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.
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