web 2 0 workshop
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This is the powerpoint presentation given at a Workshop called "Using Social Software for Language Learning" at Eurocall 2007 in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. The presentation will soon be integrated with screenshots from the actual presentation.TRANSCRIPT
Università degli studi di Padova
Sarah Guth, English Language Teacher
Lisa Griggio, Language Assistant
Using Social Software for Language LearningUsing Social Software for Language Learning
Agenda14:00-14:15 Introductions
14:15-15:15 Presentation of social software and tools
15:15-16:15 Group work
16:15-16:45 Coming back together
16:45-17:00 Closing remarks
Who you are Where you are from Why you are here
Developments in CALL 1990s and the Internet sociocognitive perspective learner centered authentic communication
Network Based Language Teaching
“move from learners interaction with computers to interaction with other humans via the computer”
(Kern & Warschauer, 2000)
e.g. organized telecollaboration using email, forums and videoconferencing systems between language students in different countries
The changing nature of knowledge
Web 2.0 users produce and share
content the ‘wisdom of the crowds’
(Surowiecki, 2005) websites where knowledge
and content are created and shared
Social SoftwareA generic term used to define different types of software that enable people to collaborate and create and join online communities. The tools can promote different types of communication:
many-to-one
one-to-many
many-to-many
share & create contentcollaboratively create content
manage content
asynchronoussynchronous
Social software vs. other CMC tools Enable communication between
many people beyond planned classroom activities
Provide new ways to share and create content online
Enable integration of many different types of media (audio, video, images)
Help manage the information overload – building knowledge that fits specific needs
They are almost always free and often use remote servers
Benefits access and produce real language
real audience: increased responsibility
new tools: increased autonomy, competence and confidence
proactive learning
improved information literacy
improved reflective and critical thinking skills
improved participation literacy
potential for informal learning
Challenges technical challenges: broadband, computer access, etc.
tools don’t necessarily appeal to all students
time consuming for students and teachers
learning how to effectively collaborate
not all tools are stable
assessment: process or product? individual or group?
teacher needs basic skills in e-tutoring
empowering students means teacher giving up control
Tools we’re going to look at
Action Creating &
sharing content Collaboratively
creating content Managing
content
Communication one-to-many many-to-many many-to-one
Examples
create
share
interact
find/create
read
edit
del.icio.us
36,478
451,000,000
search
save
(share)
Most popular Web 2.0 tool with over70 million blogsand about120,000 new blogs being created worldwide each day
Why blogs?
Blogs and languages
English the most even in postings around-the-clock
Blogs gaining popularity in many other languages
Educational uses of blogs in SLA
Activity Example
Sts access blogs of interest to them, read and comment
Teacher creates a course blog that serves as a virtual meeting place for assigning and completing tasks
Sts create their own personal blogs
Educational uses of image blogs
Activity Example
Teacher produces contents for sts to interact with
discussion groups in
Sts create contents to share and provide peer feedback on
posting one’s own photos
Sts access shared contents to enrich their blogs
choosing photos from
covered by Creative Commons
Educational uses of audio & video blogsActivity Example
Teacher or sts find podcasts; sts listen
Podcatchers
Teacher and sts produce podcasts content-based language learning:
Teacher or sts find interesting videos and discuss them in groups
some technical notes…
equipment you might need to get started:- microphone- headphones- digital camera for images and video
free software:- audacity (+ lame encoder) for audio- camstudio for screen recording- Skype + free recording software Pamela for recording
conversations
Educational uses of collaborative online editing toolsActivity Example
Through collective authoring sts create a never-ending shared repository of knowledge in a wiki
Sts contribute to an existing wiki edutechwiki
Sts develop a text-based project
Document exchange for peer review
Sts develop a presentation and offer it to peers at a distance using Skype for audio
Sts develop a concept map
Educational uses of tools for managing/filtering information on the Web
Activity Example
sts use social bookmarking to create a distributed research network
Del.icio.us
in bloggingenglish
sts provide peer feedback on each other’s blogs using social annotation
diigo
sts keep an eye on each other’s blogs and relevant sites by using feed aggregators
playlists in
What do students think?
Which of the following tools do you think were the most useful and you will continue to use after graduation?
“The exciting promise of the Web [2.0] is that it offers an environment in which a creative teacher can set up authentic
learning tasks in which both processes and goals are stimulating and engaging, and which take individual student
differences into account.”Ushi Felix, 2002
Now let’s see how creative you can be!
Quick definition: blog A weblog, or blog, is a type of website where entries, often including
links to new and useful resources, are displayed in a reverse chronological order. Often thought of as online journals, blogs can actually be quite interactive as entries are open to comments by anyone surfing the Internet.
“…writing a weblog appears in the first instance to be a form of publishing, but as time goes by, blogging resembles more and more a conversation.” (Downes, 2004:24)
Other types of blog image blogs (i.e.FLICKR) audio blogs (podcasting i.e.ODEO.COM - PODOMATIC) video blogs (vlog i.e.OPENVLOG)
Often the media can be integrated
into a text-based blog!
Often the media can be integrated
into a text-based blog!
Quick definitions - wikiA wiki (“quick” in Hawaiian) is “a freely expandable collection of interlinked web pages, a hypertext system for storing and modifying information – a database, where each page is easily edited by any user with a forms-capable Web browser client” (Leuf & Cunningham, 2001:14)
Anyone can change anything Wiki pages are easy to create and edit Content is ego-less, time-less, never finished (Lamb, 2004: 38)
Always online accessible via a web browser
A wiki is an effective tool for collaborative authoring and collective learning
Quick definitions
Rather than having to regularly check websites for updated info,through the use of feeds (RSS, XML, ATOM), updated information issent to a feed aggregator so you access one source for all updates.
Social Annotation is software that allows users to “leave” comments on webpages they visit, so that others visiting the page, and using the same software, can see their comments.
Social bookmarking allows users to store, classify, share and search their Internet bookmarks. These websites allow users to classify and search using tags chosen by users.