Numerous free and easy-to-use Web 2.0 tools provide opportunities for both instruction of speaking skills and student audio and video projects that are broadcast to a wide audience and allow for online collaboration and feedback. The panelist will discuss and demonstrate the use of some of these sites for teaching oral skills and for project-based learning that incorporates and promotes student oral production.
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Videosharing sites
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Commenting by text
Online slideshows
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Upload PowerPoint presentations with narrated slides or inserted audio
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Commenting by text
Blog
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Audio files uploaded to other sites can be embedded; Many blogs allow direct uploading of video (100 MB on Blogger.com, for example)
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Commenting by text
Wiki
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Shared class Web page; students can have their own wiki pages; with most wikis, uploading a video file straight to a wiki page will take up a lot of space, so consider first uploading to a video sharing site (YouTube, TeacherTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, blip.tv, etc.) and then embedding on a wiki page
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Commenting by text but audio and video commenting possible
Podcasts
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Web-based audio broadcast, but many podcast sites now permit posting of video
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Upload video files or record with webcam, upload audio files or record with computer microphone, upload images; audio/video media files up to 350 MB; 500 MB total storage with a free account
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Commenting by text
VoiceThread
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Upload images, documents (PowerPoint, PDF, Word, Excel), and video files and narrate or comment by text, voice (computer microphone, phone, uploaded audio file), video (webcam); VoiceThreads are saved on the site but can be emailed or embedded on a Web page or blog
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Others found through site search using "ESL":
Pronunciation of consonants
Speaking practice for a class
Talking about the news
Tell a story about a pictureStudent oral responses to pictures 1 and 2
Pronunciation of /l/ through song
Class interviews with instructor feedback 1 and 2 (video)
Glogster
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Multi-media online scrapbook pages: posters that combine uploaded user images, video (uploaded from your computer, hyperlinked, or embedded from video sharing sites like YouTube), and audio (music, sound effects, voice recordings) with text and designs; each glog is saved to the site but can also be emailed or embedded on a Web page or blog; Glogster edu provides master accounts for teachers, integrating all student accounts and keeps accounts private
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Commenting by text