In this video I'm going to show you two of the technologies that I think have had the biggest
impact on my own teaching and learning the first technology
has had a huge impact as well on my career it helped me to win
three educational awards and I've presented that work in 55 countries the second
technology is having a big impact on many of the courses that I'm running at the moment
the great thing about both of these technologies is that you can use them in loads and loads of
different ways and that's exactly what I'm going to show you in this video I'm going
to draw on loads of examples but also there are technologies that are free and that you
can find on the internet and use immediately really hope you like the video as always if
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quick show you how the technology works and I'm going to show you some of the examples that help
me to win my awards and why this technology is so useful so if I click on launch free
recorder it opens up this kind of technology that's going to allow me to record myself
talking over anything now this technology is actually completely free so watch this
I'm just going to come over here and I've got here a PowerPoint presentation and I'm
just going to record myself um just presenting it okay so I'm going to get the the recorder
into the position I want it to be in which is about there that's fine that looks fine
and then all I need to do is click on this button here I'll just do a couple of slides
good morning ladies and gentlemen today we're just going to look at Moodle but
we're going to give it an overall kind of discussion and understanding
what I plan to talk about today is quick presentation about me
do some questions focus on the training and then I'm giving you the task for the week
why is Moodle so hard it's a really good question to ask okay I'll stop there click on that button
click on done click on upload and that video is instantly ready good morning ladies and gentlemen
today we're just going to look at Moodle but we're going to give it an over now incredibly
what I could do with that once I'm happy with the video is I could upload it onto YouTube
I could upload that onto my google drive or I could just save it as a video straight onto
my computer and then upload it into Moodle or and model so I can make learning content using
this technology really really quickly but I could also do hundreds of other things with
this technology and I want to now show you some examples now if you want to learn how to use this
technology on the screen now is a link to this technology which is completely free
this is a really powerful example let's imagine that this is a piece of work that a student
sent me it's a written essay it could be short low level it could be higher level and there are a few
things in here that I want to kind of clarify with the student okay so I'm going to perhaps focus on
this point here I've already marked it this one here I've already marked it and let's perhaps mark
this one here as well okay so let's imagine that we want to give some feedback maybe there are a
few more mistakes but we want to highlight these three things we're going to open up the screen
capture technology again we're going to launch the free recorder remember it's completely free
then I need to just minimize this because I don't want to obviously record
the web browser I want to record myself talking over this now imagine look what I can do
okay tom just want to give you some feedback uh about your work first thing I want to say
is that you're not referencing correctly here can we use the um oxford or in fact let's can
we use the Harvard method of feedback sorry for reference in here so can you just change that
and use the Harvard method okay and I'd also like a reference for here for the can academy can you
provide a reference for that as well here you talk about teaching stuff can you be a little
bit more explicit about what you actually mean by teaching stuff it sounds rather unacademic can you
put in a a better kind of way of explaining that and describe what you mean by teaching stuff
the last point is you talk about topic sentences can you just quickly explain what a topic sentence
is okay the rest of the essay is really good just those three things click done save videos ready
what would I do well I would probably share it on my YouTube channel and I'm going to do this
for you let's just quickly play the video okay tom just want to give you some feedback okay
video is absolutely perfect so I'm going to click on upload to YouTube I've already got my YouTube
channel connected to screencast-o-matic so I don't really have to do anything I just need
to set that to privacy unlisted so that no one else can find this video just a student
who receives the link and then I would obviously give it a title and I'd call it tom's feedback
and now I would publish that onto the internet you can see well I've got a fairly good
internet connection so you can see it's actually happens fairly quickly
so once I've oh once I've uploaded that I can then just click on the link and then send an
email to tom and say that's your feedback so you can see how quickly I can do this I can give
feedback to tom in you know oral feedback with visual information I'm just going to copy on the
link and let's have a look if I jump over to the internet now and have a look at how that looks
so I'm just going to paste that link in and let's see how that video is click on the internet and
hopefully now that video is ready let's just play it a few seconds there it is okay tom just want
to give you some feedback uh about your workflow can you see how quickly you could make feedback
now that could be loads of things as I've already showed you that could have been you giving talking
over a PowerPoint slide but let's just look at um a few more examples of the sorts of things I'm
using this technology for let me just quickly show you a couple of examples of the sorts of
things that I do with this so here's a video where I'm giving students I've just made a video where
I'm giving students some grammar explanation I'm just going to click here and show you okay just
something I've noticed today from your lessons and from your essays is that you're getting confused
between despite and inspired so what happened here is that the students were doing the lessons
with me I noticed quite a lot of them when they were doing their writing were getting confused
between in spite of and despite so I just made a quick grammar lesson I just wrote out the rule and
made a video and that video took me five minutes to make that's just another example of what I do
I use this for example a lot to get my students to do speaking activities I use it a lot for kind of
like little bits of mini teaching look at this one here where I'm giving feedback on some vocabulary
okay just want to go through some of the problems with today's lesson and some of
the pronunciation problems first one I want to point out is just the first word accommodation
accommodation the stress is actually on the fourth syllable and when you spell that word watch out
because it's double c double m accommodation next word corruption corruption stress is on
the set okay so you see another example here the same technology I'm using in a completely
different way but I often get my students to record themselves speaking look at this example
so in this example my students are using the same technology because it's completely free
to record themselves doing a presentation now this is brilliant for things like
language teaching or practicing presentation skills business courses
good morning ladies and gentlemen today I'm going to talking about
security and privacy of electronic business absolutely fantastic i can listen to the student
I can give them feedback after they've done the recording such an easy way so i'm using this
loads i use it a lot for guides when i run courses okay here's the task this is what i want you to do
so i can record myself doing the tasks so they can clearly see what to do i use
this in everything i use this technology absolutely every day now i've showed you
screencast-o-matic because it's a free one the technology that i use because i which obviously
the video that you're watching with me now is made using this technology as well because you're I'm
recording the screen I use a more sophisticated tool called Camtasia so if you want to learn more
about Camtasia I'll put a link on the screen now to Camtasia as well but screencast technology can
be used in so many ways I'm just going to give you a quick list of some of the things that I've done
so let's just think about a few of these things that I've cut some of them I've already showed
you I've shown you we can use it for feedback for grammar lessons we can use it for guides
on courses for example if you've got a Moodle course how do you use Moodle where do you find
the content so brilliant for things when students have to log on and they don't know how to do that
make a video to show them training videos like the video you're seeing now of course
I'm using screen capture student reflections so get the students for example instead of
writing their reflections give them some questions they can record themselves talking about
the answers to the questions they can open up for example the questions in PowerPoint and recall
themselves answering the questions so don't get the students to write reflections but actually
to reflect orally making learning content all sorts talking over pictures talking over forms
talking over maps etc you can create any type of learning content you want vocabulary
practice we've already seen guides to websites when you're recommending websites to students
yeah all sorts of things about the students recording themselves recording themselves talking
over a picture recording themselves talking over a chart recording themselves explaining a map
recording themselves answering some questions all sorts of things I've even experimented with
peer feedback when students give feedback to each other using screen capture technology because the
technologies are free this technology has revolutionized the way that I deliver my
teaching and learning and I'm still amazed how few organizations really make use of
all of the options that this technology offers particularly knowing that it's free
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so we're going to move on now to the second thing we're going to look at the way I assess
my students and this has radically changed over a period of time and it's become very popular
as well so the people that do my courses a lot of the feedback is about the assessment process that
I use which is kind of quite unusual now what I'm doing is I'm going to show you some examples first
and then I'm going to talk a little bit through some of the benefits of working this way
so I'm actually doing work at three separate universities training staff in using this as a
method of assessment but on top of that I'm running all my courses using this method it
saves enormous amounts of time for the teacher and it's very popular with the students so much
so that at the moment my courses are completely selling out now what I do here is that as the
students what they I'm doing is I'm assessing the students using an e-portfolio that is as students
do different pieces of work with me they add them into their e-portfolio as evidence of
their learning now those instances of activities that they do can be things that they've done on
their own so we can see here for example that the students have included some word war activities
that they've created and I can see that they've been added here so I can check and even play the
word walls but there will also be google forms and other instance instances of individualized things
that they did on their own but there's also lots of things that they did collaboratively so for
example if I click over here on the google slides then we can see that there is a google slide and
if I move that down I can click through and see all the work that the individual students did now
the reason that this works so well is that when students produce for example an individualized
object like a word wall like a Padlet if they work on their own or like a google form if they make a
google form they can add it into their e-portfolio but if they work on something collaborative
they can all include a copy in their e-portfolio so even though they've worked collaboratively on a
google doc or on a google slide they can all put a copy into their e-portfolio so I get complete
evidence of all the things that individually and collaboratively they've worked on
but more interestingly I also get evidence of the students reflections as they work through
and do the different activities each week I give them different questions to reflect on so if we
go over to the reflections and I'm just going to click here and you can see all the different
things that these students been doing work with autonomy webinars screencast videos word wars
google forms all the different activities they've done if I click over here on the reflections you
can see that each week I set different questions for the students to do and then they write their
answers into those particular questions the great thing for me as a teacher is that I can
simply come on to the e-portfolio and mark the students work I can see all the reflections all
the individualized work and all the collaborative work in one place I don't have to search through
everywhere everything's together but it also means that the course itself can still be very
very collaborative because the collaborative activities that the students do where they
all add a copy of the google form the Padlet etc into their e-portfolios I can't exaggerate
the level of the feedback that we're getting since we kind of instigated this form of organizing the
assessment and both for myself and the tutors that are working alongside me now we use google sites
and if you want to learn how to use google sites I've made a special video it's on the screen now
exactly how to use google sites if you want to learn more about google sites and google
sites is incredibly easy to do and I'm going to jump over now and just show you my ear only
portfolio just show you a couple of really clever things that you can do with google sites google
sites is so easy to use let's just do a quick example let's just add a page here let's click
on here okay and we're going to create a page and we're going to call this page for example Padlet
okay so I'll click on done so now what I can do here I can just immediately double click on
the screen go to embed click on embed code and if I have the embed code for a Padlet and I'm
just going to quickly grab one I can paste the Padlet in so if the students have been
working collaboratively on a Padlet and I've been working on that as well I can include my copy here
so all I need to do is click on the share button sorry not even on the share button I
need to click on yes I do share button sorry and come down to embed in your blog I just
simply copy that and let's just jump back to the e-portfolio I'm just going to paste that in
and now that is included in my e-portfolio okay so that quickly i can add something in but let me
show you another really clever trick let's go to google docs now one thing is that everything that
you work on in your E-portfolio every time you do something either collaboratively or alone it's
always a copy is saved in your google drive so if i go over to my insert and then scroll down to
my google docs i can see here all my google docs and i can see not only the docs i've produced
on my own but also docs that i've produced collaboratively with other people for example this
was a collaborative one this was a collaborative one so you don't have to own the doc as long as
you've worked on the doc you will have a copy watch this i'm going to grab this one here click
here click on insert and immediately that google doc is added into my e-portfolio i can slowly
build up evidence of my activity collaboratively and individually into my e-portfolio and then
my teacher can send me questions that i can then reflect on so this is the way that we
are assessing our students and for me it really is a revolution it's completely changing the
way i'm delivering my courses and i just want to speak a little bit more about why that is
if you want to work more and learn more about e-portfolios i've got a video on the screen now
that will take you through in detail how i do my e-portfolios essentially it means
that the formative assessment and the summative assessment are all connected so as my students do
various activities either in class or sometimes on the platform for homework so if i set activities
for them to do for homework maybe work on a padlet maybe do a word wall maybe collaborate on a google
doc or a google slide they add those into their e-portfolio they then reflect on what they've
done and they think about how those technologies could be useful to them because I'm mainly working
with teachers if I was working with students it would be more about what they've learned from
using the technologies and that is how we mark their work summatively in other words we look
at their e-portfolio at the end we look at what they've done we look how well they've laid it out
and organized it and of course most importantly we look at the reflections that they've written
about the different activities that they do everything is integrated the activities
that they do either in a live session with me or online are all included in the e-portfolio
and then that's part of the summative assessment so it's one assessment it's literally like
everything is together and connected and for me this is an outstanding feature of working this way
and hence the reason why various organizations have connected with me and asked me to train
their staff in doing something very similar really hope you like that video
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