Classics and ICT Helen Lowe and Ana Martin

Classics and ICT There is a limitless and ever-expanding bank of both general teaching aids and subject specific resources available for PC, Mac and iPad: – Classroom management, recording student data and achievement, etc – Workflow and file management – Images, audio, video, movie creation and editing – Web based programs: lessons, flashcards, quizzes – Online content curation – Software – Apps for iPad and iPhone (and some Android) – Online courses

The role of ICT Receptive skills LISTENING READING Productive skills SPEAKING WRITING

Our aims to reflect on the importance of all four skills for teaching and learning to give ICT examples for developing each skill to share experiences to share good – and bad – practice

Listening – Latin In class CLC program and website ARLT website audio section Other sources: podcasts in iTunesU, Nuntii Latini Uses: – comprehension questions – V an F? – fill-in the blanks – physical response, etc. At home VLE: videos/sound recording by students and teacher (including songs) Uses: – Oscar – individual revision and practice – singing, etc. Acquiring the language naturally Acquiring the language naturally

Listening – Class Civ Flip your classroom Teacher creates video tutorials or podcasts that students must listen to before the lesson More blended teaching: MOOC, Open University, YouTube, podcasts Audiobooks Multimedia classroom Linking music/sound effects to the text: – Musicalising text – OST or ‘guess what character listens to this’ Responding to a text, responding to multimedia Catering for all learning needs

Speaking – Latin The role of multimedia Enables monitoring and self-assessment Comprehensible output Ideas: – Film-making, podcasts, tutorials, poetic readings – ‘video, video’ The tools Hardware: flipcams, microphones, mobile phones Software: audacity, movie maker, garage band, etc Monitoring and self- assessment

Speaking – Class Civ The aims Catering to all learning needs Manipulating, creating, negotiating, emulating, inspiring Personal response Some ideas Students prepare video tutorials or podcasts for VLE On trips: documentaries, news features Soap operas, PuppetPals vel sim. Quotation games Banks of images to trigger discussion/top trumps Games on screen: races, uncover the picture, ‘who wants to be a millionaire’, Students as ‘prosumers’

Reading There are countless ICT resources for subject-specific reading matter A good Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) / Intranet / school network will have – a calendar or appointments facility to set assignments with specific texts, sources or areas on which to focus – pages for texts, documents and other materials, internal and external links Provide access to targeted reading via links to: – internal pages or files – online websites or files

Reading Create your own reading materials and learning resources Use a program or app to provide the required information, for example: – Cram for flashcards and games – Memrise or Cram for vocabulary and grammar input – SlideShark, Prezi or Nearpod for presentations

Writing Use a program or app to: check knowledge and understanding collate results and produce progress reports gather student feedback How? Tests and quizzes: multiple choice and open- ended questions, e.g. Nearpod, Socrative, Vocab Express Questionnaires, e.g. Survey Monkey, Google forms

Writing Use online storage and collaboration for written tasks – develops research skills and independent learning: undertake group projects, e.g. Evernote “take in” assignments, e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, SkyDrive create online conversations through a blog or forum on a VLE or online site, e.g. WordPress, Google Blogger live “discussions” with designated Twitter or Facebook groups

Classics, ICT and Europe CIRCE project – a Classics and ICT Resource Course for Europe for resources, contacts etc (but now superseded by ERASMUS+): ERASMUS+ – the new EU funding programme for eduation, training, youth and sport eTwinning – the community for schools in Europe

Options ERASMUS+ – the new EU funding programme for education, training, youth and sport eTwinning – the community for schools in Europe – Connect, collaborate (forums etc)and get free online CPD

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Keep in touch! Do you have any apps that: you particularly like work particularly well for teaching / learning are great in the classroom make it easy to share work allow you to interact with a classroom of students equipped with iPads/tablet PC etc…?! Let us know!

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