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Classics and ICT. Helen Lowe and Ana Martin h_loweuk@yahoo.co.uk marana@northwoodcollege.co.uk. Classics and ICT. There is a limitless and ever-expanding bank of both general teaching aids and subject specific resources available for PC, Mac and iPad :
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Classics and ICT Helen Lowe and Ana Martin h_loweuk@yahoo.co.ukmarana@northwoodcollege.co.uk
Classics and ICT • There is a limitless and ever-expanding bank of both general teaching aids and subject specific resources available for PC, Mac and iPad: • Classroom management, recording student data and achievement, etc • Workflow and file management • Images, audio, video, movie creation and editing • Web based programs: lessons, flashcards, quizzes • Online content curation • Software • Apps for iPad and iPhone (and some Android) • Online courses
The role of ICT Receptive skills Productive skills SPEAKING WRITING LISTENING READING
Our aims • to reflect on the importance of all four skills for teaching and learning • to give ICT examples for developing each skill • to share experiences • to share good – and bad – practice
Listening – Latin In class At home VLE: videos/sound recording by students and teacher (including songs) Uses: Oscar individual revision andpractice singing, etc. • CLC program and website • ARLT website audio section • Other sources: podcasts in iTunesU, NuntiiLatini • Uses: • comprehensionquestions • V an F? • fill-in theblanks • physical response, etc. Acquiring the language naturally
Listening – Class Civ Flip your classroom Multimedia classroom Linking music/sound effects to the text: Musicalising text OST or ‘guess what character listens to this’ Responding to a text, responding to multimedia • Teachercreates video tutorials or podcasts that students must listen to before the lesson • More blended teaching: MOOC, Open University, YouTube, podcasts • Audiobooks Catering for all learning needs
Speaking – Latin The role of multimedia The tools Hardware: flipcams, microphones, mobile phones Software: audacity, movie maker, garage band, etc • Enables monitoring and self-assessment • Comprehensible output • Ideas: • Film-making, podcasts, tutorials, poetic readings • ‘video, video’ Monitoring and self-assessment
Speaking – Class Civ The aims Some ideas Students prepare video tutorials or podcasts for VLE On trips: documentaries, news features Soap operas, PuppetPals vel sim. Quotation games Banks of images to trigger discussion/top trumps Games on screen: races, uncover the picture, ‘who wants to be a millionaire’, • Catering to all learning needs • Manipulating, creating, negotiating, emulating, inspiring • Personal response Students as ‘prosumers’
Reading There are countless ICT resources for subject-specific reading matter • A good Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) / Intranet / school network will have • a calendar or appointments facility to set assignments with specific texts, sources or areas on which to focus • pages for texts, documentsand other materials, internal and external links • Provide access to targeted reading via links to: • internal pages or files • online websites or files
Reading Create your own reading materials and learning resources • Use a program or app to provide the required information, for example: • Cram for flashcards and games • Memrise or Cram for vocabulary and grammar input • SlideShark, Prezi or Nearpod for presentations
Writing Use a program or app to: • check knowledge and understanding • collate results and produce progress reports • gather student feedback How? • Tests and quizzes: multiple choice and open-ended questions, e.g. Nearpod, Socrative, Vocab Express • Questionnaires, e.g. Survey Monkey, Google forms
Writing Use online storage and collaboration for written tasks –develops research skills and independent learning: • undertake group projects, e.g. Evernote • “take in” assignments, e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, SkyDrive • create online conversations through a blog or forum on a VLE or online site, e.g. WordPress, Google Blogger • live “discussions” with designated Twitter or Facebook groups
Classics, ICT and Europe • CIRCE project – a Classics and ICT Resource Course for Europe for resources, contactsetc(but now superseded by ERASMUS+):http://www.circe.be • ERASMUS+ – the new EU funding programme for eduation, training, youth and sport http://www.erasmusplus.org.uk) • eTwinning – the community for schools in Europehttp://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/index.htm
Options • ERASMUS+ – the new EU funding programme for education, training, youth and sport http://www.erasmusplus.org.uk) • eTwinning – the community for schools in Europehttp://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/index.htm • Connect, collaborate (forums etc)and get free online CPD
For more information See: • Classics and ICT resources, computer programs, iPad apps • iPads in education – iPadpractical issues
Keep in touch! Do you have any apps that: • you particularly like • work particularly well for teaching / learning • are great in the classroom • make it easy to share work • allow you to interact with a classroom of students equipped with iPads/tablet PC • etc…?! Let us know!
Contact Us • Helen Lowee: h_loweuk@yahoo.co.ukm: 07748 096448 • Ana Martine: marana@northwoodcollege.co.ukt: 01923 825446