Top 10 18 Web 2.0 applications for teaching and learning English

ELC Staff Development Session

Speaker: Svetlana Chigaeva11 March 2010

Selecting web 2.0 applications

• Does the application have a relevance to a language classroom?

• Is it freely and widely accessible? • Is it easy to use? • How can we integrate it into our new

courses?

Multimodal group projects

• Brainstorming • Collecting, annotating, and organizing

information • Drafting and revising the verbal component

of the project• Preparing a multimodal presentation

Collaborative brainstorming: mind42

http://mind42.com/

Social bookmarking: Diigo

http://www.diigo.com/index

Collaborative “thinking tools”: exploreatree

http://www.exploratree.org.uk/

Collaborative outlining: thinklinkr

http://thinklinkr.com/

Working with texts: Wordle

http://www.wordle.net/

Working with texts: PaperRater

http://www.paperrater.com/

Creating posters: Glogster

http://www.glogster.com/

Creative presentations: Prezi

http://prezi.com/

Creating and sharing videos: Viddler

http://www.viddler.com/

Discussions: VoiceThread

http://voicethread.com/#home

Digital storytelling: Animoto

http://animoto.com/

Remixing: Open Source Cinema

http://www.opensourcecinema.org/

Remixing: knowthenews.tv

http://www.linktv.org/knowthenews/remix

Working with news: Media cloud

http://www.mediacloud.org/

Creating comics: Toondoo

http://www.toondoo.com/

Screencasting: ScreenJelly

http://www.screenjelly.com/

Vocabulary building: Visuwords

http://www.visuwords.com/

Vocabulary building: Shahi

http://blachan.com/shahi/

What’s next?

• Sign-up for a free account with Diigo• http://www.diigo.com/index

• Find our group “ELC’s New Literacies interest group”

• Check out my bookmarks and add yours