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[tab:Videos]

SpeakApps Project Overview

[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amif-_UhI4I,240,152[/SWF]

Català | Castellano | Nederlands

SpeakApps Tools

Check in the videos below to know how SpeakApps tools work and what are they useful for. Would you like to try them out? Log in to the SpeakApps Moodle platform by creating a free account.

  • Langblog is an audio/video blog that facilitates oral production by allowing easy recording, sharing and comments in one space.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhL8U3NpmQ,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_sq2ti83h,240,152[/SWF]
  • Tandem is a content management system for synchronous pair tasks. It also provides students with motivating situations, giving them a real purpose to practice their oral skills.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYcUb2vOLw,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_an7gbugy,240,152[/SWF]
  • Videochat is a videoconferencing tool designed for the specific needs of pair/small-group work in second language learning. This tools allows students to easily record the sessions and archive them in their virtual classroom making them available to the teacher and the rest of the class.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkGNSOkfsSI,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_cq4frbss,240,152[/SWF]

SpeakApps Open Educational Resources (OER)

Looking for activities to carry out in your classrooms? Check what our Open Educational Resources can offer you in the short video below: [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDt79s8m9s,240,152[/SWF]

Català

SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages

Here you will find the videos related to the SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages 2012 (26th September): Event overview [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odw7NOmXeaU,240,152[/SWF] David Singleton’s lecture [iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3AN7RPMIBDA?list=PLqnNDJ4_rrAPCI_dUk5nhJA5ATYC-ESC0" height="152" width="240"] Teachers Voices

Willing to know how other people teach? Teachers Voices gathers the testimony of the foreign language community: their concerns, views and resources.

Anna Serra, professora de català (nivell C) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dltEIUDIXms,240,152[/SWF]
Dolors Siles, consultora de català de la UOC, sobre Langblog [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfIZn-K8Ug,240,152[/SWF]
Jackie Robbins, English teacher [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNbE3OgbfQ,240,152[/SWF]
Birgit Lijmbach, docent, Nederlands [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYTfQHqT1c,240,152[/SWF]
Colm Ó Ciardubháin, lecturer in modern Irish (levels B1-B2) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEmzcMvwYw,240,152[/SWF]
Barbara Gwóźdź, Polish teaching student (level A1) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqHZj_xSHLo,240,152[/SWF]

[tab:Documents]

SpeakApps Documentation

What is SpeakApps?

SpeakApps 2 Reports

WP1

WP2

WP3

WP4

WP5

SpeakApps 1 Reports

WP1, Annual periodic progress report

WP2, Deliverable 3, Comparative study of current practices

WP2, Deliverable 4, Users’ requirements: Profiles and Scenarios

WP4, Execution of the pilot programme

WP5, Exploitation Plan

WP6, Deliverable 14, Dissemination Strategy

Documents for users

  • Teachers Voices outline (PPT). Languages: [EN] – [CA] – [IR] – [NL] – [PL] – [SV]

[tab:Events]

When

What & Where

Who

31 October 2014 Article about SpeakApps in Levende Talen Magazine (Jaargang 102 (2014), 7). Magazine for language teachers in the Netherlands.

RUG

10 October 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of teachers of Dutch as a second language in the Netherlands and Belgium)

RUG

26-27 September 2014 NAUCZANIE JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO JAKO OBCEGO.TRADYCJE I INNOWACJE (Lublin, Poland)

International conference of Association of Teachers of Polish as a Foreign language

Presentation:

W poszukiwaniu wspólnego mianownika, czyli co łączy studentów języków rzadziej nauczanych? Na przykładzie wyników badań ankietowych przeprowadzonych w grupie uczących się języków: polskiego, holenderskiego, irlandzkiego i katalońskiego jako obcych

http://www.bristol.us.edu.pl/

JU

19-20 September 2014 Conference INNOVATION IN FREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING (Krakow, Poland)

Half-day workshop (SpeakApps event)

(for details see the document 19-20.09.2014 Krakow)

http://www.polishstudies.uj.edu.pl/konferencje

JU

20-23 August 2014 Eurocall – University of Groningen

Workshop 3: SpeakApps – Practicing Oral Skills Online: Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Adriana Prizel-Kania; Sake Jager; Jackie Robbins; Mairead Nic Giollamhichil

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

21 August 2014 Course design (Reflective practice)

Differentiated forms of feedback for writing and speaking skills in an output-oriented approach

Ronald Ohlsen; Jeroen van Engen (University of Groningen)

RUG

21 August 2014 Open Education (Reflective practice)

Creating Tasks in a Less-Commonly Taught Language for an Open Educational Resource: Why the CEFR is important for Irish

Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl (Dublin City University)

DCU

22 August 2014 European projects

SpeakApps 2: Speaking practice in a foreign language through ICT tools

Christine Appel; Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Sake Jager; Adriana Prizel-Kania

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

22 August 2014 Course design (Research)

Authentic oral language production and interaction in CALL: A conceptual framework for the use of learning analytics within the SpeakApps project

Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardúbháin; Gearóid Ó Cleircín; Christine Appel

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

17th of July 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps tools and project at the 22@ Association Summer Innovation Meetings in Barcelona.

UOC

03rd -05th July of 2014 Paper delivered at the International Conference on Information Communication Technology in Education.

DCU

17 June 2014 – 30 June 2014 Online SpeakApps Training Course for German language teachers of the Ruhr University Bochum, the RWTH Aachen and the University of Marburg, organized in collaboration with the Ruhr University Bochum

RUG

25-27 June 2014 (Paris, France) 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW HORIZONS IN EDUCATION – INTE 2014

Presentation:

Langbog, Tandem and Videochat – holistic solution for teaching speaking skills in a foreign language in a distance mode

https://www.int-e.net/index.php?id=home

JU

26th May – 15th June of 2014 SpeakApps Online Teacher Training Course in Spanish organised and run by the UOC.

UOC

7-9th of May 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at TISLID 14 at the University of Salamanca in Ávila (Spain).

UOC

5-8th May of 2014 UOC attended the 2014 Learning Impact Awards conference held in May in New Orleans (USA), where SpeakApps was awarded a silver medal.

UOC

10 April 2014 Poster presentation at the Study Day organized by the Institute for Educational Support and Innovation (ESI) at the University of Groningen

RUG

1st of April 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the IV Simposi Internacional sobre l’Ensenyament de Català in Vic (Spain).

UOC

24th March – 11th April of 2014 SpeakApps Free Online Training Course organized and run by all four project partners.

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

24 March 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the Language Centre of the University of Groningen

RUG

20-21 March 2014 (Warsaw, Poland) CALL-PL CONFRENCE Building Bridges Between School and Academia.

SpeakApps workshop:

New tools – new possibilities! Designing tasks for practicing oral skills through the
SpeakApps Open Educational Resources.

JU

27 February – 1 March 2014 Two SpeakApps presentations at the 28. AKS-Arbeitstagung 2014 in Braunschweig. The AKS is the Association of language centres, language teaching institutes and institutes of foreign languages (AKS) is the only association in Germany which comprehensively represents the field of foreign language teaching in Higher Education.

RUG

22nd of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the annual meeting of APAC, the Catalan Association of English Teachers, in Barcelona.

UOC

12-14th of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at Telecollaboration in University Foreign Language Education at the University of León (Spain).

UOC

24 January 2014 SpeakApps demonstration at the NUT-docentendag: Blended Learning. The NUT is the association of Dutch university language centres in the Netherlands and Belgium

RUG

15 November 2013 SpeakApps presentation at a symposium organised by the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of Dutch as a second language)

RUG

26-27th of November 2012 SpeakApps presentation IX International Seminar Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach, UNESCO Chair in e-Learning of the UOC, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

26th of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration Study Day of the Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

23rd of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration. SIG ICT and NT2, BVNT2 (International Association of Dutch as a Second Language), Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

12th of November 2012 Lifelong Learning Programme Infoday 2013, Session 3.2 Key activity 2 Languages and Key activity 3 ICT, organized by EACEA, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

24th of October 2012 Presentation: New technologies – new pedagogies? Examples from Finnish higher education. Arbeidsseminar om IT-undervisning i Nordens språk. Lund (Sweden)

JYU

1st of October to 5th of November 2012 Online teacher training for Dutch as a foreign language and second language. Faculty of Arts, Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

26th of September 2012 SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages. Lecture with Prof. David Singleton (Trinity College Dublin), available here; and local workshops to try out the SpeakApps tools in partner cities.

UOC RUG JU JYU DCU

24th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation ICT and Social Media in Language Education, 3rd Warsaw Language Conference (Poland) within the European Day of Languages

JU

13-15th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Nauczanie języka polskiego i kultury polskiej w Polsce i na świecie. sukcesy, problemy, wyzwania (International conference for teachers of Polish language, literature and culture), Gniezno (Poland)

JU

7th of September 2012 Lecture & workshop: Näkökulmia oppimisympäristöihin kielen opetuksessa ja oppimisessa (Perspectives on learning environments in language teaching and learning). Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

27-31th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Andere werelden – achttiende colloquium neerlandicum (International Society of Dutch Studies), Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

22-25th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL 2012, Gothenburg (Sweden)

UOC

2-4th of July 2012 SpeakApps presentation EduLearn 2012, 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC RUG

27th-28th of June 2012 Teacher training e-Learning Center, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland)

JU UOC

21st of June to 5th of July 2012 Teacher workshop Faculty of Arts and Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

8-9th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation BVNT2. Association of teachers of Dutch as a Second Language, Bovendonk (Netherlands)

RUG

7th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation Studiedag ‘ICT in de humaniora’, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

6th of June 2012 Presentation Agency and languaging in digital environments: exploring design-based pedagogies for language learning. Insights into applied linguistics: languaging, agency, and ecologies, Jyväskylä (Finland)

DCU JYU

29-30th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL CMC & Teacher Education SIGs Annual Workshop, Bologna (Italy)

UOC JYU RUG

15-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation NUT. Association of University Language Centres in Flanders and the Netherlands, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

14-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps’ poster presentation Tertium conference Język trzeciego tysiąclecia VII; Krakow (Poland)

JU

9-10th of March 2012 Speakapps presentation to representatives from academic language centers,Warszawa (Poland)

JU

23-25th of February 2012 Lecture: SpeakApps: Resources and Applications for Developing Oral Skills Online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) ELT – Convention, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

24-26th of November 2011 SpeakApps presentationIX Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres, Salou (Spain)

UOC

24-25th of November 2011 SpeakApps stand Media & Learning Conference, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

4-5th of November 2011 SpeakApps project team meeting DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

2-21stof October 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online ICT for Language Learning, Florence (Italy)

UOC

October 2011 SpeakApps project presentation to academics of several Krakow universities JU Centre for Distance Education, Krakow (Poland)

JU

15th of September 2011 Seminar for Irish tutors and lecturers from third level institutions DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

31st of August to 3rd of September 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online EuroCALL 2011, Nottingham (England)

UOC

19-21st of May 2011 SpeakApps project presentation CALICO Conference, Victoria (Canada)

RUG

March 2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Centre (Linguapolis), University of Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

24-26th of February 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) AnnualConference, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Center Days, Tampere (Finland)

JYU

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Campus seminar, Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

[tab:END]WP3_REPORT_Final[tab:Videos]

SpeakApps Project Overview

[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amif-_UhI4I,240,152[/SWF]

Català | Castellano | Nederlands

SpeakApps Tools

Check in the videos below to know how SpeakApps tools work and what are they useful for. Would you like to try them out? Log in to the SpeakApps Moodle platform by creating a free account.

  • Langblog is an audio/video blog that facilitates oral production by allowing easy recording, sharing and comments in one space.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhL8U3NpmQ,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_sq2ti83h,240,152[/SWF]
  • Tandem is a content management system for synchronous pair tasks. It also provides students with motivating situations, giving them a real purpose to practice their oral skills.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYcUb2vOLw,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_an7gbugy,240,152[/SWF]
  • Videochat is a videoconferencing tool designed for the specific needs of pair/small-group work in second language learning. This tools allows students to easily record the sessions and archive them in their virtual classroom making them available to the teacher and the rest of the class.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkGNSOkfsSI,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_cq4frbss,240,152[/SWF]

SpeakApps Open Educational Resources (OER)

Looking for activities to carry out in your classrooms? Check what our Open Educational Resources can offer you in the short video below: [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDt79s8m9s,240,152[/SWF]

Català

SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages

Here you will find the videos related to the SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages 2012 (26th September): Event overview [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odw7NOmXeaU,240,152[/SWF] David Singleton’s lecture [iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3AN7RPMIBDA?list=PLqnNDJ4_rrAPCI_dUk5nhJA5ATYC-ESC0" height="152" width="240"] Teachers Voices

Willing to know how other people teach? Teachers Voices gathers the testimony of the foreign language community: their concerns, views and resources.

Anna Serra, professora de català (nivell C) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dltEIUDIXms,240,152[/SWF]
Dolors Siles, consultora de català de la UOC, sobre Langblog [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfIZn-K8Ug,240,152[/SWF]
Jackie Robbins, English teacher [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNbE3OgbfQ,240,152[/SWF]
Birgit Lijmbach, docent, Nederlands [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYTfQHqT1c,240,152[/SWF]
Colm Ó Ciardubháin, lecturer in modern Irish (levels B1-B2) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEmzcMvwYw,240,152[/SWF]
Barbara Gwóźdź, Polish teaching student (level A1) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqHZj_xSHLo,240,152[/SWF]

[tab:Documents]

SpeakApps Documentation

What is SpeakApps?

SpeakApps 2 Reports

WP1

WP2

WP3

WP4

WP5

SpeakApps 1 Reports

WP1, Annual periodic progress report

WP2, Deliverable 3, Comparative study of current practices

WP2, Deliverable 4, Users’ requirements: Profiles and Scenarios

WP4, Execution of the pilot programme

WP5, Exploitation Plan

WP6, Deliverable 14, Dissemination Strategy

Documents for users

  • Teachers Voices outline (PPT). Languages: [EN] – [CA] – [IR] – [NL] – [PL] – [SV]

[tab:Events]

When

What & Where

Who

31 October 2014 Article about SpeakApps in Levende Talen Magazine (Jaargang 102 (2014), 7). Magazine for language teachers in the Netherlands.

RUG

10 October 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of teachers of Dutch as a second language in the Netherlands and Belgium)

RUG

26-27 September 2014 NAUCZANIE JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO JAKO OBCEGO.TRADYCJE I INNOWACJE (Lublin, Poland)

International conference of Association of Teachers of Polish as a Foreign language

Presentation:

W poszukiwaniu wspólnego mianownika, czyli co łączy studentów języków rzadziej nauczanych? Na przykładzie wyników badań ankietowych przeprowadzonych w grupie uczących się języków: polskiego, holenderskiego, irlandzkiego i katalońskiego jako obcych

http://www.bristol.us.edu.pl/

JU

19-20 September 2014 Conference INNOVATION IN FREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING (Krakow, Poland)

Half-day workshop (SpeakApps event)

(for details see the document 19-20.09.2014 Krakow)

http://www.polishstudies.uj.edu.pl/konferencje

JU

20-23 August 2014 Eurocall – University of Groningen

Workshop 3: SpeakApps – Practicing Oral Skills Online: Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Adriana Prizel-Kania; Sake Jager; Jackie Robbins; Mairead Nic Giollamhichil

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

21 August 2014 Course design (Reflective practice)

Differentiated forms of feedback for writing and speaking skills in an output-oriented approach

Ronald Ohlsen; Jeroen van Engen (University of Groningen)

RUG

21 August 2014 Open Education (Reflective practice)

Creating Tasks in a Less-Commonly Taught Language for an Open Educational Resource: Why the CEFR is important for Irish

Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl (Dublin City University)

DCU

22 August 2014 European projects

SpeakApps 2: Speaking practice in a foreign language through ICT tools

Christine Appel; Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Sake Jager; Adriana Prizel-Kania

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

22 August 2014 Course design (Research)

Authentic oral language production and interaction in CALL: A conceptual framework for the use of learning analytics within the SpeakApps project

Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardúbháin; Gearóid Ó Cleircín; Christine Appel

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

17th of July 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps tools and project at the 22@ Association Summer Innovation Meetings in Barcelona.

UOC

03rd -05th July of 2014 Paper delivered at the International Conference on Information Communication Technology in Education.

DCU

17 June 2014 – 30 June 2014 Online SpeakApps Training Course for German language teachers of the Ruhr University Bochum, the RWTH Aachen and the University of Marburg, organized in collaboration with the Ruhr University Bochum

RUG

25-27 June 2014 (Paris, France) 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW HORIZONS IN EDUCATION – INTE 2014

Presentation:

Langbog, Tandem and Videochat – holistic solution for teaching speaking skills in a foreign language in a distance mode

https://www.int-e.net/index.php?id=home

JU

26th May – 15th June of 2014 SpeakApps Online Teacher Training Course in Spanish organised and run by the UOC.

UOC

7-9th of May 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at TISLID 14 at the University of Salamanca in Ávila (Spain).

UOC

5-8th May of 2014 UOC attended the 2014 Learning Impact Awards conference held in May in New Orleans (USA), where SpeakApps was awarded a silver medal.

UOC

10 April 2014 Poster presentation at the Study Day organized by the Institute for Educational Support and Innovation (ESI) at the University of Groningen

RUG

1st of April 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the IV Simposi Internacional sobre l’Ensenyament de Català in Vic (Spain).

UOC

24th March – 11th April of 2014 SpeakApps Free Online Training Course organized and run by all four project partners.

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

24 March 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the Language Centre of the University of Groningen

RUG

20-21 March 2014 (Warsaw, Poland) CALL-PL CONFRENCE Building Bridges Between School and Academia.

SpeakApps workshop:

New tools – new possibilities! Designing tasks for practicing oral skills through the
SpeakApps Open Educational Resources.

JU

27 February – 1 March 2014 Two SpeakApps presentations at the 28. AKS-Arbeitstagung 2014 in Braunschweig. The AKS is the Association of language centres, language teaching institutes and institutes of foreign languages (AKS) is the only association in Germany which comprehensively represents the field of foreign language teaching in Higher Education.

RUG

22nd of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the annual meeting of APAC, the Catalan Association of English Teachers, in Barcelona.

UOC

12-14th of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at Telecollaboration in University Foreign Language Education at the University of León (Spain).

UOC

24 January 2014 SpeakApps demonstration at the NUT-docentendag: Blended Learning. The NUT is the association of Dutch university language centres in the Netherlands and Belgium

RUG

15 November 2013 SpeakApps presentation at a symposium organised by the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of Dutch as a second language)

RUG

26-27th of November 2012 SpeakApps presentation IX International Seminar Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach, UNESCO Chair in e-Learning of the UOC, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

26th of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration Study Day of the Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

23rd of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration. SIG ICT and NT2, BVNT2 (International Association of Dutch as a Second Language), Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

12th of November 2012 Lifelong Learning Programme Infoday 2013, Session 3.2 Key activity 2 Languages and Key activity 3 ICT, organized by EACEA, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

24th of October 2012 Presentation: New technologies – new pedagogies? Examples from Finnish higher education. Arbeidsseminar om IT-undervisning i Nordens språk. Lund (Sweden)

JYU

1st of October to 5th of November 2012 Online teacher training for Dutch as a foreign language and second language. Faculty of Arts, Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

26th of September 2012 SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages. Lecture with Prof. David Singleton (Trinity College Dublin), available here; and local workshops to try out the SpeakApps tools in partner cities.

UOC RUG JU JYU DCU

24th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation ICT and Social Media in Language Education, 3rd Warsaw Language Conference (Poland) within the European Day of Languages

JU

13-15th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Nauczanie języka polskiego i kultury polskiej w Polsce i na świecie. sukcesy, problemy, wyzwania (International conference for teachers of Polish language, literature and culture), Gniezno (Poland)

JU

7th of September 2012 Lecture & workshop: Näkökulmia oppimisympäristöihin kielen opetuksessa ja oppimisessa (Perspectives on learning environments in language teaching and learning). Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

27-31th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Andere werelden – achttiende colloquium neerlandicum (International Society of Dutch Studies), Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

22-25th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL 2012, Gothenburg (Sweden)

UOC

2-4th of July 2012 SpeakApps presentation EduLearn 2012, 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC RUG

27th-28th of June 2012 Teacher training e-Learning Center, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland)

JU UOC

21st of June to 5th of July 2012 Teacher workshop Faculty of Arts and Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

8-9th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation BVNT2. Association of teachers of Dutch as a Second Language, Bovendonk (Netherlands)

RUG

7th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation Studiedag ‘ICT in de humaniora’, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

6th of June 2012 Presentation Agency and languaging in digital environments: exploring design-based pedagogies for language learning. Insights into applied linguistics: languaging, agency, and ecologies, Jyväskylä (Finland)

DCU JYU

29-30th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL CMC & Teacher Education SIGs Annual Workshop, Bologna (Italy)

UOC JYU RUG

15-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation NUT. Association of University Language Centres in Flanders and the Netherlands, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

14-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps’ poster presentation Tertium conference Język trzeciego tysiąclecia VII; Krakow (Poland)

JU

9-10th of March 2012 Speakapps presentation to representatives from academic language centers,Warszawa (Poland)

JU

23-25th of February 2012 Lecture: SpeakApps: Resources and Applications for Developing Oral Skills Online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) ELT – Convention, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

24-26th of November 2011 SpeakApps presentationIX Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres, Salou (Spain)

UOC

24-25th of November 2011 SpeakApps stand Media & Learning Conference, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

4-5th of November 2011 SpeakApps project team meeting DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

2-21stof October 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online ICT for Language Learning, Florence (Italy)

UOC

October 2011 SpeakApps project presentation to academics of several Krakow universities JU Centre for Distance Education, Krakow (Poland)

JU

15th of September 2011 Seminar for Irish tutors and lecturers from third level institutions DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

31st of August to 3rd of September 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online EuroCALL 2011, Nottingham (England)

UOC

19-21st of May 2011 SpeakApps project presentation CALICO Conference, Victoria (Canada)

RUG

March 2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Centre (Linguapolis), University of Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

24-26th of February 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) AnnualConference, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Center Days, Tampere (Finland)

JYU

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Campus seminar, Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

[tab:END]WP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_Final[tab:Videos]

SpeakApps Project Overview

[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amif-_UhI4I,240,152[/SWF]

Català | Castellano | Nederlands

SpeakApps Tools

Check in the videos below to know how SpeakApps tools work and what are they useful for. Would you like to try them out? Log in to the SpeakApps Moodle platform by creating a free account.

  • Langblog is an audio/video blog that facilitates oral production by allowing easy recording, sharing and comments in one space.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhL8U3NpmQ,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_sq2ti83h,240,152[/SWF]
  • Tandem is a content management system for synchronous pair tasks. It also provides students with motivating situations, giving them a real purpose to practice their oral skills.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYcUb2vOLw,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_an7gbugy,240,152[/SWF]
  • Videochat is a videoconferencing tool designed for the specific needs of pair/small-group work in second language learning. This tools allows students to easily record the sessions and archive them in their virtual classroom making them available to the teacher and the rest of the class.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkGNSOkfsSI,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_cq4frbss,240,152[/SWF]

SpeakApps Open Educational Resources (OER)

Looking for activities to carry out in your classrooms? Check what our Open Educational Resources can offer you in the short video below: [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDt79s8m9s,240,152[/SWF]

Català

SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages

Here you will find the videos related to the SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages 2012 (26th September): Event overview [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odw7NOmXeaU,240,152[/SWF] David Singleton’s lecture [iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3AN7RPMIBDA?list=PLqnNDJ4_rrAPCI_dUk5nhJA5ATYC-ESC0" height="152" width="240"] Teachers Voices

Willing to know how other people teach? Teachers Voices gathers the testimony of the foreign language community: their concerns, views and resources.

Anna Serra, professora de català (nivell C) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dltEIUDIXms,240,152[/SWF]
Dolors Siles, consultora de català de la UOC, sobre Langblog [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfIZn-K8Ug,240,152[/SWF]
Jackie Robbins, English teacher [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNbE3OgbfQ,240,152[/SWF]
Birgit Lijmbach, docent, Nederlands [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYTfQHqT1c,240,152[/SWF]
Colm Ó Ciardubháin, lecturer in modern Irish (levels B1-B2) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEmzcMvwYw,240,152[/SWF]
Barbara Gwóźdź, Polish teaching student (level A1) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqHZj_xSHLo,240,152[/SWF]

[tab:Documents]

SpeakApps Documentation

What is SpeakApps?

SpeakApps 2 Reports

WP1

WP2

WP3

WP4

WP5

SpeakApps 1 Reports

WP1, Annual periodic progress report

WP2, Deliverable 3, Comparative study of current practices

WP2, Deliverable 4, Users’ requirements: Profiles and Scenarios

WP4, Execution of the pilot programme

WP5, Exploitation Plan

WP6, Deliverable 14, Dissemination Strategy

Documents for users

  • Teachers Voices outline (PPT). Languages: [EN] – [CA] – [IR] – [NL] – [PL] – [SV]

[tab:Events]

When

What & Where

Who

31 October 2014 Article about SpeakApps in Levende Talen Magazine (Jaargang 102 (2014), 7). Magazine for language teachers in the Netherlands.

RUG

10 October 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of teachers of Dutch as a second language in the Netherlands and Belgium)

RUG

26-27 September 2014 NAUCZANIE JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO JAKO OBCEGO.TRADYCJE I INNOWACJE (Lublin, Poland)

International conference of Association of Teachers of Polish as a Foreign language

Presentation:

W poszukiwaniu wspólnego mianownika, czyli co łączy studentów języków rzadziej nauczanych? Na przykładzie wyników badań ankietowych przeprowadzonych w grupie uczących się języków: polskiego, holenderskiego, irlandzkiego i katalońskiego jako obcych

http://www.bristol.us.edu.pl/

JU

19-20 September 2014 Conference INNOVATION IN FREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING (Krakow, Poland)

Half-day workshop (SpeakApps event)

(for details see the document 19-20.09.2014 Krakow)

http://www.polishstudies.uj.edu.pl/konferencje

JU

20-23 August 2014 Eurocall – University of Groningen

Workshop 3: SpeakApps – Practicing Oral Skills Online: Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Adriana Prizel-Kania; Sake Jager; Jackie Robbins; Mairead Nic Giollamhichil

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

21 August 2014 Course design (Reflective practice)

Differentiated forms of feedback for writing and speaking skills in an output-oriented approach

Ronald Ohlsen; Jeroen van Engen (University of Groningen)

RUG

21 August 2014 Open Education (Reflective practice)

Creating Tasks in a Less-Commonly Taught Language for an Open Educational Resource: Why the CEFR is important for Irish

Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl (Dublin City University)

DCU

22 August 2014 European projects

SpeakApps 2: Speaking practice in a foreign language through ICT tools

Christine Appel; Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Sake Jager; Adriana Prizel-Kania

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

22 August 2014 Course design (Research)

Authentic oral language production and interaction in CALL: A conceptual framework for the use of learning analytics within the SpeakApps project

Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardúbháin; Gearóid Ó Cleircín; Christine Appel

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

17th of July 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps tools and project at the 22@ Association Summer Innovation Meetings in Barcelona.

UOC

03rd -05th July of 2014 Paper delivered at the International Conference on Information Communication Technology in Education.

DCU

17 June 2014 – 30 June 2014 Online SpeakApps Training Course for German language teachers of the Ruhr University Bochum, the RWTH Aachen and the University of Marburg, organized in collaboration with the Ruhr University Bochum

RUG

25-27 June 2014 (Paris, France) 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW HORIZONS IN EDUCATION – INTE 2014

Presentation:

Langbog, Tandem and Videochat – holistic solution for teaching speaking skills in a foreign language in a distance mode

https://www.int-e.net/index.php?id=home

JU

26th May – 15th June of 2014 SpeakApps Online Teacher Training Course in Spanish organised and run by the UOC.

UOC

7-9th of May 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at TISLID 14 at the University of Salamanca in Ávila (Spain).

UOC

5-8th May of 2014 UOC attended the 2014 Learning Impact Awards conference held in May in New Orleans (USA), where SpeakApps was awarded a silver medal.

UOC

10 April 2014 Poster presentation at the Study Day organized by the Institute for Educational Support and Innovation (ESI) at the University of Groningen

RUG

1st of April 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the IV Simposi Internacional sobre l’Ensenyament de Català in Vic (Spain).

UOC

24th March – 11th April of 2014 SpeakApps Free Online Training Course organized and run by all four project partners.

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

24 March 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the Language Centre of the University of Groningen

RUG

20-21 March 2014 (Warsaw, Poland) CALL-PL CONFRENCE Building Bridges Between School and Academia.

SpeakApps workshop:

New tools – new possibilities! Designing tasks for practicing oral skills through the
SpeakApps Open Educational Resources.

JU

27 February – 1 March 2014 Two SpeakApps presentations at the 28. AKS-Arbeitstagung 2014 in Braunschweig. The AKS is the Association of language centres, language teaching institutes and institutes of foreign languages (AKS) is the only association in Germany which comprehensively represents the field of foreign language teaching in Higher Education.

RUG

22nd of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the annual meeting of APAC, the Catalan Association of English Teachers, in Barcelona.

UOC

12-14th of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at Telecollaboration in University Foreign Language Education at the University of León (Spain).

UOC

24 January 2014 SpeakApps demonstration at the NUT-docentendag: Blended Learning. The NUT is the association of Dutch university language centres in the Netherlands and Belgium

RUG

15 November 2013 SpeakApps presentation at a symposium organised by the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of Dutch as a second language)

RUG

26-27th of November 2012 SpeakApps presentation IX International Seminar Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach, UNESCO Chair in e-Learning of the UOC, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

26th of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration Study Day of the Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

23rd of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration. SIG ICT and NT2, BVNT2 (International Association of Dutch as a Second Language), Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

12th of November 2012 Lifelong Learning Programme Infoday 2013, Session 3.2 Key activity 2 Languages and Key activity 3 ICT, organized by EACEA, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

24th of October 2012 Presentation: New technologies – new pedagogies? Examples from Finnish higher education. Arbeidsseminar om IT-undervisning i Nordens språk. Lund (Sweden)

JYU

1st of October to 5th of November 2012 Online teacher training for Dutch as a foreign language and second language. Faculty of Arts, Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

26th of September 2012 SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages. Lecture with Prof. David Singleton (Trinity College Dublin), available here; and local workshops to try out the SpeakApps tools in partner cities.

UOC RUG JU JYU DCU

24th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation ICT and Social Media in Language Education, 3rd Warsaw Language Conference (Poland) within the European Day of Languages

JU

13-15th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Nauczanie języka polskiego i kultury polskiej w Polsce i na świecie. sukcesy, problemy, wyzwania (International conference for teachers of Polish language, literature and culture), Gniezno (Poland)

JU

7th of September 2012 Lecture & workshop: Näkökulmia oppimisympäristöihin kielen opetuksessa ja oppimisessa (Perspectives on learning environments in language teaching and learning). Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

27-31th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Andere werelden – achttiende colloquium neerlandicum (International Society of Dutch Studies), Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

22-25th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL 2012, Gothenburg (Sweden)

UOC

2-4th of July 2012 SpeakApps presentation EduLearn 2012, 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC RUG

27th-28th of June 2012 Teacher training e-Learning Center, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland)

JU UOC

21st of June to 5th of July 2012 Teacher workshop Faculty of Arts and Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

8-9th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation BVNT2. Association of teachers of Dutch as a Second Language, Bovendonk (Netherlands)

RUG

7th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation Studiedag ‘ICT in de humaniora’, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

6th of June 2012 Presentation Agency and languaging in digital environments: exploring design-based pedagogies for language learning. Insights into applied linguistics: languaging, agency, and ecologies, Jyväskylä (Finland)

DCU JYU

29-30th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL CMC & Teacher Education SIGs Annual Workshop, Bologna (Italy)

UOC JYU RUG

15-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation NUT. Association of University Language Centres in Flanders and the Netherlands, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

14-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps’ poster presentation Tertium conference Język trzeciego tysiąclecia VII; Krakow (Poland)

JU

9-10th of March 2012 Speakapps presentation to representatives from academic language centers,Warszawa (Poland)

JU

23-25th of February 2012 Lecture: SpeakApps: Resources and Applications for Developing Oral Skills Online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) ELT – Convention, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

24-26th of November 2011 SpeakApps presentationIX Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres, Salou (Spain)

UOC

24-25th of November 2011 SpeakApps stand Media & Learning Conference, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

4-5th of November 2011 SpeakApps project team meeting DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

2-21stof October 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online ICT for Language Learning, Florence (Italy)

UOC

October 2011 SpeakApps project presentation to academics of several Krakow universities JU Centre for Distance Education, Krakow (Poland)

JU

15th of September 2011 Seminar for Irish tutors and lecturers from third level institutions DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

31st of August to 3rd of September 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online EuroCALL 2011, Nottingham (England)

UOC

19-21st of May 2011 SpeakApps project presentation CALICO Conference, Victoria (Canada)

RUG

March 2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Centre (Linguapolis), University of Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

24-26th of February 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) AnnualConference, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Center Days, Tampere (Finland)

JYU

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Campus seminar, Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

[tab:END]WP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_Final[tab:Videos]

SpeakApps Project Overview

[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amif-_UhI4I,240,152[/SWF]

Català | Castellano | Nederlands

SpeakApps Tools

Check in the videos below to know how SpeakApps tools work and what are they useful for. Would you like to try them out? Log in to the SpeakApps Moodle platform by creating a free account.

  • Langblog is an audio/video blog that facilitates oral production by allowing easy recording, sharing and comments in one space.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhL8U3NpmQ,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_sq2ti83h,240,152[/SWF]
  • Tandem is a content management system for synchronous pair tasks. It also provides students with motivating situations, giving them a real purpose to practice their oral skills.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYcUb2vOLw,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_an7gbugy,240,152[/SWF]
  • Videochat is a videoconferencing tool designed for the specific needs of pair/small-group work in second language learning. This tools allows students to easily record the sessions and archive them in their virtual classroom making them available to the teacher and the rest of the class.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkGNSOkfsSI,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_cq4frbss,240,152[/SWF]

SpeakApps Open Educational Resources (OER)

Looking for activities to carry out in your classrooms? Check what our Open Educational Resources can offer you in the short video below: [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDt79s8m9s,240,152[/SWF]

Català

SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages

Here you will find the videos related to the SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages 2012 (26th September): Event overview [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odw7NOmXeaU,240,152[/SWF] David Singleton’s lecture [iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3AN7RPMIBDA?list=PLqnNDJ4_rrAPCI_dUk5nhJA5ATYC-ESC0" height="152" width="240"] Teachers Voices

Willing to know how other people teach? Teachers Voices gathers the testimony of the foreign language community: their concerns, views and resources.

Anna Serra, professora de català (nivell C) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dltEIUDIXms,240,152[/SWF]
Dolors Siles, consultora de català de la UOC, sobre Langblog [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfIZn-K8Ug,240,152[/SWF]
Jackie Robbins, English teacher [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNbE3OgbfQ,240,152[/SWF]
Birgit Lijmbach, docent, Nederlands [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYTfQHqT1c,240,152[/SWF]
Colm Ó Ciardubháin, lecturer in modern Irish (levels B1-B2) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEmzcMvwYw,240,152[/SWF]
Barbara Gwóźdź, Polish teaching student (level A1) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqHZj_xSHLo,240,152[/SWF]

[tab:Documents]

SpeakApps Documentation

What is SpeakApps?

SpeakApps 2 Reports

WP1

WP2

WP3

WP4

WP5

SpeakApps 1 Reports

WP1, Annual periodic progress report

WP2, Deliverable 3, Comparative study of current practices

WP2, Deliverable 4, Users’ requirements: Profiles and Scenarios

WP4, Execution of the pilot programme

WP5, Exploitation Plan

WP6, Deliverable 14, Dissemination Strategy

Documents for users

  • Teachers Voices outline (PPT). Languages: [EN] – [CA] – [IR] – [NL] – [PL] – [SV]

[tab:Events]

When

What & Where

Who

31 October 2014 Article about SpeakApps in Levende Talen Magazine (Jaargang 102 (2014), 7). Magazine for language teachers in the Netherlands.

RUG

10 October 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of teachers of Dutch as a second language in the Netherlands and Belgium)

RUG

26-27 September 2014 NAUCZANIE JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO JAKO OBCEGO.TRADYCJE I INNOWACJE (Lublin, Poland)

International conference of Association of Teachers of Polish as a Foreign language

Presentation:

W poszukiwaniu wspólnego mianownika, czyli co łączy studentów języków rzadziej nauczanych? Na przykładzie wyników badań ankietowych przeprowadzonych w grupie uczących się języków: polskiego, holenderskiego, irlandzkiego i katalońskiego jako obcych

http://www.bristol.us.edu.pl/

JU

19-20 September 2014 Conference INNOVATION IN FREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING (Krakow, Poland)

Half-day workshop (SpeakApps event)

(for details see the document 19-20.09.2014 Krakow)

http://www.polishstudies.uj.edu.pl/konferencje

JU

20-23 August 2014 Eurocall – University of Groningen

Workshop 3: SpeakApps – Practicing Oral Skills Online: Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Adriana Prizel-Kania; Sake Jager; Jackie Robbins; Mairead Nic Giollamhichil

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

21 August 2014 Course design (Reflective practice)

Differentiated forms of feedback for writing and speaking skills in an output-oriented approach

Ronald Ohlsen; Jeroen van Engen (University of Groningen)

RUG

21 August 2014 Open Education (Reflective practice)

Creating Tasks in a Less-Commonly Taught Language for an Open Educational Resource: Why the CEFR is important for Irish

Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl (Dublin City University)

DCU

22 August 2014 European projects

SpeakApps 2: Speaking practice in a foreign language through ICT tools

Christine Appel; Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Sake Jager; Adriana Prizel-Kania

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

22 August 2014 Course design (Research)

Authentic oral language production and interaction in CALL: A conceptual framework for the use of learning analytics within the SpeakApps project

Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardúbháin; Gearóid Ó Cleircín; Christine Appel

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

17th of July 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps tools and project at the 22@ Association Summer Innovation Meetings in Barcelona.

UOC

03rd -05th July of 2014 Paper delivered at the International Conference on Information Communication Technology in Education.

DCU

17 June 2014 – 30 June 2014 Online SpeakApps Training Course for German language teachers of the Ruhr University Bochum, the RWTH Aachen and the University of Marburg, organized in collaboration with the Ruhr University Bochum

RUG

25-27 June 2014 (Paris, France) 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW HORIZONS IN EDUCATION – INTE 2014

Presentation:

Langbog, Tandem and Videochat – holistic solution for teaching speaking skills in a foreign language in a distance mode

https://www.int-e.net/index.php?id=home

JU

26th May – 15th June of 2014 SpeakApps Online Teacher Training Course in Spanish organised and run by the UOC.

UOC

7-9th of May 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at TISLID 14 at the University of Salamanca in Ávila (Spain).

UOC

5-8th May of 2014 UOC attended the 2014 Learning Impact Awards conference held in May in New Orleans (USA), where SpeakApps was awarded a silver medal.

UOC

10 April 2014 Poster presentation at the Study Day organized by the Institute for Educational Support and Innovation (ESI) at the University of Groningen

RUG

1st of April 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the IV Simposi Internacional sobre l’Ensenyament de Català in Vic (Spain).

UOC

24th March – 11th April of 2014 SpeakApps Free Online Training Course organized and run by all four project partners.

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

24 March 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the Language Centre of the University of Groningen

RUG

20-21 March 2014 (Warsaw, Poland) CALL-PL CONFRENCE Building Bridges Between School and Academia.

SpeakApps workshop:

New tools – new possibilities! Designing tasks for practicing oral skills through the
SpeakApps Open Educational Resources.

JU

27 February – 1 March 2014 Two SpeakApps presentations at the 28. AKS-Arbeitstagung 2014 in Braunschweig. The AKS is the Association of language centres, language teaching institutes and institutes of foreign languages (AKS) is the only association in Germany which comprehensively represents the field of foreign language teaching in Higher Education.

RUG

22nd of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the annual meeting of APAC, the Catalan Association of English Teachers, in Barcelona.

UOC

12-14th of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at Telecollaboration in University Foreign Language Education at the University of León (Spain).

UOC

24 January 2014 SpeakApps demonstration at the NUT-docentendag: Blended Learning. The NUT is the association of Dutch university language centres in the Netherlands and Belgium

RUG

15 November 2013 SpeakApps presentation at a symposium organised by the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of Dutch as a second language)

RUG

26-27th of November 2012 SpeakApps presentation IX International Seminar Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach, UNESCO Chair in e-Learning of the UOC, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

26th of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration Study Day of the Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

23rd of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration. SIG ICT and NT2, BVNT2 (International Association of Dutch as a Second Language), Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

12th of November 2012 Lifelong Learning Programme Infoday 2013, Session 3.2 Key activity 2 Languages and Key activity 3 ICT, organized by EACEA, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

24th of October 2012 Presentation: New technologies – new pedagogies? Examples from Finnish higher education. Arbeidsseminar om IT-undervisning i Nordens språk. Lund (Sweden)

JYU

1st of October to 5th of November 2012 Online teacher training for Dutch as a foreign language and second language. Faculty of Arts, Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

26th of September 2012 SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages. Lecture with Prof. David Singleton (Trinity College Dublin), available here; and local workshops to try out the SpeakApps tools in partner cities.

UOC RUG JU JYU DCU

24th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation ICT and Social Media in Language Education, 3rd Warsaw Language Conference (Poland) within the European Day of Languages

JU

13-15th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Nauczanie języka polskiego i kultury polskiej w Polsce i na świecie. sukcesy, problemy, wyzwania (International conference for teachers of Polish language, literature and culture), Gniezno (Poland)

JU

7th of September 2012 Lecture & workshop: Näkökulmia oppimisympäristöihin kielen opetuksessa ja oppimisessa (Perspectives on learning environments in language teaching and learning). Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

27-31th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Andere werelden – achttiende colloquium neerlandicum (International Society of Dutch Studies), Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

22-25th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL 2012, Gothenburg (Sweden)

UOC

2-4th of July 2012 SpeakApps presentation EduLearn 2012, 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC RUG

27th-28th of June 2012 Teacher training e-Learning Center, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland)

JU UOC

21st of June to 5th of July 2012 Teacher workshop Faculty of Arts and Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

8-9th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation BVNT2. Association of teachers of Dutch as a Second Language, Bovendonk (Netherlands)

RUG

7th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation Studiedag ‘ICT in de humaniora’, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

6th of June 2012 Presentation Agency and languaging in digital environments: exploring design-based pedagogies for language learning. Insights into applied linguistics: languaging, agency, and ecologies, Jyväskylä (Finland)

DCU JYU

29-30th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL CMC & Teacher Education SIGs Annual Workshop, Bologna (Italy)

UOC JYU RUG

15-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation NUT. Association of University Language Centres in Flanders and the Netherlands, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

14-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps’ poster presentation Tertium conference Język trzeciego tysiąclecia VII; Krakow (Poland)

JU

9-10th of March 2012 Speakapps presentation to representatives from academic language centers,Warszawa (Poland)

JU

23-25th of February 2012 Lecture: SpeakApps: Resources and Applications for Developing Oral Skills Online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) ELT – Convention, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

24-26th of November 2011 SpeakApps presentationIX Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres, Salou (Spain)

UOC

24-25th of November 2011 SpeakApps stand Media & Learning Conference, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

4-5th of November 2011 SpeakApps project team meeting DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

2-21stof October 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online ICT for Language Learning, Florence (Italy)

UOC

October 2011 SpeakApps project presentation to academics of several Krakow universities JU Centre for Distance Education, Krakow (Poland)

JU

15th of September 2011 Seminar for Irish tutors and lecturers from third level institutions DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

31st of August to 3rd of September 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online EuroCALL 2011, Nottingham (England)

UOC

19-21st of May 2011 SpeakApps project presentation CALICO Conference, Victoria (Canada)

RUG

March 2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Centre (Linguapolis), University of Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

24-26th of February 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) AnnualConference, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Center Days, Tampere (Finland)

JYU

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Campus seminar, Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

[tab:END]WP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_Final[tab:Videos]

SpeakApps Project Overview

[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amif-_UhI4I,240,152[/SWF]

Català | Castellano | Nederlands

SpeakApps Tools

Check in the videos below to know how SpeakApps tools work and what are they useful for. Would you like to try them out? Log in to the SpeakApps Moodle platform by creating a free account.

  • Langblog is an audio/video blog that facilitates oral production by allowing easy recording, sharing and comments in one space.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhL8U3NpmQ,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_sq2ti83h,240,152[/SWF]
  • Tandem is a content management system for synchronous pair tasks. It also provides students with motivating situations, giving them a real purpose to practice their oral skills.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYcUb2vOLw,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_an7gbugy,240,152[/SWF]
  • Videochat is a videoconferencing tool designed for the specific needs of pair/small-group work in second language learning. This tools allows students to easily record the sessions and archive them in their virtual classroom making them available to the teacher and the rest of the class.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkGNSOkfsSI,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_cq4frbss,240,152[/SWF]

SpeakApps Open Educational Resources (OER)

Looking for activities to carry out in your classrooms? Check what our Open Educational Resources can offer you in the short video below: [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDt79s8m9s,240,152[/SWF]

Català

SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages

Here you will find the videos related to the SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages 2012 (26th September): Event overview [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odw7NOmXeaU,240,152[/SWF] David Singleton’s lecture [iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3AN7RPMIBDA?list=PLqnNDJ4_rrAPCI_dUk5nhJA5ATYC-ESC0" height="152" width="240"] Teachers Voices

Willing to know how other people teach? Teachers Voices gathers the testimony of the foreign language community: their concerns, views and resources.

Anna Serra, professora de català (nivell C) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dltEIUDIXms,240,152[/SWF]
Dolors Siles, consultora de català de la UOC, sobre Langblog [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfIZn-K8Ug,240,152[/SWF]
Jackie Robbins, English teacher [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNbE3OgbfQ,240,152[/SWF]
Birgit Lijmbach, docent, Nederlands [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYTfQHqT1c,240,152[/SWF]
Colm Ó Ciardubháin, lecturer in modern Irish (levels B1-B2) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEmzcMvwYw,240,152[/SWF]
Barbara Gwóźdź, Polish teaching student (level A1) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqHZj_xSHLo,240,152[/SWF]

[tab:Documents]

SpeakApps Documentation

What is SpeakApps?

SpeakApps 2 Reports

WP1

WP2

WP3

WP4

WP5

SpeakApps 1 Reports

WP1, Annual periodic progress report

WP2, Deliverable 3, Comparative study of current practices

WP2, Deliverable 4, Users’ requirements: Profiles and Scenarios

WP4, Execution of the pilot programme

WP5, Exploitation Plan

WP6, Deliverable 14, Dissemination Strategy

Documents for users

  • Teachers Voices outline (PPT). Languages: [EN] – [CA] – [IR] – [NL] – [PL] – [SV]

[tab:Events]

When

What & Where

Who

31 October 2014 Article about SpeakApps in Levende Talen Magazine (Jaargang 102 (2014), 7). Magazine for language teachers in the Netherlands.

RUG

10 October 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of teachers of Dutch as a second language in the Netherlands and Belgium)

RUG

26-27 September 2014 NAUCZANIE JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO JAKO OBCEGO.TRADYCJE I INNOWACJE (Lublin, Poland)

International conference of Association of Teachers of Polish as a Foreign language

Presentation:

W poszukiwaniu wspólnego mianownika, czyli co łączy studentów języków rzadziej nauczanych? Na przykładzie wyników badań ankietowych przeprowadzonych w grupie uczących się języków: polskiego, holenderskiego, irlandzkiego i katalońskiego jako obcych

http://www.bristol.us.edu.pl/

JU

19-20 September 2014 Conference INNOVATION IN FREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING (Krakow, Poland)

Half-day workshop (SpeakApps event)

(for details see the document 19-20.09.2014 Krakow)

http://www.polishstudies.uj.edu.pl/konferencje

JU

20-23 August 2014 Eurocall – University of Groningen

Workshop 3: SpeakApps – Practicing Oral Skills Online: Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Adriana Prizel-Kania; Sake Jager; Jackie Robbins; Mairead Nic Giollamhichil

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

21 August 2014 Course design (Reflective practice)

Differentiated forms of feedback for writing and speaking skills in an output-oriented approach

Ronald Ohlsen; Jeroen van Engen (University of Groningen)

RUG

21 August 2014 Open Education (Reflective practice)

Creating Tasks in a Less-Commonly Taught Language for an Open Educational Resource: Why the CEFR is important for Irish

Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl (Dublin City University)

DCU

22 August 2014 European projects

SpeakApps 2: Speaking practice in a foreign language through ICT tools

Christine Appel; Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Sake Jager; Adriana Prizel-Kania

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

22 August 2014 Course design (Research)

Authentic oral language production and interaction in CALL: A conceptual framework for the use of learning analytics within the SpeakApps project

Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardúbháin; Gearóid Ó Cleircín; Christine Appel

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

17th of July 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps tools and project at the 22@ Association Summer Innovation Meetings in Barcelona.

UOC

03rd -05th July of 2014 Paper delivered at the International Conference on Information Communication Technology in Education.

DCU

17 June 2014 – 30 June 2014 Online SpeakApps Training Course for German language teachers of the Ruhr University Bochum, the RWTH Aachen and the University of Marburg, organized in collaboration with the Ruhr University Bochum

RUG

25-27 June 2014 (Paris, France) 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW HORIZONS IN EDUCATION – INTE 2014

Presentation:

Langbog, Tandem and Videochat – holistic solution for teaching speaking skills in a foreign language in a distance mode

https://www.int-e.net/index.php?id=home

JU

26th May – 15th June of 2014 SpeakApps Online Teacher Training Course in Spanish organised and run by the UOC.

UOC

7-9th of May 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at TISLID 14 at the University of Salamanca in Ávila (Spain).

UOC

5-8th May of 2014 UOC attended the 2014 Learning Impact Awards conference held in May in New Orleans (USA), where SpeakApps was awarded a silver medal.

UOC

10 April 2014 Poster presentation at the Study Day organized by the Institute for Educational Support and Innovation (ESI) at the University of Groningen

RUG

1st of April 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the IV Simposi Internacional sobre l’Ensenyament de Català in Vic (Spain).

UOC

24th March – 11th April of 2014 SpeakApps Free Online Training Course organized and run by all four project partners.

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

24 March 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the Language Centre of the University of Groningen

RUG

20-21 March 2014 (Warsaw, Poland) CALL-PL CONFRENCE Building Bridges Between School and Academia.

SpeakApps workshop:

New tools – new possibilities! Designing tasks for practicing oral skills through the
SpeakApps Open Educational Resources.

JU

27 February – 1 March 2014 Two SpeakApps presentations at the 28. AKS-Arbeitstagung 2014 in Braunschweig. The AKS is the Association of language centres, language teaching institutes and institutes of foreign languages (AKS) is the only association in Germany which comprehensively represents the field of foreign language teaching in Higher Education.

RUG

22nd of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the annual meeting of APAC, the Catalan Association of English Teachers, in Barcelona.

UOC

12-14th of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at Telecollaboration in University Foreign Language Education at the University of León (Spain).

UOC

24 January 2014 SpeakApps demonstration at the NUT-docentendag: Blended Learning. The NUT is the association of Dutch university language centres in the Netherlands and Belgium

RUG

15 November 2013 SpeakApps presentation at a symposium organised by the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of Dutch as a second language)

RUG

26-27th of November 2012 SpeakApps presentation IX International Seminar Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach, UNESCO Chair in e-Learning of the UOC, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

26th of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration Study Day of the Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

23rd of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration. SIG ICT and NT2, BVNT2 (International Association of Dutch as a Second Language), Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

12th of November 2012 Lifelong Learning Programme Infoday 2013, Session 3.2 Key activity 2 Languages and Key activity 3 ICT, organized by EACEA, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

24th of October 2012 Presentation: New technologies – new pedagogies? Examples from Finnish higher education. Arbeidsseminar om IT-undervisning i Nordens språk. Lund (Sweden)

JYU

1st of October to 5th of November 2012 Online teacher training for Dutch as a foreign language and second language. Faculty of Arts, Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

26th of September 2012 SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages. Lecture with Prof. David Singleton (Trinity College Dublin), available here; and local workshops to try out the SpeakApps tools in partner cities.

UOC RUG JU JYU DCU

24th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation ICT and Social Media in Language Education, 3rd Warsaw Language Conference (Poland) within the European Day of Languages

JU

13-15th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Nauczanie języka polskiego i kultury polskiej w Polsce i na świecie. sukcesy, problemy, wyzwania (International conference for teachers of Polish language, literature and culture), Gniezno (Poland)

JU

7th of September 2012 Lecture & workshop: Näkökulmia oppimisympäristöihin kielen opetuksessa ja oppimisessa (Perspectives on learning environments in language teaching and learning). Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

27-31th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Andere werelden – achttiende colloquium neerlandicum (International Society of Dutch Studies), Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

22-25th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL 2012, Gothenburg (Sweden)

UOC

2-4th of July 2012 SpeakApps presentation EduLearn 2012, 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC RUG

27th-28th of June 2012 Teacher training e-Learning Center, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland)

JU UOC

21st of June to 5th of July 2012 Teacher workshop Faculty of Arts and Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

8-9th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation BVNT2. Association of teachers of Dutch as a Second Language, Bovendonk (Netherlands)

RUG

7th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation Studiedag ‘ICT in de humaniora’, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

6th of June 2012 Presentation Agency and languaging in digital environments: exploring design-based pedagogies for language learning. Insights into applied linguistics: languaging, agency, and ecologies, Jyväskylä (Finland)

DCU JYU

29-30th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL CMC & Teacher Education SIGs Annual Workshop, Bologna (Italy)

UOC JYU RUG

15-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation NUT. Association of University Language Centres in Flanders and the Netherlands, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

14-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps’ poster presentation Tertium conference Język trzeciego tysiąclecia VII; Krakow (Poland)

JU

9-10th of March 2012 Speakapps presentation to representatives from academic language centers,Warszawa (Poland)

JU

23-25th of February 2012 Lecture: SpeakApps: Resources and Applications for Developing Oral Skills Online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) ELT – Convention, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

24-26th of November 2011 SpeakApps presentationIX Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres, Salou (Spain)

UOC

24-25th of November 2011 SpeakApps stand Media & Learning Conference, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

4-5th of November 2011 SpeakApps project team meeting DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

2-21stof October 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online ICT for Language Learning, Florence (Italy)

UOC

October 2011 SpeakApps project presentation to academics of several Krakow universities JU Centre for Distance Education, Krakow (Poland)

JU

15th of September 2011 Seminar for Irish tutors and lecturers from third level institutions DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

31st of August to 3rd of September 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online EuroCALL 2011, Nottingham (England)

UOC

19-21st of May 2011 SpeakApps project presentation CALICO Conference, Victoria (Canada)

RUG

March 2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Centre (Linguapolis), University of Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

24-26th of February 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) AnnualConference, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Center Days, Tampere (Finland)

JYU

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Campus seminar, Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

[tab:END]WP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_Final[tab:Videos]

SpeakApps Project Overview

[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amif-_UhI4I,240,152[/SWF]

Català | Castellano | Nederlands

SpeakApps Tools

Check in the videos below to know how SpeakApps tools work and what are they useful for. Would you like to try them out? Log in to the SpeakApps Moodle platform by creating a free account.

  • Langblog is an audio/video blog that facilitates oral production by allowing easy recording, sharing and comments in one space.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhL8U3NpmQ,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_sq2ti83h,240,152[/SWF]
  • Tandem is a content management system for synchronous pair tasks. It also provides students with motivating situations, giving them a real purpose to practice their oral skills.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYcUb2vOLw,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_an7gbugy,240,152[/SWF]
  • Videochat is a videoconferencing tool designed for the specific needs of pair/small-group work in second language learning. This tools allows students to easily record the sessions and archive them in their virtual classroom making them available to the teacher and the rest of the class.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkGNSOkfsSI,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_cq4frbss,240,152[/SWF]

SpeakApps Open Educational Resources (OER)

Looking for activities to carry out in your classrooms? Check what our Open Educational Resources can offer you in the short video below: [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDt79s8m9s,240,152[/SWF]

Català

SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages

Here you will find the videos related to the SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages 2012 (26th September): Event overview [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odw7NOmXeaU,240,152[/SWF] David Singleton’s lecture [iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3AN7RPMIBDA?list=PLqnNDJ4_rrAPCI_dUk5nhJA5ATYC-ESC0" height="152" width="240"] Teachers Voices

Willing to know how other people teach? Teachers Voices gathers the testimony of the foreign language community: their concerns, views and resources.

Anna Serra, professora de català (nivell C) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dltEIUDIXms,240,152[/SWF]
Dolors Siles, consultora de català de la UOC, sobre Langblog [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfIZn-K8Ug,240,152[/SWF]
Jackie Robbins, English teacher [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNbE3OgbfQ,240,152[/SWF]
Birgit Lijmbach, docent, Nederlands [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYTfQHqT1c,240,152[/SWF]
Colm Ó Ciardubháin, lecturer in modern Irish (levels B1-B2) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEmzcMvwYw,240,152[/SWF]
Barbara Gwóźdź, Polish teaching student (level A1) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqHZj_xSHLo,240,152[/SWF]

[tab:Documents]

SpeakApps Documentation

What is SpeakApps?

SpeakApps 2 Reports

WP1

WP2

WP3

WP4

WP5

SpeakApps 1 Reports

WP1, Annual periodic progress report

WP2, Deliverable 3, Comparative study of current practices

WP2, Deliverable 4, Users’ requirements: Profiles and Scenarios

WP4, Execution of the pilot programme

WP5, Exploitation Plan

WP6, Deliverable 14, Dissemination Strategy

Documents for users

  • Teachers Voices outline (PPT). Languages: [EN] – [CA] – [IR] – [NL] – [PL] – [SV]

[tab:Events]

When

What & Where

Who

31 October 2014 Article about SpeakApps in Levende Talen Magazine (Jaargang 102 (2014), 7). Magazine for language teachers in the Netherlands.

RUG

10 October 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of teachers of Dutch as a second language in the Netherlands and Belgium)

RUG

26-27 September 2014 NAUCZANIE JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO JAKO OBCEGO.TRADYCJE I INNOWACJE (Lublin, Poland)

International conference of Association of Teachers of Polish as a Foreign language

Presentation:

W poszukiwaniu wspólnego mianownika, czyli co łączy studentów języków rzadziej nauczanych? Na przykładzie wyników badań ankietowych przeprowadzonych w grupie uczących się języków: polskiego, holenderskiego, irlandzkiego i katalońskiego jako obcych

http://www.bristol.us.edu.pl/

JU

19-20 September 2014 Conference INNOVATION IN FREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING (Krakow, Poland)

Half-day workshop (SpeakApps event)

(for details see the document 19-20.09.2014 Krakow)

http://www.polishstudies.uj.edu.pl/konferencje

JU

20-23 August 2014 Eurocall – University of Groningen

Workshop 3: SpeakApps – Practicing Oral Skills Online: Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Adriana Prizel-Kania; Sake Jager; Jackie Robbins; Mairead Nic Giollamhichil

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

21 August 2014 Course design (Reflective practice)

Differentiated forms of feedback for writing and speaking skills in an output-oriented approach

Ronald Ohlsen; Jeroen van Engen (University of Groningen)

RUG

21 August 2014 Open Education (Reflective practice)

Creating Tasks in a Less-Commonly Taught Language for an Open Educational Resource: Why the CEFR is important for Irish

Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl (Dublin City University)

DCU

22 August 2014 European projects

SpeakApps 2: Speaking practice in a foreign language through ICT tools

Christine Appel; Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Sake Jager; Adriana Prizel-Kania

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

22 August 2014 Course design (Research)

Authentic oral language production and interaction in CALL: A conceptual framework for the use of learning analytics within the SpeakApps project

Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardúbháin; Gearóid Ó Cleircín; Christine Appel

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

17th of July 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps tools and project at the 22@ Association Summer Innovation Meetings in Barcelona.

UOC

03rd -05th July of 2014 Paper delivered at the International Conference on Information Communication Technology in Education.

DCU

17 June 2014 – 30 June 2014 Online SpeakApps Training Course for German language teachers of the Ruhr University Bochum, the RWTH Aachen and the University of Marburg, organized in collaboration with the Ruhr University Bochum

RUG

25-27 June 2014 (Paris, France) 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW HORIZONS IN EDUCATION – INTE 2014

Presentation:

Langbog, Tandem and Videochat – holistic solution for teaching speaking skills in a foreign language in a distance mode

https://www.int-e.net/index.php?id=home

JU

26th May – 15th June of 2014 SpeakApps Online Teacher Training Course in Spanish organised and run by the UOC.

UOC

7-9th of May 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at TISLID 14 at the University of Salamanca in Ávila (Spain).

UOC

5-8th May of 2014 UOC attended the 2014 Learning Impact Awards conference held in May in New Orleans (USA), where SpeakApps was awarded a silver medal.

UOC

10 April 2014 Poster presentation at the Study Day organized by the Institute for Educational Support and Innovation (ESI) at the University of Groningen

RUG

1st of April 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the IV Simposi Internacional sobre l’Ensenyament de Català in Vic (Spain).

UOC

24th March – 11th April of 2014 SpeakApps Free Online Training Course organized and run by all four project partners.

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

24 March 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the Language Centre of the University of Groningen

RUG

20-21 March 2014 (Warsaw, Poland) CALL-PL CONFRENCE Building Bridges Between School and Academia.

SpeakApps workshop:

New tools – new possibilities! Designing tasks for practicing oral skills through the
SpeakApps Open Educational Resources.

JU

27 February – 1 March 2014 Two SpeakApps presentations at the 28. AKS-Arbeitstagung 2014 in Braunschweig. The AKS is the Association of language centres, language teaching institutes and institutes of foreign languages (AKS) is the only association in Germany which comprehensively represents the field of foreign language teaching in Higher Education.

RUG

22nd of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the annual meeting of APAC, the Catalan Association of English Teachers, in Barcelona.

UOC

12-14th of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at Telecollaboration in University Foreign Language Education at the University of León (Spain).

UOC

24 January 2014 SpeakApps demonstration at the NUT-docentendag: Blended Learning. The NUT is the association of Dutch university language centres in the Netherlands and Belgium

RUG

15 November 2013 SpeakApps presentation at a symposium organised by the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of Dutch as a second language)

RUG

26-27th of November 2012 SpeakApps presentation IX International Seminar Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach, UNESCO Chair in e-Learning of the UOC, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

26th of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration Study Day of the Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

23rd of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration. SIG ICT and NT2, BVNT2 (International Association of Dutch as a Second Language), Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

12th of November 2012 Lifelong Learning Programme Infoday 2013, Session 3.2 Key activity 2 Languages and Key activity 3 ICT, organized by EACEA, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

24th of October 2012 Presentation: New technologies – new pedagogies? Examples from Finnish higher education. Arbeidsseminar om IT-undervisning i Nordens språk. Lund (Sweden)

JYU

1st of October to 5th of November 2012 Online teacher training for Dutch as a foreign language and second language. Faculty of Arts, Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

26th of September 2012 SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages. Lecture with Prof. David Singleton (Trinity College Dublin), available here; and local workshops to try out the SpeakApps tools in partner cities.

UOC RUG JU JYU DCU

24th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation ICT and Social Media in Language Education, 3rd Warsaw Language Conference (Poland) within the European Day of Languages

JU

13-15th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Nauczanie języka polskiego i kultury polskiej w Polsce i na świecie. sukcesy, problemy, wyzwania (International conference for teachers of Polish language, literature and culture), Gniezno (Poland)

JU

7th of September 2012 Lecture & workshop: Näkökulmia oppimisympäristöihin kielen opetuksessa ja oppimisessa (Perspectives on learning environments in language teaching and learning). Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

27-31th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Andere werelden – achttiende colloquium neerlandicum (International Society of Dutch Studies), Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

22-25th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL 2012, Gothenburg (Sweden)

UOC

2-4th of July 2012 SpeakApps presentation EduLearn 2012, 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC RUG

27th-28th of June 2012 Teacher training e-Learning Center, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland)

JU UOC

21st of June to 5th of July 2012 Teacher workshop Faculty of Arts and Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

8-9th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation BVNT2. Association of teachers of Dutch as a Second Language, Bovendonk (Netherlands)

RUG

7th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation Studiedag ‘ICT in de humaniora’, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

6th of June 2012 Presentation Agency and languaging in digital environments: exploring design-based pedagogies for language learning. Insights into applied linguistics: languaging, agency, and ecologies, Jyväskylä (Finland)

DCU JYU

29-30th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL CMC & Teacher Education SIGs Annual Workshop, Bologna (Italy)

UOC JYU RUG

15-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation NUT. Association of University Language Centres in Flanders and the Netherlands, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

14-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps’ poster presentation Tertium conference Język trzeciego tysiąclecia VII; Krakow (Poland)

JU

9-10th of March 2012 Speakapps presentation to representatives from academic language centers,Warszawa (Poland)

JU

23-25th of February 2012 Lecture: SpeakApps: Resources and Applications for Developing Oral Skills Online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) ELT – Convention, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

24-26th of November 2011 SpeakApps presentationIX Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres, Salou (Spain)

UOC

24-25th of November 2011 SpeakApps stand Media & Learning Conference, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

4-5th of November 2011 SpeakApps project team meeting DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

2-21stof October 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online ICT for Language Learning, Florence (Italy)

UOC

October 2011 SpeakApps project presentation to academics of several Krakow universities JU Centre for Distance Education, Krakow (Poland)

JU

15th of September 2011 Seminar for Irish tutors and lecturers from third level institutions DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

31st of August to 3rd of September 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online EuroCALL 2011, Nottingham (England)

UOC

19-21st of May 2011 SpeakApps project presentation CALICO Conference, Victoria (Canada)

RUG

March 2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Centre (Linguapolis), University of Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

24-26th of February 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) AnnualConference, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Center Days, Tampere (Finland)

JYU

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Campus seminar, Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

[tab:END]WP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_Final[tab:Videos]

SpeakApps Project Overview

[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amif-_UhI4I,240,152[/SWF]

Català | Castellano | Nederlands

SpeakApps Tools

Check in the videos below to know how SpeakApps tools work and what are they useful for. Would you like to try them out? Log in to the SpeakApps Moodle platform by creating a free account.

  • Langblog is an audio/video blog that facilitates oral production by allowing easy recording, sharing and comments in one space.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhL8U3NpmQ,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_sq2ti83h,240,152[/SWF]
  • Tandem is a content management system for synchronous pair tasks. It also provides students with motivating situations, giving them a real purpose to practice their oral skills.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYcUb2vOLw,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_an7gbugy,240,152[/SWF]
  • Videochat is a videoconferencing tool designed for the specific needs of pair/small-group work in second language learning. This tools allows students to easily record the sessions and archive them in their virtual classroom making them available to the teacher and the rest of the class.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkGNSOkfsSI,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_cq4frbss,240,152[/SWF]

SpeakApps Open Educational Resources (OER)

Looking for activities to carry out in your classrooms? Check what our Open Educational Resources can offer you in the short video below: [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDt79s8m9s,240,152[/SWF]

Català

SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages

Here you will find the videos related to the SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages 2012 (26th September): Event overview [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odw7NOmXeaU,240,152[/SWF] David Singleton’s lecture [iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3AN7RPMIBDA?list=PLqnNDJ4_rrAPCI_dUk5nhJA5ATYC-ESC0" height="152" width="240"] Teachers Voices

Willing to know how other people teach? Teachers Voices gathers the testimony of the foreign language community: their concerns, views and resources.

Anna Serra, professora de català (nivell C) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dltEIUDIXms,240,152[/SWF]
Dolors Siles, consultora de català de la UOC, sobre Langblog [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfIZn-K8Ug,240,152[/SWF]
Jackie Robbins, English teacher [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNbE3OgbfQ,240,152[/SWF]
Birgit Lijmbach, docent, Nederlands [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYTfQHqT1c,240,152[/SWF]
Colm Ó Ciardubháin, lecturer in modern Irish (levels B1-B2) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEmzcMvwYw,240,152[/SWF]
Barbara Gwóźdź, Polish teaching student (level A1) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqHZj_xSHLo,240,152[/SWF]

[tab:Documents]

SpeakApps Documentation

What is SpeakApps?

SpeakApps 2 Reports

WP1

WP2

WP3

WP4

WP5

SpeakApps 1 Reports

WP1, Annual periodic progress report

WP2, Deliverable 3, Comparative study of current practices

WP2, Deliverable 4, Users’ requirements: Profiles and Scenarios

WP4, Execution of the pilot programme

WP5, Exploitation Plan

WP6, Deliverable 14, Dissemination Strategy

Documents for users

  • Teachers Voices outline (PPT). Languages: [EN] – [CA] – [IR] – [NL] – [PL] – [SV]

[tab:Events]

When

What & Where

Who

31 October 2014 Article about SpeakApps in Levende Talen Magazine (Jaargang 102 (2014), 7). Magazine for language teachers in the Netherlands.

RUG

10 October 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of teachers of Dutch as a second language in the Netherlands and Belgium)

RUG

26-27 September 2014 NAUCZANIE JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO JAKO OBCEGO.TRADYCJE I INNOWACJE (Lublin, Poland)

International conference of Association of Teachers of Polish as a Foreign language

Presentation:

W poszukiwaniu wspólnego mianownika, czyli co łączy studentów języków rzadziej nauczanych? Na przykładzie wyników badań ankietowych przeprowadzonych w grupie uczących się języków: polskiego, holenderskiego, irlandzkiego i katalońskiego jako obcych

http://www.bristol.us.edu.pl/

JU

19-20 September 2014 Conference INNOVATION IN FREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING (Krakow, Poland)

Half-day workshop (SpeakApps event)

(for details see the document 19-20.09.2014 Krakow)

http://www.polishstudies.uj.edu.pl/konferencje

JU

20-23 August 2014 Eurocall – University of Groningen

Workshop 3: SpeakApps – Practicing Oral Skills Online: Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Adriana Prizel-Kania; Sake Jager; Jackie Robbins; Mairead Nic Giollamhichil

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

21 August 2014 Course design (Reflective practice)

Differentiated forms of feedback for writing and speaking skills in an output-oriented approach

Ronald Ohlsen; Jeroen van Engen (University of Groningen)

RUG

21 August 2014 Open Education (Reflective practice)

Creating Tasks in a Less-Commonly Taught Language for an Open Educational Resource: Why the CEFR is important for Irish

Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl (Dublin City University)

DCU

22 August 2014 European projects

SpeakApps 2: Speaking practice in a foreign language through ICT tools

Christine Appel; Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Sake Jager; Adriana Prizel-Kania

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

22 August 2014 Course design (Research)

Authentic oral language production and interaction in CALL: A conceptual framework for the use of learning analytics within the SpeakApps project

Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardúbháin; Gearóid Ó Cleircín; Christine Appel

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

17th of July 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps tools and project at the 22@ Association Summer Innovation Meetings in Barcelona.

UOC

03rd -05th July of 2014 Paper delivered at the International Conference on Information Communication Technology in Education.

DCU

17 June 2014 – 30 June 2014 Online SpeakApps Training Course for German language teachers of the Ruhr University Bochum, the RWTH Aachen and the University of Marburg, organized in collaboration with the Ruhr University Bochum

RUG

25-27 June 2014 (Paris, France) 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW HORIZONS IN EDUCATION – INTE 2014

Presentation:

Langbog, Tandem and Videochat – holistic solution for teaching speaking skills in a foreign language in a distance mode

https://www.int-e.net/index.php?id=home

JU

26th May – 15th June of 2014 SpeakApps Online Teacher Training Course in Spanish organised and run by the UOC.

UOC

7-9th of May 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at TISLID 14 at the University of Salamanca in Ávila (Spain).

UOC

5-8th May of 2014 UOC attended the 2014 Learning Impact Awards conference held in May in New Orleans (USA), where SpeakApps was awarded a silver medal.

UOC

10 April 2014 Poster presentation at the Study Day organized by the Institute for Educational Support and Innovation (ESI) at the University of Groningen

RUG

1st of April 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the IV Simposi Internacional sobre l’Ensenyament de Català in Vic (Spain).

UOC

24th March – 11th April of 2014 SpeakApps Free Online Training Course organized and run by all four project partners.

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

24 March 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the Language Centre of the University of Groningen

RUG

20-21 March 2014 (Warsaw, Poland) CALL-PL CONFRENCE Building Bridges Between School and Academia.

SpeakApps workshop:

New tools – new possibilities! Designing tasks for practicing oral skills through the
SpeakApps Open Educational Resources.

JU

27 February – 1 March 2014 Two SpeakApps presentations at the 28. AKS-Arbeitstagung 2014 in Braunschweig. The AKS is the Association of language centres, language teaching institutes and institutes of foreign languages (AKS) is the only association in Germany which comprehensively represents the field of foreign language teaching in Higher Education.

RUG

22nd of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the annual meeting of APAC, the Catalan Association of English Teachers, in Barcelona.

UOC

12-14th of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at Telecollaboration in University Foreign Language Education at the University of León (Spain).

UOC

24 January 2014 SpeakApps demonstration at the NUT-docentendag: Blended Learning. The NUT is the association of Dutch university language centres in the Netherlands and Belgium

RUG

15 November 2013 SpeakApps presentation at a symposium organised by the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of Dutch as a second language)

RUG

26-27th of November 2012 SpeakApps presentation IX International Seminar Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach, UNESCO Chair in e-Learning of the UOC, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

26th of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration Study Day of the Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

23rd of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration. SIG ICT and NT2, BVNT2 (International Association of Dutch as a Second Language), Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

12th of November 2012 Lifelong Learning Programme Infoday 2013, Session 3.2 Key activity 2 Languages and Key activity 3 ICT, organized by EACEA, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

24th of October 2012 Presentation: New technologies – new pedagogies? Examples from Finnish higher education. Arbeidsseminar om IT-undervisning i Nordens språk. Lund (Sweden)

JYU

1st of October to 5th of November 2012 Online teacher training for Dutch as a foreign language and second language. Faculty of Arts, Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

26th of September 2012 SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages. Lecture with Prof. David Singleton (Trinity College Dublin), available here; and local workshops to try out the SpeakApps tools in partner cities.

UOC RUG JU JYU DCU

24th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation ICT and Social Media in Language Education, 3rd Warsaw Language Conference (Poland) within the European Day of Languages

JU

13-15th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Nauczanie języka polskiego i kultury polskiej w Polsce i na świecie. sukcesy, problemy, wyzwania (International conference for teachers of Polish language, literature and culture), Gniezno (Poland)

JU

7th of September 2012 Lecture & workshop: Näkökulmia oppimisympäristöihin kielen opetuksessa ja oppimisessa (Perspectives on learning environments in language teaching and learning). Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

27-31th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Andere werelden – achttiende colloquium neerlandicum (International Society of Dutch Studies), Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

22-25th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL 2012, Gothenburg (Sweden)

UOC

2-4th of July 2012 SpeakApps presentation EduLearn 2012, 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC RUG

27th-28th of June 2012 Teacher training e-Learning Center, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland)

JU UOC

21st of June to 5th of July 2012 Teacher workshop Faculty of Arts and Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

8-9th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation BVNT2. Association of teachers of Dutch as a Second Language, Bovendonk (Netherlands)

RUG

7th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation Studiedag ‘ICT in de humaniora’, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

6th of June 2012 Presentation Agency and languaging in digital environments: exploring design-based pedagogies for language learning. Insights into applied linguistics: languaging, agency, and ecologies, Jyväskylä (Finland)

DCU JYU

29-30th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL CMC & Teacher Education SIGs Annual Workshop, Bologna (Italy)

UOC JYU RUG

15-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation NUT. Association of University Language Centres in Flanders and the Netherlands, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

14-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps’ poster presentation Tertium conference Język trzeciego tysiąclecia VII; Krakow (Poland)

JU

9-10th of March 2012 Speakapps presentation to representatives from academic language centers,Warszawa (Poland)

JU

23-25th of February 2012 Lecture: SpeakApps: Resources and Applications for Developing Oral Skills Online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) ELT – Convention, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

24-26th of November 2011 SpeakApps presentationIX Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres, Salou (Spain)

UOC

24-25th of November 2011 SpeakApps stand Media & Learning Conference, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

4-5th of November 2011 SpeakApps project team meeting DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

2-21stof October 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online ICT for Language Learning, Florence (Italy)

UOC

October 2011 SpeakApps project presentation to academics of several Krakow universities JU Centre for Distance Education, Krakow (Poland)

JU

15th of September 2011 Seminar for Irish tutors and lecturers from third level institutions DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

31st of August to 3rd of September 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online EuroCALL 2011, Nottingham (England)

UOC

19-21st of May 2011 SpeakApps project presentation CALICO Conference, Victoria (Canada)

RUG

March 2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Centre (Linguapolis), University of Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

24-26th of February 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) AnnualConference, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Center Days, Tampere (Finland)

JYU

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Campus seminar, Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

[tab:END]WP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_Final[tab:Videos]

SpeakApps Project Overview

[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amif-_UhI4I,240,152[/SWF]

Català | Castellano | Nederlands

SpeakApps Tools

Check in the videos below to know how SpeakApps tools work and what are they useful for. Would you like to try them out? Log in to the SpeakApps Moodle platform by creating a free account.

  • Langblog is an audio/video blog that facilitates oral production by allowing easy recording, sharing and comments in one space.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhL8U3NpmQ,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_sq2ti83h,240,152[/SWF]
  • Tandem is a content management system for synchronous pair tasks. It also provides students with motivating situations, giving them a real purpose to practice their oral skills.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYcUb2vOLw,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_an7gbugy,240,152[/SWF]
  • Videochat is a videoconferencing tool designed for the specific needs of pair/small-group work in second language learning. This tools allows students to easily record the sessions and archive them in their virtual classroom making them available to the teacher and the rest of the class.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkGNSOkfsSI,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_cq4frbss,240,152[/SWF]

SpeakApps Open Educational Resources (OER)

Looking for activities to carry out in your classrooms? Check what our Open Educational Resources can offer you in the short video below: [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDt79s8m9s,240,152[/SWF]

Català

SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages

Here you will find the videos related to the SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages 2012 (26th September): Event overview [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odw7NOmXeaU,240,152[/SWF] David Singleton’s lecture [iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3AN7RPMIBDA?list=PLqnNDJ4_rrAPCI_dUk5nhJA5ATYC-ESC0" height="152" width="240"] Teachers Voices

Willing to know how other people teach? Teachers Voices gathers the testimony of the foreign language community: their concerns, views and resources.

Anna Serra, professora de català (nivell C) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dltEIUDIXms,240,152[/SWF]
Dolors Siles, consultora de català de la UOC, sobre Langblog [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfIZn-K8Ug,240,152[/SWF]
Jackie Robbins, English teacher [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNbE3OgbfQ,240,152[/SWF]
Birgit Lijmbach, docent, Nederlands [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYTfQHqT1c,240,152[/SWF]
Colm Ó Ciardubháin, lecturer in modern Irish (levels B1-B2) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEmzcMvwYw,240,152[/SWF]
Barbara Gwóźdź, Polish teaching student (level A1) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqHZj_xSHLo,240,152[/SWF]

[tab:Documents]

SpeakApps Documentation

What is SpeakApps?

SpeakApps 2 Reports

WP1

WP2

WP3

WP4

WP5

SpeakApps 1 Reports

WP1, Annual periodic progress report

WP2, Deliverable 3, Comparative study of current practices

WP2, Deliverable 4, Users’ requirements: Profiles and Scenarios

WP4, Execution of the pilot programme

WP5, Exploitation Plan

WP6, Deliverable 14, Dissemination Strategy

Documents for users

  • Teachers Voices outline (PPT). Languages: [EN] – [CA] – [IR] – [NL] – [PL] – [SV]

[tab:Events]

When

What & Where

Who

31 October 2014 Article about SpeakApps in Levende Talen Magazine (Jaargang 102 (2014), 7). Magazine for language teachers in the Netherlands.

RUG

10 October 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of teachers of Dutch as a second language in the Netherlands and Belgium)

RUG

26-27 September 2014 NAUCZANIE JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO JAKO OBCEGO.TRADYCJE I INNOWACJE (Lublin, Poland)

International conference of Association of Teachers of Polish as a Foreign language

Presentation:

W poszukiwaniu wspólnego mianownika, czyli co łączy studentów języków rzadziej nauczanych? Na przykładzie wyników badań ankietowych przeprowadzonych w grupie uczących się języków: polskiego, holenderskiego, irlandzkiego i katalońskiego jako obcych

http://www.bristol.us.edu.pl/

JU

19-20 September 2014 Conference INNOVATION IN FREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING (Krakow, Poland)

Half-day workshop (SpeakApps event)

(for details see the document 19-20.09.2014 Krakow)

http://www.polishstudies.uj.edu.pl/konferencje

JU

20-23 August 2014 Eurocall – University of Groningen

Workshop 3: SpeakApps – Practicing Oral Skills Online: Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Adriana Prizel-Kania; Sake Jager; Jackie Robbins; Mairead Nic Giollamhichil

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

21 August 2014 Course design (Reflective practice)

Differentiated forms of feedback for writing and speaking skills in an output-oriented approach

Ronald Ohlsen; Jeroen van Engen (University of Groningen)

RUG

21 August 2014 Open Education (Reflective practice)

Creating Tasks in a Less-Commonly Taught Language for an Open Educational Resource: Why the CEFR is important for Irish

Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl (Dublin City University)

DCU

22 August 2014 European projects

SpeakApps 2: Speaking practice in a foreign language through ICT tools

Christine Appel; Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Sake Jager; Adriana Prizel-Kania

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

22 August 2014 Course design (Research)

Authentic oral language production and interaction in CALL: A conceptual framework for the use of learning analytics within the SpeakApps project

Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardúbháin; Gearóid Ó Cleircín; Christine Appel

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

17th of July 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps tools and project at the 22@ Association Summer Innovation Meetings in Barcelona.

UOC

03rd -05th July of 2014 Paper delivered at the International Conference on Information Communication Technology in Education.

DCU

17 June 2014 – 30 June 2014 Online SpeakApps Training Course for German language teachers of the Ruhr University Bochum, the RWTH Aachen and the University of Marburg, organized in collaboration with the Ruhr University Bochum

RUG

25-27 June 2014 (Paris, France) 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW HORIZONS IN EDUCATION – INTE 2014

Presentation:

Langbog, Tandem and Videochat – holistic solution for teaching speaking skills in a foreign language in a distance mode

https://www.int-e.net/index.php?id=home

JU

26th May – 15th June of 2014 SpeakApps Online Teacher Training Course in Spanish organised and run by the UOC.

UOC

7-9th of May 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at TISLID 14 at the University of Salamanca in Ávila (Spain).

UOC

5-8th May of 2014 UOC attended the 2014 Learning Impact Awards conference held in May in New Orleans (USA), where SpeakApps was awarded a silver medal.

UOC

10 April 2014 Poster presentation at the Study Day organized by the Institute for Educational Support and Innovation (ESI) at the University of Groningen

RUG

1st of April 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the IV Simposi Internacional sobre l’Ensenyament de Català in Vic (Spain).

UOC

24th March – 11th April of 2014 SpeakApps Free Online Training Course organized and run by all four project partners.

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

24 March 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the Language Centre of the University of Groningen

RUG

20-21 March 2014 (Warsaw, Poland) CALL-PL CONFRENCE Building Bridges Between School and Academia.

SpeakApps workshop:

New tools – new possibilities! Designing tasks for practicing oral skills through the
SpeakApps Open Educational Resources.

JU

27 February – 1 March 2014 Two SpeakApps presentations at the 28. AKS-Arbeitstagung 2014 in Braunschweig. The AKS is the Association of language centres, language teaching institutes and institutes of foreign languages (AKS) is the only association in Germany which comprehensively represents the field of foreign language teaching in Higher Education.

RUG

22nd of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the annual meeting of APAC, the Catalan Association of English Teachers, in Barcelona.

UOC

12-14th of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at Telecollaboration in University Foreign Language Education at the University of León (Spain).

UOC

24 January 2014 SpeakApps demonstration at the NUT-docentendag: Blended Learning. The NUT is the association of Dutch university language centres in the Netherlands and Belgium

RUG

15 November 2013 SpeakApps presentation at a symposium organised by the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of Dutch as a second language)

RUG

26-27th of November 2012 SpeakApps presentation IX International Seminar Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach, UNESCO Chair in e-Learning of the UOC, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

26th of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration Study Day of the Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

23rd of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration. SIG ICT and NT2, BVNT2 (International Association of Dutch as a Second Language), Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

12th of November 2012 Lifelong Learning Programme Infoday 2013, Session 3.2 Key activity 2 Languages and Key activity 3 ICT, organized by EACEA, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

24th of October 2012 Presentation: New technologies – new pedagogies? Examples from Finnish higher education. Arbeidsseminar om IT-undervisning i Nordens språk. Lund (Sweden)

JYU

1st of October to 5th of November 2012 Online teacher training for Dutch as a foreign language and second language. Faculty of Arts, Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

26th of September 2012 SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages. Lecture with Prof. David Singleton (Trinity College Dublin), available here; and local workshops to try out the SpeakApps tools in partner cities.

UOC RUG JU JYU DCU

24th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation ICT and Social Media in Language Education, 3rd Warsaw Language Conference (Poland) within the European Day of Languages

JU

13-15th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Nauczanie języka polskiego i kultury polskiej w Polsce i na świecie. sukcesy, problemy, wyzwania (International conference for teachers of Polish language, literature and culture), Gniezno (Poland)

JU

7th of September 2012 Lecture & workshop: Näkökulmia oppimisympäristöihin kielen opetuksessa ja oppimisessa (Perspectives on learning environments in language teaching and learning). Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

27-31th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Andere werelden – achttiende colloquium neerlandicum (International Society of Dutch Studies), Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

22-25th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL 2012, Gothenburg (Sweden)

UOC

2-4th of July 2012 SpeakApps presentation EduLearn 2012, 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC RUG

27th-28th of June 2012 Teacher training e-Learning Center, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland)

JU UOC

21st of June to 5th of July 2012 Teacher workshop Faculty of Arts and Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

8-9th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation BVNT2. Association of teachers of Dutch as a Second Language, Bovendonk (Netherlands)

RUG

7th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation Studiedag ‘ICT in de humaniora’, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

6th of June 2012 Presentation Agency and languaging in digital environments: exploring design-based pedagogies for language learning. Insights into applied linguistics: languaging, agency, and ecologies, Jyväskylä (Finland)

DCU JYU

29-30th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL CMC & Teacher Education SIGs Annual Workshop, Bologna (Italy)

UOC JYU RUG

15-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation NUT. Association of University Language Centres in Flanders and the Netherlands, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

14-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps’ poster presentation Tertium conference Język trzeciego tysiąclecia VII; Krakow (Poland)

JU

9-10th of March 2012 Speakapps presentation to representatives from academic language centers,Warszawa (Poland)

JU

23-25th of February 2012 Lecture: SpeakApps: Resources and Applications for Developing Oral Skills Online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) ELT – Convention, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

24-26th of November 2011 SpeakApps presentationIX Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres, Salou (Spain)

UOC

24-25th of November 2011 SpeakApps stand Media & Learning Conference, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

4-5th of November 2011 SpeakApps project team meeting DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

2-21stof October 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online ICT for Language Learning, Florence (Italy)

UOC

October 2011 SpeakApps project presentation to academics of several Krakow universities JU Centre for Distance Education, Krakow (Poland)

JU

15th of September 2011 Seminar for Irish tutors and lecturers from third level institutions DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

31st of August to 3rd of September 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online EuroCALL 2011, Nottingham (England)

UOC

19-21st of May 2011 SpeakApps project presentation CALICO Conference, Victoria (Canada)

RUG

March 2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Centre (Linguapolis), University of Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

24-26th of February 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) AnnualConference, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Center Days, Tampere (Finland)

JYU

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Campus seminar, Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

[tab:END]WP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_Final[tab:Videos]

SpeakApps Project Overview

[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amif-_UhI4I,240,152[/SWF]

Català | Castellano | Nederlands

SpeakApps Tools

Check in the videos below to know how SpeakApps tools work and what are they useful for. Would you like to try them out? Log in to the SpeakApps Moodle platform by creating a free account.

  • Langblog is an audio/video blog that facilitates oral production by allowing easy recording, sharing and comments in one space.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhL8U3NpmQ,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_sq2ti83h,240,152[/SWF]
  • Tandem is a content management system for synchronous pair tasks. It also provides students with motivating situations, giving them a real purpose to practice their oral skills.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYcUb2vOLw,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_an7gbugy,240,152[/SWF]
  • Videochat is a videoconferencing tool designed for the specific needs of pair/small-group work in second language learning. This tools allows students to easily record the sessions and archive them in their virtual classroom making them available to the teacher and the rest of the class.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkGNSOkfsSI,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_cq4frbss,240,152[/SWF]

SpeakApps Open Educational Resources (OER)

Looking for activities to carry out in your classrooms? Check what our Open Educational Resources can offer you in the short video below: [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDt79s8m9s,240,152[/SWF]

Català

SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages

Here you will find the videos related to the SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages 2012 (26th September): Event overview [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odw7NOmXeaU,240,152[/SWF] David Singleton’s lecture [iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3AN7RPMIBDA?list=PLqnNDJ4_rrAPCI_dUk5nhJA5ATYC-ESC0" height="152" width="240"] Teachers Voices

Willing to know how other people teach? Teachers Voices gathers the testimony of the foreign language community: their concerns, views and resources.

Anna Serra, professora de català (nivell C) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dltEIUDIXms,240,152[/SWF]
Dolors Siles, consultora de català de la UOC, sobre Langblog [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfIZn-K8Ug,240,152[/SWF]
Jackie Robbins, English teacher [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNbE3OgbfQ,240,152[/SWF]
Birgit Lijmbach, docent, Nederlands [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYTfQHqT1c,240,152[/SWF]
Colm Ó Ciardubháin, lecturer in modern Irish (levels B1-B2) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEmzcMvwYw,240,152[/SWF]
Barbara Gwóźdź, Polish teaching student (level A1) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqHZj_xSHLo,240,152[/SWF]

[tab:Documents]

SpeakApps Documentation

What is SpeakApps?

SpeakApps 2 Reports

WP1

WP2

WP3

WP4

WP5

SpeakApps 1 Reports

WP1, Annual periodic progress report

WP2, Deliverable 3, Comparative study of current practices

WP2, Deliverable 4, Users’ requirements: Profiles and Scenarios

WP4, Execution of the pilot programme

WP5, Exploitation Plan

WP6, Deliverable 14, Dissemination Strategy

Documents for users

  • Teachers Voices outline (PPT). Languages: [EN] – [CA] – [IR] – [NL] – [PL] – [SV]

[tab:Events]

When

What & Where

Who

31 October 2014 Article about SpeakApps in Levende Talen Magazine (Jaargang 102 (2014), 7). Magazine for language teachers in the Netherlands.

RUG

10 October 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of teachers of Dutch as a second language in the Netherlands and Belgium)

RUG

26-27 September 2014 NAUCZANIE JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO JAKO OBCEGO.TRADYCJE I INNOWACJE (Lublin, Poland)

International conference of Association of Teachers of Polish as a Foreign language

Presentation:

W poszukiwaniu wspólnego mianownika, czyli co łączy studentów języków rzadziej nauczanych? Na przykładzie wyników badań ankietowych przeprowadzonych w grupie uczących się języków: polskiego, holenderskiego, irlandzkiego i katalońskiego jako obcych

http://www.bristol.us.edu.pl/

JU

19-20 September 2014 Conference INNOVATION IN FREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING (Krakow, Poland)

Half-day workshop (SpeakApps event)

(for details see the document 19-20.09.2014 Krakow)

http://www.polishstudies.uj.edu.pl/konferencje

JU

20-23 August 2014 Eurocall – University of Groningen

Workshop 3: SpeakApps – Practicing Oral Skills Online: Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Adriana Prizel-Kania; Sake Jager; Jackie Robbins; Mairead Nic Giollamhichil

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

21 August 2014 Course design (Reflective practice)

Differentiated forms of feedback for writing and speaking skills in an output-oriented approach

Ronald Ohlsen; Jeroen van Engen (University of Groningen)

RUG

21 August 2014 Open Education (Reflective practice)

Creating Tasks in a Less-Commonly Taught Language for an Open Educational Resource: Why the CEFR is important for Irish

Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl (Dublin City University)

DCU

22 August 2014 European projects

SpeakApps 2: Speaking practice in a foreign language through ICT tools

Christine Appel; Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Sake Jager; Adriana Prizel-Kania

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

22 August 2014 Course design (Research)

Authentic oral language production and interaction in CALL: A conceptual framework for the use of learning analytics within the SpeakApps project

Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardúbháin; Gearóid Ó Cleircín; Christine Appel

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

17th of July 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps tools and project at the 22@ Association Summer Innovation Meetings in Barcelona.

UOC

03rd -05th July of 2014 Paper delivered at the International Conference on Information Communication Technology in Education.

DCU

17 June 2014 – 30 June 2014 Online SpeakApps Training Course for German language teachers of the Ruhr University Bochum, the RWTH Aachen and the University of Marburg, organized in collaboration with the Ruhr University Bochum

RUG

25-27 June 2014 (Paris, France) 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW HORIZONS IN EDUCATION – INTE 2014

Presentation:

Langbog, Tandem and Videochat – holistic solution for teaching speaking skills in a foreign language in a distance mode

https://www.int-e.net/index.php?id=home

JU

26th May – 15th June of 2014 SpeakApps Online Teacher Training Course in Spanish organised and run by the UOC.

UOC

7-9th of May 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at TISLID 14 at the University of Salamanca in Ávila (Spain).

UOC

5-8th May of 2014 UOC attended the 2014 Learning Impact Awards conference held in May in New Orleans (USA), where SpeakApps was awarded a silver medal.

UOC

10 April 2014 Poster presentation at the Study Day organized by the Institute for Educational Support and Innovation (ESI) at the University of Groningen

RUG

1st of April 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the IV Simposi Internacional sobre l’Ensenyament de Català in Vic (Spain).

UOC

24th March – 11th April of 2014 SpeakApps Free Online Training Course organized and run by all four project partners.

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

24 March 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the Language Centre of the University of Groningen

RUG

20-21 March 2014 (Warsaw, Poland) CALL-PL CONFRENCE Building Bridges Between School and Academia.

SpeakApps workshop:

New tools – new possibilities! Designing tasks for practicing oral skills through the
SpeakApps Open Educational Resources.

JU

27 February – 1 March 2014 Two SpeakApps presentations at the 28. AKS-Arbeitstagung 2014 in Braunschweig. The AKS is the Association of language centres, language teaching institutes and institutes of foreign languages (AKS) is the only association in Germany which comprehensively represents the field of foreign language teaching in Higher Education.

RUG

22nd of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the annual meeting of APAC, the Catalan Association of English Teachers, in Barcelona.

UOC

12-14th of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at Telecollaboration in University Foreign Language Education at the University of León (Spain).

UOC

24 January 2014 SpeakApps demonstration at the NUT-docentendag: Blended Learning. The NUT is the association of Dutch university language centres in the Netherlands and Belgium

RUG

15 November 2013 SpeakApps presentation at a symposium organised by the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of Dutch as a second language)

RUG

26-27th of November 2012 SpeakApps presentation IX International Seminar Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach, UNESCO Chair in e-Learning of the UOC, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

26th of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration Study Day of the Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

23rd of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration. SIG ICT and NT2, BVNT2 (International Association of Dutch as a Second Language), Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

12th of November 2012 Lifelong Learning Programme Infoday 2013, Session 3.2 Key activity 2 Languages and Key activity 3 ICT, organized by EACEA, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

24th of October 2012 Presentation: New technologies – new pedagogies? Examples from Finnish higher education. Arbeidsseminar om IT-undervisning i Nordens språk. Lund (Sweden)

JYU

1st of October to 5th of November 2012 Online teacher training for Dutch as a foreign language and second language. Faculty of Arts, Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

26th of September 2012 SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages. Lecture with Prof. David Singleton (Trinity College Dublin), available here; and local workshops to try out the SpeakApps tools in partner cities.

UOC RUG JU JYU DCU

24th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation ICT and Social Media in Language Education, 3rd Warsaw Language Conference (Poland) within the European Day of Languages

JU

13-15th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Nauczanie języka polskiego i kultury polskiej w Polsce i na świecie. sukcesy, problemy, wyzwania (International conference for teachers of Polish language, literature and culture), Gniezno (Poland)

JU

7th of September 2012 Lecture & workshop: Näkökulmia oppimisympäristöihin kielen opetuksessa ja oppimisessa (Perspectives on learning environments in language teaching and learning). Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

27-31th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Andere werelden – achttiende colloquium neerlandicum (International Society of Dutch Studies), Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

22-25th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL 2012, Gothenburg (Sweden)

UOC

2-4th of July 2012 SpeakApps presentation EduLearn 2012, 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC RUG

27th-28th of June 2012 Teacher training e-Learning Center, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland)

JU UOC

21st of June to 5th of July 2012 Teacher workshop Faculty of Arts and Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

8-9th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation BVNT2. Association of teachers of Dutch as a Second Language, Bovendonk (Netherlands)

RUG

7th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation Studiedag ‘ICT in de humaniora’, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

6th of June 2012 Presentation Agency and languaging in digital environments: exploring design-based pedagogies for language learning. Insights into applied linguistics: languaging, agency, and ecologies, Jyväskylä (Finland)

DCU JYU

29-30th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL CMC & Teacher Education SIGs Annual Workshop, Bologna (Italy)

UOC JYU RUG

15-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation NUT. Association of University Language Centres in Flanders and the Netherlands, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

14-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps’ poster presentation Tertium conference Język trzeciego tysiąclecia VII; Krakow (Poland)

JU

9-10th of March 2012 Speakapps presentation to representatives from academic language centers,Warszawa (Poland)

JU

23-25th of February 2012 Lecture: SpeakApps: Resources and Applications for Developing Oral Skills Online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) ELT – Convention, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

24-26th of November 2011 SpeakApps presentationIX Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres, Salou (Spain)

UOC

24-25th of November 2011 SpeakApps stand Media & Learning Conference, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

4-5th of November 2011 SpeakApps project team meeting DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

2-21stof October 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online ICT for Language Learning, Florence (Italy)

UOC

October 2011 SpeakApps project presentation to academics of several Krakow universities JU Centre for Distance Education, Krakow (Poland)

JU

15th of September 2011 Seminar for Irish tutors and lecturers from third level institutions DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

31st of August to 3rd of September 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online EuroCALL 2011, Nottingham (England)

UOC

19-21st of May 2011 SpeakApps project presentation CALICO Conference, Victoria (Canada)

RUG

March 2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Centre (Linguapolis), University of Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

24-26th of February 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) AnnualConference, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Center Days, Tampere (Finland)

JYU

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Campus seminar, Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

[tab:END]WP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_FinalWP3_REPORT_Final[tab:Videos]

SpeakApps Project Overview

[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amif-_UhI4I,240,152[/SWF]

Català | Castellano | Nederlands

SpeakApps Tools

Check in the videos below to know how SpeakApps tools work and what are they useful for. Would you like to try them out? Log in to the SpeakApps Moodle platform by creating a free account.

  • Langblog is an audio/video blog that facilitates oral production by allowing easy recording, sharing and comments in one space.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhL8U3NpmQ,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_sq2ti83h,240,152[/SWF]
  • Tandem is a content management system for synchronous pair tasks. It also provides students with motivating situations, giving them a real purpose to practice their oral skills.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYcUb2vOLw,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_an7gbugy,240,152[/SWF]
  • Videochat is a videoconferencing tool designed for the specific needs of pair/small-group work in second language learning. This tools allows students to easily record the sessions and archive them in their virtual classroom making them available to the teacher and the rest of the class.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkGNSOkfsSI,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_cq4frbss,240,152[/SWF]

SpeakApps Open Educational Resources (OER)

Looking for activities to carry out in your classrooms? Check what our Open Educational Resources can offer you in the short video below: [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDt79s8m9s,240,152[/SWF]

Català

SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages

Here you will find the videos related to the SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages 2012 (26th September): Event overview [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odw7NOmXeaU,240,152[/SWF] David Singleton’s lecture [iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3AN7RPMIBDA?list=PLqnNDJ4_rrAPCI_dUk5nhJA5ATYC-ESC0" height="152" width="240"] Teachers Voices

Willing to know how other people teach? Teachers Voices gathers the testimony of the foreign language community: their concerns, views and resources.

Anna Serra, professora de català (nivell C) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dltEIUDIXms,240,152[/SWF]
Dolors Siles, consultora de català de la UOC, sobre Langblog [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfIZn-K8Ug,240,152[/SWF]
Jackie Robbins, English teacher [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNbE3OgbfQ,240,152[/SWF]
Birgit Lijmbach, docent, Nederlands [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYTfQHqT1c,240,152[/SWF]
Colm Ó Ciardubháin, lecturer in modern Irish (levels B1-B2) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEmzcMvwYw,240,152[/SWF]
Barbara Gwóźdź, Polish teaching student (level A1) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqHZj_xSHLo,240,152[/SWF]

[tab:Documents]

SpeakApps Documentation

What is SpeakApps?

SpeakApps 2 Reports

WP1

WP2

WP3

WP4

WP5

SpeakApps 1 Reports

WP1, Annual periodic progress report

WP2, Deliverable 3, Comparative study of current practices

WP2, Deliverable 4, Users’ requirements: Profiles and Scenarios

WP4, Execution of the pilot programme

WP5, Exploitation Plan

WP6, Deliverable 14, Dissemination Strategy

Documents for users

  • Teachers Voices outline (PPT). Languages: [EN] – [CA] – [IR] – [NL] – [PL] – [SV]

[tab:Events]

When

What & Where

Who

31 October 2014 Article about SpeakApps in Levende Talen Magazine (Jaargang 102 (2014), 7). Magazine for language teachers in the Netherlands.

RUG

10 October 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of teachers of Dutch as a second language in the Netherlands and Belgium)

RUG

26-27 September 2014 NAUCZANIE JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO JAKO OBCEGO.TRADYCJE I INNOWACJE (Lublin, Poland)

International conference of Association of Teachers of Polish as a Foreign language

Presentation:

W poszukiwaniu wspólnego mianownika, czyli co łączy studentów języków rzadziej nauczanych? Na przykładzie wyników badań ankietowych przeprowadzonych w grupie uczących się języków: polskiego, holenderskiego, irlandzkiego i katalońskiego jako obcych

http://www.bristol.us.edu.pl/

JU

19-20 September 2014 Conference INNOVATION IN FREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING (Krakow, Poland)

Half-day workshop (SpeakApps event)

(for details see the document 19-20.09.2014 Krakow)

http://www.polishstudies.uj.edu.pl/konferencje

JU

20-23 August 2014 Eurocall – University of Groningen

Workshop 3: SpeakApps – Practicing Oral Skills Online: Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Adriana Prizel-Kania; Sake Jager; Jackie Robbins; Mairead Nic Giollamhichil

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

21 August 2014 Course design (Reflective practice)

Differentiated forms of feedback for writing and speaking skills in an output-oriented approach

Ronald Ohlsen; Jeroen van Engen (University of Groningen)

RUG

21 August 2014 Open Education (Reflective practice)

Creating Tasks in a Less-Commonly Taught Language for an Open Educational Resource: Why the CEFR is important for Irish

Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl (Dublin City University)

DCU

22 August 2014 European projects

SpeakApps 2: Speaking practice in a foreign language through ICT tools

Christine Appel; Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Sake Jager; Adriana Prizel-Kania

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

22 August 2014 Course design (Research)

Authentic oral language production and interaction in CALL: A conceptual framework for the use of learning analytics within the SpeakApps project

Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardúbháin; Gearóid Ó Cleircín; Christine Appel

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

17th of July 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps tools and project at the 22@ Association Summer Innovation Meetings in Barcelona.

UOC

03rd -05th July of 2014 Paper delivered at the International Conference on Information Communication Technology in Education.

DCU

17 June 2014 – 30 June 2014 Online SpeakApps Training Course for German language teachers of the Ruhr University Bochum, the RWTH Aachen and the University of Marburg, organized in collaboration with the Ruhr University Bochum

RUG

25-27 June 2014 (Paris, France) 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW HORIZONS IN EDUCATION – INTE 2014

Presentation:

Langbog, Tandem and Videochat – holistic solution for teaching speaking skills in a foreign language in a distance mode

https://www.int-e.net/index.php?id=home

JU

26th May – 15th June of 2014 SpeakApps Online Teacher Training Course in Spanish organised and run by the UOC.

UOC

7-9th of May 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at TISLID 14 at the University of Salamanca in Ávila (Spain).

UOC

5-8th May of 2014 UOC attended the 2014 Learning Impact Awards conference held in May in New Orleans (USA), where SpeakApps was awarded a silver medal.

UOC

10 April 2014 Poster presentation at the Study Day organized by the Institute for Educational Support and Innovation (ESI) at the University of Groningen

RUG

1st of April 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the IV Simposi Internacional sobre l’Ensenyament de Català in Vic (Spain).

UOC

24th March – 11th April of 2014 SpeakApps Free Online Training Course organized and run by all four project partners.

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

24 March 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the Language Centre of the University of Groningen

RUG

20-21 March 2014 (Warsaw, Poland) CALL-PL CONFRENCE Building Bridges Between School and Academia.

SpeakApps workshop:

New tools – new possibilities! Designing tasks for practicing oral skills through the
SpeakApps Open Educational Resources.

JU

27 February – 1 March 2014 Two SpeakApps presentations at the 28. AKS-Arbeitstagung 2014 in Braunschweig. The AKS is the Association of language centres, language teaching institutes and institutes of foreign languages (AKS) is the only association in Germany which comprehensively represents the field of foreign language teaching in Higher Education.

RUG

22nd of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the annual meeting of APAC, the Catalan Association of English Teachers, in Barcelona.

UOC

12-14th of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at Telecollaboration in University Foreign Language Education at the University of León (Spain).

UOC

24 January 2014 SpeakApps demonstration at the NUT-docentendag: Blended Learning. The NUT is the association of Dutch university language centres in the Netherlands and Belgium

RUG

15 November 2013 SpeakApps presentation at a symposium organised by the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of Dutch as a second language)

RUG

26-27th of November 2012 SpeakApps presentation IX International Seminar Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach, UNESCO Chair in e-Learning of the UOC, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

26th of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration Study Day of the Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

23rd of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration. SIG ICT and NT2, BVNT2 (International Association of Dutch as a Second Language), Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

12th of November 2012 Lifelong Learning Programme Infoday 2013, Session 3.2 Key activity 2 Languages and Key activity 3 ICT, organized by EACEA, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

24th of October 2012 Presentation: New technologies – new pedagogies? Examples from Finnish higher education. Arbeidsseminar om IT-undervisning i Nordens språk. Lund (Sweden)

JYU

1st of October to 5th of November 2012 Online teacher training for Dutch as a foreign language and second language. Faculty of Arts, Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

26th of September 2012 SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages. Lecture with Prof. David Singleton (Trinity College Dublin), available here; and local workshops to try out the SpeakApps tools in partner cities.

UOC RUG JU JYU DCU

24th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation ICT and Social Media in Language Education, 3rd Warsaw Language Conference (Poland) within the European Day of Languages

JU

13-15th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Nauczanie języka polskiego i kultury polskiej w Polsce i na świecie. sukcesy, problemy, wyzwania (International conference for teachers of Polish language, literature and culture), Gniezno (Poland)

JU

7th of September 2012 Lecture & workshop: Näkökulmia oppimisympäristöihin kielen opetuksessa ja oppimisessa (Perspectives on learning environments in language teaching and learning). Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

27-31th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Andere werelden – achttiende colloquium neerlandicum (International Society of Dutch Studies), Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

22-25th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL 2012, Gothenburg (Sweden)

UOC

2-4th of July 2012 SpeakApps presentation EduLearn 2012, 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC RUG

27th-28th of June 2012 Teacher training e-Learning Center, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland)

JU UOC

21st of June to 5th of July 2012 Teacher workshop Faculty of Arts and Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

8-9th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation BVNT2. Association of teachers of Dutch as a Second Language, Bovendonk (Netherlands)

RUG

7th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation Studiedag ‘ICT in de humaniora’, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

6th of June 2012 Presentation Agency and languaging in digital environments: exploring design-based pedagogies for language learning. Insights into applied linguistics: languaging, agency, and ecologies, Jyväskylä (Finland)

DCU JYU

29-30th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL CMC & Teacher Education SIGs Annual Workshop, Bologna (Italy)

UOC JYU RUG

15-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation NUT. Association of University Language Centres in Flanders and the Netherlands, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

14-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps’ poster presentation Tertium conference Język trzeciego tysiąclecia VII; Krakow (Poland)

JU

9-10th of March 2012 Speakapps presentation to representatives from academic language centers,Warszawa (Poland)

JU

23-25th of February 2012 Lecture: SpeakApps: Resources and Applications for Developing Oral Skills Online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) ELT – Convention, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

24-26th of November 2011 SpeakApps presentationIX Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres, Salou (Spain)

UOC

24-25th of November 2011 SpeakApps stand Media & Learning Conference, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

4-5th of November 2011 SpeakApps project team meeting DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

2-21stof October 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online ICT for Language Learning, Florence (Italy)

UOC

October 2011 SpeakApps project presentation to academics of several Krakow universities JU Centre for Distance Education, Krakow (Poland)

JU

15th of September 2011 Seminar for Irish tutors and lecturers from third level institutions DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

31st of August to 3rd of September 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online EuroCALL 2011, Nottingham (England)

UOC

19-21st of May 2011 SpeakApps project presentation CALICO Conference, Victoria (Canada)

RUG

March 2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Centre (Linguapolis), University of Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

24-26th of February 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) AnnualConference, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Center Days, Tampere (Finland)

JYU

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Campus seminar, Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

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SpeakApps Project Overview

[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amif-_UhI4I,240,152[/SWF]

Català | Castellano | Nederlands

SpeakApps Tools

Check in the videos below to know how SpeakApps tools work and what are they useful for. Would you like to try them out? Log in to the SpeakApps Moodle platform by creating a free account.

  • Langblog is an audio/video blog that facilitates oral production by allowing easy recording, sharing and comments in one space.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhL8U3NpmQ,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_sq2ti83h,240,152[/SWF]
  • Tandem is a content management system for synchronous pair tasks. It also provides students with motivating situations, giving them a real purpose to practice their oral skills.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYcUb2vOLw,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_an7gbugy,240,152[/SWF]
  • Videochat is a videoconferencing tool designed for the specific needs of pair/small-group work in second language learning. This tools allows students to easily record the sessions and archive them in their virtual classroom making them available to the teacher and the rest of the class.
Overview:[SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkGNSOkfsSI,240,152[/SWF] Demo:[SWF]http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_403921/uiconf_id/5610711/entry_id/1_cq4frbss,240,152[/SWF]

SpeakApps Open Educational Resources (OER)

Looking for activities to carry out in your classrooms? Check what our Open Educational Resources can offer you in the short video below: [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDt79s8m9s,240,152[/SWF]

Català

SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages

Here you will find the videos related to the SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages 2012 (26th September): Event overview [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odw7NOmXeaU,240,152[/SWF] David Singleton’s lecture [iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3AN7RPMIBDA?list=PLqnNDJ4_rrAPCI_dUk5nhJA5ATYC-ESC0" height="152" width="240"] Teachers Voices

Willing to know how other people teach? Teachers Voices gathers the testimony of the foreign language community: their concerns, views and resources.

Anna Serra, professora de català (nivell C) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dltEIUDIXms,240,152[/SWF]
Dolors Siles, consultora de català de la UOC, sobre Langblog [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfIZn-K8Ug,240,152[/SWF]
Jackie Robbins, English teacher [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNbE3OgbfQ,240,152[/SWF]
Birgit Lijmbach, docent, Nederlands [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYTfQHqT1c,240,152[/SWF]
Colm Ó Ciardubháin, lecturer in modern Irish (levels B1-B2) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEmzcMvwYw,240,152[/SWF]
Barbara Gwóźdź, Polish teaching student (level A1) [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqHZj_xSHLo,240,152[/SWF]

[tab:Documents]

SpeakApps Documentation

What is SpeakApps?

SpeakApps 2 Reports

WP1

WP2

WP3

WP4

WP5

SpeakApps 1 Reports

WP1, Annual periodic progress report

WP2, Deliverable 3, Comparative study of current practices

WP2, Deliverable 4, Users’ requirements: Profiles and Scenarios

WP4, Execution of the pilot programme

WP5, Exploitation Plan

WP6, Deliverable 14, Dissemination Strategy

Documents for users

  • Teachers Voices outline (PPT). Languages: [EN] – [CA] – [IR] – [NL] – [PL] – [SV]

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When

What & Where

Who

31 October 2014 Article about SpeakApps in Levende Talen Magazine (Jaargang 102 (2014), 7). Magazine for language teachers in the Netherlands.

RUG

10 October 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of teachers of Dutch as a second language in the Netherlands and Belgium)

RUG

26-27 September 2014 NAUCZANIE JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO JAKO OBCEGO.TRADYCJE I INNOWACJE (Lublin, Poland)

International conference of Association of Teachers of Polish as a Foreign language

Presentation:

W poszukiwaniu wspólnego mianownika, czyli co łączy studentów języków rzadziej nauczanych? Na przykładzie wyników badań ankietowych przeprowadzonych w grupie uczących się języków: polskiego, holenderskiego, irlandzkiego i katalońskiego jako obcych

http://www.bristol.us.edu.pl/

JU

19-20 September 2014 Conference INNOVATION IN FREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING (Krakow, Poland)

Half-day workshop (SpeakApps event)

(for details see the document 19-20.09.2014 Krakow)

http://www.polishstudies.uj.edu.pl/konferencje

JU

20-23 August 2014 Eurocall – University of Groningen

Workshop 3: SpeakApps – Practicing Oral Skills Online: Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Adriana Prizel-Kania; Sake Jager; Jackie Robbins; Mairead Nic Giollamhichil

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

21 August 2014 Course design (Reflective practice)

Differentiated forms of feedback for writing and speaking skills in an output-oriented approach

Ronald Ohlsen; Jeroen van Engen (University of Groningen)

RUG

21 August 2014 Open Education (Reflective practice)

Creating Tasks in a Less-Commonly Taught Language for an Open Educational Resource: Why the CEFR is important for Irish

Colm Ó Ciardubháin; Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl (Dublin City University)

DCU

22 August 2014 European projects

SpeakApps 2: Speaking practice in a foreign language through ICT tools

Christine Appel; Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Sake Jager; Adriana Prizel-Kania

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

22 August 2014 Course design (Research)

Authentic oral language production and interaction in CALL: A conceptual framework for the use of learning analytics within the SpeakApps project

Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Jeroen van Engen; Colm Ó Ciardúbháin; Gearóid Ó Cleircín; Christine Appel

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

17th of July 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps tools and project at the 22@ Association Summer Innovation Meetings in Barcelona.

UOC

03rd -05th July of 2014 Paper delivered at the International Conference on Information Communication Technology in Education.

DCU

17 June 2014 – 30 June 2014 Online SpeakApps Training Course for German language teachers of the Ruhr University Bochum, the RWTH Aachen and the University of Marburg, organized in collaboration with the Ruhr University Bochum

RUG

25-27 June 2014 (Paris, France) 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW HORIZONS IN EDUCATION – INTE 2014

Presentation:

Langbog, Tandem and Videochat – holistic solution for teaching speaking skills in a foreign language in a distance mode

https://www.int-e.net/index.php?id=home

JU

26th May – 15th June of 2014 SpeakApps Online Teacher Training Course in Spanish organised and run by the UOC.

UOC

7-9th of May 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at TISLID 14 at the University of Salamanca in Ávila (Spain).

UOC

5-8th May of 2014 UOC attended the 2014 Learning Impact Awards conference held in May in New Orleans (USA), where SpeakApps was awarded a silver medal.

UOC

10 April 2014 Poster presentation at the Study Day organized by the Institute for Educational Support and Innovation (ESI) at the University of Groningen

RUG

1st of April 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the IV Simposi Internacional sobre l’Ensenyament de Català in Vic (Spain).

UOC

24th March – 11th April of 2014 SpeakApps Free Online Training Course organized and run by all four project partners.

DCU, RUG, JU, UOC

24 March 2014 Demonstration of SpeakApps at the annual Study Day of the Language Centre of the University of Groningen

RUG

20-21 March 2014 (Warsaw, Poland) CALL-PL CONFRENCE Building Bridges Between School and Academia.

SpeakApps workshop:

New tools – new possibilities! Designing tasks for practicing oral skills through the
SpeakApps Open Educational Resources.

JU

27 February – 1 March 2014 Two SpeakApps presentations at the 28. AKS-Arbeitstagung 2014 in Braunschweig. The AKS is the Association of language centres, language teaching institutes and institutes of foreign languages (AKS) is the only association in Germany which comprehensively represents the field of foreign language teaching in Higher Education.

RUG

22nd of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at the annual meeting of APAC, the Catalan Association of English Teachers, in Barcelona.

UOC

12-14th of February 2014 Presentation of SpeakApps at Telecollaboration in University Foreign Language Education at the University of León (Spain).

UOC

24 January 2014 SpeakApps demonstration at the NUT-docentendag: Blended Learning. The NUT is the association of Dutch university language centres in the Netherlands and Belgium

RUG

15 November 2013 SpeakApps presentation at a symposium organised by the SIG ICT and Blended learning of the BVNT2 (Association of Dutch as a second language)

RUG

26-27th of November 2012 SpeakApps presentation IX International Seminar Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach, UNESCO Chair in e-Learning of the UOC, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

26th of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration Study Day of the Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

23rd of November 2012 SpeakApps demonstration. SIG ICT and NT2, BVNT2 (International Association of Dutch as a Second Language), Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

12th of November 2012 Lifelong Learning Programme Infoday 2013, Session 3.2 Key activity 2 Languages and Key activity 3 ICT, organized by EACEA, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

24th of October 2012 Presentation: New technologies – new pedagogies? Examples from Finnish higher education. Arbeidsseminar om IT-undervisning i Nordens språk. Lund (Sweden)

JYU

1st of October to 5th of November 2012 Online teacher training for Dutch as a foreign language and second language. Faculty of Arts, Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

26th of September 2012 SpeakApps celebration of the European Day of Languages. Lecture with Prof. David Singleton (Trinity College Dublin), available here; and local workshops to try out the SpeakApps tools in partner cities.

UOC RUG JU JYU DCU

24th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation ICT and Social Media in Language Education, 3rd Warsaw Language Conference (Poland) within the European Day of Languages

JU

13-15th of September 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Nauczanie języka polskiego i kultury polskiej w Polsce i na świecie. sukcesy, problemy, wyzwania (International conference for teachers of Polish language, literature and culture), Gniezno (Poland)

JU

7th of September 2012 Lecture & workshop: Näkökulmia oppimisympäristöihin kielen opetuksessa ja oppimisessa (Perspectives on learning environments in language teaching and learning). Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

27-31th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation Conference Andere werelden – achttiende colloquium neerlandicum (International Society of Dutch Studies), Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

22-25th of August 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL 2012, Gothenburg (Sweden)

UOC

2-4th of July 2012 SpeakApps presentation EduLearn 2012, 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC RUG

27th-28th of June 2012 Teacher training e-Learning Center, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland)

JU UOC

21st of June to 5th of July 2012 Teacher workshop Faculty of Arts and Language Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

RUG

8-9th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation BVNT2. Association of teachers of Dutch as a Second Language, Bovendonk (Netherlands)

RUG

7th of June 2012 SpeakApps presentation Studiedag ‘ICT in de humaniora’, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

6th of June 2012 Presentation Agency and languaging in digital environments: exploring design-based pedagogies for language learning. Insights into applied linguistics: languaging, agency, and ecologies, Jyväskylä (Finland)

DCU JYU

29-30th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation EuroCALL CMC & Teacher Education SIGs Annual Workshop, Bologna (Italy)

UOC JYU RUG

15-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps presentation NUT. Association of University Language Centres in Flanders and the Netherlands, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

RUG

14-16th of March 2012 SpeakApps’ poster presentation Tertium conference Język trzeciego tysiąclecia VII; Krakow (Poland)

JU

9-10th of March 2012 Speakapps presentation to representatives from academic language centers,Warszawa (Poland)

JU

23-25th of February 2012 Lecture: SpeakApps: Resources and Applications for Developing Oral Skills Online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) ELT – Convention, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

24-26th of November 2011 SpeakApps presentationIX Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres, Salou (Spain)

UOC

24-25th of November 2011 SpeakApps stand Media & Learning Conference, Brussels (Belgium)

UOC

4-5th of November 2011 SpeakApps project team meeting DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

2-21stof October 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online ICT for Language Learning, Florence (Italy)

UOC

October 2011 SpeakApps project presentation to academics of several Krakow universities JU Centre for Distance Education, Krakow (Poland)

JU

15th of September 2011 Seminar for Irish tutors and lecturers from third level institutions DCU, Dublin (Ireland)

DCU

31st of August to 3rd of September 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online EuroCALL 2011, Nottingham (England)

UOC

19-21st of May 2011 SpeakApps project presentation CALICO Conference, Victoria (Canada)

RUG

March 2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Centre (Linguapolis), University of Antwerp (Belgium)

RUG

24-26th of February 2011 Presentation: SpeakApps: oral production and interaction online APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers) AnnualConference, Barcelona (Spain)

UOC

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Center Days, Tampere (Finland)

JYU

2011 SpeakApps project presentation Language Campus seminar, Jyväskylä (Finland)

JYU

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