E-creation Toolsand Self-MadeComputer-BasedResources

By: Yuseff Barrientos.José Carlos Cifuentes H.

Main Purpose of creating e-tools

E tools provide possibilities for students to become creative with language and publish their thoughts and ideas in a variety of ways as well as their publish their own products.

Students construct activities that maximize opportunities to interact with others in English.

Presentation softwarePresentation software like PowerPoint can be used to create interactive educationalgames such as Jeopardy and Who Wants to be a Millionaire and other quizzing games.

Guy Fawkes Dayvocabulary presentation

Exercise Creating ToolsThis is software that creates different exercises that can be used as assessment tools. It can also be used to have students create exercises for each other.Exampleswww.quia.comuia.com

http://hotpot.uvic.ca�

www.downloadjunction.com/product/software/6814/�index.html

Movie MakerMovie Maker is a software that allows you to create and edit videos. This program is manufactured by Microsoft Windows.Movie Maker creates its own distinct video file while you are editing, so that if you want, you can create several different movies using the same footage.

Podcasting This is an IT tool that enables the distribution of audio files over a syndicated feed that can be replayed on media players or computers. These audio files can be accessed via websites or other locations online. Podcasts are shared to provide content information to the public.

Here are some links where one can easily create podcasts. � www.mypodcast.com/

. � www.gcast.com

. � www.clickcaster.com/

. � http://podomatic.com/

. � www.learninginhand.com/podcasting/create.html

. � www.podbean.com/

The following are examples of podcasts created by and for ELLs:. � www.manythings.org/e/podcasts.html

. � www.stenhouse.com/html/news_17.htm

. � http://learntech.ties.k12.mn.us/Podcasting.html

. � www.podcastsinenglish.com/pages/level1.shtml

. � http://a4esl.org/podcasts/

. � www.englishfeed.com

Hot potatoes SoftwareThe Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.

Other quizzes and exercisesThese websites have examples of multilevel quizzes and interactive activities thatare appropriate for English language learners.

www.a4esl.org/ Here is a collection of quizzes for English learners. It includesgrammar, vocabulary, and crosswords at different levels of difficulty.. www.english.abcingles.net This site offers tests at different levels. It includes�reading comprehension tests.. www.eslcafe.com Dave Spirling’s ESL café offers a variety of activities for �languagelearners.. www.eslactivities.com Here you can find a variety of classroom activities and�games for individual use by ELLs.. www.teflgames.com This site provides interactive games and quizzes for�

�www.cityu.edu.hk/elc/iowa/quiz/ �

www.triv.net/ � http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm

�www.englishlearner.com/tests/test.html

Recording and Editing Sound: Audacity is an open source program that enables a user to record voice or music so one can add it to an online project, website, webquest, podcast, blog, etc.

How to Use E-creation Tools in the ClassroomTeachers interested in using technology as a means of promoting English language learning through project-based learning or within a differentiated classroom have a wide variety of technological tools at their disposal to choose from.

the specific role of the teacher is planning and organizing the integration of subject-specific content material; teachers decide which technology is best suited to accomplish the pedagogical objectives of an activity.

What is the Role of English?

• Project creation in ELL• Instruction and modeling• Students edit and revise their

work• revise, and edit their language

in whatever projects• Development of individual

language skills through the use of technology and social interaction.

• individual ELLs will depend on the teachers’ evaluation of the language needs of their students

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I used to bite my song and hold my breathScared to rock the house and make a messSo I sat quietly, agree gentlyI guess that I forgot I had a voiceI let you push me past the breaking pointI stood for nothing, so I fell for anything

You helped me down, but I got up (HEY!)Already brushing off the coastYou hear my noice, you hear that soundLike thunder gonna shake the grassYou held me down, but I got up (HEY!)Get ready 'cause I've had too muchI see it all, I see it now

[Chorus:]I got the eye of the tiger, a lighter, dancing through the night'Cause I am a champion and you're gonna hear me forLouder, louder than a lion'Cause I am a champion and you're gonna

hear me roar

Oh oh oh oh oh oh ohOh oh oh oh oh oh ohOh oh oh oh oh oh ohYou're gonna hear me roar

Now I'm floating like a butterflyStinging like a bee I earned my stripesI went from zero, to my own hero

You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)Already brushing off the dustYou hear my voice, you hear that soundLike thunder gonna shake the groundYou held me down, but I got up (HEY!)Get ready 'cause I've had enoughI see it all, I see it now

[Chorus:]

Roar Katie Perry

Roar Katie Perry

I used to bite my tongue and hold my breathScared to rock the boat and make a messSo I sat quietly, agree politelyI guess that I forgot I had a choiceI let you push me past the breaking pointI stood for nothing, so I fell for everything

You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)Already brushing off the dustYou hear my voice, you hear that soundLike thunder gonna shake the groundYou held me down, but I got up (HEY!)Get ready 'cause I've had enoughI see it all, I see it now

[Chorus:]I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire'Cause I am a champion and you're gonna hear me roarLouder, louder than a lion'Cause I am a champion and you're gonna

hear me roar

Oh oh oh oh oh oh ohOh oh oh oh oh oh ohOh oh oh oh oh oh ohYou're gonna hear me roar

Now I'm floating like a butterflyStinging like a bee I earned my stripesI went from zero, to my own hero

You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)Already brushing off the dustYou hear my voice, you hear that soundLike thunder gonna shake the groundYou held me down, but I got up (HEY!)Get ready 'cause I've had enoughI see it all, I see it now

[Chorus:]

Conclusion E-tools provide teachers a wide variety of resources to promote students participation, comprehension and self learning.In the end no matter how good teachers are using technology,what really counts is how teachers can motivate and interest students in communicating and creating their own products as and evidence of achievement using the target language.

Thank You!

Yussef Barrientos José Carlos Cifuentes