2013DigitalStorytelling


 

Digital Storytelling for Young Learners

 

 

 

Session Outline

 

 

Abstract

How do we encourage young learners to use the English they learn in a meaningful context? Children can have access to various online creation and publication tools to share stories. Participants will explore various applications that motivate learners to share stories through comic creation tools, free Web 2.0 tools, mobile devices, and more.

 

Target Audience

Young Learner e-teachers and those interested in fostering creativity and imagination for children through digital storytelling.

 

Interest Section Sponsors

 TESOL CALL-IS IATEFL Young Learners & Teens SIG, JALT Teaching Children SIG and ARCALL (Argentine Computer Assisted Language Learning)


 

Syllabus 

 

By the end of this workshop, participants will have

 

 

Weekly Outline

 

 

Week 1  (Jan 14 - 20, 2013)

 

Week 1 Introductions & Simple Online Digital Tools & the Basics

Main Moderators- Eva Buyuksimkesyan, Shelly Terrell, Marisa Constantinides
Co-moderators- Özge Karaoglu, Esra Girgin, Jennifer Verschoor, David Dodgson, Michelle Worgan, Juan Uribe
Tools Explained- Posterous, Edmodo 

During the first week of the course, participants will

 

Week 2  (Jan 21 - 27, 2013)

 

During this week, participants will

 

 

Week 3 (Jan 28 - Feb 3, 2013)

 

During this week, participants will

 

 

Week 4 (Feb 4 - Feb 10, 2013)

 

During this week participants will:

 

Week 5 (Feb 11 -17, 2013)

  

During this week, participants will

 

 


Join this session

 

>>>Sign up for the session starts on Jan 7th, 2013. 

 

The action starts on Jan 14, 2013.

 

To join this group:

 

From January 7 to 13:

 

  1. Go to: http://digitalstorytelling4kids.pbworks.com
  2. Click on Digikids Posterous Group and Edmodo Group  (located in the sidebar)
  3. Register for both the Posterous and Edmodo sites. You will have to wait for a moderator to approve your membership.
  4. Create a profile on Edmodo
  5. Say hi and introduce yourself in the Edmodo group only 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Moderators

Full bio on our DigitalStorytelling4Kids wiki

 

Shelly Terrell <ShellyTerrell@gmail.com>

Shelly Terrell is a teacher trainer, author, and international speaker specializing in the effective use of technologies for professional development and to support language learners.

 

Özge Karaoğlu <ozge_karaoglu@hotmail.com>

Özge Karaoğlu is an EFL teacher, author and teacher trainer in teaching young/very young learners and teaching with web based technologies.

 

Esra Girgin <esragirgin@hotmail.com>

Esra Girgin is an EFL teacher and a teacher trainer in Istanbul, Turkey. She has been teaching English to young and very young learners for 10 years and is interested in using web technologies in language teaching.

 

Eva Buyuksimkesyan <evabsimkesyan@yahoo.com

Eva Buyuksimkesyan is an EFL teacher and a teacher trainer in Turkey. She is passionate about teaching and interested in integrating technology into her lessons. She is an avid believer of PLN and she is @evab2001 on twitter. She also blogs at http://evasimkesyan.edublogs.org

 

 

Jennifer Verschoor <jenverschoor@gmail.com>

Jennifer Verschoor is a freelance teacher trainer and an educational consultant in teaching young learners and Business English with web based technologies.She is a proud Webhead and President of Arcall Argentine Computer Assisted Language Learning. To learn more about her online activities please visit her blog http://jenverschoor.wordpress.com/

 

Marisa Constantinides <marisa.constantinides@gmail.com>

Marisa Constantinides is a teacher educator/trainer from Athens, Greece. She runs CELT Athens, a centre offering a variety of TEFL training programmes, from TEFL and CELTA Certificates, to Cambridge DELTA courses. She also is a moderator/co-founder of the ELTon nominated #ELTChat. Check out her blog full of resources.

 

David Dodgson <dave.dodgson@gmail.com>

David Dodgson is a primary school EFL teacher in Ankara, Turkey. He is interested in the use of technology for both learner and teacher development.


Michelle Worgan <michelleworgan@gmail.com>

Michelle Worgan is an EFL teacher based in Spain. She specializes in teaching and creating materials for young learners and she enjoys implementing web 2.0 tools into her lessons.

 

Juan Uribe <juan.alberto.uribe@gmail.com

Juan Uribe is an EFL teacher, teacher trainer, and international speaker based in Canada. He is interested in implementing storytelling and puppeteering  in affective language learning with YLs through technology.

 

Elizabeth Anne eannegrenoble@gmail.com

Elizabeth Anne is the Digital Storytelling for Young Learners mentor. She teaches English to Physics students in Grenoble, France and was an illiterate Physicist herself. Here website is http://www.elang.eu

 


 

Communication Media Used

 

 

 

 

 


 

The Electronic Village Online is a project of TESOL's CALL Interest Section

   

  

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, an international education association