MOVING BEYOND TRADITIONAL

ESL CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION

THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
INTEGRATION
Dr. Jasmin Bey Cowin & Fatma Ghailan
Westchester Community College
welcome video

Have you ever used any form of social med

in your teaching? If so, how? If not, how do
you think they can be used constructively?

What Social Media Integration can offer

you and your students:
collaboration
negotiation
debating
reviewing
posting
chatting
messaging
texting

What Social Media Integration can offer

you and your students:
collaboration
negotiation
debating
reviewing
posting
chatting
messaging
texting

What Social Media Integration can offer

you and your students:
collaboration
negotiation
debating
reviewing
posting
chatting
messaging
texting

Motivation

Goals of the Workshop

First: Increasing students metacognitive awareness
Second: Providing a clear project structure
Third: Improving students understanding of and ability to accurately use English

Developing a high communicative competence

through the integration of social media.

WhatsApp Group Creation

To create a group:
1. Open WhatsApp and go to the Chats screen.
2. At the top of the Chats screen, tap the New Group button. Note: you will need to have an existing chat
before creating a new Group Chat.
3. Type in a subject or title. This will be the name of the group that all participants will see. Then click
NEXT
4. Add group participants by selecting (+), or by typing the name of the contact.
5. Tap Create to finish creating the group.
6. But for now, you can just join our existing group ALWC 2016

Vlog Nation
Want to Vlog? First things FIRST
1) Sign Into Your Google Account.
Before you can start creating a YouTube account, you must sign in to your Google account.
(YouTube is owned by Google.) If you do not have an account, thats okay! You can check out
our quick tutorial on How to Create a Google Account. Once you sign up and sign in then
move on to step 2 below!

Vloging and Creating a YouTube

Channel Step 2
2) Click on My Channel.
After signing in to your YouTube account, click on the drop down arrow next to your avatar in
the top right corner. This is the same place where the, Sign In button usually is. After you
click on the drop down arrow, a new set of options are made available. The first thing you want
to do here is to click on: My Channel.

Vloging and Creating YouTube

Channel Step 3

3) Decide the Name.

This is one of the most important steps when it comes to creating a YouTube channel. Deciding

your channel name! You can either use your name by default or you can choose a different name of

your choice by clicking on the To use a business or other name, click here button. Most people

like to choose a different name instead of using their own names.

Vloging Continued
You want the name to represent and explain what your YouTube channel is about. For example,
if you wanted to vlog about the latest fashion trends, you could pick a name like, Fashion
Trends Today or Carlys Fashion Picks. You get the point! Choose a name that describes
your channel. After deciding on a name, fill in the required fields below and be sure to read over
the page terms before selecting, I Agree. Once you finish filling in the information required,
click on, Done.
Fill In The Required
Fields

Take the YouTube Channel Tour

Once you finish the naming process, you are taken to your channel page. You may also see an
option at the top right of your page that invites you to take a tour of your new channel. Its
quick and it helps you get familiar with different options for editing your channel.

Edit YouTube Account Settings

In order to edit your account settings, you must go back to the drop down menu
by clicking on the downwards arrow and then select, YouTube Settings.

Creating a Custom YouTube URL.

Its always great to have a custom YouTube URL instead of a default one. For example, your

YouTube channel url may be www.YouTube.com/user/blahblah8920128h0hd0dn09 etc.

Instead, you can have a custom url for your channel that is branded. It can be
www.YouTube.com/user/YourChannelName

This can be of great help when it comes to promoting your channel and your students work. It
is something that others can remember more easily.
So lets create a custom URL for your YouTube channel. After reaching the YouTube
settings page, click on the, Advanced button.

Continued
You are now taken to the channel setting page. Click on the, create custom url button on the
right of the default url.

Click on the Advanced Button

Custom Channel URL

Now, you have the choice of creating a custom URL. Remember, these are the words that come

after User/ in the URL of www.YouTube.com/user/YourURL . Pick wisely!

After deciding on a URL, click on create channel url. You now have your own custom channel

url.

Video Blogging for Beginners

1. use the browser mode in youtube

2. associate a website with your youtube Channel

3. use royalty free art work royalty free images and music
royalty free music and youtube audio library

4. use great descriptions of what the videos are about

5. use script and captions

What is a blog?

he word blog is short for web log. Blogs generally have the following features:

They are updated regularly

They consist of a collection of posts
Each post has a date
The newest posts appear at the top of the page
A blog can be very much like an online diary. Indeed, one of the most popular
blogs on the internet is called The Diary of Samuel Pepys. On this blog, a
new entry from Samuel Pepyss Diary appears every day.

What is the difference between a

blog and a diary?

What is the difference between a

blog and a diary?
Blogs dont need to be written from a personal
perspective
a great free blogging website is wordpress.com

Blooms Taxonomy

Aristotles FIRST STEP

please use the provided index cards to take notes
What is your definition of a learning goal and objective?
What do you think are the differences between the two?
How are they coupled with Blooms Taxonomy?

(Quick Pair Share)

General Goals
What do I want my students to know or be able to do by the end
of this course?
Learning goals are specific statements of intended student attainment
of essential concepts and skills.

General Goals
What do I want my students to know or be able to do by the end
of this course?
Learning goals are specific statements of intended student attainment
of essential concepts and skills.
Example Goal:
The student will increase writing skills from having minimal ability
to organize a paragraph for an essay, to being able to create an
organized paragraph with a topic sentence, main idea, and supporting
facts.

Objectives
Short Term Objectives or Benchmarks:
When given an assignment to write a paragraph, the student will include a topic
sentence that introduces the main idea of the paragraph.
When given an assignment to write a multi-paragraph essay, the student will
organize his ideas in an outline with a thesis.

Objectives
Short Term Objectives or Benchmarks:
When given an assignment to write a paragraph, the student will include a topic
sentence that introduces the main idea of the paragraph.
When given an assignment to write a multi-paragraph essay, the student will
organize his ideas in an outline with a thesis.

Definition:
Learning objectives are brief statements that describe what students will be
expected to be able to DO by the end of school year, course, unit, lesson, project, or
class period.

SWBAT - Student Will Be Able To Do

Blooms Taxonomy Stage

KNOWLEDGE / REMEMBERING
Student can recall facts, terms, basic concepts and answers
The big idea/Pre- Draft
Use of a diagram
Prewrite
Find, choose, spell, outline, rephrase, extend, interpret words and language chunks.
Adjectives and superlatives - grammar objective
Create timeline for vlog, list technical requirements - outline
Pair share - communicative work

Blooms Taxonomy Stage

APPLYING
Creating a Video Script
What is a video script?
A video script is a chronological run-down of scenes, shots, action and dialogue specifying
who is saying and doing what, and when they're saying or doing it. Each page of the script
represents roughly one minute of screen time.
How to Write a Stellar Short Video Script - Scripted

Blooms Taxonomy Stage

Scripting

Blooms Taxonomy Stage

Analyzing
Examining and breaking information into parts by identifying motives or causes; making
inferences and finding evidence to support generalizations.
Adapt, change, construct, compare
Modify writing to create a vlog script
Add details
Refocus topic sentence
Correct spelling, grammar and lexis mistakes through pair work

Blooms Taxonomy Stage

Remembering - Round 2
memorize script
fluency work: sentence melody & rhythm / pronunciation
double check captioning text for spelling and grammar (S/S)
fluency
melody
phrasing
tempo

Blooms Taxonomy Stage

Evaluating

evaluating writing script in pair work and via google docs

use of rubrics for evaluation evaluation rubrics home

listen to other students recordings and analyze their recording S/S

whatsapp share

Blooms Taxonomy Stage

Creating

Record complete reading

Add and choose music and or pictures

Special effects

Use of technology in creating a published project

Aristotles SECOND and THIRD STEP

What is the project you want students to create?
Write down your project on index card
Refocus your learning goals!
Rewrite
Record your project idea and learning goals on WhatsApp
SHARE YOUR RECORDING

Blooms Taxonomy Stage

Jasmin & Fatmas Finished Student

Projects
EF Project - Vlogs: student book reviews
WCC google drive shared projects

THANK YOU
Dr. Jasmin Bey Cowin

Fatma Ghailan

cowinjasmin65@gmail.com

fghailan@gmail.com