Lee Seungyoun_#2 Sliderocket

1. Describe the Presentation Tool or Screencasting Tool you used. 
    Provide a link to the website. 

I used a presentation tool, "SlideRocket".  www.sliderocket.com

This tool helps you to generate presentation materials either on-line or off-line.  You can   
import your own presentation files in powerpoint or goolgle presentation as images or     editable files.   Once you log-in, you can access to your presentation mateirals anywhere, which enables your presenation available regardless of time and space. With 'Desktop presenter', even off-line access is possible.

You can also create presentations on-line with various design tools available.  It is easy to intergrate other web sources like YouTube.   

Sharing your presentation is simply possible just by publishing presentation URL and sharing or embeding it in any blog or webpage you like.   

2. Describe the presentation or activity you created using the tool. 
    Provide a link to the location of your embedded presentation on your Google Site.

My presentation is to describe English consonants and the places of articulation for targeting  ESL learners of Enlish pronunciation.  As the basic knowledge of phonetics, descriptions of English consonants are important but not easily understood by ESL learners.  In my presentation you will find every individual consant sound is simply and clearly classified with its articualtion place.   For better understanding, I inserted some vedio clips from YouTube which comically dramatize consonant sounds and articualtion places.
   
But please consider that there is one thing I could not realize, which is the phonetic symbols  not available in regular fonts.  Such as simbols of the /ch/ sound in much or /th/ for thigh could not be  correctly shown in my file.  I used normal alphabets with example words instead.

The link to my google site is :  www.sites.google.com/site/leenglish8802


3. Describe your experience using the tool.  Would you recommend it to other teachers?   Why or why not?

I see it a very practical and flexible presentation tool.  It looks very easy and convenienct to build up presentation materials either importing from existing PPT files or instant creation on-line.  I imported the first 2 slides from my PPT and did the rest in on-line creation.  Both ways were not difficult at all and the design tools are well provided.  If for the usual PPT, I had to hyperlink the movie clips from YouTube.  But it got more visually effective just by embeding YouTube URL.  The main strong points in my opinion are easy integration from other resources, on-line creation availability and easy access, which will have teachers freer in preparing materials and making presentations.  And presentation files integrated with effective audio-visual resources will hold students' attention and make class more vigorous. 

Thus I strongly recommend this tool and try to use more often than traditional PPT which I am better used to with.

4. Describe potential uses the tool could have in the Korean EFL learning context

- Listening and reading : Various input resources can be presented in the tool.  News, audio and vedio clips, images and tons of materials from web resources will be selected as per class situation and level. 

- Learning by doing activities : For young learners, songs, chants and games are good teaching sources and this tool will be an adequate platform.   'Listen and follow' activities such as simple cooking or making artcrafts can be effectively utilised. 

- Co-work project : For advanced learners, team projects can be designed. In the tool, a group of people can collaborate one presentation file by sharing editing authority.  With this function students can join in a certain presentation project with more convenience.   

Lee Seung Youn _ Sharing ESL Teaching Site

Here is my introduction of ESL teaching website, "eslflow.com"

This provides various resources for researching ESL ideas and creating lessions / courses with ESL teachers.  ESL teachers or ESL related off-line / on-line education institutions  can post their lesson materials or ideas under the relevant subject categories, which are to be shared by anyone for free.  Log-in is not necessary.  You can just go in and pick up what you want. 

From my personal experiences I am summarzing my evaluations as follows ;

Good to use 
- Contents are well classified by relevant categories (subjects, student levels, and situations).   
  At first sight, you can get to see which one will meet your needs.  
  ex) grammar, speaking test,  icebreaker, environment, role play, giving directions...

- The lesson subjects covers various themes and you can have wide selections.

- The file names often clearly show what are in the files, which makes your choice easier and
  saves  guessing time. 
  ex) giving opinions about city, being a celevrity / being famous discussion...

- Many of the materials are instantly usable or easily amendable according to the purpose.
  Also you can find some worksheet generators you can build up yourself.
  ex) human anatomy diagram printout,  job interview worksheet..

- Easy to access.  No need to log-in and pay.

- Through re-directions to other linked websites you can visit more ESL related sites.  If for curious teachers who are ready to browse here and there, this site will be recommendable.

What to be considered
-   As usual in most sharing teaching sites, not every material is recommendable. 
    If there showed viewer rating at each file such as star marks, it would be a good reference.

-  In some of redirected websites, you may need to member log-in or pay for getting print-outs.

-  It may make your navigation complicated due to frequent redirections to various websites, which seems to be inevitable as this site works mainly as an information sharing platform.

- The website is not visually attractive comparing with others.  This may not sound a big problem but I think visually well-organised lay-outs or graphics can make users feel reliable and enjoyable. 

Hope you to visit once and look around www.eslflow.com