Creating blogs and Wikis
Wiki is a Hawaiian word meaning fast. It is a page or collection of webpages where people can start a topic and share their ideas with other people or they can edit on a topic started before and delete as well. Also it creates a meaningful topic associations between different pages. It is up to the visitor making contributions to the creation and development of the site. In wikis anyone can make changes or edits on the postings but in blogs there is blog owner and other people can only comment on posts. Using wiki is very easy, you only log in and get a free account then you start to use it. The most famous one is Wikipedia which is an online encyclopedia. You can add, edit or change on it.
Blog is a web page where you can publish your video, pictures or writings. Blogs are social environment where people can communicate with each other. People can share their journals, audiofiles and comment on other people’s blogs. There are different types of blogs such as; personal blogs, corporate blogs, question blogs and by media type: vlog which is consisting of videos, linklog consisting of links, photoblog consisting of photos.
27 Kasım 2008 Perşembe
22 Kasım 2008 Cumartesi
social bookmarking, creating hot list
Merve ELDEM
Social Bookmarking-Creating Hot lists
Filamentailty is a website that allows the users to create webpages for educational purposes. There are five different activites for the users which are hotlist, multimedia scrapbook, treasure hunt, subject sampler and webquest. Hotlist is the combination of web-based resources. It saves you time. You just enter your url, title and description, the tool tool makes hotlist for you. Scrapbook lets the users to find more detailed resource about their topic. These can be videos, photographs, music files, etc. In treasure hunt you give the sites that are relavant to your topic and by each link you have a question, at the end, you are asked the final question. Sumject sampler is the emotional connection between student and topic. Students are expected to respond to questions from a personal perspec tive. Webquest challenges the students with an issue or topic which requests the students to divide into groups and discuss about topic. Then they combine their assumptions and present them.
In order to create your webpage, you click the start your new page button and then choose the formats explained above. You need to enter your topic name and necessary links, then you can start creating your own activities. Also you need to have a username.
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site. You can have an account freely and then have your favourite bookmarks on these site. So that you can acess to your bookmarks from any computer. Also you can share your list with other users and see their lists. Another feature is that you can tag your lists. In tags you can see the other related links and access to them, too.
WebQuest.org is a tool which helps us create lesson plans. To create WebQuests, first you should log in the site and then you can use QuestGarden. However, it is not free; it costs $20 per a 2-year-subscription or you can use free for 30 days. In this program, you can create your lesson plan step by step also you can reach the other lesson plans on a specific topic from different people. So it is a social environment. Also you can modify your webquest and you can publish it online.
Podcasting is a free program which enables us to share our videos, audio-files with people. You can create your audio-files or videos with microphone, headphones or webcam then upload it to the site. Also you can watch the videos of people by searching a specific topic. You can use this site for fun or about finding information about a topic.
Social Bookmarking-Creating Hot lists
Filamentailty is a website that allows the users to create webpages for educational purposes. There are five different activites for the users which are hotlist, multimedia scrapbook, treasure hunt, subject sampler and webquest. Hotlist is the combination of web-based resources. It saves you time. You just enter your url, title and description, the tool tool makes hotlist for you. Scrapbook lets the users to find more detailed resource about their topic. These can be videos, photographs, music files, etc. In treasure hunt you give the sites that are relavant to your topic and by each link you have a question, at the end, you are asked the final question. Sumject sampler is the emotional connection between student and topic. Students are expected to respond to questions from a personal perspec tive. Webquest challenges the students with an issue or topic which requests the students to divide into groups and discuss about topic. Then they combine their assumptions and present them.
In order to create your webpage, you click the start your new page button and then choose the formats explained above. You need to enter your topic name and necessary links, then you can start creating your own activities. Also you need to have a username.
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site. You can have an account freely and then have your favourite bookmarks on these site. So that you can acess to your bookmarks from any computer. Also you can share your list with other users and see their lists. Another feature is that you can tag your lists. In tags you can see the other related links and access to them, too.
WebQuest.org is a tool which helps us create lesson plans. To create WebQuests, first you should log in the site and then you can use QuestGarden. However, it is not free; it costs $20 per a 2-year-subscription or you can use free for 30 days. In this program, you can create your lesson plan step by step also you can reach the other lesson plans on a specific topic from different people. So it is a social environment. Also you can modify your webquest and you can publish it online.
Podcasting is a free program which enables us to share our videos, audio-files with people. You can create your audio-files or videos with microphone, headphones or webcam then upload it to the site. Also you can watch the videos of people by searching a specific topic. You can use this site for fun or about finding information about a topic.
20 Kasım 2008 Perşembe
Critical Review of Technology
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher
It is available from the following link: http://www.cpr4esl.com/index.html
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher has been designed to make life easier, and instruction more efficient, for those who teach English as a Second or Foreign Language.Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher was created by ESL teacher Gerry Luton, and Martin Holmes, formerly an ESL instructor and now a software designer. The purpose was simply to make the teaching task for Gerry a little easier through use of a tool which would allow him to quickly and easily provide mulitiple opportunities for his students to encounter and review vocabulary. Using the program, a gap-fill exercise to review 15 words can be created in about 3 minutes. Students constantly review vocabulary throughout the session, through gap-fill exercises, crossword puzzles using gap-fill sentences in context as clues, listening exercises using gap-fill sentences, discussions which require use of the target vocabulary, and many other activities.
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher allows you to quickly and easily :
· create gap-fill exercises as hard-copy (paper) documents
· export your exercise into a Hot Potatoes JMatch or JCloze format to create interactive web-based exercises,
· create gap-fill exercises using American, British or Canadian English,
· import a new gap-fill exercise into an existing document,
· introduce new vocabulary for study,
· review vocabulary previously introduced in class,
· repeatedly recycle target vocabulary in varying contexts in order to enhance understanding,
· generate exercises tailor-made to specific students' needs for vocabulary instruction and/or review,
· focus separately on each of the ten sublists of the Academic Word List,
· test vocabulary compehension, and
· provide opportunities for students to practise target vocabulary in discussion activities.
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher consists of a vast collection of sentences in context, illustrating over 2,600 words with a minimum of 15 contexts each, for a total of over 50,000 sentences and 750,000 words of data. Teachers choose the words to study, select from among a variety of sentences using the word and/or its various derivations in context, and with a few simple mouse-clicks, are able to create a complete vocabulary gap-fill exercise.
Furthermore, the program also allows users to edit or delete sentences contained within the database, and users can even add to their personal database collection with words and sentences of their own. Any changes or additions made are automatically saved to disc.
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher is a 32-bit Windows application. This means that it will run on any computer running Windows 98, NT4, 2000, or XP. The Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher software program only takes up about 5Mb of space on your hard drive, or about as much space as a single song.
· Pricing is: One single-user registration Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher: US$50
· Extra seat (allows downloading of the program onto a 2nd computer): US$35
· CDRoom One single-user registration: US$75
How to use this tool?
The setup file is 4.63 mb and it downloads less then one minute. There are words on the left side of the page and you can choose one of them by clicking on it. On the right side of the page there are sentences related with the word you chose. If you choose a suitable sentence and then click on the Use buton. Your sentence appears in the Output section. If you want to have exercises you need to choose the RTF buton. After that, program asks you to name the file and then your word and the sentences related with that word appear. You need to fill in the blanks
He broke the law, and now he has to face the _______________ of his actions.
The victim was _______________ in the chest with a large kitchen knife.
To use Jmatch and JCloze, you need to have hotpotatoes installed on your computer. After choosing the sentences and words and putting them in output section, you choose the buttons of Jmatch and Jcloze, the program asks you a location and filename for your document. Then the files appear and you have the activities.
Evaluation of program
Actually the usage of this program is simple because the name of the items give us the clue about their function. Even if you do not have an idea about them, after clicking a few times on the buttons, you understand the relationship and the service of them in the program. Also the tool does not require any new technology such as a new computer. It is convenient to any kind of computer. It does not force the capacity of your computer or it does not require high speed connection as the program’s components are not complex. To be able to use the Jmatch and Jcloze, you need to download hotpotatoes program. Meanwhile, this tool does not require any special thing such as a webcam but for the listening activity, you can need a headphone.
Both the EFL and ESL can benefit from this tool. Also, any learner with a basic knowledge of computer can use this tool easily. I think that the foreign language students can find the sentences and exercies a bit easy and below their level. However they can use these activities to practice and test their vocabulary knowledge. The tool is also appropriate to the people who learn English individually. They do not need a teacher while doing the exercises because the tool presents a variety of example with the immediate feedback..
This program can be used by students and teachers effectively. The teacher brings the hard copies of the activites and hand out them to the students. So that, the exercies are done under the observation of teacher. Students can make up stories with the words or form new sentences. Then teacher gives homework to the students and each of them is expected to do cloze tests or activities at home then they bring the hard copies of them to the classroom and each of the student chooses the words and activities which they had difficulties.
The tool also offers the students to guess and learn the vocabularies by the help of a variety of different sentences. You can see many sentences and different usages of the words in the context which enhance the learning of the words. The students do not need the classical way of learning a vocabulary by writing many times. The diversity of the sentences increase the perspective of student. Also teachers have the easy way of accessing to many words and examples. However it is lack of some features such as it does not have the definitions of the words. Also it does not have other activities apart from cloze and matching activity. Moreover, it is not free. You need to pay for registration like US$50. If you do not pay, you are need to use a limited version which only offers five sentences for the exercises.
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher
It is available from the following link: http://www.cpr4esl.com/index.html
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher has been designed to make life easier, and instruction more efficient, for those who teach English as a Second or Foreign Language.Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher was created by ESL teacher Gerry Luton, and Martin Holmes, formerly an ESL instructor and now a software designer. The purpose was simply to make the teaching task for Gerry a little easier through use of a tool which would allow him to quickly and easily provide mulitiple opportunities for his students to encounter and review vocabulary. Using the program, a gap-fill exercise to review 15 words can be created in about 3 minutes. Students constantly review vocabulary throughout the session, through gap-fill exercises, crossword puzzles using gap-fill sentences in context as clues, listening exercises using gap-fill sentences, discussions which require use of the target vocabulary, and many other activities.
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher allows you to quickly and easily :
· create gap-fill exercises as hard-copy (paper) documents
· export your exercise into a Hot Potatoes JMatch or JCloze format to create interactive web-based exercises,
· create gap-fill exercises using American, British or Canadian English,
· import a new gap-fill exercise into an existing document,
· introduce new vocabulary for study,
· review vocabulary previously introduced in class,
· repeatedly recycle target vocabulary in varying contexts in order to enhance understanding,
· generate exercises tailor-made to specific students' needs for vocabulary instruction and/or review,
· focus separately on each of the ten sublists of the Academic Word List,
· test vocabulary compehension, and
· provide opportunities for students to practise target vocabulary in discussion activities.
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher consists of a vast collection of sentences in context, illustrating over 2,600 words with a minimum of 15 contexts each, for a total of over 50,000 sentences and 750,000 words of data. Teachers choose the words to study, select from among a variety of sentences using the word and/or its various derivations in context, and with a few simple mouse-clicks, are able to create a complete vocabulary gap-fill exercise.
Furthermore, the program also allows users to edit or delete sentences contained within the database, and users can even add to their personal database collection with words and sentences of their own. Any changes or additions made are automatically saved to disc.
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher is a 32-bit Windows application. This means that it will run on any computer running Windows 98, NT4, 2000, or XP. The Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher software program only takes up about 5Mb of space on your hard drive, or about as much space as a single song.
· Pricing is: One single-user registration Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher: US$50
· Extra seat (allows downloading of the program onto a 2nd computer): US$35
· CDRoom One single-user registration: US$75
How to use this tool?
The setup file is 4.63 mb and it downloads less then one minute. There are words on the left side of the page and you can choose one of them by clicking on it. On the right side of the page there are sentences related with the word you chose. If you choose a suitable sentence and then click on the Use buton. Your sentence appears in the Output section. If you want to have exercises you need to choose the RTF buton. After that, program asks you to name the file and then your word and the sentences related with that word appear. You need to fill in the blanks
He broke the law, and now he has to face the _______________ of his actions.
The victim was _______________ in the chest with a large kitchen knife.
To use Jmatch and JCloze, you need to have hotpotatoes installed on your computer. After choosing the sentences and words and putting them in output section, you choose the buttons of Jmatch and Jcloze, the program asks you a location and filename for your document. Then the files appear and you have the activities.
Evaluation of program
Actually the usage of this program is simple because the name of the items give us the clue about their function. Even if you do not have an idea about them, after clicking a few times on the buttons, you understand the relationship and the service of them in the program. Also the tool does not require any new technology such as a new computer. It is convenient to any kind of computer. It does not force the capacity of your computer or it does not require high speed connection as the program’s components are not complex. To be able to use the Jmatch and Jcloze, you need to download hotpotatoes program. Meanwhile, this tool does not require any special thing such as a webcam but for the listening activity, you can need a headphone.
Both the EFL and ESL can benefit from this tool. Also, any learner with a basic knowledge of computer can use this tool easily. I think that the foreign language students can find the sentences and exercies a bit easy and below their level. However they can use these activities to practice and test their vocabulary knowledge. The tool is also appropriate to the people who learn English individually. They do not need a teacher while doing the exercises because the tool presents a variety of example with the immediate feedback..
This program can be used by students and teachers effectively. The teacher brings the hard copies of the activites and hand out them to the students. So that, the exercies are done under the observation of teacher. Students can make up stories with the words or form new sentences. Then teacher gives homework to the students and each of them is expected to do cloze tests or activities at home then they bring the hard copies of them to the classroom and each of the student chooses the words and activities which they had difficulties.
The tool also offers the students to guess and learn the vocabularies by the help of a variety of different sentences. You can see many sentences and different usages of the words in the context which enhance the learning of the words. The students do not need the classical way of learning a vocabulary by writing many times. The diversity of the sentences increase the perspective of student. Also teachers have the easy way of accessing to many words and examples. However it is lack of some features such as it does not have the definitions of the words. Also it does not have other activities apart from cloze and matching activity. Moreover, it is not free. You need to pay for registration like US$50. If you do not pay, you are need to use a limited version which only offers five sentences for the exercises.
Merve ELDEM Quizfaber and hotpotatoes
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Quizfaber is a tool which helps us to create quizzes in HTML with a Java Script. The users don’t need to know anything about html tags or javascript. It creates different types of questions. These are: Questions with multiple choice in which only one answer is correct, questions with multiple choice in which one or more than one is correct.,
True or false questions, questions with an open end where the student can write his/her answer. Gap filling exercises include a text where some words are empty. Matching words: the students match the first column with the words that are in the second column.
Quizfaber also offers the possibilty of storing result of a quiz exam. Also you can build statistic of quiz results.
Also teacher can give a remark on each given answer so that student can have feedback after each answer. The user can have a maximum time for answering the questions.
At the end of the quiz, the student is given a final mark.
Features:
You can make hypertext quiz, you can insert of multimedia objects. You can have eleven predefinited HTML layout. Also it is possible to write an explanation for each answer. At the end of the quiz, there is immediately the valuation.
What should you install on your PC at first time?
You need to install a web server and a perl interpreter. There are some freeware web server for Windows, easy to install and easy to use:
· Xitami Web Server, for Windows 95/NT; Unix-OpenVMS; Alpha/AXP NT; OS/2 Warp
· ActivePerl of ActiveState, for Windows, Solaris, Linux
What is Hot Potatoes?
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence
1491331
Quizfaber is a tool which helps us to create quizzes in HTML with a Java Script. The users don’t need to know anything about html tags or javascript. It creates different types of questions. These are: Questions with multiple choice in which only one answer is correct, questions with multiple choice in which one or more than one is correct.,
True or false questions, questions with an open end where the student can write his/her answer. Gap filling exercises include a text where some words are empty. Matching words: the students match the first column with the words that are in the second column.
Quizfaber also offers the possibilty of storing result of a quiz exam. Also you can build statistic of quiz results.
Also teacher can give a remark on each given answer so that student can have feedback after each answer. The user can have a maximum time for answering the questions.
At the end of the quiz, the student is given a final mark.
Features:
You can make hypertext quiz, you can insert of multimedia objects. You can have eleven predefinited HTML layout. Also it is possible to write an explanation for each answer. At the end of the quiz, there is immediately the valuation.
What should you install on your PC at first time?
You need to install a web server and a perl interpreter. There are some freeware web server for Windows, easy to install and easy to use:
· Xitami Web Server, for Windows 95/NT; Unix-OpenVMS; Alpha/AXP NT; OS/2 Warp
· ActivePerl of ActiveState, for Windows, Solaris, Linux
What is Hot Potatoes?
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence
Online Conferences
Summary-3
Learning times conferences is done face-to-face and it has the opportunities of reduced overhead for the conference management. Also you do not need any travel requirements for attendees, presenters and exhibitors. It lasts 2-4 days and you have pre and post conference sessions.
The producers cooperate with organizers to develop and keep themselves updated. They have an experience of constantly developing over the course of event ending with awards, entertainment. Each day is highlighted by keynote webcasts. Participants attend to collaborative and conference workshop activities to interact and learn form experts and colleagues.
Learning Times Online Conferences create instant communities that last. There is a rich source of uploaded presentations, images and files so that organizers may use this site for the future. It can also help you take your conference online.
Hybrid Conferences
Because of the world events and economic realities, the number of people attending to conferences and trade-shows has declined. However, it is estimated that the online conferences like learning times will expand the audience. This event will be live by creating a rich and unique atmosphere for the online attendees.
Learning Times offer audiences conference sessions and special events, interactive webcasts of the keynotes. Also presenters provide a second session for online attendees or moderator may present a face-to-face live sessions.
They also offer open mic for connecting with attendees with the web audience. Learning Times produces online communities that support conferences through promotional events. Clients use these communities to produce interactive webcasts with high profile speakers. Also it offers a place for the attendees to form and interact with presenters they have connected. With the follow-up events, the interactions last for long years.
Wiziq is a site which brings students and teachers together regardless of the boundaries. You can meet with other members who share the same subjects of interest. You can find, share, download or upload Powerpoints related with education. Sessions can be adjusted with a single participant or a group. Teaching and learning is just like a virtual classroom.
Through Wiziq, teachers and students can share their knowledge, send your contacts invitations to join Wiziq, you can e-mail your friends about your web mail accounts. You can also search people who have the same interests and communicate with them to share knowledge. Also you can share with other members Powerpoint presentations and slide shows related with education. You can find, share or download presentations that interest you. Online sessions are just like a real classroom where you learn and have a great experience. You can conduct in sessions with live audio or video. Recording for all sessions are available. You can participate in live, online public sessions on educational topics. Because you don’t need any cost of travel or time, it is a good way of face-to-face learning. It is web based with no software download and operates in every system. You can use features like live audio and video communication, text messaging, whiteboard with drawing and writing tools. Finally you can search archives of the previous sessions
Summary-3
Learning times conferences is done face-to-face and it has the opportunities of reduced overhead for the conference management. Also you do not need any travel requirements for attendees, presenters and exhibitors. It lasts 2-4 days and you have pre and post conference sessions.
The producers cooperate with organizers to develop and keep themselves updated. They have an experience of constantly developing over the course of event ending with awards, entertainment. Each day is highlighted by keynote webcasts. Participants attend to collaborative and conference workshop activities to interact and learn form experts and colleagues.
Learning Times Online Conferences create instant communities that last. There is a rich source of uploaded presentations, images and files so that organizers may use this site for the future. It can also help you take your conference online.
Hybrid Conferences
Because of the world events and economic realities, the number of people attending to conferences and trade-shows has declined. However, it is estimated that the online conferences like learning times will expand the audience. This event will be live by creating a rich and unique atmosphere for the online attendees.
Learning Times offer audiences conference sessions and special events, interactive webcasts of the keynotes. Also presenters provide a second session for online attendees or moderator may present a face-to-face live sessions.
They also offer open mic for connecting with attendees with the web audience. Learning Times produces online communities that support conferences through promotional events. Clients use these communities to produce interactive webcasts with high profile speakers. Also it offers a place for the attendees to form and interact with presenters they have connected. With the follow-up events, the interactions last for long years.
Wiziq is a site which brings students and teachers together regardless of the boundaries. You can meet with other members who share the same subjects of interest. You can find, share, download or upload Powerpoints related with education. Sessions can be adjusted with a single participant or a group. Teaching and learning is just like a virtual classroom.
Through Wiziq, teachers and students can share their knowledge, send your contacts invitations to join Wiziq, you can e-mail your friends about your web mail accounts. You can also search people who have the same interests and communicate with them to share knowledge. Also you can share with other members Powerpoint presentations and slide shows related with education. You can find, share or download presentations that interest you. Online sessions are just like a real classroom where you learn and have a great experience. You can conduct in sessions with live audio or video. Recording for all sessions are available. You can participate in live, online public sessions on educational topics. Because you don’t need any cost of travel or time, it is a good way of face-to-face learning. It is web based with no software download and operates in every system. You can use features like live audio and video communication, text messaging, whiteboard with drawing and writing tools. Finally you can search archives of the previous sessions
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM:
ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE
LEARNING1
In this article, the writers study the students who post messages to a forum on the Web site so that they search how electronic discussion affects or is affected by cultural and generic expectations.
According to writer, the Internet enables us a borderless world because we can access to any country when we wish. However, there is a concept that makes internet center of access to another different culture.
These cultural differences affect a nation’s participation to forums for debating. There are some cultural patterns such as use of irony and humor, explicitness of communication, strategies for engaging in cross-cultural communication. These cultural patterns are reflected in the debates and these conventions vary culturally.
Because of these diversity groups of people, there is an expectation for an appropriate behavior in a public discussion and this is done by moderators.
Another activity for language learning is using e-mail exchange and finding keypals for students.
Keypals are used for discussion of a film, literature, current affairs, etc. Although internet promises access to the native speakers of authentic culture, they are limited by the teacher’s topics of discussion
There is a case study in a French newspaper website. There are four participants who are learning French and want to develop their language in this forum. Two of them are English and two of them are American. Genre is not seen predetermined, negotiation of cultural and genetic rules take place on the forum through moderation. After many attempts of starting a debate, English can move under the topic of sport only. However, Americans succeed more things compared to English. They do not involved in debate, but they respond to other messages and choose provoking statements.
In the forum, culture and genre are used to explain and justify each other.
After the study, it is reached that Laura and David got distracted from French studies, but started receiving lessons in French culture, while Fleurie and Elenor failed in improving their French.
INTERNET AUDIO COMMUNICATION FOR SECOND LANGUAGE
LEARNING: A COMPARATIVE REVIEW OF SIX PROGRAMS
There are six free programs which provide second language learners a communication environment so that they can have interactions with native speakers.
Three communication environments: three different kinds of communicative environments are offered by SCMAC programs which are instant messaging, conferences and chat groups.
Instant messaging uses both text and audio between users. Conferences are the gathering of three or more individuals. A chat room is the gathering of up to 50 individuals. They can share audio and even video with each other.
AOL Instant Messenger: AOL Instant Messenger provides text chat in both instant message (one-to-one) and conference environments. File transfer is also provided. AOL Instant Messenger currently has no video capability and while it does offer audio communication, its audio capabilities are limited.
Yahoo Messenger for Windows: Yahoo Messenger) Version 5.4 for Windows (95, 98, 2000, NT, and XP) is a very
versatile program, which provides both one-to-one and multiparty text chat as well as one-to-one audio and video conferencing. Yahoo Messenger can be used in three different environments: Instant Message, Conference, and Chat Room.
MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger: MSN Messenger for Windows 95, 98, 2000, Me, and NT 4 (Version 4.6.0082reviewed) provides multiparty text chat, but its "audio conversation capability is limited to one-to-oneconnections. MSN Messenger provides file transfer, allowing partners to share files (including photofiles) without the size constraints encountered on most email systems. Windows Messenger is used with a Webcam and allows users to see each other in a small video window while talking.
Paltalk: PalTalk offers instant messaging, conferences, and
chat rooms and is capable of multiparty half-duplex audio and still-frame video with up to three other
users. PalTalk's audio chat room environment is of particular interest to L2 learners and teachers. PalTalk provides both pre-existing and user-created chat groups ("groups").
Ivisit: iVisit uses a multiparty peer-to-peer architecture instead of relying on a
central server. This means that when you enter a chat room on iVisit, your computer makes direct
connections with all of the other individuals in the room. This makes it possible for iVisit to offer
multiparty full-duplex audio, with half-duplex being the default option, and multiparty video, the only
program reviewed here with these capabilities. A firsttime
user simply enters a nickname he or she is connected with no registration or password required. One
disadvantage associated with this procedure is that one's list of contacts, called "bookmarks" in iVisit, is stored on the local computer and is therefore not available to the user when using a different computer unless the original bookmark file is transferred to the new computer.
ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE
LEARNING1
In this article, the writers study the students who post messages to a forum on the Web site so that they search how electronic discussion affects or is affected by cultural and generic expectations.
According to writer, the Internet enables us a borderless world because we can access to any country when we wish. However, there is a concept that makes internet center of access to another different culture.
These cultural differences affect a nation’s participation to forums for debating. There are some cultural patterns such as use of irony and humor, explicitness of communication, strategies for engaging in cross-cultural communication. These cultural patterns are reflected in the debates and these conventions vary culturally.
Because of these diversity groups of people, there is an expectation for an appropriate behavior in a public discussion and this is done by moderators.
Another activity for language learning is using e-mail exchange and finding keypals for students.
Keypals are used for discussion of a film, literature, current affairs, etc. Although internet promises access to the native speakers of authentic culture, they are limited by the teacher’s topics of discussion
There is a case study in a French newspaper website. There are four participants who are learning French and want to develop their language in this forum. Two of them are English and two of them are American. Genre is not seen predetermined, negotiation of cultural and genetic rules take place on the forum through moderation. After many attempts of starting a debate, English can move under the topic of sport only. However, Americans succeed more things compared to English. They do not involved in debate, but they respond to other messages and choose provoking statements.
In the forum, culture and genre are used to explain and justify each other.
After the study, it is reached that Laura and David got distracted from French studies, but started receiving lessons in French culture, while Fleurie and Elenor failed in improving their French.
INTERNET AUDIO COMMUNICATION FOR SECOND LANGUAGE
LEARNING: A COMPARATIVE REVIEW OF SIX PROGRAMS
There are six free programs which provide second language learners a communication environment so that they can have interactions with native speakers.
Three communication environments: three different kinds of communicative environments are offered by SCMAC programs which are instant messaging, conferences and chat groups.
Instant messaging uses both text and audio between users. Conferences are the gathering of three or more individuals. A chat room is the gathering of up to 50 individuals. They can share audio and even video with each other.
AOL Instant Messenger: AOL Instant Messenger provides text chat in both instant message (one-to-one) and conference environments. File transfer is also provided. AOL Instant Messenger currently has no video capability and while it does offer audio communication, its audio capabilities are limited.
Yahoo Messenger for Windows: Yahoo Messenger) Version 5.4 for Windows (95, 98, 2000, NT, and XP) is a very
versatile program, which provides both one-to-one and multiparty text chat as well as one-to-one audio and video conferencing. Yahoo Messenger can be used in three different environments: Instant Message, Conference, and Chat Room.
MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger: MSN Messenger for Windows 95, 98, 2000, Me, and NT 4 (Version 4.6.0082reviewed) provides multiparty text chat, but its "audio conversation capability is limited to one-to-oneconnections. MSN Messenger provides file transfer, allowing partners to share files (including photofiles) without the size constraints encountered on most email systems. Windows Messenger is used with a Webcam and allows users to see each other in a small video window while talking.
Paltalk: PalTalk offers instant messaging, conferences, and
chat rooms and is capable of multiparty half-duplex audio and still-frame video with up to three other
users. PalTalk's audio chat room environment is of particular interest to L2 learners and teachers. PalTalk provides both pre-existing and user-created chat groups ("groups").
Ivisit: iVisit uses a multiparty peer-to-peer architecture instead of relying on a
central server. This means that when you enter a chat room on iVisit, your computer makes direct
connections with all of the other individuals in the room. This makes it possible for iVisit to offer
multiparty full-duplex audio, with half-duplex being the default option, and multiparty video, the only
program reviewed here with these capabilities. A firsttime
user simply enters a nickname he or she is connected with no registration or password required. One
disadvantage associated with this procedure is that one's list of contacts, called "bookmarks" in iVisit, is stored on the local computer and is therefore not available to the user when using a different computer unless the original bookmark file is transferred to the new computer.
21 Ekim 2008 Salı
Summary of 1st assignment
Summary Merve ELDEM
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Call is the acronym for computer-assisted language learning. According to computer use, we can mention tutor and tool. For example; online grammar exercise would represent tutor uses. However, web search engine like Google would represent tool uses as it does not have a teaching function.
In the past these distinctions were misunderstood because tool uses dominate now, tutorial call was seen old-fashioned, but it is best way to use both.
Acronyms and attitudes
This field was developed by the practitioners who want to promote their own view and philosophies. Call- computer-assisted language learning, Cell- computer-enhanced language learning, Tell- technology-enhanced language learning, Tall- technology-assisted language learning, Cali- computer-assisted language instruction.
Call history began in the 1960s but it was not common until the spread of the microcomputer into educational settings in the early 1980s. Early programs were written by Apple II, IBM PC and BBC computers. Commercial programs were also available but they were quite expensive. At this time traditional language labs have changed into computer labs for language learning
In the late 1980s, using computer as a tool has developed; teachers used techniques such as email, word processors for writing classes. Also it was observed that participating in the projects related with technology increased the motivation of students.
Two major changes happened in the mid-1990s. One of them was commercial multimedia for language learning as CD-ROMs and the other one was the development of the worldwide web.
The Scope of Call
For individuals engaged in Call, there can be two types of roles: institutional and functional. Institutional roles include classroom teachers, both pre- and in-service, specialists of various kinds, and professionals. Functional roles include practitioners, developers, researchers and trainers.
Communities of practice
Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.
1) The domain: A community of practice has an identity defined by a shared domain of interest.
2) The community: Members of the community share their ideas, help each other and interact so that they build a relationship that enable them to learn from each other.
3) The practice: Members of community of practice are practitioners. They develop a set of stories and cases that become a shared repertoire for their practice.
Where does the concept come from?
The origin and primary use of the concept has been in learning theory. The term community of practice refers to the community that acts as a living curriculum to the apprentice
Where is the concept being applied?
Organizations
Government
Education
Associations
Social sector
International development
The web
1491331
Call is the acronym for computer-assisted language learning. According to computer use, we can mention tutor and tool. For example; online grammar exercise would represent tutor uses. However, web search engine like Google would represent tool uses as it does not have a teaching function.
In the past these distinctions were misunderstood because tool uses dominate now, tutorial call was seen old-fashioned, but it is best way to use both.
Acronyms and attitudes
This field was developed by the practitioners who want to promote their own view and philosophies. Call- computer-assisted language learning, Cell- computer-enhanced language learning, Tell- technology-enhanced language learning, Tall- technology-assisted language learning, Cali- computer-assisted language instruction.
Call history began in the 1960s but it was not common until the spread of the microcomputer into educational settings in the early 1980s. Early programs were written by Apple II, IBM PC and BBC computers. Commercial programs were also available but they were quite expensive. At this time traditional language labs have changed into computer labs for language learning
In the late 1980s, using computer as a tool has developed; teachers used techniques such as email, word processors for writing classes. Also it was observed that participating in the projects related with technology increased the motivation of students.
Two major changes happened in the mid-1990s. One of them was commercial multimedia for language learning as CD-ROMs and the other one was the development of the worldwide web.
The Scope of Call
For individuals engaged in Call, there can be two types of roles: institutional and functional. Institutional roles include classroom teachers, both pre- and in-service, specialists of various kinds, and professionals. Functional roles include practitioners, developers, researchers and trainers.
Communities of practice
Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.
1) The domain: A community of practice has an identity defined by a shared domain of interest.
2) The community: Members of the community share their ideas, help each other and interact so that they build a relationship that enable them to learn from each other.
3) The practice: Members of community of practice are practitioners. They develop a set of stories and cases that become a shared repertoire for their practice.
Where does the concept come from?
The origin and primary use of the concept has been in learning theory. The term community of practice refers to the community that acts as a living curriculum to the apprentice
Where is the concept being applied?
Organizations
Government
Education
Associations
Social sector
International development
The web
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