Teaching Literature with Technology

Learning Technologies SIG “Diane Eastment” scholarship
http://linoit.com/users/dprimalis/canvases/iatefl13

Chryssanthe Sotiriou
Dimitris Primalis

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Literature strikes back! 2013
IATEFL Conference D.PrimalisC.Sotiriou

Literature Strikes Back!!!
Teaching Literature with Technology

Part 1
• Old techniques enhanced by technology- flipped
classroom?
Part 2
• Web2.0 tool and collaborative platforms
Part 3
• The floor to YOU


Introduction
The dilemma: Fight or act smart?

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Overview


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The Trojan …Mouse

I need say nothing here, on the first head, because nothing can show better than my
history whether that prediction was verified or falsified by the result. On the second
branch of the question, I will only remark, that unless I ran through that part of my
inheritance while I was still a baby, I have not come into it yet. But I do not at all
complain of having been kept out of this property; and if anybody else should be in the
present enjoyment of it, he is heartily welcome to keep it.
I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low
price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that
time, or were short of faith and preferred cork jackets, I don't know; all I know is, that
there was but one solitary bidding, and that was from an attorney connected with the

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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be
held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my
life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve
o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to
cry, simultaneously.
In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by
some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several
months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally
acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was
privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they
believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a
Friday night.


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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkraCshPB4w


Information gap
Use of visual aids
Learning styles
Skills development
Motivation
Restrictions

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Jigsaw Activity


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1:1 class


Create a digital
group – divide
into smaller
groups
Send the
“listeners” the
audio file
Send the
“viewers “ the
video without
sound

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Flipped classroom

60 Second Recap
Lexipedia


• Ask them to reconstruct the story
in class
• Tweet the story…

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Flipped Classroom

SKYPE CONNECTION
Skype an Author Network
www.skypeanauthor.wetpaint.com
S
• Skype

PBL

Prepare the
ground

There is no one
PBL

School +
classroom culture

Methods
+resources

Sharing….vision
for getting
BETTER

Science Fiction
When a day that
you happen to
know is
Wednesday starts
off by sounding
like Sunday,
there is something
seriously wrong
somewhere
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Literature strikes back! 2013 IATEFL Conference D.Primalis-C.Sotiriou

Match the sounds with their sources

Sparrow

• Coo

Pidgeon

• Chirp

Bus

• Roar

Brakes

• Rumble

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• Squeal


Wheel


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Can you recognize the sounds?

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“Why the founders of St Merryn’s
Hospital chose to erect their
institution at a main road crossing
upon a valuable office site and thus
expose their patients’ nerves to
constant laceration, is a foible that I
never probably understood”

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“Customarily the west-bound
buses thundered along trying to
beat the lights at the corner; as
often as not a pig-squeal of
breaks … then the released crosstraffic would rev and roar as it
started up the incline.”


“But this morning was different. Disturbingly
because mysteriously different. No wheels
rumbled, no buses roared, no sound of a car of
any kind, in fact was to be heard. No brakes, no
horns.”
“The more I listened the queerer it seemed. There
was not the cooing of a pigeon, not the chirp of a
sparrow. Nothing but the humming of wires in the
wind.”

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The day of the Triffids

Bloom’s taxonomy: Liz Schultz

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http://linoit.com/users/dprimalis/canvases/The%20Cantervile%20Ghost


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www.tagxedo.com


 Technology can be a powerful ally not
a foe
 Technology is not panacea but can
stimulate learners’ interest in literature

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 Literature greatly enriches the EFL
class with exposure to different genres

Dimitris Primalis
dprimalis@gmail.com
http://differentefl.blogspot.co.uk/
Chryssante Sotiriou
x.sotiriou@doukas.gr
@chryssanthe


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Thank you!

Teaching Literature with Technology

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