user can edit the video clips, add titles, and add music. Effects include basic color correction and video enhancement tools, and transitions such as fade-in, fade-out, and slides. It can be downloaded at: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovie71.html