This is an overview of an online course run in the winter of 2010 that tried to improve the materials writing skills of TESOL professionals. This PowerPoint was presented at TESL Ontario 2010.

1. Digital Material Preparation
for TESOL
A TESOL Electronic Village Online Course
John Allan

2. socialesl.com
Presentation (slideshow)
Course itself
Articles related to course
Hands on activities

3. overview
Team
EVO
Impetus
Course
Delivery/results
Future

4. Developers and mentors
John Allan
Jim Edgar
Stephen Roney
ESL teachers with experience
 teaching English overseas & Canada
 applying educational technology to TESL
 developing instructional materials

5. EVO
Electronic Village Online
http://evosessions.pbworks.com (WIKI)
An extension of the TESOL Conventions
Annual event
Jan - Feb (5 weeks)
Non-TESOL individuals are welcome

6. Electronic Village Online
http://evosessions.pbworks.com (WIKI)
An extension of the TESOL Conventions
Annual event
Jan - Feb (5 weeks)
Non-TESOL individuals are welcome

7. Impetus
a reaction to the growth of Web 2.0 resources
functions of traditional software match online assets
decided to test this premise
all resources must be free
self-contained (modular)
hosted on a remote server
spamless
EVO as the vehicle

8. Online!
Course preparation
Course delivery

9. Communication
multiple modes
messaging
Email
Web 2.0 tools: Voki/VoiceThread
weekly, live chat sessions: polling decides chat
timings
asynchronous forum discussions on pedagogical
and technical issues
Calendar & Upcoming events for quick “info”

10. Delivery
Moodle LMS
course skill area structure
Messaging
forums
glossaries
wikis
databases
TappedIn scheduled chat sessions

11. Course Goal
Enhance materials production skills for
all TESOL professionals.

12. Develop Skills in…
document production (text)
image editing
the Internet as a toolkit
screen capturing
converting media formats
audio production

13. Module structure
materials development concept overview
a link to a relevant resource
a detailed explanation of the resource
a step-by-step procedure resulting in a
product (outcome)
an example of the outcome
a wiki/glossary for posting results

14. Enhance skills by doing….
image editing: upload, edit and publish an
image

15. Concepts

16. Step by step
instructions

17. Results….

18. Enhance skills by
doing….
text document production:
create a text document with
a variety of tools

19. Results….

20. Results….

21. Results….

22. Results….

23. Results….
http://www.lextutor.ca/

24. Enhance skills
by doing….
Internet as a toolkit:
producing
Interactive activities,
comics, link to
online videos, locate
copyright free
images

26. Worksheets

27. Results….

28. Results

29. Results

30. Results
Links to videos

31. Results

32. Enhance skills by doing….
screen capturing: recording, editing and publishing
screen animations

33. Results -link

34. Enhance skills by doing….
converting media: converting file formats

35. Enhance skills by doing….
audio production: recording, editing and publishing
audio

36. Results

37. Resources
text document production: Lorem Ipsum, LexTutor, Project
Gutenburg, Dafont, Google Translate
Image editing: Picnik
the Internet as a toolkit: Spelling City, DocStoc, Bitstrips,
Vocabgrabber, WordWizard, ClassTools, TeacherTube
screen capturing: Screen Toaster
converting media: Zamzar
audio production: Myna (Aviary)

38. Interface

39. organizers
VoiceThread for introductions

40. Chat Transcripts

41. Voki

42. Announcement blocks

43. Word Clouds

44. Participant Showcases

45. Wikis

46. Countdowns

47. Time zone clocks

48. Animated Avatars

49. Calendar

50. Checklist

51. Forums

52. Resource Glossary

53. Became…

54. Results
208 registered 23 completed!
Six weeks
Worldwide (time zones)
Modified and open for general public at
socialesl.com
Participant contributons “glossary of
resources.”

55. Future
course in Jan – Feb 2011
“producing vocabulary learning objects”
register after January 3, 2011