This document discusses using screencasts and the website ELLLO to teach English. It provides a S.M.A.R.T framework for choosing web resources and explores how teachers and students can use screencasting tools like Jing and Screenr. The document demonstrates how to create screencasts for tutorials, feedback, and presenting content. It also demonstrates how to use ELLLO in cooperative learning groups and provides resources for learning more about screencasting and ELLLO.

1. Teaching S.M.A.R.T with the Web:
Screencasts and ELLLO
ELT + IT
Michael Krauss
Available http://tinyurl.com/8xgv9ee

2. Workshop Objectives
 Consider a S.M.A.R.T. framework for
choosing/implementing Web resources
 Explore screencasting
– Uses by teachers and by students
– Two popular free tools (Jing and Screenr)
 Observe, then explore hands-on ELLLO
(English Language Listening Lab Online)
– Utilize cooperative learning techniques
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3. S.M.A.R.T. Framework
 Synthesis of language and thinking skills
 Motivating content and comm. with
purpose
 Appropriate for age and language ability
 Relevant to students’ lives (curricular objs)
 Tangible product with feedback/evaluation
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4. What is screencasting?
 Ability to capture and share for viewing
anything displayed on the computer screen
 Both audio and images are captured
 Short video capture possible (files get very
large fast!)
 Send link to view screencast OR
 Embed in Web page (blog, wiki, social
network, etc.)
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5. How can ELTs use screencasting?
 Extend classroom or “flip” the classroom
– Guided “tour” of interesting Web resources
– Tutorials – displaying Web pages, Word docs,
PPT slides, etc.
– Feedback on student writing
– Presentation of vocabulary
– Provide pronunciation model
– Presentation of grammar points
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6. How can ELLs use screencasting?
 Narrate a trip while showing Web pages
 Explain how to get somewhere displaying a
Google Map or Google Earth.
 Create a timeline and narrate events
 Create a mindmap and give a guided tour
 Take the listener on a virtual tour of a zoo
or museum Web site.
 Create family tree and share family history
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7. More ways?
 Show a mystery object and talk about it.
 Put together a biography on a famous
person and narrate his/her life
 Record one’s voice while reading a story or
poem. ELT assesses pron., intonation, etc.
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8. Sample (Screenr) – Introduce Yourself
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9. Sample (Jing) – Tutorial
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10. Sample (Screenr) – Student Writing Feedback
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11. Comparing Jing and Screenr
http://www.learninginstitute.qmul.ac.uk/elearning/introducing/screencasting-jing-versus-screenr/11

12. Demo of Jing Image Capture
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13. Demo of Jing Video (Stannard)
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14. A Screencast in Action - ELLLO
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15. Hands-on practice with ELLLO
 Follow your handout
– Cooperative Learning exploration of
ELLLO in small groups.
– Come back and share in the large
group.
– Wrap up. Questions?
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16. Resources of Interest -1
 Training Resource Guide 2012 (Krauss)
– http://tinyurl.com/6qd8j9b
 How to use Jing with ELLs (2 screencast
tutorials) Russell Stannard
– http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/Jing/index.htm
– http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/jingInReality/
index.html
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17. Resources of Interest -2
 How to use Jing to make screenshots (Nik
Peachey)
– http://www.scribd.com/doc/47249872/Task-7-Creatin
Jing
 How to use Screenr (screencast tutorials)
Russell Stannard
– http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/screenr/
index.html
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18. Resources of Interest -3
 Comparison of features: Jing vs. Screenr
(Bramble)
– http://www.learninginstitute.qmul.ac.uk/
elearning/introducing/screencasting-jing-
versus-screenr/
 How to use ELLLO (screencast tutorials)
Russell Stannard
– http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/elllo/ind
ex.html
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19. Resources of Interest -4
 Exploring Web 2.0: Tools for Classroom
Teaching and Professional Development
(Krauss). Contact ELO to apply to take this
course. You may freely use the materials at
– http://tinyurl.com/56jqc9
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