Emerging Technologies for EFL Teachers and Students: the Web 2.0 and its possibilities.
PPT Presentation for both an online audience at Learning Times (http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=1122376)
and f2f EFL teachers in the Auditorioum Colegio San Bartolome, Rosario, Argentina, September 28, 2007, 9 pm GMT. Check your LOCAL TIME here.
Order of Topics to be Presented:
* Social Bookmarking (will mention the simpler ones, like Backflip and MyBookmarks, to go up the ladder and show Del.icio.us) and from there:
Moira:
Her Virtual Cafe + her learners Multiply blog and web conferencing.
* Blogs :
Hala :
http://tagananet2.blogspot.com/
explain how you kept communication going, stds’ reactions and work.
"It is also OK with me if I talk about my class blog, and how each student had his own later, then some went not only on practicing the language, but using them as a place to reflect about life in general and how this helped them to overcome difficult moments in their life.You know my human-ware " issue.Collaboration leads to transferring values, unconsciously!"
Bee:
"Rita, I will start with my own class blog "Bee-blogging from the Tropics at
http://lycee.wordpress.com
comment on open webpublishing as opposed to locked classrooms
and then move on to how teachers can find people to connect to in the
Exchange: http://dekita.org/exchange
and find student posts
in the Orchard: http://dekita.org/orchard
There is the possibility of projecting the sites from Learning Times but here are the slides anyway. 
bee.ppt
It would be interesting if someone (Carla?) could record the presentation and then you could upload the different slides with the voice on Slideshare with links to the different sites shown in the comment area for your teachers to go back to and view at ease instead of logging into Elluminate and having to listen to the whole session.
Nina:
http://agu2007.blogspot.com/
Emphasis on stds’ blogs linked to yours and how they documented their experiences during their trip, compiling a record of a learning time shared together, with photos.
* Podcasting (will show mine, as an example of blog + audio)
* Webcasting
Carla:
http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1008
First, I'll go over the concept of Webcasting. Then, I'll tell a bit about my Webcasting journey and how it fits the educational context. I'll finish by showing how much fun you can have with it and how much we can learn.
All my journey is documented at http://explorations.bloxi.jp/webcasters-adventures/
Our last gastronomic show: http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1362
Our Reading Treasures Show: http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1223
* Photosharing
Saša:
Explain briefly how you managed to motivate stds to prepare these photostories using PHOTOSHARING: Bubbleshare
http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/29395.8ab9f72fca4/overview#754085
"ok - I'll send you my slide"
* Videosharing (will show one example from YouTube)
* Wikis + Blend of Web 2.0 tools with voice.
* Intercultural Communicative Courses Online
* Intercultural Classroom Connections
Vance:
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers
http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com
http://www.vancestevens.com/vance.htm
* Putting everything Together: RSS plus Bloglines, Tagging plus Technorati and Del.icio.us = Writingmatrix
It looks like I'm doing RSS, bloglines, tagging, technorati, and Del.icio.us and how these tools were used in the writingmatrix project
Slide one defines each item and briefly explains its significance
Slide two explains how these components were brought together to drive the Writingmatrix project
Slide 1
RSS
A popular video explaining RSS is simple terms, Commoncraft's Video: RSS in Plain English at http://commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
Bloglines or Google Reader
Will Richardson's RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators http://www.weblogg-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/RSSFAQ4.pdf
tagging
technorati, TechScreencast's http://www.extremepodcasting.com/screencasts/technorati.html
something a little better: http://www.preetamrai.com/weblog/archives/2005/03/27/tagged-web-and-using-technorati/
Del.icio.us
Again, Lee LeFevre at Commoncraft: http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english
Slide 2
- The Writingmatrix collaborative wiki: http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com
- A workshop (2 hours) by Vance Stevens on-site at the TESOL Arabia Abu Dhabi chapter Tactile Tasks and Technical Tips conference, and Rita Zeinstejer online from Argentina, on April 21, 2007 on Writing in a flat world: better blogging through social networking. The recording is here: and the slides here.
- An online presentation on May 18, 2007 at the WiAOC online conference by Vance Stevens, Nelba Quintana, Rita Zeinstejer, Sasha Sirk, and Doris Molero - Writingmatrix: CONNECTing students with blogs, tags, and social networking - links to recording and slides can be found here: http://webheadsinaction.org/node/174
Dieu, Barbara, and Vance Stevens. (2007), Pedagogical affordances of syndication, aggregation, and mash-up of content on the Web. TESL-EJ, Volume 11, Number 1:
http://tesl-ej.org/ej41/int.html
Slides 3 - 4
* Educational Virtual Communities
How do we find out about all this stuff? Collaborate, share information, develop our skills??
Essentially learning communities enable teachers to
- learn new tools and techniques from one another
- to try them out on one another, increasing familiarity and understanding of the most useful tools
- and then - competently use them with students
- inculcate their use in students, so that students become more multiliterate
Teachers have two important responsibilities in this new age of educational technology
- learn appropriate use of new tools and technologies themselves
- use these with students so that student in turn become multiliterate
There are two fruitful concepts in which to frame the cooperation which fulfills these responsibilities:
1. Communities of practice
2. Distributed Learning Networks
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