Abstract: The purpose of this workshop is to present the experience of the researcher who used Storytelling Alice with her students to enhance their English Language Proficiency in terms of learning speech acts. Storytelling Alice is a 3D programming software designed primarily for teaching secondary school students programming. The software includes "worlds" that refer to the setting of the story, imaginary characters, buildings, animals, and aliens. The children have to learn first how to select the world, how to choose the characters and most importantly how to make the characters move, speak, duck, run, dance, and turn. Speaking is one of the most important features in this presentation as it is one of the means of communication, and negotiation of meaning through language.
Objectives
In this workshop the participants will learn:
1- How to download and install ALice
2- How to use its programming features to make the characters move, turn, speak, dance
3- How to make 3D movies
4- How to integrate Alice into their profession.
5- How to add characters into a particular setting
6- How to save the world as an Alice Document
7- How to save the world as a web document
8- How to add convesration bubbles into their movies or instead, how to record their voices to and add it to a specific character
Topical Outline
I- Introduction
A- What is Alice?
B- Why it is important to be integrated in teaching English as a foreign langauge?
C- An example of the problems that Egyptian students face when learning English: Speech Acts
II- Body
- How Alice is downloaded and installed on your PC
- Getting started
- Choosing the world
- Selecting the Characters
- Teaching the characters how to move, walk, turn, and speak
- Showing the participants a sample movie
- Participants will work in pairs on making their own movie
- Making a movies from a linguistic perspective: Speech Acts
III- Conclusion
- Summarizing the main points
- Open discussion regarding the participants opinion regarding other uses they suggest of Storytelling Alice.
Prerequisites
-This workshop is intended for all audience with
- Computer literacy
- No programming literacy needed
- Know how to surf the web
- Know how to download
Experience Level
Beginner
Qualifications
Education
M.A. TEFL, The American University in Cairo (AUC), Spring (2007)
? GPA: 3.24
? Relevant Coursework: Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Grammar, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Pragmatics, Corpus Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Assessment, and Study Skills
Projects:
? Designed an unpublished website introducing Business writing for the CALL course
? Developed educational software through Hyper-studio educational software
? A research project on study skills
? A research project on using corpora in raising EFL students metaphor awareness: introducing semantic prosody
? 2008 July Design and own 2 websites for English Teachers and Learners, in addition to a web blog:
http://teflway.googlepages.com/home, http://postyourfreeads.googlepages.com
Web blog: http://englishmadeeasier.blogspot.com/
Diploma, Simultaneous Interpretation, Ain Shams University, Faculty of Al-Alsun, Grade: Good, June 2002
Teaching Experience
Lecturer of English: Prince Sultan University, KSA (2009- present)
English Instructor, English Language Center, the German University in Cairo, September 2006- 2009
• Instruct English language and scientific Method Courses: Academic English, Communication and Presentation Skills, Scientific Method, and Research Paper Writing
• Prepare the study curriculum as well as process and evaluate assignments, quizzes, and exams.
• Provide course handouts, and put teaching and demonstration material on the GUC intranet.
• Conduct workshops, hold meetings, train teachers in Fall and spring semesters as Study Skills assistant coordinator
• Conduct research as well as other university- administration, -development, and -activities tasks such as student counseling and advising, office hours, committee assignments, and proctoring.
• Participate in oral and written performance assessment and inter-rater reliability
English Instructor, Modern Academy in Maadi, October 2000- September 2006