Simple Tasks

The list below includes some simple tasks that you can complete to get a handle of the suggested technologies in this blog and through the links to all other blogs and wiki pages I have created over the years. We will try to follow along some of these tasks during the SLIC session.

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Simple Tasks 

If time allows us to get this far we will explore the following simple tasks. If we cannot 

attend to these in the session, consider them ideas to help you remember what you 

learned in the session today and to try new things once you are back in the classroom 

teaching. 

1. Set up a blog - call it a simple name (maybe SLIC2010 your name blog) - remember that on Blogger you need a gmail account.
2. Set up your blog home page that explains what your blog is about. For example: you want to focus on a theme, or a function, or a specific task. My two blogs I show you in this session are one about "Speed Dating" and one about "the Weather" - so you have a theme and a set of communicative functions as examples. The example will help you focus your learning to apply the different tools with a meaning and keep your examples workable and ready to use as soon as the following week.
3. One page of your blog should contain a simple set of activities - maybe a reading, or a matching of pictures and labels, where you will need to use Audiopal for your audio directions. Think of your instructions on the page; think of the list of new vocabulary words and create audiopal files accordingly - then post them on your blog page.
4. At the end of that page think of and post a simple audio task you want your students to complete. Use Audiopal and ask your students to listen to the task and complete it. The task could be a listening comprehension activity based on your input on that page. Remember to use visuals on your page so your students can follow along.
5. Think of audio tasks your students can complete on their own and send to you using Audiopal. 
6. Create a simple story book using Story-bird. Prepare the book and send your students the link. Use audiopal files to read along the book and share the files with your students over a blog page. 
7. Think of cool places where your country language is spoken and visit them through Google Maps. Create audiopal files and send the files to your students. Challenge your students to find the places based on your description. Then invite students to do the same.  
8. Create sample vokis to introduce a new historic character from a culture where your language is spoken. 
9. Set up a wikipage where you can upload files for your blog. Remember that files on your blog can only be uploaded if they are images, links or audio and media formats. Word documents do not go on blogs. But they can go on a wiki page and you can add links to that space on your blogs.