E-creation Tools

and Self-Made
Computer-Based
Resources

By:
Yuseff Barrientos.
Jos Carlos Cifuentes H.

Main Purpose of
creating e-tools
E tools provide possibilities for students to become
creative with language and publish their thoughts
and ideas in a variety of ways as well as their
publish their own products.
Students construct activities that maximize
opportunities to interact with others in English.

Presentation software
Presentation software like PowerPoint can
be used to create interactive educational
games such as Jeopardy and Who Wants
to be a Millionaire and other quizzing
games.

Guy Fawkes Day

vocabulary presentation

Exercise Creating Tools

This is software that creates different exercises that
can be used as assessment tools.
It can also be used to have students create exercises
for each other.
Examples
www.quia.comuia.com
http://hotpot.uvic.ca
www.downloadjunction.com/product/software/6814/in
dex.html

Movie Maker
Movie Makeris a software that allows
you to create and edit videos. This
program is manufactured by Microsoft
Windows.
Movie Maker creates its own distinct video
file while you are editing, so that if you
want, you can create several different
movies using the same footage.

Podcasting
This is an IT tool that enables the
distribution of audio files over a
syndicated feed that can be
replayed on media players or
computers. These audio files can
be accessed via websites or
other locations online. Podcasts
are shared to provide content
information to the public.

Here are some links where one

can easily create podcasts
. www.mypodcast.com /
. www.gcast.com
. www.clickcaster.com /
. http://podomatic.com /
. www.learninginhand.com/podcasting/create.html
. www.podbean.com/

The following are examples of podcasts created by and for

ELLs:
. www.manythings.org/e/podcasts.html
. www.stenhouse.com/html/news_17.htm
. http://learntech.ties.k12.mn.us/Podcasting.html
. www.podcastsinenglish.com/pages/level1.shtml
. http://a4esl.org/podcasts/
. www.englishfeed.com

Hot potatoes Software

TheHot Potatoessuite includes six
applications, enabling you to create
interactive multiple-choice, short-answer,
jumbled-sentence, crossword,
matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises
for the World Wide Web.

Other quizzes and

exercises
These websites have examples of multilevel quizzes and interactive activities that
are appropriate for English language learners.
www.a4esl.org/ Here is a collection of quizzes for English learners. It includes
grammar, vocabulary, and crosswords at different levels of difficulty.
. www.english.abcingles.net This site offers tests at different levels. It includes
reading comprehension tests.
. www.eslcafe.com Dave Spirlings ESL caf offers a variety of activities for
language
learners.
. www.eslactivities.com Here you can find a variety of classroom activities and
games for individual use by ELLs.
. www.tefgames.com This site provides interactive games and quizzes for

www.cityu.edu.hk/elc/iowa/quiz/
www.triv.net/
http://
grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_
list.htm
www.englishlearner.com/tests/test.html

Recording and Editing

Sound:
Audacity is an open source program that
enables a user to record voice or music so
one can add it to an online project,
website, webquest, podcast, blog, etc.

How to Use E-creation

Tools in the Classroom
Teachers interested in
using technology as a
means of promoting
English language
learning through projectbased learning or within
a differentiated
classroom have a wide
variety of technological
tools at their disposal to
choose from.

the specific role of the teacher is planning

and organizing the integration of subjectspecific content material; teachers decide
which technology is best suited to
accomplish the pedagogical objectives of
an activity.

What is the Role of

English?

Project creation in ELL

Instruction and modeling
Students edit and revise their
work
revise, and edit their language in
whatever projects
Development of individual
language skills through the use
of technology and social
interaction.
individual ELLs will depend on
the teachers evaluation of the
language needs of their students

Roar

Katie Perry

I used to bite my song and hold my breath

Scared to rock the house and make a mess
So I sat quietly, agree gently
I guess that I forgot I had a voice
I let you push me past the breaking point
I stood for nothing, so I fell for anything
You helped me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Already brushing off the coast
You hear my noice, you hear that sound
Like thunder gonna shake the grass
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Get ready 'cause I've had too much
I see it all, I see it now
[Chorus:]
I got the eye of the tiger, a lighter, dancing through the night
'Cause I am a champion and you're gonna hear me for
Louder, louder than a lion
'Cause I am a champion and you're gonna hear me roar

Oh oh
Oh oh
Oh oh
You're

oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh
gonna hear me roar

Now I'm foating like a butterfy

Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
I went from zero, to my own hero
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Already brushing off the dust
You hear my voice, you hear that sound
Like thunder gonna shake the ground
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Get ready 'cause I've had enough
I see it all, I see it now
[Chorus:]

Roar

Katie Perry

I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath

Scared to rock the boat and make a mess
So I sat quietly, agree politely
I guess that I forgot I had a choice
I let you push me past the breaking point
I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Already brushing off the dust
You hear my voice, you hear that sound
Like thunder gonna shake the ground
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Get ready 'cause I've had enough
I see it all, I see it now
[Chorus:]
I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire
'Cause I am a champion and you're gonna hear me roar
Louder, louder than a lion
'Cause I am a champion and you're gonna hear me roar
Oh oh
Oh oh
Oh oh
You're

oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh
gonna hear me roar

Now I'm foating like a butterfy

Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
I went from zero, to my own hero
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Already brushing off the dust
You hear my voice, you hear that sound
Like thunder gonna shake the ground
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Get ready 'cause I've had enough
I see it all, I see it now
[Chorus:]

Conclusion
E-tools provide teachers a wide variety of
resources to promote students participation,
comprehension and self learning.
In the end no matter how good teachers are
using technology,what really counts is how
teachers can motivate and interest students
in communicating and creating their own
products as and evidence of achievement
using the target language.

Thank You!
Yussef Barrientos
Jos Carlos Cifuentes