TICs & Language

Lourdes Domenech:

• worked from cuaderno de notas del curso para ayudar hacer una memoria final del curso
• inspired by Mar's 'la ruta de la lengua' with forum and video-link interchange (proyecto collaborativo sin fronteras - pairing tutor and students - worked because we already knew each other!)
• Google groups used to manage the set-up of the project - although an email is sent to Google, you can delete these and stay with with list of threads and comments in the Google Group.
• Then a wiki used to give each school a page.
• Big question about whether you do the same activities in each centre, or different. Different chosen as students and circumstances vary.
• One school used a 'diario de lectura' (blog)
• Another wrote opinion pieces and another, letters.
• 2.5 months working together as a virtual group; 1 month with the students
• Hot Potatoes for homework did not work. In pairs in class, didn't work. It is an individual activity but in the presence of others.
• Google sites used rather than a Wiki because it allows co-editing and so can be used in the same way - but it has the advantage of working with your same Google identity!!
• Glogster .edu provides the teacher with student names and passwords automatically (up to 100 students?) - the only issue is that videos come from YouTube (to avoid hosting costs) even though audio is possible from your own machine
• Glogster doesn't offer albums - so if you want the audio and video you need to make a page of posters