THREE TYPES OF DIGITAL
LEARNING MATERIALS
1.
Teachers created digital materials
2.
Student created digital materials
3.
Publisher/professionally created digital materials
TEACHER-CREATED LEARNING
MATERIALS
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Facebook in the classroom
Second life experiments
Languagelab
Open simulator
Socrative
Thinglink
Lingleonline
Weebly
Snappii
 Truetube
 Wingclips
 All the silent
 ESL video
 TED talks
 Jing
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Facebook in the classroom
- 100 ways you should be using facebook in your classroom.
Blattner and fiori (2009)
Second life experiment
- exposure to language and content, interaction and entertainment.
It is the merging of entertainment and learning (Mawer and Stanley, 2011) term it
‘digital play’.
Languagelab
-built their own city in second life for their teachers and student to
work in.
Open simulator
-open-source projects to create free and open virtual spaces online.
Major area of interest for teachers in creation of digital
materials for language learning is the effective integration of
interactive whiteboards in the language classroom said to
progress in three stages;
 infusion
 Integration
 transformation
TEACHER-CREATED DIGITAL LEARNING
MATERIALS
Socrative
-being able to return co-constructed material across class iteration. It is a
valuable tool and material creation.
Thinglink
- it allow easy integration of multimedia and hyperlinks into online presentation
spaces.
Lingleonline
- text manipulation which source articles is from a range online newspapers.
Weebly
-permit the teacher to simply create a website by dragging, dropping and uploading content
and making it live and accessible within minutes.
Snappii
- which guide the teacher through creation of apps for smartphone and tablet use.
Truetube
- which features talking heads interviews with young people on issues of contemporary
importance.
Wingclips
- which provides short clips from popular movies organized according to the central theme in
each clip.
All the Silents
- which has a great collection of classic silent comedy clips, all ideal material for prediction,
narration, dialogue and story-reconstruction activities, as well as discussions on how cinematic comedy
has changed.
ESL video & TED talks
- ESL video, which offer teachers options for creating exercises
connected to videos sourced from the web. And the inspiring educational
creativity showcased in many TED talks.
Jing
- these offer a radical redefinition of the concept of teacher-student feedback
(or peer-peer feedback) on written text or presentation, in which the user can
simply and swiftly highlight.
STUDENT-CREATED DIGITAL
MATERIALS
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Mural.ly
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Newspaper clippings
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Tagul
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Piclits
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Goanimate
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Tom loves Angela
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Voicethread
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Popplet
Mural.ly
- which are often heralded as a focus point for such development are in the use of
individually created and community-shared writing environments.w
Newspaper clippings
- which allows copy-and-paste of students text to create newspaper clippings.
Tagul
- which allow learners to create word pictures and groupings .
Piclits
- site which invites poetical compositions from chosen word relating to emotive
pictures.
Goanimate
- it is the area of animation, voice tools and digital storytelling.
Voicethread
-allow students or teachers to upload content in the form of text, video, image
or presentation and add a voice commentary.
Popplet
- other areas of interest for creation of student-generated digital material are
brainstorming, mind-mapping and collaborative decision-making tools.
PUBLISHER/PROFESSIONALLY
CREATED DIGITAL MATERIALS
 Cool
Speech
 Dynamic
 AR
books
textbooks
 Mentira
Cool speech
Dynamic books
AR textbooks
Mentira