Readings


Weekly Readings

 

 

 

 

These are the weekly readings for the session. Once you have read the articles, please go to our forum to give your comments

 


 

 

 

Week 1

 

 

Week 2

Blogging for ELT, by Graham Stanley:   http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/blogging-elt

 

The Use of Blogs, Wikis and RSS in Education: A Conversation of Possibilities, by Peter Duffy & Axel Bruns: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/5398/1/5398.pdf

 

7 things you should know about wikis: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7004.pdf

 

 

Additional Readings

Microblogging for Language Learning: Using Twitter to Train Communicative and Cultural Competence, by Kerstin Borau, Carsten Ullrich, Jinjin Feng and Ruimin Shen: http://www.carstenullrich.net/pubs/ICWL78.pdf

 

A Teacher's Guide to Twitter, by Kate Klingensmith:   http://onceateacher.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/a-teachers-guide-to-twitter/

 

How blogs can make the link, by Chris Alden: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/jan/09/weblogs1

 

Where do I start? Blogging Basics, by Melanie Nelson and Karen Lewis: http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/how-do-i-start-a-blog/

 

 

 

Week 3

Almeida d'Eça, T. (2004). Online Communication Tools that Promote Language Learning. Polifonia, pdf.

This article is based on my year-and-a-half experience with the Webheads in Action, an online community of practice... After referring the main features of each tool (Tapped In, Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Groups), as well as some advantages, disadvantages and practical applications to the teaching-learning process and to online professional development, the article ends with advice and conclusions based on my practical experience with the Webheads

 

Chun Lai and Yong Zhao. Noticing and Text Based Chat, Language Learning & Technology Vol.10, No.3, September 2006, pp. 102-120 This study examined the capacity of text-based online chat to promote learners’ noticing of their problematic language productions and of the interactional feedback from their interlocutors 

 

Gonzalez, D. & Esteves, L. (2006).  Enhancing Collaboration Through Chat in ESP: A Conversation Analysis. IATEFL Poland Computer SIG Journal,May 2006].Chat rooms are ideal spaces for interaction, collaboration and negotiation of meaning, crucial aspects in language learning. However, they have not been fully exploited in language teaching. This study shows the results of a conversation analysis of 30 transcriptions of chat sessions where architecture students were carrying out collaborative group work. The researchers wanted to discover the discourse patterns and conversational strategies used by the students in this online context to study their possible repercussions in English learning. The results seem to indicate that the students were building the kind of discourse that is thought to lead to language learning. 

 

 

 

 

Week 4

Creating Materials Online with Free Teacher Tools, by María Isabel Pérez Torres

Pérez, I. (2003). Creating Materials Online with Free Teacher Tools. TESOL Spain, Newsletter 2003.

This article focuses on this utility of the Internet. Some sites are presented where teachers can easily design activities and exercises online, such as quizzes, tests, puzzles or surveys, which require no advanced computer skills. Included are only those tools that are free for educational use for obvious reasons.

 

A short note: 

2 of the sites mentioned in the article no longer exist; one is Headline Makers    http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers/index.htm when you click on the link you get the message: The server at lang.swarthmore.edu is taking too long to respond.    

*   The site could be temporarily unavailable, the other is Trackstar   http://trackstar.hprtec.org/ the link takes us to a site about Online Casino and Gambling I suppose the present site is: http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/index.jsp

 

 

 

Week 5

There are a lot of things to read and watch here. Don't feel you have to read everything !!

Pick and choose something you like and share your thoughts with us !

Don't forget you will be able to come back to the wiki later on in the year ! (You can bookmark using your favourite bookmarking tool).

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8

 

http://weblearning.psu.edu/blended-learning-initiative/what_is_blended_learning

 

 http://www.grayharriman.com/blended_learning.htm

 

          (All the tweets using the #edchat  have been collected together in an easy to use posting)

 http://rliberni.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/blending-of-face-to-face-learning-with-online-learning/

The very curious can see the whole #edchat here http://tinyurl.com/27yxwju

 

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3023.pdf

 

http://dafnegonzalez.com/baw-06/content/blended-arch-ET.pdf

 

http://knol.google.com/k/e-learning#Introduction

 

http://www.iatefl.org.pl/call/j_head25.htm#glo