SpeakApps 2: Speaking practice in a foreign language

through ICT tools

Christine Appel, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl, Dublin City University (Ireland)

Adriana Prizel-Kania, Jagellonian University (Poland)

Sake Jager, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands)

Project Overview

SpeakApps 2 speakapps.eu

Lifelong Learning Programme

KA2 LANGUAGES, Accompanying Measures

Nov 2013 – Oct 2014

Partners Associated Partners

• Institut Obert de Catalunya• University of Southern Denmark• University of Nice• University of Jÿvaskÿla• Ruhr-Universitat Bochum• Polskie Towarzystwo Kulturalne "Mikolaj Kopernik“• Fundació Pere Closa

Project goals

Increasing practice time and facilitating quality feedback on:

Oral Production

Speaking Interaction

• SpeakApps Concept• New SpeakApps Languages• Secondary Education• Teacher Training • SpeakApps Tools and Mobile Devices• Open Educational Resources• Building a community • Telecollaboration • How to use SpeakApps• What’s next?

Overview

SpeakApps Concept

New Languages

• French• Spanish • German• Italian • Croatian

• More languages are always welcome!! • Contact us at:

speakapps@uoc.edu

Secondary Education

IOC Bell-Lloch , Girona

Teacher Training

• Series of teacher training course

• Online and blended delivery

• Local and global training

• Teacher training Handbook & CC materials

• http://moodle.speakapps.org/course/view.php?id=132• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkN4vv3AjsY#t=119

SpeakApps Tools and Mobile devices

• Langblog, Tandem and Moodle Classroom work inside browsers on mobile devices

• Langblog being reviewed to establish which features should be accessible via mobile and which are more suitable for other devices• Recording on mobile phones

• Use of Tandem in F2F classrooms available and being piloted

• Browser-independent apps for different mobile devices are also in development and should be available in the near future

Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources• Quality Assurance mechanisms being established

• Self-evaluation and peer evaluation

• User and Usability issues influencing rating and feedback mechanisms• Mechanism taken from Social Networks stars or likes • Number of downloads• More significant feedback / self-evaluation being considered

• Significance for Author reputation and links into knowledge sharing and community building in terms of following an author etc.

• Feedback from participants, have your say – likes or stars!

Building a community

• Increased visibility of authors

• Technical support to include community feedback i.e. members can post issues and other SpeakApps users can comment as well as SpeakApps Technicians

• Teacher Training feeding into the community and other dissemination activities

Telecollaboration

SpeakApps platform as a neutral meeting point for partners engaged in telecollaboration

Telecollaboration: Tandem MOOC • 6 week course (27thOct- 5thDec)• Level: B2 & B1+ EFL/ELE• Learning objectives:

▫ Learner strategies for online speaking interaction with a native speaker▫ Speaking skills

• Free (registration & certificate)

We need help to identify native speakers of English learning Spanish Levels B2 & B1

Using SpeakApps tools in the future?

The tools are not stand alone programmes.

When you want to use these tool in the future you can…

1. Use the tools via the SpeakApps platform.

2. Have the tools installed in your local LMS (Blackboard, Moodle etc)

a) Installed locally by LMS administrator

b) Installed and run off the SpeakApps cloud infrastructure

• Request a classroom from us and try the tool!

Thank you!

www.speakapps.eu / @speakapps

speakapps@uoc.edu