Shelly S Terrell
Shelly Sanchez Terrell is an education activist, thought-provoker, author, and international speaker. She is also the host for American TESOL's Free Friday Webinars and the Social Media Community Manager for The Consultants-E. She is the co-organizer and co-creator of the acclaimed educational projects, Edchat, The Reform Symposium E-Conference and the Virtual Round Table conference. Her projects have been highlighted by several notable entities including the New York Times and the Washington Post. Visit her education blog, Teacher Reboot Camp, for resources for effective technology integration. Keep an eye out for her book, The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators published by Eye on Education. Participate with over 7000 other educators worldwide in the online completion of these goals. Find her on Twitter, @ShellTerrell. Contact her, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com
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- Apr 23, 12
This post is part of the mobile learning category. Click to check out other posts!
This past weekend I presented and helped organized the Virtual Round Table E-Conference. All the recordings are available here. I presented on mobile learning activities. One of the most compelling reasons to use mobile devices is to get learners to begin using the device to learn even outside the classroom. I remember that when I taught my learners how to do this they would excitedly come to class and report to me how they used their device to learn. Students carry these devices with them and already use it to text or post on social networks. Why not train them to learn with the device everyday?
Below is the link to the recording, the slides, and also various other resources. None of these activities require you to be on the Internet. They are meant to be used with standard tools that come with most cell phones and mobile devices, such as the ability to record your voice, take a picture, or record a video. If learners can do any of these things with a mobile device then they can do these lessons. These lessons also promote speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills. I have done many of these activities with English language learners of all ages from 4 to 80 years-old and they have enjoyed them.
The Resources
Below are a list of the resources from the presentation and a link to other mobile learning webinars that took place during the Virtual Round Table E-Conference.
Recorded Live Webinar: Magical Moments in Mobile Learning
Free ebook- Effective Mobile Learning: 50+ Quick Tips & Resources
Livebinder with free app creators, a list of apps, and 100s more resources on anything mobile learning
Recorded Live Webinar: How to Get Started with Mobile Learning by Carol Rainbow
Recorded Live Webinar: A Mobile Learning Treasure Hunt by Anne Fox
Recorded Live Webinar: Mobile Learning in Business English by Mike Hogan
Recorded Live Webinar: Using Technology Eclectically with Dogme by Dale Coulter (Dale talks about mobile learning about halfway through)
Recorded Live Debate: To Text or Not to Text featuring Matt Firth, Natalya Eydelman, and Dr. Doris MoleroFree Apps
Below are a list of the apps that can also be used with each of these lesson ideas.
- Fotobabble App- students take a picture and tell the story of that picture. Many of the ideas listed in the presentation would make great Fotobabbles!
- VoiceThread- students can post videos, drawings, images and more then have their classmates comment on what they upload.
- Videolicious- video creation app.
- Posterous- have students send their creations to an email address and it will post on this free blogging platform. It’s so easy and anything attached to the email is embedded within the site. This includes audio, video, images, or text. Posterous is my favorite tool!
- Sock Puppets- students work in pairs to make sock puppet plays.
- Puppet Pals
- Animoto Video Creation App
- Shmuppet- students create a podcast or tell a short story with a puppet and send them to their friends via email, Facebook, or Twitter.
- Audioboo- create a podcast of local news around the school
- MindBlowing App For Idevices- students collect audio and video clips as well as images under any theme. This is a multimedia mindmap app.
- Talking Tom & Ben News Reporters- students create dialogues that reflect any news item worldwide and around the school. Kids will love when Tom and Ben report that news. Here’s the link to the Android version.
- Evernote app for nearly all mobile devices & for your desktop!
Challenge:
Use one of these ideas in your classes and blog about the outcomes!
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- Apr 21, 12
Goal 8 of The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! Click the link to find out more about the new changes to this year’s 30 Goals Challenge for Educators!
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”~George Bernard Shaw
Short-term- share an activity you believe worked well with learners. You can describe it in a blog or post it to this sticky wall.
Long-term- continue to share activities and lessons you believe are effective with your colleagues and encourage them to share as well. You might create a blog where these ideas are shared. Posterous is an easy blogging tool. You can have your colleagues post the ideas by simply sending an email.
At the beginning of this month, I had the great opportunity to observe Chia Suan Chong‘s adult English class. I enjoyed her teaching and will share a specific activity she did that I believe is effective and would work for any class. The activity helps students remember their names and helps build class connections. You can watch the activity in the video.
Introduction Ball Activity
Purpose- remember classmates’ names and get to know each other
Materials- a small ball the students can throw around
Instructions- tell students to throw a ball to another student, say the name of the student, and either recite something interesting about the person or ask the student a question.
Additional notes- Chia had them answer questions about themselves at the beginning so they learned about each other. At the end, have the students throw the ball only saying the name. Chia told them to do this as fast as possible.
**My Favorite Part- Unfortunately, I didn’t record the part where Chia’s students changed the activity. They began throwing the ball and asking each other questions. This sparked more conversation and I loved that Chia just let them do this!Thank you Chia’s class for letting me record this great idea!
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Important News
- Lisa Dabbs and I have decided to change the hashtag to #30GoalsEdu because we have noticed some sports people using the hashtag. Please make the transition.
- I have been traveling a lot so sorry I missed last week’s goal. This week I will update the Pinterest boards and begin commenting and sharing your posts so please continue to share!
- This year we are focusing on 1 to 2 goals a week in order to have time to really reflect on the tasks and respond to each other’s posts and enhance our support system for each other.
Check out my Pinterests for other posts with this goal or ask me to add yours!
Challenge:
Share an effective activity with another educator.
Did you reflect on this goal? Please leave a comment that you accomplished this goal by either posting your own video reflection on Youtube, using the hashtag #30Goals, posting on the 30 Goals Facebook group, adding a post to the GooglePlus page, or adding a comment below!
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- Apr 03, 12
In goal 1 of the 30 Goals Challenge we did Me Manifestos but I never crafted mine. You can read over 25 manifestos of teachers worldwide here. I finally began to draft my manifesto. Here it goes…
My Me Manifesto
It starts with a choice. Each time we interact with our learners they will leave either with a piece of knowledge they feel motivated to continue exploring or treat as a fact they must know just to pass. They will leave feeling motivated to continue learning, exploring, experimenting, or they will feel as if learning is tedious, boring, and too difficult. They will either feel as if the teacher made a connection with them or that the teacher doesn’t care about them. We make an impact, we leave an impression, we drop seeds each time we encounter our learners. I choose to treat each of these learning moments as an opportunity to create an impact and doing this means I have to continuously feel motivated, inspired and equipped to make that opportunity an impact. Without my Personal/Passionate Learning Network I wouldn’t have been so aware of the impact I make and I cringe each time I think about the times I took this for granted.
About Mini-revolutions
I’ve been traveling a lot for the past year visiting teachers in Thailand, Canada, Brazil, Japan, France, the US, and the UK. I’ve been traveling for the last year to various countries training teachers worldwide, attending conferences, and learning from them. This post was inspired by two teachers who made me think about what it means to be a teacher. One was Adam Beale (@Bealer81), who in his inspiring presentation at IATEFL, reflected that what he had learned after his first year of teaching was that it’s about starting mini-revolutions in our classrooms. The other was a conversation I had with James Taylor (@TheTeacherJames) who told me, “I believe it’s my duty as a teacher to share.” I’ve heard so many inspiring ideas like these from educators worldwide. I’ve seen incredible lessons they do with their learners, and I’ve listened to their passionate stories of the ways they’ve stirred their students. I believe we are onto grassroots movements. I’ve seen mini-revolutions start and I’ve helped start and support some mini-revolutions, such as Edchat, the Reform Symposium E-Conference, the 30 Goals Challenge, ELTChat, the Virtual Round Table Conference, and more. Education will transform and nearly a million educators on social networks are getting excited and spreading the message of what education should be. Recently, I talked in Toulouse about kids changing their world through ICTs and the words of one of these world changers is my message to you. These are the wise words of Talia Leman, 15 year-old creator of RandomKid.org (I’ve adapted the words a bit to match this context):
“What makes this group different from other (educators) out there? The only thing that separates us from any other group out there is simply our choices. Your choices and you, because it is your choices that are changing the world and you’ve chosen to be the kind of people that (teacher) heroes are made of.”
And you, dear reader, have made a choice. You made the choice to read this post and you make choices to read other blogs, attend webinars, interact with other educators in social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), and share your experiences with others as well. You choose to be a continuous learner because you want to be a better educator for your learners. And I know sometimes you feel just like me, that you are a different breed of educator. And I know sometimes you wonder if you will ever successfully infect those around you. And I know sometimes you question whether education policy will ever improve. We want transformation. We want education systems worldwide to provide opportunities for our learners to explore their creativity and curiosity. We want our leaders to support us with policy that allows us to really teach. We get so frustrated because we come from conferences, reading blogs, attending webinars, watching a TEDTalk and we feel inspired but when we share others are not so enthused. I want to tell you to try and at least infect one, because if you infect one teacher then you have helped them inspire the 1000s of students that they will interact with. You will have caused them to make a choice, the same one you do almost daily, to become passionate continuous learners and in this you will have started a mini-revolution and your reach will be beyond that one teacher. Your reach will be spread to 1000s of learners who one day will also spread the idea that living life is about learning, being curious, improving the world, and paying the passion forward.
Challenge:
Read the other manifestos. They are so inspiring!
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- Mar 18, 12
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- VP of Educator Outreach, International Speaker, 30 Goals AuthorE-Learning | San Antonio, Texas Area, USSummary*International speaker- I travel to various countries to provide hands-on workshops to train teachers in the fields of online professional development, integrating technology in the curriculum, using social media in schools, and mobile learning.
*Founder of The 30 Goals for Educators- ebook & project focusing on using social media platforms for educators to accomplish 30 educational goals within the year. Join over 7000 educators worldwide.
*Co-coordinator/founder of acclaimed The Reform Symposium E-Conference. Over 4000 educators in 100 countries gather online for free to learn from amazing authors, trainers, and SMEs worldwide.
*Co-coordinator of the ELTON nominated Virtual Round Table Language & Technology online conference.
* Co-coordinator/founder of #Edchat, a weekly discussion on Twitter involving over 1000s of educators worldwide. It was the #5 trending topic on Twitter and featured well known authors/leaders in education. #Edchat founders were interviewed in the NYTimes!
* English language teacher to university students, graduate students, high school students, adults, and children. I have taught offline and online classes to English language learners of various proficiencies.
* Blog writer who focuses on training teachers to use technology effectively to develop professionally and help their learners achieve learning goals.
* Researcher interested in improving the learning outcomes of English language learners and other students with learning needs through the effective integration of various online technologies. Currently experimenting with the use of Twitter in online classes.
*Launched a volunteer organization, ETHOSpro, which established artist interaction in the community. Entailed networking with community leaders, local charities, and artists.
*Taught creative writing and slam poetry classes to students in low income districts.
*Developer of hands-on curriculum and special programs at the Witte Museum HEB Science Treehouse.Specialties: Public Speaking, Workshops, Teacher Training, Mobile Learning, Instructional Technology, E-learning, Social Media Consultancy for Education, English to speakers of other languages (ESOL), beginner german, spanish, curriculum developer, integration of education technology, online instructionExperience- Jul 2010 - PresentSocial Media Community Manager / The Consultants-EOversee education projects and organize education events. Entails marketing and coordinating with various educators worldwide through social media.
- 2009 - 2012VP of Educator Outreach / ParentellaOversee education projects and organize education events. Entails marketing and coordinating with various educators worldwide through social media. Coordinate schedules and manage travel arrangements.
- 2007 - 2011English Language Instructor / Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum / James-F.-Byrnes-Institut e.V.Developed and instruct several adult Intermediate English conversation lessons. Teacher for English story time, ages 4 to 12 years-old. Teacher to high school students completing the Abitur exam.
- Jun 2004 - May 2007ESOL Senior Instructor / Incarnate Word High SchoolDeveloped the ESL curriculum in English Grammar, Literature, Composition, US History and World Religions to 40 freshmen to senior high school students of various competency levels. Made recommendations to mainstream staff regarding the special resources and accommodations appropriate for each student. Acted as a liaison between students and their classroom teachers, counselors, parents, and principal. Oversaw student testing and placement. Developed a training course for future ESL instructors and programs.
Education-
2007 - 2009University of PhoenixMasters of Education in Curriculum Instruction English as a Second Language
- The University of Texas at San AntonioBA in English Minor Communication w/ Specialization in Electronic Media
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Honors:My nonprofit organization, Ethos, achieved the SAMMS Ministries 2001 Volunteer Group of the Year Award for the creation of a music program for homeless children. Co-coordinator of #Edchat, a Twitter discussion involving over 100 teachers worldwide which occurs every Tuesday. #Edchat has been ranked number 5 in trending topics and featured well known educator author and speaker, Alfie Kohn.
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Interests:education technology, elearning, pedagogy, instructional design, ESL, EFL, ESOL, TEFL, social media, web 2.0, web 3.0, secondlife
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