tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229550852352017892024-02-19T19:26:42.376-04:00On Technology in the ELT ClassroomReflections on the use of ICT in the ELT classroom.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341728134104662033noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522955085235201789.post-80934011556249847962014-07-22T15:13:00.000-04:302014-07-22T15:16:52.805-04:30Project 'Write' for General English Intermediate<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The role of writing in our life has changed over the centuries and the digital era has seen an increase in writing thanks to the popularity of e-mails, web forums, social networks and so on. However, these texts tend to be really short, and long, formal writing seems to be less necessary in this era. But still, a number of reasons push us to promote writing in the classroom:</span><br />
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Second, the mental process when we write involves more time to think, giving time for the student to reflect on the language, to rehearse it, to make mistakes and find alternatives and solutions to any problem they might face during the process.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Most learners nowadays live in a world of electronic text, spending most of their time reading and writing on computers, thus, Wikis are valuable tools for teachers to promote collaborative learning in a stress-free, learner-centred environment, where teachers-learners, as well as learners-learners can keep constant communication. Also, this is the proper space for the students to store their written work, since they can keep track of their work, revise and edit as many times as they please, allowing self-reflection.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">According to the needs analyses that have been applied to many courses of General English at The British Council Venezuela, most of those who have steady jobs would like to improve their English either to get a promotion, to be able to speak fluently with their English-native peers or to get a position in another country. Most students who take these courses are looking forward to improving their English either to study abroad or to take the IELTS exam. Also, it’s more common that they express interest in improving their productive skills, in other words, writing and speaking skills.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">To sum up, I have these punctual objectives:</span><br />
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Provide the students of general English courses with a learner-centred environment to develop their writing skills.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Foster collaborative learning, as well as the development of my learners’ digital competences.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Raise learners’ awareness of the importance of storing, keeping track and revising their written work.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Collect information about how practical the tool is for the students and whether they consider that it can help them to improve their writing skills.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Gather the students’ opinion regarding collaborative writing, teacher/peer feedback and teacher/peer assessment.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I’m going to work with an intermediate level catalogued as 5B in the British Council’s system, in which we are supposed to cover modules 4-6 of the New Cutting Edge Intermediate students’ book, which cover these three topics: life events, success (the world of work) and in the media.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The participant learners will have to follow the steps below:</span><br />
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Access the weekly pages and complete the tasks.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Learners have to give peer feedback to their classmates’ writings and comments and encourage more writing.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Peer correction guided by the teacher is mandatory and preferibly on time. Consider that, if this is not done, your partner will not be aware of things to improve.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Deadlines will be given for weekly tasks. This will be considered in the evaluation.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The learners will work on an essay as their final project, strictly following the steps recommended by the instructor</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">At the end of the course, the learners will complete a survey regarding their experience using Wikis and all its implications (e.g.collaborative writing, peer feedback)</span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341728134104662033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522955085235201789.post-27092287290504218722014-07-01T12:28:00.001-04:302014-07-01T12:31:22.205-04:30Web-based Lessons, E-portfolios and Assessment<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">As we have seen so far, educators today can take advantage of new information technologies in many different ways, for instance, blogging, podcasting, even twitting. There are many tools we can use either to increase and share our knowledge, to foster our students' digital literacy while they develop different skills through online work, or even simply to make our classes a bit more dynamic. This leads us to changes in traditional concepts such as e-learning (a few entries ago) and even lesson planning, with the rise of the concept of web-based lessons.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">But what is a web-based lesson? it is simply a lesson that incorporates one or more websites, and it can be conducted either entirely online or mayb in a traditional classroom setting with an online component. These websites can be used for different purposes: research, reading, writing, publishing, and even simple communication and collaboration with teachers and learners. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There are many reasons why a web-based lesson is considered beneficial, but I will limit myself to these basics:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">⦁<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Such variety of resources and information on the web can inspire very original activities, as well as they can facilitate the creation of lessons related to any topic a teacher can imagine.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">⦁<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This variety of media (texts, videos, audios, others) found online is, apart from exciting, really positive and conductive for different learning styles.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Of course, it has to be said that planning a web-based lesson is way different to planning a traditional, one/two-hour classroom lessons. Consider that asynchronous learning involves that the student works on his/her own rythm, but yet, your lesson needs to structure your students' time on the web properly. Also, your lesson needs to point the students in the correct direction and towards a specific aim within the internet environment, otherwise, you will have your students aimlessly surfing the web. In other words, setting the time spent in each activity, clear giving clear instructions and guide them through specific web-pages is crucial when planning this type of lessons.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Another important thing to consider is the outcome of the lesson, what the students have to produce and what to do with this product. Information technologies have brought the possibility for the students to have what are called e-portfolios (or electronic portfolios). These are a valuable collection of learners' work which enables them to keep track of their own learning through self-evaluation and self-reflection and, of course, different from traditional protfolios, these are published on the web: web-folios, blog-folios, facebook-based e-portfolios and wiki-based e-portfolios are some of the most commonly used. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Students' interest in social media and virtual worlds have led educators to adopt them, but there are other reasons why they seem to be beneicial and useful:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">⦁<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>They are believed to facilitate teacher-student collaboration, active learning, self-reflection and self-assessment as well as responsibility of learning.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">⦁<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>They allow easy storage of learners' work.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">⦁<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Traditional portfolios are characterized with limited access to a smaller audience, while e-portfolios provide access to a wider range of consumers.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">⦁<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It is available at any time and anywhere to provide feedback and to check learners' ongoing progress.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">⦁<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>They contribute to learning in a stress-free, collaborative and learner-centred environment.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">⦁<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Receiving feedback from teachers and peers through e-portfolios develops a more interactive context in web-enhanced language learning modes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Another issue that may be of interest when it comes to web-learning and teaching is the assessment. As students take control of their own learning, teachers' ways to assess students changed as well. The web provides educators with a wide range of tools to improve assessment strategies and make it more adaptative to the students' learning requirements, as well as we can provide more effective forms of feedback via video, audio or computer.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This can also be done through item banks within digital platforms such as Easy Test Maker. where questions can be assessed and indexed so that learners are given tests that match their abilities, or these questions could be randomized and all students shall receive questions with similar difficulty levels. This also allows students to sit at different times without invalidating the test. Overall, according to several practitioners' recent research, assessment can be done through:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">⦁<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Recording and uploading students' work to support reflections.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">⦁<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Giving instant feedback through auto-scoring computer quizzes or online teacher feedback.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">⦁<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Using the distance of the online environment to more comfortably give feedback to peers.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">⦁<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Providing learners with data to review targets and identify focus areas.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">⦁<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Enabling teachers and learners to exchange messages using commentary boxes and audio notes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It has been found that through web-assessment students were more likely to complete tasks and produce quality work when they were peer assessed using blogs or student response systems were part of the process, specially because collaboration and peer review through blogging, discussion boards and other resources has proven to encourage better performance. As for the benefits this brings to us teachers, we can assess different skills using the same digital tool, as well as monitoring students' results online makes assessment more instantaneous and timely, which leads to more opportunities for remedial action.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">If you are interested in reading further on this topic, I recommend you to check out this article written by Matthew Prineas and Marie Cini, Assessing Learning in Online Education, The Role of Technology in Improving Student Outcomes: http://www.learningoutcomeassessment.org/documents/onlineed.pdf</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Also, preparing a web-based lesson my not be easy task for novices, so you may find this guide quite useful: http://crescentok.com/staff/jaskew/WebBased/assignments2.htm</span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341728134104662033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522955085235201789.post-57127849996692314892014-06-24T15:31:00.001-04:302014-06-24T15:40:45.023-04:30Learning Networks and Communities of Practice<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">If
we go back a few entries, we shall remember that part of the digital
competencies expected from teachers of the new era include collaborative
learning and sharing of knowledge. Teachers are expected to be learners and
producers of knowledge, constantly engaged with educational experimentation and
innovation. This, of course, shall be achieved by working collaboratively with
their colleagues and outside experts. Hence, this leads to the fact that
teachers must be literate in the use of a variety of digital resources,
networked devices to create and support a community of knowledge and
collaborative learning.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">This
social learning system includes what are called Communities of Practice (CoPs).
These are groups of people who share an interest or a passion about a
particular topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise by regularly
interacting. Of course, more than just sharing an interest, communities of
practice are focused on a domain of knowledge and, more than just sharing
interests, their goal is to develop their shared practice by dealing in
community with problems, solutions, and building a common store of knowledge.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">For
developing professionally, educators nowadays can build their
own Personal or Professional Learning Network (PLN), a system of interpersonal
connections that foster and support informal learning. Two types of systems can
be used as PLNs:</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><u>Information aggregation systems</u>: used to collect
and organize information regarding a topic from various resources. It helps
users to stay up-to-date on theories, practices and news in the field. Among
this type of systems we have the RSS reader and Social Bookmarking tools such
as Diigo. The first collects information from various websites and allows
educators to skim through hundreds of pages, web sites, wikis and articles in
order to find the most relevant information. The second, allows users to highlight,
tag and organize relevant web pages, and by joining a group you receive shared
bookmarks from all members in the group regularly.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><u>Social media connections</u>: provide users with a
space to connect with a global audience. Apart from popular social media tools
such as Facebook or Twitter, there are also interest-based groups, such as
GoogleGroups or Ning. In other words, these can be any online place where you
can connect with other individuals: websites, discussion forums, social
networking sites and so on.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">In
general, literature highlights many reasons why educators should use PLNs, and
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">They help people learn from each other in a
communal way. Educator can use them to ask for help, feedback and ideas.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">They’re more flexible and personalized than
conventional place-based conventional education.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">They can be accessed any time and anywhere.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Instead of waiting for scheduled workshops,
educators can ask for help through their PLNs and get immediate responses.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">But
not only educators find PLNs advantageous, but they’ve also proven to be useful
for learners in many areas of expertise:</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Many students are part of PLNs to learn skills that
they’re not taught in their schools, such as photography, graphic design, even
foreign languages.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">They learn by participating in discussion forums,
sharing their work and receiving feedback as part of collective knowledge
building group.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">If
you have further interest in the concept of Communities of Practice, I
recommend you to read this article written by Etienne Wenger, the author who is
believed to have coined this concept: <i>Communities
of Practice and Social Learning Systems:
the Career of a Concept.</i> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://wenger-trayner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/09-10-27-CoPs-and-systems-v2.0.pdf">http://wenger-trayner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/09-10-27-CoPs-and-systems-v2.0.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">I also recommend you this article if you’re interested
in helping your students to create a PLN: </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Helping Students Develop a Personal Learning Network</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">, written by Katie Becker, gives
some tips to help your students, particularly young learners, to create and
maintain a PLN. http://www.pearsonschoolsystems.com/blog/?p=2050#sthash.AaCaiHkL.dpbs</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">In previous entries, I
have reflected on the use of technology in ELT, from the different types of
technology-enhanced learning, through the web itself, to specific applications
and programs. All this focused on how these technologies help us improve the
quality of our teaching and make our students’ learning more dynamic. Every
day, new tools to deliver information are created and it is part of our development
as teachers to learn how to use them or at least be aware of their potential
for future projects where our learners are exposed to a larger amount of real
material and also to more opportunities of interaction.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">I mentioned recently how
broadcasting technologies are a boom in ELT research. Every day, more and more
tools are developed to record and store audio and video on the web, and more
and more research is being carried out on how we can take the best out of these
technologies to improve our students learning and give them, and us, more ways
to use our knowledge and put into practice everything we learn. One of the less
explored, but at the same time one that seems really promising, is the use of
videos, screencasts and slideshares in the classroom. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">Teachers can use a
variety of video editing programs such as Movie Maker to create educational
videos either to use in class or to provide students with some extra practice
outside the classroom. These videos can be uploaded to a host page such as
YouTube, where our students would be able to access them anytime and anywhere. Nowadays,
we have many programs that facilitate video-making, not only to install in our
computers, but also web-based platforms. And with these programs we can create
videos out of pictures and voice recording, but we can also record whatever we
do in our computer!</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">Before I go any further,
it is convenient to define this last type of video-recording: screencasting. It
is basically the digital recording of whatever we do in our computer screen, which
can and is usually accompanied by voiceover narration. We can screencast by
using a Screen Capture Software (SCS), such as Screen-o-matic, Jing, Screenr,
CamStudio, Tildee, all of which are free, and also paid software like Camtasia.
This type of video has been used in a variety of fields so far, but
pedagogically it seems to be more commonly used to create tutorials or to
extend classroom lectures. Its use has been reported to be really successful
when it comes to providing students with information and additional access to
teaching and materials. The possibilities opened by this asynchronous access to
learning materials, not only help us teachers whenever we need to make up for
missed classes, but also to review materials given in class. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">Apart form this,
screencasting has also proven to be useful to respond and give feedback to our
students assignments, specifically those submitted in an electronic format such
as a Word document, a Power Point presentation, a Web site or even a video.
According to research, screencasting is a better vehicle for in depth
explanatory feedback than traditional written comments: as you check your
students work in your computer, you can record while you highlight and give on
the spot comments or corrections to what your students have done; this material
is later accessible to the students and can be watched over and over again if
necessary and generate deeper reflections on the students’ own mistakes.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">Overall, we could list a
few of many uses for screencasting:</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US"> - To teach how to use a web tool by making a short
tutorial. Here you’ll find an example of a tutorial I made on how to open a Wikispaces
classroom, using Camtasia. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Z4GTYuDetLs" width="560"></iframe></span></span></span></span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US"> - To give feedback to our students’ work.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US"> - As video lecture.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">- To make presentations.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">Another useful tool is
VoiceThread, a web platform where you can create your own slideshows, upload
pictures, video and images; you can also add comments on these by adding your
own voice. These and many other tools I
could count, but I prefer to focus on how these technologies are useful not
only to make our classes more dynamic, give extra material or create a deeper
connection with our students; our students can also use these tools on their
own to carry out several types of activities, such as doing oral presentations,
preparing projects such as making a short movie or tutorial, practise their use
of the L2 and so on. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">If you’re interested in
the use of screencasting in the ESL classroom I strongly recommend you to read
this article by Riki Thompson and Meredith J. Lee, ‘Talking with Students
Through Screencasting: Experimentation with Video Feedback to Improve Student
Learning”. In this article, the authors reflect on how important it is to give
constructive feedback to our students, particularly written work, and how
screencasting is a potential tool to respond to assignments submitted in an
electronic format.<br />
</span><a href="http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/talking-with-students-through-screencasting-experimentations-with-video-feedback-to-improve-student-learning/">http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/talking-with-students-through-screencasting-experimentations-with-video-feedback-to-improve-student-learning/</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">I recommend you to have
a look at this post by Deniz Atesok as well, ‘VoiceThread & Ways of Using
it in EFL/ESL classes’. Here you may find some very good ideas and activities
that can benefit from the use of a tool such as VoiceThread. </span><a href="http://denizatesok.edublogs.org/2011/03/31/voicethread-ways-of-using-it-in-eflesl-classes/">http://denizatesok.edublogs.org/2011/03/31/voicethread-ways-of-using-it-in-eflesl-classes/</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">Deniz Atesok also gives
us some tips and ideas on how to use YouTube videos in the post ‘Using YouTube
to Teach Productive Skills’. Apart from learning how to make a video for our
classroom, it is part of our development as teachers to learn how to use existent
material, specially realia, that is available on the web for us to take as much
advantage as we can of ICTs: </span><a href="http://denizatesok.edublogs.org/2011/05/21/using-youtube-to-teach-productive-skills/"><span lang="EN-US">http://denizatesok.edublogs.org/2011/05/21/using-youtube-to-teach-productive-skills/</span></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">Finally, I found this
video on YouTube about an ESL course whose project was to make a video. It is a
sample of how students can practice their language through task-based learning,
in a collaborative environment and using information and communication
technologies: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39o0bh42C_c"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39o0bh42C_c</span></a></span></span></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341728134104662033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522955085235201789.post-87845533753672185572014-06-03T16:50:00.000-04:302014-06-05T21:34:09.640-04:30Podcasting for ESL-EFL purposes<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">As I’ve
mentioned in previous entries, we’re living in a mobile society. We’re never in
one place, and we can have Internet access almost everywhere we go. And apart
from the creation of resources such as apps specially made for mobile devices
such as iPhones, there’s something else that has become a simpler task
nowadays: distribution of audio and video files. And this is when the term
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">Podcasting,
a combination of the words iPod and Broadcasting, implies the delivery and
distribution of audio and video files over the internet in ordered to be
listened on mobile devices and personal computers, this through the use of RSS
(Really Simple Syndication). Here lies the real novelty of podcasting, the
fact that this audio/video content can be downloaded automatically. In fact,
with a ‘podcast receiver’ device (such as iTunes) you can simply upload tons of
audio material or podcasts in your mp3 or mobile with high speed internet
connection.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">Anyhow,
what we care about is, how can teachers take advantage of this technology? To
begin with, the students can listen to these materials (radio programs,
recorded conversations and so on) while they’re travelling, in a waiting room
or even when simply commuting. This allows them constant exposure to the
language they are learning, since they have the possibility to listen to a
variety of material in the target language and about many different topics of
their interest.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">Appart from
being exposed to real and authentic extracts of the target language, this
material can supplement the listening we find in textbooks and provide extra
listening possibilities, not only inside but also outside the classroom. I
myself have used podcasts related to a specific topic in the curriculum in
order to complement my classes and provide my students with further listening
practice than the textbook materials can allow. Furthermore, the students can
be exposed to different varieties of the language and feel optimistic to
discuss about what they just heard.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">I have even
used podcasts the same way I use online videos, adding simple listening tasks
which can be as simple as note-taking, answering questions, guessing the topic,
doing true/false and/or multiple-choice exercises to mention a few. The use of
podcasts in the ESL/EFL classroom is so widely accepted that we can find banks
of material which teachers can access to in order to include them in their
lessons, supported by exercises and transcripts.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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teachers can use podcasts further. As part of a class project, or for them to
practice their speaking and pronunciation, the students can be encouraged to
create their own podcasts and publish them for a real audience (e.g. classroom
discussions, interviews, reports, speech work, etc.). This not only provides
students with practice on a particular skill, but also promotes students’
engagement with the language they’re producing aimed to a wider, real,
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">Podcasting
is still a very recent but promising tool for English language teaching. Moreover,
less explored but also promising is the use of webcasting, similar to
podcasting, but which implies live transmission. In other words, we could have
our students communicating in real time, not only with their peers, but also
with EFL students in different parts of the world, involving them in really
exiting cultural exchanges. This is already possible through sites such as EFL
Bridges, for example, where students can call and chat to students from all
around the world. Also, even though it’s a bit more demanding and harder to set
up and produce, having our students produce video podcasting is another
promising way to engage our learners, with programs and sites that allow the
recording of video as well, such as Podomatic.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">To finish, I invite you to listen to a sample of an interview-structured podcast made for my course on ICT in ELT. The conversation took place through <i>Skype</i>, recorded with <i>MP3 Skype Recorder</i>, edited in an audio editing program named <i>Audacity</i> and finally uploaded to <i>Podbean.com</i></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">Recommended
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">Chris Evans
in his article ‘The Effectiveness of m-learning in the form of podcast revision
lectures in higher education’ describes how effective has been podcasting as a
tool in m-learning, specifically to teaching undergraduate students in higher
education. <a href="http://www.cblt.soton.ac.uk/multimedia/PDFsMM09/Effect%20of%20mobile%20learning%20in%20the%20form%20of%20podcast%20revision%20lectures%20in%20higher%20education.pdf">http://www.cblt.soton.ac.uk/multimedia/PDFsMM09/Effect%20of%20mobile%20learning%20in%20the%20form%20of%20podcast%20revision%20lectures%20in%20higher%20education.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">Also, if
you’re interested in developSkype Recordering your proficiency on how to produce and publish
podcasts and how to implement them in the language classroom, we recommend you
to take a look at this blog, ‘Podcasting for the ESL-EFL classroom’. <a href="http://podcasting2013evo.blogspot.com/">http://podcasting2013evo.blogspot.com/</a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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this is an interesting material on an experience using student-generated video
podcasts in a Japanese EFL classroom, written by Ami Christensen, that may give
you some ideas on how to use this resource in any future projects. <a href="http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/65612">http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/65612</a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So far we’ve mentioned
blogs and blogging as one of the most popular tools that Web 2.0 has offered to
teachers. But there’s another web application that is gaining popularity in EFL
teaching: the wiki, an interactive and dynamic website that allows you to add,
modify and delete content in collaboration with others. As blogs, they’re free
and easy to create, but, while blogs are public, the wikis give you the option
to create a private space in which only invited members can participate. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Whether public or
private, depending on the organizer’s settings, all users or members of a wiki
site can create, edit and contribute to an apparent nonfinite number of pages,
and it doesn’t only allow you to add texts or photos, but also videos, gadgets,
widgets and more. In other words, it provides different editing tools and
templates, as well as it allows you to add several web applications.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Wikis can be used for
different educational purposes: for syllabus, to make content accessible in
seminars, as platform for course projects or workshops, for forums and
discussions and as an extra-classroom space for teaching and learning. Wikis
can be beneficial for both students and teachers in many ways, because they:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">a.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><i>Improve communication and interaction</i>: the
students have the opportunity to share opinions and information either through
commenting on the teachers’ or their partners’ works and pages. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">b.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><i>Encourage students’ participation</i>:
wiki’s options of posting comments or having discussions fosters the students’
participation, as well as the teacher can give them the task of commenting
about something specific that leads to whole class discussion.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">c.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><i>Promote collaborative work</i>: the fact that the
students are integral part of the wiki space, with the possibility of editing
and collaborating to the site’s content, may give the students a sense of
community and responsibility. Also, specific tasks prepared by the teacher may
demand collaborative work from them.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">d.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><i>Facilitate projects</i>: wiki is a space where students can play an important
part at, as well as it’s ideal to create specific class or groups projects.
Platforms such as Wikispaces, for example, have a ‘Classroom’ modality apart
from the traditional wiki, where the creator of the page has the tool to start
projects by giving specific assignments to a determined group of users.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">e.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><i>Help to develop students’ reading and writing skills</i>: teachers have the opportunity to provide students with more material
for them to read and also to send particular writing tasks, but the fact of
only writing a comment about a particular page content is already writing
practice. Besides the fact that not only the teacher, but also their peers, will
have access to their writing gives the student a feeling of commitment with
what they write.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">f.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><i>Provide a space for sharing resources</i>: as
it was mentioned before, not only can we send our students extra material for
them to work on, we can also lead them to blogs or sites where they can find
more material and even have material used in class available for them (e.g.
presentations, worksheets, and so on)</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">g.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><i>Improve students-students and teacher-students relationship</i>: as the sense of community increases, students get to know a bit more about
each other, but also the teacher knows more about the students, almost as much
as they get to know about their teacher. This gives teachers a great advantage,
since lessons can be planned around the students’ favorite topics and even taking
into account their wishes and past experiences. Sometimes, Wikis can give you
more information about our students than a one-day Needs Analysis. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">h.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><i>Develops creativity</i>: both teachers and students’ creativity have a space
to grow in a Wiki. Since you can create as many pages as you like, add gadgets
and any kind of audiovisual material (e.g., pictures, videos, podcasts and so
on), teachers have the opportunity to adventure and propose a variety of
activities and tasks that might not have been possible in a traditional
classroom. Teachers and students practically have no limits when it comes to
resources since the web gives us a large amount of material, which encourages
us to do something different.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">There’s a lot of
material on the web devoted to the use of Wikis in the classroom and I could
recommend you the next:</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This article by
Vanderbilt University may give you more ideas on how to use a wiki, and the
writers even give you real examples of how other instructors are using wikis. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Also, it’s interesting the fact that they mention the difference between
working with a wiki and using a blog. <a href="http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/wikis/">http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/wikis/</a></span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Since we’ve mentioned
online learning in previous posts, this article can also be of your interest: ‘Why Wikis? Student Perceptions of Using Wikis in
Online Coursework’ by Faye Deters, Kristen Cuthrell and Joe Stapleton, which
shows the perceptions of a particular group of students in online instructions
about using wikis. It also reflects around the benefits and limitations of this
tool. <a href="http://jolt.merlot.org/vol6no1/deters_0310.pdf">http://jolt.merlot.org/vol6no1/deters_0310.pdf</a></span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Finally,
I recommend you to read ‘Use of Wikis in Second/Foreign Language Classes: A
Literature Review‘, by Mimi Li. In this article, the author examines and
reviews literature regarding the use of Wikis in the ELT classroom, (i.e.
theories, tasks, wiki applications) and categorizing it into different topics.
This is an article which can help you if you’re interested in the state of the
topic so far and gives you a base for further academic research. <a href="http://callej.org/journal/13-1/Li_2012.pdf">http://callej.org/journal/13-1/Li_2012.pdf</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">Recapitulating, it’s
clear that nowadays learners of all ages are every time more and more familiar
with information technologies and they’re expected that to be more accessible no
time. Internet has practically become our best friend, a friend that provides
us with greater opportunities for interactivity, knowledge acquisition and
control as users. Hence, English Language Teaching has benefitted from many tools
that the web offers, for instance, Web 1.0 allowed schools and universities to facilitate
information and learning material to any user who could access the web, even
those geographically distant; and with the emergence of Web 2.0, a more
interactive network to access information was born, one that allows users’
active participation in the built of new knowledge and experiences. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">One of the most used platforms
in language teaching has been the weblog, more commonly known as blog; a sort
of online journal which users can create, design and continuously update. As a
Web 2.0 tool, blogs utilize a simple interface, which makes it simple for their
users to be part of all the process of its creation and maintenance, since no
knowledge of programming or web-scripting is required. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">This same blog was
created rapidly and according to my taste: I chose the color, the format, the
font and I myself in less than five minutes can add and modify its content. Moreover,
I’m even using it as a journal of what I’ve learned in my course on ICT in the
ELT classroom, and also to share my knowledge and experience acquired. I also
have a list of blogs that connect me with other journals created by my peers.
As learners, blogs help us share and discuss knowledge and information, which
certainly increases learning performance.</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">There are many uses for
blogs: as course syllabus, as professional websites, for free publishing and so
on. But what about the benefits they can bring to English language learners? As
teachers, what exactly can blogs do for our students? I’d like to number some
of many possibilities, or the ones which I consider more significant:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">a.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US">Stimulate students with further reading practice:</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> blogging has proven to be very beneficial to encourage our learners to
read in the target language, especially extensive reading, since the students
are more motivated to do so in the online environment than they would be in the
classroom.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">b.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US">Provide students with hyperlinks to appropriate resources on the web</span></i><span lang="EN-US">: apart from materials selected to follow the course’s syllabus, the web
gives us the facility to guide our students to various sites (or blogs) with
extra material that can be useful for them to learn and practice their skills
in the L2.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">c.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US">Encourage shy students to participate</span></i><span lang="EN-US">: shy
students tend to find it easier to socialize and communicate online rather than
face-to-face, and under the protection of a screen they’re more likely to enjoy
sharing their thoughts and participating in group work and projects than in a
traditional classroom setting.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">d.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US">Stimulate out-of-class discussion with their peer</span></i><span lang="EN-US">s: apart from in-site discussion in the classroom, students can have an
alternative space to share their opinions about various topics, as well as work
on their language learning and help their peers in this process.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">e.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US">Foster a sense of community among learners</span></i><span lang="EN-US">: by
encouraging our students to explore their knowledge and exchange information,
they’re more likely to feel part of a community rather than isolated learners.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">f.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US">Promote learner-centred learning environment</span></i><span lang="EN-US">: the
web becomes a learning environment that allows the students to learn at their
own pace and also propose topics or materials of their and their partners’
interest.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">g.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US">Encourage writing practice</span></i><span lang="EN-US">: blogs provide a real
audience for the students’ writing, so they may be more aware of the importance
of what and how they write than if they were writing for the teacher only.
Also, they’re practicing this skill in a meaningful and authentic environment
for them when they comment on posts.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">h.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US">Fosters students’ creation of online journals of their written work</span></i><span lang="EN-US">: learners can keep their blog linked to a course as an electronic
portfolio of their written work and keep track of their own development over
time.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">i.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US">Promote collaborative and project based learning</span></i><span lang="EN-US">: students can use blogs as part of a particular project, working in teams
in order to get the best results and a meaningful outcome.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">These are some of many
reasons why teachers should be literate in the uses and possibilities of
blogging and encourage their use among learners. Furthermore, there are three
particular types of blogs for use in the ELT classroom, and their
characteristics and advantages are summarized in the article <cite><span style="font-style: normal;">‘Weblogs for use with ESL classes’
by Aaron Patric Campbell. In this article, the author gives some tips on how to
put into use blogs in the ESL classroom and also mentions software available to
do so.</span></cite><cite><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></cite></span><a href="http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Campbell-Weblogs.html">http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Campbell-Weblogs.html</a><cite></cite></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><cite><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal;">This section of the British Council website devoted
to blogging in ELT can also give you a few more tips on how to use this
resource in the classroom, reasons to do so, how to manage the settings and
even gives you some ideas for activities. </span></cite><a href="http://esol.britishcouncil.org/resources/blogging-elt"><span lang="EN-US">http://esol.britishcouncil.org/resources/blogging-elt</span></a></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><cite><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal;">Finally, I recommend you to read </span></cite><span lang="EN-US">‘Using Blogs to Enhance Critical Reflection and Community of Practice’
by Shih-Hsien Yang as well. This article goes more in-depth in the benefits of
using blogs in order to foster critical reflection and communities of practice
based on the authors’ research using blogging in teacher training programmes. </span><a href="http://www.ifets.info/journals/12_2/2.pdf"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.ifets.info/journals/12_2/2.pdf</span></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">In the previous post we surfed through basic concepts
that XXI-century teachers must be aware of, such as mobile learning, e-learning
and so on. As we did, we should have realized how teaching and learning
typologies have fed from the web, and therefore, its evolution has inevitably
caused changes in the way technology is used in ELT. As the web evolves,
teachers, instructional designers, trainers, have to adapt their infrastructure
for interacting and delivering content. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Therefore, it’s necessary for teachers to know the
basics about the evolution of the web in order to understand changes in the
part technology plays in the ELT classroom and moreover, how further development
of the web is reshaping and will impact the way we teach.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Q6dvvUAXZe6k881KKiO2qWp1fadRP8GnvJwC5jTG58Gs-5WaKNi6-4uQUkeSTbEmE_rTi_4p4A8vymgi5YPRbmZQRKbEQfWLkA5W3c4J_8IBJ6QraO1NnuJWyEiAvVf6vcsWSfgaA4U/s1600/5046905848_f4742c40b3_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Q6dvvUAXZe6k881KKiO2qWp1fadRP8GnvJwC5jTG58Gs-5WaKNi6-4uQUkeSTbEmE_rTi_4p4A8vymgi5YPRbmZQRKbEQfWLkA5W3c4J_8IBJ6QraO1NnuJWyEiAvVf6vcsWSfgaA4U/s1600/5046905848_f4742c40b3_z.jpg" height="345" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">The first generation sites, better known as Web 1.0,
were introduced in the 1980s with the creation of the World Wide Web (WWW)
interface. These sites were mostly read only and mainly with the sole purpose
to share information; it was some kind of library in which we could access
information on the web, but this information couldn’t be changed by the general
users in any way, being the owner of the site the only one who could carry out
any modification. Also, some knowledge of programming was necessary to create
and modify a site.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">However, 2000 brought the rise of the Social Web or
Web 2.0, with sites such as Facebook and Amazon. We can still use it to receive
information as passive readers, but its particularity lies on the fact that
users can also contribute with their own knowledge and experience
(user-contributed content), making it more interactive and highly
collaborative. Sites such as Blogger or Wikipedia allow the users to modify the
content without the need of a particular knowledge of programming; in other
words, Web 2.0 meant a more useful-friendly framework.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">But innovations in Artificial Intelligence and in
computer science have occurred so fast that, without even noticing, a different
internet, the Web 3.0, is emerging. Also known as the Semantic Web, it is
proposed to be a web capable to understand human-produced content. It is
believed to be a continuation of Web 2.0 in a certain way, but, even though
websites in the Web 2.0 somehow communicate, in the Web 3.0 they’ll not only
share information, but will be able to understand this information
(understanding of natural language), analyze it and produce the results
expected by the user. It’s focused on the individual, since the more a user
uses the web, the more this learns from the proper user (interests, job, etc.)
and the more able to anticipate the user’s needs. Previously, we mentioned how
society is becoming more and more mobile, and this is likely to increase in the
near future, when Web 3.0 make the internet more and more invisible, not only
found in a computer, a mobile or a tablet, but also in our home appliances and
clothes. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">This may seem already amazing for us, but this is
already happening, and further changes are expected: a Web 4.0 or Virtual Web,
which would transform the web in a digital landscape, is already foreseen and changes
are expected to show firstly in the development of online massive role-playing
videogames. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">How will teachers adapt and incorporate these
technologies into their classrooms? We’ll find the way when the time comes.
Using the web has proven to be tremendously useful and beneficial for ELT, and
this is not likely to change since such promising technologies are to come. If
you’re interested in this topic and would like to read about it more in detail,
you can take a look at the documents below:</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">‘Adding Intelligence to Internet: Service Web 3.0’ by
Deependra Kr. Dwivedi and others, is an interesting paper which goes through
the evolution of the web and how Web 3.0 should work in terms of data
organization and its relation with the user. </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.vsrdjournals.com/CSIT/Issue/2011_5_May/4_Deependra_Kr_Dwivedi_Research_Communication_May_2011.pdf">http://www.vsrdjournals.com/CSIT/Issue/2011_5_May/4_Deependra_Kr_Dwivedi_Research_Communication_May_2011.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Another useful resource
is ‘World Wide Web in the Service of Scholling: Semantic Web as a Solution for
Language Teaching in Cypriot Secondary School’, written by Neofytou Chrystalla,
in which the author analyzes the advantages of the Semantic Web in teaching
secondary school, specifically to facilitate the user, whether be teachers or
learners, to choose appropriate texts for their learning process. <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1093/paper11.pdf"><span lang="EN-US">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1093/paper11.pdf</span></a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Finally, we recommend
you to read ‘Semantic Web Technology for Web-Based Teaching and Learning: A
Roadmap’ by Edmond Holohan and Claus Pahl’, which will provide you with more in-depth
information regarding the possible future uses of the Semantic Web, particularly in distance
and computer-aided teaching and learning. <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://doras.dcu.ie/15931/1/SEMANTIC_WEB_TECHNOLOGY_FOR_WEB-BASED_TEACHING_AND_LEARNING_A_ROADMAP.pdf">http://doras.dcu.ie/15931/1/SEMANTIC_WEB_TECHNOLOGY_FOR_WEB-BASED_TEACHING_AND_LEARNING_A_ROADMAP.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341728134104662033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522955085235201789.post-3978342390451254972014-05-15T19:28:00.001-04:302014-05-15T19:48:24.379-04:30Basic Concepts of ICT in ELT<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">From the 1980s until today, the development and use of
technology in language teaching has gone through several changes, from
initially limited to gap filling and word processing, through the development
of web 2.0 tools and platforms, to the arrival of the social web and mobile
technologies. Step by step, hardware
advances influenced changes in how learners and teachers took advantage of
technological devices for their own learning processes and teaching preparation,
as well as they led to changes in course books’, activities and materials design
to include in the classrooms. Without going any deeper in this, it is our goal
to introduce and clarify some of the most common terms used in ELT related to
ICT development, and these are the ones below:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">-<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;"><i>Electronic
learning</i> is what we call any kind of learning assisted by information and
communication technologies. There’s a tendency to limit this concept to the use
of web resources, however, it includes any kind of learning involving
electronic technology, such as interactive CD-roms, videos, video conferencing
or hand-held computers.</span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">-<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;"><i>Distance
Learning</i> involves the deliver of information, classes and materials to someone
distant by using different channels, not necessarily via websites or e-mail,
and it’s typically held at college level. The students work at home or at the
office, and they’re usually distant geographically. Nowadays, there are massive
courses of this type which offer interactive participation and open access
thanks to the web and other network technologies, but distant learning involves
materials that can be both printed and electronic media.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;"><i>Online
Learning</i> refers to a type of schooling in which everything is held and stored on
the web, and supports a two way communication via a computer network so the
students can communicate with each other, the teacher and other staff. Materials
used combine networking technologies with audios and videos.</span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">-<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;"><i>Blended
Learning</i> is an education program in which face-to-face classroom methods are
combined with computer-mediated activities. The students learn in parts through
online delivery of content and instruction with some element of control over
time, place, path or pace.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;"><i>Mobile
Learning</i>, involves learning with mobile devices, with technologies which
include hand-held computers, MP3 players, notebooks, mobile phones and tablets.
Learners can learn anywhere and at any time since it focuses on the mobility of
the learners, who are considered part of an increasingly mobile population.</span></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> These are some of the
basic concepts related to the use of ICT in ELT that we must be aware of.
However, sometimes we may wonder how to incorporate technology in our classroom
and all the factors we should consider in order to use them successfully. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">In my case, our classrooms
are equipped with PCs with broadband internet connection and ActivInspire, a
software which allows us to create our own interactive presentations for their
use in the classroom. Most classrooms are equipped with ActivInspire
Interactive White Boards as well, connected to the PC, and those classrooms
that don’t, are equipped with projectors. Also, digital versions of the
students’ course books are installed in these PCs, which gives us fast access
to pictures, tapescripts and other multimedia material that accompanies course
book activities. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This gives me more
opportunities, not only to create visually-attractive materials, but also to
provide my students with more realistic input through multimedia resources and
online material. For instance, students may practice their listening skills by
watching a short documentary or listening to a song, practice their writing by
telling a story based on an add or a music-clip, and so on. I’ve also had the
chance to use set of activities and games from web-sites devoted to developing
online interactive materials for learners, such as
Learnenglish.britishcouncil.org or Efllecturer.blogspot.com. I even take
advantage of these web resources to encourage students to practice their skills
outside the classroom, sometimes sending tasks involving watching videos and
doing activities online as homework.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There are many other
resources, such as mobile apps, virtual worlds or wikis that I haven’t
experimented with yet, but there’s certainly lot of potential in technology to
make our classes more dynamic, realistic and meaningful to our students. </span></span></div>
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you’d like to read more about these topics I recommend you the following
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distance learning environments: Are they the same?’ is an article written by
Joi L. Moore and other colleagues in which they go through the different uses
and meanings that have been given to the concepts of e-learning, online
learning and distance learning. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://scholar.vt.edu/access/content/group/5deb92b5-10f3-49db-adeb-7294847f1ebc/e-Learning%20Scott%20Midkiff.pdf">https://scholar.vt.edu/access/content/group/5deb92b5-10f3-49db-adeb-7294847f1ebc/e-Learning%20Scott%20Midkiff.pdf</a></span></span></div>
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those related to traditional learning settings, and some useful tips about what
to take into account when using technology in the classroom. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.distancelearningportal.com/articles/269/blended-learning-e-learning-and-online-learning-whats-important.html">http://www.distancelearningportal.com/articles/269/blended-learning-e-learning-and-online-learning-whats-important.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Learning (WPS ML), licensed and granted by UNESCO. It introduces thoughts on
the present state of Mobile Learning and its future, as well as it reflects on
the barriers and enablers that are part of the challenge to promote Mobile
learning around the world. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002196/219637e.pdf">http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002196/219637e.pdf</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Let’s start with the fact that technology is all
around us and it plays an important part in our daily lives. It’s present in
our homes, our workplace, on the streets; it can even travel with us. As
communication and information technologies become more complex and massive, our
society’s complexity gowns as well: we’re now a knowledge and information based
society, and every time we are more and more a mobile society. Every day
processes such as transferring money demand to be carried out through the web, manipulating
diverse technological gadgets. We then have to recognize that, as members of
this society, we must be literate on how to exploit technology in our
advantage; in other words, we must know how to effectively use these
technologies because we are now living in a digital world.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Teachers like us, not only as members of this society,
but also as professionals whose job is preparing others to perform effectively
as citizens, cannot stay behind. Society’s demands towards teachers (and
learners) have now changed as social dynamics have due to the deep
incorporation of these technologies in our daily life.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"> Basically, I consider the teacher in the XXI century
must:</span></span></span></span></span>
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<ul>
<li><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Have
knowledge of basic hardware and software operations, as well as know how to use
basic communication software and applications.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Have
enough subject knowledge to be able to incorporate technologies into the established
curriculum, particularly if its design doesn’t incorporate ICT .</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Use
technology wisely, always aware of when and where to use it, but also when not
to use them for classroom activities, taking into account our learners’ needs.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Be
able to use these technologies in a variety of classroom settings (pair, group,
individual work or with the whole class) and make sure all students have equal
access to them.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Know
the learning processes our students are going through in order to help them along
and design ICT-based activities and tasks to support and assist the students’
knowledge acquisition.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Support
collaborative work and student-centred activities and use technology to create
this collaborative environment.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Develop
the ability to structure problem-solving tasks in order to reflect on daily
global matters and have enough knowledge of web tools and applications to help
students access the information they need to complete the tasks.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Train
students on how to discriminate information gathered, carry out a proper
analysis of new knowledge acquired.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Support
the development of the students’ knowledge creation skills and encourage them
to share this knowledge through different means available.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Know
how to take advantage of the many web resources in order to acquire more
subject knowledge for our own professional development.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Be
able and willing to collaborate with other teachers, as well as access experts
on the subject matter to develop professionally.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Be
willing to experiment with these technologies in order to learn and share our
knowledge with other professionals through professional communities and other
spaces the web offers.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">As
we can see, the XXI century is demanding, and changes occur so fast that
teachers may have a hard time trying to keep up-to-date, not only regarding
their subject knowledge, but also the different resources that can help us do
our job. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now
I wonder, am I ready to face the challenges of teaching in the XXI century? I
think I am. I’m a curious person, always trying to explore new resources and
dynamics to give my students the best I can give. I want them to learn in a
meaningful way, so I do my best with the resources I have access to in order to
give them high quality education and prepare them the best I can for the
challenges they’ll face in their daily lives. We should always remember that,
as we teach, we learn, and I’m open to new knowledge. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">How
about you?</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">If
you’d like to read a bit more about the topic before sharing your thoughts,
here you’ll find three publications that might be of your interest:</span></span></span></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span>‘Blooms Taxonomy Blooms Digitally’, written by
Andrew Churches, explains how Bloom’s taxonomy of cognitive objectives, a
theoretical basis to understand the process of learning, can be adapted to the
new objectives that emerged with the integration of information and
communication technologies into the classrooms, as well as into the lives of
our students. <a href="http://www.techlearning.com/studies-in-ed-tech/0020/blooms-taxonomy-blooms-digitally/44988">http://www.techlearning.com/studies-in-ed-tech/0020/blooms-taxonomy-blooms-digitally/44988</a></span></span></span></span>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">‘Constructing on Constructivism:
The Role of Technology’ by Nanjappa A. and Grant M. is also a very useful article,
which examines the relationship between technology and constructivist
strategies (such as collaborative and cooperative learning methods) and how new
teacher roles emerge from this paradigm. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://ejite.isu.edu/Volume2No1/nanjappa.pdf"><span lang="EN-US">http://ejite.isu.edu/Volume2No1/nanjappa.pdf</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></span></span></li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">And last, but not
least, you could have a look at ‘Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants’ by Marc
Prensky, an article that describes two different generations and how this
claims for us teachers to practice new ways of teaching in order to connect the
students with their own learning process. It’s a very interesting article that
can help us understand our students from a socio-psychological point of view. <a href="http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf">http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></li>
</ul>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341728134104662033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522955085235201789.post-67578689141389890472014-05-13T18:24:00.002-04:302014-05-17T23:08:19.961-04:30Welcome to my blog!<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">This blog is devoted to share with all of you my reflections on the different topics my classmates and I have worked all along the course Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) ran by professor Evelyn Izquierdo as part of the Msc programme in English as a Foreign Language (Universidad Central de Venezuela).</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Apart from being part our assignments, it is also aimed to raise awareness of the potential these technologies have as means, not only to facilitate language learning and practise, but also to promote collaborative learning and students' (and teachers) litteracy in these technologies.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">What you you are up to see on my posts are, not only my own reflections, but I may also share with you some materials related to the topic that might be of your interest.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I am looking forward to any ideas or comments you would like to share with me as well!</span></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15341728134104662033noreply@blogger.com0