THREE TYPES OF DIGITAL

LEARNING MATERIALS
1. Teachers created digital materials
2. Student created digital materials
3. Publisher/professionally created digital materials
 TEACHER-CREATED LEARNING
MATERIALS
 Facebook in the classroom  Snappii
 Second life experiments  Truetube
 Languagelab  Wingclips
 Open simulator  All the silent
 Socrative  ESL video
 Thinglink  TED talks
 Lingleonline  Jing
 Weebly
Facebook in the classroom
- 100 ways you should be using facebook in your classroom.
Blattner and fiori (2009)
Second life experiment
- exposure to language and content, interaction and entertainment. It is the
merging of entertainment and learning (Mawer and Stanley, 2011) term it ‘digital
play’.

Languagelab
-built their own city in second life for their teachers and student to work in.
Open simulator
-open-source projects to create free and open virtual spaces online.
 Major area of interest for teachers in creation of digital materials
for language learning is the effective integration of interactive
whiteboards in the language classroom said to progress in three
stages;
 infusion
 Integration
 transformation
 TEACHER-CREATED DIGITAL LEARNING
MATERIALS
Socrative
-being able to return co-constructed material across class iteration. It is a valuable tool
and material creation.
Thinglink
- it allow easy integration of multimedia and hyperlinks into online presentation spaces.

Lingleonline
- text manipulation which source articles is from a range online newspapers.
Weebly
-permit the teacher to simply create a website by dragging, dropping and uploading content and
making it live and accessible within minutes.
Snappii
- which guide the teacher through creation of apps for smartphone and tablet use.
Truetube
- which features talking heads interviews with young people on issues of contemporary
importance.
Wingclips
- which provides short clips from popular movies organized according to the central theme in
each clip.
All the Silents
- which has a great collection of classic silent comedy clips, all ideal material for prediction,
narration, dialogue and story-reconstruction activities, as well as discussions on how cinematic
comedy has changed.
ESL video & TED talks
- ESL video, which offer teachers options for creating exercises
connected to videos sourced from the web. And the inspiring educational
creativity showcased in many TED talks.
Jing
- these offer a radical redefinition of the concept of teacher-student feedback
(or peer-peer feedback) on written text or presentation, in which the user can
simply and swiftly highlight.
 STUDENT-CREATED DIGITAL
MATERIALS
 Mural.ly
 Newspaper clippings
 Tagul
 Piclits
 Goanimate
 Tom loves Angela
 Voicethread
 Popplet
Mural.ly
- which are often heralded as a focus point for such development are in the use of
individually created and community-shared writing environments.w
Newspaper clippings
- which allows copy-and-paste of students text to create newspaper clippings.
Tagul
- which allow learners to create word pictures and groupings .

Piclits
- site which invites poetical compositions from chosen word relating to
emotive pictures.
Goanimate
- it is the area of animation, voice tools and digital storytelling.
Voicethread
-allow students or teachers to upload content in the form of text, video,
image or presentation and add a voice commentary.
Popplet
- other areas of interest for creation of student-generated digital material are
brainstorming, mind-mapping and collaborative decision-making tools.
 PUBLISHER/PROFESSIONALLY
CREATED DIGITAL MATERIALS
 Cool Speech
 Dynamic books
 AR textbooks
 Mentira
Cool speech

Dynamic books

AR textbooks

Mentira