Thursday March 26 from 15:00-16:30 EST, Nery Alvarado, Daniela Coelho, Ellen Dougherty and Vance Stevens held a workshop on "iPad-agogy: a Bloomin’ Better Way to Teach" Links for my part of this presentation can be found in this slide presentation and might be updated here http://tinyurl.com/vance2015writing - while our wiki provides the information, applications, lesson plans, project-based learning exemplars, and web links covered in the workshop: http://tesol2015ipadogogyabloominbetterwaytoteach.pbworks.com/ The event was listed in the CALL-IS Electronic Village program: http://call-is.org/ev/schedule.php

1. Teaching
writing using
voice on iPads
Vance Stevens
TESOL Toronto March 26 2015
http://tinyurl.com/vance2015writing
Revised from a brainstorming session
in Hangout on Air Mar 15, 2015

2. What this session is about
This presentation is a part of a workshop Thursday, March 26th
3:00 – 4:30 PM in the CALL-IS Electronic Village entitled
iPadagogy: A Bloomin' Better Way to Teach
presenters : Dani Coelho, Ellen Dougherty,
Nery Alvarado, and Vance Stevens
http://tesol2015ipadogogyabloominbetterwa
ytoteach.pbworks.com/
This presentation is here
Writing Apps presentation page
Listed in the CALL-IS Electronic Village
program: http://call-is.org/ev/schedule.php

3. ● Google Drive, Docs, and Chrome
o Docs app and
desktop views
● Educreations
● Word Clouds
● DocsStoryBuilder
● Dragon Dictation
Apps and sites mentioned here

4. Lindsay Clandfield says
writing returning to oral roots
(from recording onto scrolls):
https://app.box.com/s/0xsjv54sbh18uqx3j01a
Writing returning
to oral tradition

5. Google DOCS and DRIVE apps

6. Google DOCS and DRIVE apps

7. iPad views of Google Docs and Drive

8. iPad views of Google Docs and Drive

9. Educreations, as an aside
● A graphics-rich
writing tool
● Augments writing
with media
o Used to create two
previous shots of
Docs on iPad

10. How I teach writing with Google Docs
● I organize it on PC for convenience
● Our students work on iPad
● iPad apps different from PC
o Have both limited and enhanced functionality
● Typing difficult on iPad, but …
o Can be overcome to some extent with
continuous speech recognition tools

11. Essential Google Docs Tips
Strike out tool - alt-shift-5 on PC (none on iPad)
Comment tool - ctrl-alt-m on PC (voice on iPad)
An organized Drive (with folders & subfolders)
● A File naming system with names and topics
● Use the search tool to bring up files in Drive
● Use Shared with Me and Recent to find files

12. You try it: Create a Google Doc
● This is how
my students
do it
● Launch the
app and click
the blue plus

13. Name your file: Your name and topic
● Important that
you can identify
student work
● that they can
distinguish their
many docs

14. Go to the Share & export menu
vertical

15. Click on the Share icon

16. Share it with vancestev@gmail.com

17. Google Docs Feedback - PC view

18. ● Fewer
tools but ..
● Voice a
major
affordance
Docs app view

19. ● More traditional
tool set
● But has Insert /
Image
● No voice
● Limited touch
functionality
iPad Desktop View

20. Word Clouds

21. How to insert pics into Google Doc
For a tutorial on
how to do this
http://toolkit4learning.blogspot.
ae/2015/03/tutorial-on-posting-
images-to-google.html

22. Using voice with DocsStoryBuilder
From http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/
● On iPad you can
build your story
using the voice
tool
● Add music and
FINISH UP with a
URL to your
story; e.g.
http://goo.gl/LlI7Y3

23. DocsStory Builder: Student examples
Brainstorming IELTS essays
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/UrwheJQun - Fast Food, jazzy
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/V0AYQdyjx - Abdullah & ghost writer
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/4lLSbXEAn - Driving fast, schmalzy
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/0zwCdc28j - Bicycles, driving beat
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/Y0d4XoBQV - Elderly, schmalzy
● http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/WcoeeZSRx - Public transport
Full tutorial next few slides

24. ● Enter at least
two character
names
● You can either
type or use the
mic icon to
speak your
part
StoryBuilder Tutorial Step 1

25. ● Start the
dialog for the
first character
● End with the
cursor on the
NEXT line
StoryBuilder Tutorial Step 2

26. ● Click in the
next character
box down and
the name will
appear
● Position the
cursor on the
NEXT line
StoryBuilder Tutorial Step 3

27. ● Starting on the
next line down
● Type or speak
the part for the
next character
StoryBuilder Tutorial Step 4

28. ● Continue
entering parts
in the next
character field
DOWN
● Enter new
parts after
RETURN key
StoryBuilder Tutorial Step 5

29. ● When finished,
add music
● Highlight your
selection
● The music
doesn’t play on
iPad (PC, ok)
StoryBuilder Tutorial Step 6

30. ● Click on
FINISH UP
● Enter student
names & title
● URL
generated,
copy it & send
to teacher
StoryBuilder Tutorial Step 7

31. Dragon, another free voice tool app
Helps work around constraints on typing

32. Teachers can use Dragon to model process
This
composition
created in class
while eliciting
input from
students

33. For more information
● This slide presentation - http://tinyurl.com/vance2015writing
On Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/teaching-writing-using-
voice-on-ipads
● Written text version:
http://tinyurl.com/vance2015writing-doc
● HoA to discuss preliminary work:
http://learning2gether.net/2015/03/15/learning2gether-with-vance-stevens-
and-tesol-2015-ipadagogy-preview/

34. Dani Coelho
Nery Alvarado
Vance Stevens
Ellen Doughtery
The iPad TESOL 2015 presenters