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Using Educational Technology in the English Language Classroom

Technology Experts

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlE2-ekUHe83l5la9E-W27b6rWm_AtHr_

Amy Walton

Iowa State University

Google Forms (https://www.google.com/forms)

My name is Amy Walton. I’m a lecturer at Iowa State, and I teach writing, grammar, and teacher education
courses. Google Forms is a tool that I use in all of my classes as a practical way to gather information for
planning and for assessment. It’s a part of the Google suite of applications, and at its core, it is a tool that
can be used to create a variety of questions that you can send to participants, like a survey.

Figure 1. Google Forms as an information gathering tool

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It collects the data from respondents, and it keeps a spreadsheet that it updates automatically. I use this
in class for several purposes. I can create a survey to gather information for needs assessment at the start
of a course or a unit and for anonymous feedback from students’ in-class activities and for quizzes.

Figure 2. Creating a survey question on Google Forms

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I also use this tool to match learners with tutors, and because it is available on mobile devices, students
can walk around the classroom and offer peer response to their classmates’ projects or presentations
using their phones. There are several reasons why I find this tool helpful. One nice feature is that you are
able to have respondents provide their contact information, but you can also make it anonymous.
Additionally, Forms allows you to create a variety of questions like multiple-choice questions, paragraph
responses, or rating items on a scale. You can also embed a variety of media.

Figure 3. Embedding media to questions on Google Forms

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Finally, Forms compiles a summary of responses and creates a spreadsheet, which is a very practical way
to store and sort through information.

Figure 4. Summary of responses collected through Google Forms

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In the case of a quiz, this can make grading easy and, if you use the tools in the spreadsheet, even
automated, depending on the nature of the assessment.

Sarah Davis

Iowa State University

Looking at Current Events Online

Hi. I’m Sarah Davis. I’m a lecturer at Iowa State University. I teach the ESL writing courses, and I use
technology in my classroom to help provide my students with an authentic writing task. I give them the
opportunity to look at current events online, which might not be available to them if I only used
textbook resources. Currently, there is major refugee crises globally, worldwide, so my students are
actually writing about what’s going on as we speak and what’s happening in the world. I make available
to them the links that will help them find that information, but I also give them an opportunity to
explore on their own and decide what is important, make those critical thinking choices, and they
develop that into their own writing.

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 Figure 5. Linking to current events online through course Moodle

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I also make sure the sources are both visually and personally and emotionally very pertinent to them. I
think it makes for a wonderful writing task and a really great assignment.

Figure 6. Online resources for current events

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 Stephanie Fuccio

Iowa State University

Google Docs (https://docs.google.com): Color Coding for Research Papers

Hello. My name is Stephanie Fuccio, and I am a PhD student here at Iowa State University. I’ve taught
first-year writing at ISU and other institutions for over a decade with a specialization in teaching second
language writing. A common type of paper to teach in this class is a research paper, and I like to use
Google Docs to help students visualize the different parts that need to go in a paragraph in this type of
paper. For example, in this screenshot, you can see the student has color-coded the research claim in
pink, the evidence in yellow, and the analysis in blue.

Figure 7. Color coding on Google Docs for writing research papers

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This colorization is useful for students to see two things in the paragraph: (1) are all parts of the
paragraph present and (2) is the ratio of the different parts balanced. When students start to write
research papers, oftentimes, they won’t have any analysis, or it’ll be too short, and this is a good way to
see that that needs to change. I usually do this activity in class, and with this colorized collaborative tool,
they get both verbal feedback during class time during peer review. They also have written feedback in
the Google Doc from their peers, from their teacher, and they can even leave notes for themselves in
the document.

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 Figure 8. Leaving feedback on document

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This example is with a research paper, but this can be used for any genre that you’re teaching in your
writing classroom. It can be used with essays, with abstracts, with narratives, and with letters. It can be
used for any of those. Thank you.

Sock Wun Phng

Iowa State University

Google Docs (https://docs.google.com): In-Class Collaboration

Hi. My name is Sock Wun Phng, and I’m a master’s student in applied linguistics here at Iowa State. I also
teach English 99L and 99R, which are the listening and reading classes. In both of those classes, one of
the things I like to do in class is to have student collaboration. Usually, when you have small group
discussions, things can get awkward. Students might be uncomfortable talking to one another, so one of
the technology tools I like using for student collaboration is Google Docs. One of the features that really
help with group discussion is the ability for multiple students to type and work on the same document at
the same time. They can type what they want and use it like Microsoft Word.

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 Figure 9. Two students typing simultaneously on one Google Doc

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They can also add comments to one another’s’ answers.

Figure 10. Two students writing and responding to comments simultaneously on Google Docs

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