1. AACE - Global Learn 2010 17-20 May – Penang - Malaysia Innovative solutions for tutoring blended Moodle for language teaching Presenter: Juan Manuel Vaca Authors: Juan Manuel Vaca, Santiago Domínguez-Noriega, J.Enrique Agudo, Gemma Delicado

2. - My research group: GEXCALL - INTRODUCTION - OBJECTIVES - LOOKING FOR A INNOVATIVE APPROACH - MOODLE AND ITS TOOLS - ORGANIZATIONAL MOODLE - SUPPORTING MOODLE - LANGUAGE TUTORING MOODLE - EVALUATING MOODLE - COLLABORATIVE LANGUAGE MOODLE - FINAL REMARKS INDEX

3. My Research Group: GexCALL GexCALL Research Group is based on the unification of various scientific disciplines, forming an interdisciplinary core for study and research on the integration of information technologies into the teaching of modern languages through the design of hypermedia systems, e-learning platforms, gaming and virtual environments.

4. - Hypermedia systems, Internet, the great variety of on-line contents and the interaction among Web users have originated the use of on-line language learning systems. - In order to acquire an effective learning, a certain sense of order and organization must be followed, choosing as well the best tailored resources and contents. - There are on-line learning sites and a great variety of tools to be used for language teaching. However, help, evaluation, interaction and constructivism are also essential premises to acquire a language properly. INTRODUCTION

5. - Show and generate a set of tools to be integrated in a standalone platform. Tools capable of practicing all the language skills, not only the typical reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar. -Achieve a complete and effective language learning. OBJECTIVES

6. - CMS for on-line learning. - Moodle is a CMS with numerous possibilities. - Moodle offers standard tools, but it is essential to have aditional tools available. - We now proceed to present a classification of Moodle tools. We believe that these tools will be used for the learning of languages in a social, effective and complete way. LOOKING FOR A INNOVATIVE APPROACH

7. - For on-line language teaching, applications capable of operating as virtual language tutors. - The implementation of tools to ease oral communication, the inclusion of multimedia content, the recording and the reproduction of sounds, the revision of texts and the distribution of contents are needed. - Social interaction of the instructor with his/her students and constructivism are important. For this it is adequate to use Moodle. MOODLE AND ITS TOOLS

8. MOODLE AND ITS TOOLS (II)

9. ORGANIZATIONAL MOODLE THEMES, FORMATS, LABELS, TABS, ETC. BLOCK COURSE MENUTAG ICONS

10. SUPPORTING MOODLE DICTIONARY SPELLING CORRECTOR

11. LANGUAGE TUTORING MOODLE VIDEOUP ADVENTURE, DELIVERY PRESENTATION, SLIDESHOWJCLIC, HOTPOTATOES FLAHSCARDSGAMES

12. EVALUATING MOODLE NANOGONG WEBQUEST

13. COLLABORATIVE LANGUAGE MOODLE COVCELL TOOLS WIMBA MODULE SKYPE MODULESLOODLE CHAT, FORUM, WIKI, BLOG, ETC.

14. - It’s important identify and know how the Moodle tools can be used in order to achieve effective learning. - Continuing to develop tools is a necessity, tools that make Moodle an innovative offer in foreign language learning. - We condiser the Moodle platform as a virtual tutor behaving as organizer, tutor, teacher, allowing collaborative learning, offering help and assessing language learning. FINAL REMARKS

15. Juan Manuel Vaca juvasa@unex.es http://gexcall.unex.es Thank you very much for your attention.