Chapter III- USING OPEN-ENDED TOOLS IN FACILITATING LANGUAGE LEARNING.pptx

CHAPTER III: USING OPEN-ENDED
TOOLS IN FACILITATING
LANGUAGE LEARNING

LESSON 1: Productivity
Software Applications for
Language Teaching and
Learning

LESSON 1: Productivity Software Applications for
Language Teaching and Learning
Open-ended Tools and their Uses in Teaching and
Learning Language Skills
* Open-ended tools or productivity software applications are ICT
tools, which help the teachers and the learners, make their
learning together concrete, efficient, encouraging, and
meaningful.
* In any teaching-learning process, the use of these tools
play a vital role as it helps meet the demands of the learners
in the 21 Century classrooms.

As described by Palmer (2015), teachers need to
demonstrate 21st Century characteristics to be able to meet
the demands of the 21st Century learners. These
characteristics in the context of language teaching are briefly
presented for teachers to:
1. Create a learner-centered classroom and make
instruction personalized because learners have different
personalities, goals, and needs;

2. facilitate the students' productivity skills so they can
produce, when assisted and given the chance, movies that
are helpful to enhance their language proficiency;
3. learn new technologies since technology keeps on
developing and learning a tool once is not an option for
teachers;
4. go global to allow students to learn languages,
culture, and acquire communication skills virtually;
5. be smart and allow the use of devices as aids to
language acquisition;

6. do blogging. This will give teachers real experience
to see the value of writing for real audience and
establishing their digital presence;
7. go digital to help promote the "go paperless"
advocacy and to help level up the language learning
experience of the students through digital discussions and
alike;
8. collaborate with other educators and students to give
opportunity for the sharing of great ideas beyond a
conversation and paper copy;

9. use web chats to share research' and ideas and stay
updated in the field;
10. connect with like-minded individuals through using
media tools like the social media;
11. introduce Project-Based Learning to allow students
to develop their driving questions, conduct research,
contact experts, and create their projects for sharing with
the use of existing devices present;
12. build positive digital footprint that aims to model
appropriate use of social media, produce and publish
valuable content, and create shareable resources;

13. code as it is today's literacy which helps boost
students' writing skills as the feeling of writing a page with
HTML 18 amazing,
14. innovate to expand their teaching toolbox for the
sake of their students by engaging social media for
discussions and announcements and using new formats like
TED talks in presenting their lessons; and
15. keep learning.

Using Word in Scaffolding Student Learning in a Language
Classroom
* To appreciate the value of Word Applications in scaffolding
student learning, we have to explore how these are maximized
by teachers. In education, scaffolding is used to refer to various
forms of support given to assist, guide, or facilitate the learning
process (World Links, 2008).
Examples: learning plans, assessment tools, templates and
forms, graphic organizers, and others.

Using Presentations in Teaching Language Skills
In language teaching and learning, presentation software
applications have a lot of uses. It can be used as a presentation
tool in an innovative skill integration task, and the other as a
novel writing tool. In both cases, students can use language
actively for speaking, listening, reading, and writing (Schcolnik
& Kol, 1999).

Using Presentations in Teaching Language Skills
Presentations, allow language learners to experience a
world of real language environment and opportunity in
language courses, i.c. Filipino, English, Mother Tongue and
Foreign Languages.

Presentation software applications allow language learners
to:
1. present their language reports with audio, visual images
and animations, presentations;
2. develop and present their group projects using real-world
visual presentations;
3. present charts, tables, graphics, charts, and others that are
useful to facilitate students understanding of any language
concepts;

4. show data stored in graphic organizers that cannot be
fully presented by a printed material;
5. develop digital stories or story books;
6. show results of any survey, questionnaire and other
forms of language assessment activities;
7. articulate and crystallize their ideas using the special
features of presentation software apps;
8. experience language learning process through the
integration of contents in the presentations;

9. enjoy developing their projects thus, are highly,
involved;
10. commit to the quality of their work, both content and
form, because they don't only present what their classmates
hear but what they also see
11. present information in condensed form and focusing on
salient points because of the limited area in, slide presentations;
hence, avoiding digression and drifting; and
12. innovatively communicate-their ideas and express
themselves in ways they feel comfortable.

Specifically, the integration of presentation software
applications to language teaching and learning is very
beneficial in developing the students four language skills. In
their study Schcolnik 'and Kol {1999) were able to present
how presentation software activates the four-macro skills:

In our courses, students first read some of academic
articles on a topic of their choice, knowing that they will have
to present their conclusions in class. They analyze the articles
critically, compare and contrast the ideas presented, synthesize
and evaluate. This process is comparable to the process
students go through when reading to write a paper. In both
cases, reading to transmit information requires clarification of
ideas and presentation of those ideas in such a way that others
will understand.
READING

When composing slides, students have to condense the
information they have gathered to present only the main points.
In this type of 'minimalistic' writing, key concepts and words
have to be retained, while the 'chạff" is discarded. This
information reduction process is in itself a difficult but very
profitable language task. A slide cannot be too cluttered, the
size of the font has to be large enough, and the location of the
elements on the screen has to be balanced.
WRITING

The material has to be presented orally to convey a clear
message to an audience of peers. Just as they would in a purely
oral presentation, students have to 'rehearse' the pronunciation
of difficult words, time themselves, and make sure that they
have all the English lexicon needed. The added value of
presentations is that the repeated revisions of their slides give
students extensive exposure to the content of their 'talk',
helping them remember what they want to say and giving them
more self-confidence.
SPEAKING

The class listens to the oral presentation. Listening to a
non- native speaker is not easy, and visual elements facilitate
comprehension. We give the listeners a task requiring them to
write down three new facts that they. learned about the subject
and one question to ask the speaker at the end of the
presentation. When listening for a purpose, the listening is
focused and thus perhaps made easier.
LISTENING

1. Setting Up the Presentation Class- It is not enough to
simply tell students to go and do a presentation. Students have
to be taught the skills involved in giving a presentation. This
can include such things as when to use eye contact, how to
organize a presentation, how to connect with an audience, how
to use body language and manage time, and how to construct
an effective PowerPoint presentation.
Basic Instructional Design in Preparing Presentations

2. Organization of the Presentation -Proper organization of
information is one of the most important competencies that
must be developed among students. Hence, before beginning to
work on developing presentation, it is important to understand
the genre of oral presentation. There is a need to learn how to
separate the presentation into meaningful sections and present
each section separately to reduce the cognitive work that is
required in the presentation.

3. Presentation Skills- Its developing oral presentation is
very important to, consider in developing oral presentations to
spend time to consider the macro and micro skills that are
needed. These micro level skills include the genre specific
language items, such as the vocabulary and grammar that
students need to be successful in oral presentation.

4. The Use of Visual Aids - Visual aids are an important
part of oral presentations because they provide support for both
the speakers and listeners during the presentation. Visual aids
can be used to give more details about the topic, help the
audience members to understand what is being said, and act as
a concrete reminder of the message for both the audience and
the presenter. The type of visual aid used can vary depending
on the topic of the presentation. Visual aids help cater to
different learning styles .

5. Performing Self-Reflections- The final stage of each oral
presentation involves students writing a self-reflection of their
presentation. Through this activity, writing skills are further
enhanced together with the ability of the students to do self-
reflection.

Design an activity for the students
where they will “PRESENT”. The activity
should focus on a grammar lesson
taught in JHS. You may opt to include
literature/text as a basis for their
presentation. Any software may be
used aside from Microsoft Powerpoint.

Using Spreadsheets in Language Learning
Through spreadsheets, one can teach with tables and
charts, make a table and a graph, compute students' grades.
Spreadsheet programs are not, only beneficial to business and
mathematics courses but are also beneficial to language
courses. Apart from being built around a grid of cells that hold
numerical data, it also contain text, dates, and other content that
can be presented in language courses for discussions.

The following are essential ideas that teachers may consider
when employing spreadsheets in the language classrooms:
1. Reinforce learning scientific and mathematical languages
that are also relevant in language learning.
2. Add well-designed charts and tables to reports to
enhance students' non-verbal reading skills.
3. Allow students to create their own charts, graphs,
tables, and the like, to develop and enhance their language
and spatial skills.

4. Give students completed chart and see if they can
reconstruct underlying worksheet. This goes a long way toward
helping them to understand the relationships between the data
and the chart.
5. Require that language reports and research papers
contain some type of chart to help support their findings.
Encourage them to look for samples form the World Wide Web.
6. Let students explore. websites that have table
presentation for language teaching and let them discuss how
these were used to facilitate the acquisition of language
competencies.

7. Let the students look for charts in language learning
materials like textbooks, workbooks and others and discuss
why these were used.
8. Teach the language and principles of financial literacy
and management as it is also important to learn these concepts
in the context of purposive communication and life skills.
9. Demonstrate how spreadsheets are useful in preparing
assessment and evaluation tools for students' performance

10. Explain numerical concepts by showing the
relationships between numbers and their concrete
representation in charts and graphs. As language teachers,
this is needed to understand language researches with
quantitative designs.

With the advent of web-based word processing
software and with the exposure of a lot of students in
exploring new innovative media tools, explore the
following online Microsoft Word Alternatives
(Investintech, 2020).

1. Drop Box Paper
Dropbox Paper is a free online word processor offered by the
online cloud storage provider. To start using it, you will need a Dropbox
account. Once logged in, you get full access to the online suite. The
minimalist interface is very intuitive and its simplicity allows you to
focus on your content. You can also do many things that go beyond
creating a textual document. You can add rich media, such as audio,
video and images. Dropbox Paper also allows you to access apps that
let you embed Trello cards, Youtube videos or SlideShare decks.

2. Office Online
For Microsoft Word and Office aficionados, the best possible
free online alternative for their document editing needs is Word online,
which comes as part of the Office Online suite. Although free MS Word
web app is not a full-fledged version of its paid counterpart, it. allows
you to open, create and edit Word documents online. Also, it offers
some additional benefits of online software tools. For example, enables
you to access and see updates from co-authors literally from anywhere
in real time with only an Internet connection and the latest 2016
version. You can share and collaborate on documents.

3. Google Docs
Google Docs allows you to create, collaborate and share
documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings and even forms.
Google Docs is packed with features, which can be further extended
with various add-ons. While it will automatically save the file online
and store it there, you can also have the documents published as a Web
page, downloaded or emailed as an attachment in Word, ODT, PDF,
plain text or RTF formats. You can invite collaborators to work on the
document with you or only allow others to view it without the ability to
edit.

4. Etherpad
Etherpad is an online document editor primarily intended for
collaborative editing in, as the site claims, "really real time". It's an
open source, highly customizable tool for online document
collaboration with friends, fellow students and classmates, or
colleagues at work. One of its advantages, especially appealing to users
who are reluctant to use services which require email registration, is
that there is no sign up with Etherpad. All you need to do is start a new
pad and share the link to it with your collaborators. You can also invite
them by email if you prefer. After, you can start working on the planned
writing project together, in real-time, even if you are miles apart.

5. Zoho
Zoho offers around 20, free online applications including Writer
for word processing. You can link your Zoho account to your Google
and Yahoo accounts, as well. The Writer's interface should not cause
anyone problems as it is comfortably familiar. When working online
there's always the risk of losing data due to a lost network connection,
accidentally closing your browser or having your browser crash.
Luckily Zoho automatically saves your documents for you, as you
finish typing. Zoho Writer is well-equipped with features that allow you
to work easily online: two-way desktop sync, large file transfer,
encryption, file recovery, two-step authentication, in-app chat, and
more.

6. OpenOffice
The OpenOffice package includes six programs that use the
same engine making them inherently the same and extremely easy to
learn and use. The 6 applications included in the OpenOffice suite are:
Writer (word processor), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations),
Draw (graphics) and Base (database manipulation) and Math.
(mathematical equations). Writer can even natively do some things that
Word cannot, like open PDF files without the addition of a plug-in or
commercial add-on. As the software is open source, it is maintained by
a large community meaning help and bug fixes are freely available and
quickly created.

7. AbiWord
AbiWord is a free word processing application very similar to
Microsoft Word. It is available for Linux distributions only. The
software is fully compatible with not only Microsoft Word, but also
OpenOffice.org, Word Perfect, Rich Text Format and more. It has
advanced document layout capabilities and can do mail merge as well,
which allows you to automatically fill in specific form fields in
documents with information from databases and comma separated or
tabbed text files. It is a highly useful feature if you need to work with
many formats at the office.

8. Jarte
Jarte is based on Microsoft WordPad Engine, but is still free.
There is a paid version of the software that adds on some extra,
functionality, but the free version is more than adequate and fully
compatible with Word and WordPad documents. Features include an
ergonomic tabbed interface, small resource requirements, portability,
support for touchscreens, and quick loading time. It also has built-in
spell checking and can export to HTML and PDF files. Jarte allows you
to insert images, tables, hyperlinks and everything else that you have
come to expect from Word.

9. WPS Qfice 2016 Free
WPS Office 2016 Free is a free document processing suite
whose WPS Writer app will serve you well as a Microsoft Word
alternative. WPS Office 2016 Free can open and save to a long list of
popular file formats native to those applications like docx, doc, and
more. You can get the application in languages other than English:
French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Russian. The suite
has the same familiar look and feel of MS Office with one exception--it
has a tabbed viewing window, so you can open more than one
document at a time. And also worth mentioning is WPS Cloud. the
company's cloud document storage service that offers up to 1GB of free
storage that you can use.

10. SoftMaker FreeQffice
SoftMaker FreeOffice is another great free suite that offers a full
featured Microsoft Word alternative. The suite's TextMaker application
allows you to focus on creating documents just as you would in MS
Word. This suite offers up essential editing features and even a handful
of basic templates for creating and editing documents. Tables, charts,
shapes and graphics are available along with standard text formatting
options, This application provides you with everything you need. The
entire suite is available for Windows, Linux, and Android, so you can
keep your document processing tasks going even while away from your
desktop.

LESSON 2: Student
Sample Projects Using
Open-Ended Tools

LESSON 2: Student Sample Projects Using Open-
Ended Tools
A. Language Learning Via Web Publishing
There are two ways to contribute any authored
documents to the World Wide Web. First, with the advent of
ready-made websites that are meant to invite and encourage
contributors to share their authored stories, research,
commentaries, and the like, students may publish their work
by submitting their products to these websites. Second, the
students may create their own web pages because there are a
lot of free apps for web page development or they may place
them on their institution's official website.

Ended Tools
a. The Diary Project
http://www.diaryproject.com
This digital authoring website encourages students to
contribute their narrations or daily diaries with different
themes required by the website. Some of the themes or topics
can be on school activities, relationships, family, managing
stress and others.

Ended Tools
b. CyberKids
http://www.cyberkids.com
The mission of Cyberkids is to provide a voice for
young people on the internet. It accomplishes this by,
publishing original creative work by kids ages 7-12.

Ended Tools
c. Global Show-N-Tell
http://www.telenaut.com/gst
Wabisabi Learning (n.d.) was able to present some lists
of online publishing tools for avid writer students who are
looking for an online publishing tool to publish their works.

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d. Atavist
https://atavist.com
Atavist is a beautiful tool. It was founded in 2011 on
the heels of what we once called the "death of longform." As
you can imagine, it's highly visual. It's a drag-and-drop editor
for creating beautiful online publications.

Ended Tools
e. Calameo
https://en.calameo.com
If students are looking to do magazines, Calameo is the
tool to use. It's an online e-magazine publishing tool that lets
you add multimedia and personal branding to anything you
create. With one-click publishing, you can share it instantly.
Websites, social media, and more all integrate with Calameo.

Ended Tools
f. Tikatok
https://tikatok.com
This is a creative publishing studio for young children.
K-6 kids will love Tikatok. They can use it to publish digital
and printed books of all kinds. Tikatok was designed
specifically for the K-6 classroom. It's media literacy-
oriented and aligned with Common Core. Take a look at their
subscriptions page for plans.

Ended Tools
g. Storybird
https://storybird.com
This online publishing tool brings your words and global artists
work together in amazing storybooks. Be sure to check out the section
for educators. Storybird is at work in hundreds of thousands of
classrooms all over the world. If's free for educators, now and forever.
Take a look at what's possible with this tool. For the Students: Students
can create storybooks, long chapter books, and poetry books with
Storybird. They also have a fundraising program for students to get
into. This is a great way to use creativity for raising money for great
causes.

Ended Tools
h. Lulu
http://www.lulu.com/us/en/créate/ebooks
LuLu was one of the first players that offered serious
online publishing features. They established themselves in
2002 and they're still going strong. They've greatly expanded
their interface over the last few years. Everything you need to
know about doing online publishing is right here. They offer
tutorials, resources, guides, and more to learn with.

Ended Tools
i. Flipsnack
https://www.flipsnack.com
Flipsnack is a flip book creator. It's as simple as
uploading a PDF file. It also supports PNG and JPG files. It
renders shareable interactive creations that can also include
multimedia. Flipsnack looks great across all online platforms
and social media.

Ended Tools
Today, there are a lot of academic institutions whose
website serves as their information dissemination center for
their customers and stakeholders. Barron et al. (2002) state
that there are two fundamental stages in creating a website or
web pages. First, the page files and all associated images,
sounds, and so forth must be created in the proper format and
tested. Second, the files must all be transferred to a host
computer called a web server.

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Barron et al. further state that web page files must
adhere to a specific format or language, called hypertext
markup language (HTML). HTML uses tags to define how
information is formatted on a screen. In creating a webpage
using HTML, students may find it intimidating but even
elementary students can do it. For language learners, using
HTML may gradually expand their horizons and enrich their
vocabulary and communication skills.

Ended Tools
You may search for the steps in developing a web page
by using HTML through the following:
Author URL Address
John Neuhaus (2006) https://www.jneuhaus.com/write.html
Codecademy (2020) https://www.codecademy.com/articles/local-web-page
InternetinglsHard (2017) https://internetingishard.com/html-and-css/ba-sic-web-pages
w3schools https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_editors.asp

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B. Enhancing Language Skills through Digital
Storytelling
This language task meets the demands of today's
learners living in a rapidly changing world with opportunities
and challenges that are different from the ones many of the
previous generations grew up with. Today's learners are more
demanding and are willing to discover new ways to apply,
extend, and expand on existing knowledge (Kaminskiene
&Khetsuriani, 2018.)

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Storytelling
As an innovative and interactive approach to language
skills acquisition, storytelling is seen as a very responsive
variation of the traditional methods because it brings more
meaningful and essential learners’ engagement into the
language skills acquisition process. The employment of
digital storytelling as a pedagogical tool enables teachers to
elucidate certain complex topics in a simpler manner and
create real life or problem-solving situations where learners
get actively involved (Gils, 2005).

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Storytelling
The following are some of the existing storytelling tools
listed and described by Knapen (2018).
1. Steller
https://steller.co
This is a free storytelling application developed by Mombo
Labs, which lets you create photo and video stories with an emphasis
on design. the next web. Steller focuses on telling a story through
pictures and text. The simple, yet structured layout options allow even a
beginner to produce a professional standard of work.

Ended Tools
Storytelling
2. Adobe Spark Page
https://spark.adobe.com
Adobe Spark Page is a free online web page builder.
No coding or design skills needed. Create your own beautiful
web story using videos, pictures and text. The templates and
layout options available are very modern, and are designed to
present your work in an elegant and engaging way, focusing
on visual content.

Ended Tools
Storytelling
3. WeVideo
https://www.wevideo.com
This has the goal of bringing its educational creative
toolbox to a broader global audience of students and
educators. We Video wants to make video editing available
for everyone. They make it possible for friends, families,
teachers, students and businesses small and large to create
incredible videos that motivate and inspire.

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Storytelling
4. Popplet
http://popplet.com
Popplet, an iPad and web app, is a tool to capture and
organize your ideas. Students can for example use Popplet
for learning. Used as a mind-map, it helps students think and
learn visually. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and
images to structure their stories.

Ended Tools
Storytelling
5. Storybird
https://storybird.com
Storybird not only gives you the simple tools to create
books in minutes, the application lets you discover an endless
library of free books, picture books and poetry as well.
Storybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. The site
mentions that they are a story telling community, rather than
an application.

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Storytelling
6. Bookcreator
https://bookcreator.com
Book Creator is an open-ended book creation app that
unleashes creativity. Create your teaching resources, or have
your students take the reins. Combine text, images, audio and
video to create interactive stories, digital portfolios, research
journals, poetry books, science reports, and instruction
manuals.

Create a sample product of digital storytelling. The
mode depends on you, however, it must include
the use of technology.
Criteria:
Technology used/mode- 20 points
Content- 15 points
Creativity- 15 points
Total: 50 points

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C. Enhancing Language Skills through E-mail Activities
Email activities are very good activities to develop
language skills. Through some e-mail activities that can be
facilitated by a teacher, the students are given the opportunity
to practice and demonstrate their reading and writing skills. It
may also enhance further their research and ICT skills.
Barron et al. (2002) were able to present the following email
activities that can be fully maximized to develop the various
language skills of students:

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1. Pen-Pal Activities
This is the most common form of e-mail projects
called electronic pen pals or e-pals. Students can practice
their written communication skills and can become aware of
other cultures and practice foreign language skills.

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2. Belouga
https://bclouga.org
Founded in 2016, Belouga was started with the
mission1o encourage intercultural communication to create a
better tomorrow. Belouga is a global ecosystem connecting
classes throughout the world where students and teachers can
connect, collaborate and learn from one another by
identifying similarities and embracing differences through
everyday communication that is fun and educational.

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