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jasolau

Second-Language Acquisition and the Information Age: How Social Software has Created a ... - 3 views

www.teslcanadajournal.ca/...888

carlatech15 week 3 social software social learning blogs

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Roxana Sandu

VoiceThread - Support - Resources - Publications Language Learning - 1 views

voicethread.com/...languagelearning

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shared by Roxana Sandu on 25 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Abstract: Collaborative social interaction when using Web 2.0 in terms of VoiceThread is investigated in a case study of a Swedish university course in social psychology.
  • The results show that use of Web 2.0: a) supports students' reflections concerning their own and others' thoughts and emotions, b) supports individual students and integrates them into a work group, and c) develops students' identification and awareness in relation to self, a task and others.
  • Reflection is a core component of many outdoor education programs with many educators relying on journal writing as a means of facilitating reflection.
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  • We speculated that it might be worth trying to engage these students with "their technology," and in this paper we explore if and how Web 2.0 technologies can support student journal writing behaviours in outdoor education.
  • With the advent of Web 2.0 tools, additional language educators can extend their classrooms beyond the traditional brick-and-mortar walls to communicate with the world. One of the best ways to do so is to introduce VoiceThread into language lessons. In doing so, students can create conversations that extend across the classroom or across the globe.
  • This review takes a look at current digital storytelling protocols and strategies currently displayed through VoiceThread creations, as well as detailed strategies conducive for a powerful digital storytelling tool such as VoiceThread.
  • This article documents the curricular decisions made by a teacher educator research team whose guiding theoretical focus for intern practice is dialogic instruction. Over a 2-year sequence, teaching interns used video and Web 2.0 technologies to respond critically to and revise their teaching practices in collaboration with peers and instructors.
  • Roxana Sandu on 25 Jul 11
     
    I found this by chance just exploring around. If you check the SUPPORT section on the VoiceThread site, you will find a list of publications. They posted a collection of abstracts with links of scholarly articles written about using VoiceThread for language learning, K-12, higher education and professional development. I just skimmed through the lists, and some of the articles are accessible, while some are behind a password.
norikofujiokaito

Computer Assisted Language Learning Social Networks: What Are They Talking about? - 9 views

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  • Furthermore, it has been shown that students prefer to contact their peer students rather than their tutor when they are struggling with coursework, facing difficulties in assessing facilities and understanding lectures
    • smuske
      smuske on 24 Jul 18
       
      Validates the "three, then me" concept that asks students to ask three other students for help before asking the teacher. Students are perhaps more available asynchronously than the teacher as well, when students need help
    • smuske
      smuske on 24 Jul 18
       
      Validates the "three, then me" concept that asks students to ask three other students for help before asking the teacher. Students are perhaps more available asynchronously than the teacher as well, when students need help
  • Researchers also noted that people who interact more in an online course tend to achieve higher marks on exams, as opposed to lurking which is not as successful [12]
    • smuske
      smuske on 24 Jul 18
       
      want to encourage participation with some sort of graded activity
    • norikofujiokaito
      norikofujiokaito on 25 Jul 18
       
      I suspect that students' achievement was assessed in online format; that is why students who interacted more could achieve higher marks.
  • Students who are required to collaboratively work online need to dedicate time to get to know each other and therefore are able to accomplish effective communication in an online environment [29]
    • smuske
      smuske on 24 Jul 18
       
      Need to persist and convince reluctant students that persisting will yield dividends. Also true of regular classroom settings.
    • smuske
      smuske on 24 Jul 18
       
      Need to persist and convince reluctant students that persisting will yield dividends. Also true of regular classroom settings.
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  • This outcome tells us that the students seem to be more excited, talkative and social with one another, as well as chat/contribute more at the start of the course, but their overall participation rates were on a decrease during the duration of the course.
    • smuske
      smuske on 24 Jul 18
       
      Is this a concern? Perhaps, having spent time at the beginning building trust, they are simply becoming more efficient.
    • smuske
      smuske on 24 Jul 18
       
      Or perhaps they're bored with this way of learning?
  • Furthermore, it has been shown that students prefer to contact their peer students rather than their tutor when they are struggling with coursework, facing difficulties in assessing facilities and understanding lectures
  • hharb01 on 29 Jul 18
     
    I offer a course in my school called Computer Mediated Language Learning. But this article gives a new perspective of what computer assisted can be.
  • vaguevara on 29 Jul 18
     
    Nice data to back up our use of all of these great online resources-- Thanks for sharing!
  • atsukofrederick on 29 Jul 18
     
    Active participation in discussions is a key to success. If you use a flipped classroom, providing useful vocabulary and sentence structures they might want to use to talk about a particular topic also helps the students participate more in discussions.
Constantinos Tsouris

Foreign Language Education Learning with Video Games and Authentic Web Media Tasks - 2 views

lingualgamers.com/thesis

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  • Constantinos Tsouris on 22 Jul 11
     
    Abstract: In recent years, a sharp increase in the number of academic studies around the use of video games and new media for educational purposes has greatly expanded our understanding of their potential for enhancing learning.
  • Roxana Sandu on 23 Jul 11
     
    Constantinos, this a great resource of information. Thank you for sharing! I haven't sit down to read it all, but skimming through it I found plenty of interesting information. I was always interested in using video games or educational games for language learning, but never took initiative in reading anything on the topic. In the beginning of "From "Authentic Materials" to "Live Materials" section, the author mentions that the culture should not be described to students, but rather facilitate a platform for them to actually participate in that culture. I see how we can do that through games, but is there any of you using other means to do it? Is it possible to do it through social networks or second language learning networks? If yes, how exactly? Any thoughts on this?
jameshousworth

Stevenson_Liu.pdf - 1 views

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  • Michael Gorman, former president of the American Library Association, decries the movement towards a user-controlled Internet as “a world in which everyone is an expert in a world devoid of expertise”
  • technical usability
  • pedagogical usability
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  • Technical usability is defined as the general usability of a tool for a user— how easily users can complete a task with the least number of obstacles.
  • Pedagogical usability applies specifically to how learnable and usable the website is for learners.
  • Providing users with an immediate solution to an obstacle may not be the preferred outcome when users must learn during the process
  • How do current users of a foreign language learning website that employs Web 2.0 technologies use the site for learning and social purposes?
  • What technical and pedagogical issues arise when potential users participate in a usability test of three foreign language learning websites that employ Web 2.0 technologies?
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Amy Uribe

Media Examples for the Classroom - TEACHING MEDIA - 1 views

www.teachingmedia.org/...media-examples

shared by Amy Uribe on 28 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Some of the most productive parts of the class were the weekly take-home assignments that asked the students to post comments on their social networking sites while using connected viewing technology
  • While the students learned a lot from the class assignments, they were initially anxious about letting an instructor into their social network. I felt it was necessary to preserve the anonymity of the students for the study so I wanted to keep their comments about the connected viewing private.
  • Unfortunately, the only way to ensure this anonymity was to create a “secret” Facebook group. “Secret” Facebook groups are one of three categories of groups that allow members of the social network to collaborate on a project. Though this setting allows all posts and members to remain confidential it also required me, as the creator of the “secret” Facebook group, to “friend” all of my students so that I could then add them to the group.
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  •   “Friending” the students raised some privacy concerns for me and for my students. Suddenly, we could see the everyday things that we were posting to Facebook. According to a survey conducted by Tammy Swenson Lepper, students are uncomfortable with authority figures making judgments about them based on their “private” Facebook communications, regardless of the pubic availability of this information (183-184)
    • Hasmik Tovmasyan
      Hasmik Tovmasyan on 28 Jul 13
       
      I thought to create a group you do not need to friend the members, do you?
    • Hasmik Tovmasyan
      Hasmik Tovmasyan on 28 Jul 13
       
      Here comes the factor of the Net generation and their "comfort zone"
  • Facebook and Twitter are easier to manage on mobile devices and are familiar interfaces.
    • Hasmik Tovmasyan
      Hasmik Tovmasyan on 28 Jul 13
       
      very good point
    • Amy Uribe
      Amy Uribe on 29 Jul 13
       
      I agree!
  • This makes the class more student-centered and gives those struggling to follow lectures and readings an additional platform to work through course concepts.
    • Amy Uribe
      Amy Uribe on 29 Jul 13
       
      This just re-emphasizes what we were talking about the first couple weeks of class.
  • Hasmik Tovmasyan on 28 Jul 13
     
    several examples of SNS use in the FL classroom
  • Amy Uribe on 29 Jul 13
     
    inding productive media examples to use in the classroom can be time-consuming and challenging. Here are media examples other teachers have found useful along with descriptions and information about the teaching contexts in which they were used.
yflanders

A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom | Edutopia - 6 views

www.edutopia.org/...media-in-classroom-vicki-davis

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      yflanders on 26 Jul 14
       
      This is great article for teachers and the parents to help students connecting with social media world in a positive learning path. 
Alyssa Ruesch

Twitter / People who follow CLAelsie - 1 views

twitter.com/followers

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  • Alyssa Ruesch on 03 Aug 09
     
    Nice blog post about different ways for teachers to share resources and develop a PLN (personal learning network) through social-networking.
Agustin Vizcaino

Media Use in the Classroom - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...achers-technology-social-media

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shared by Agustin Vizcaino on 27 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Joe Dale explores how languages teachers have embraced technology in the classroom
  • The use of social media has allowed colleagues to get to know each other as real people not just teachers and this has strengthened the sense of cohesion, solidarity and collective confidence.
  • gy suited to MFL? Well, one of the fundamentals of language learning is re
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  • communication and new technologies can certainly facilitate this essential aspect through, for example, videoconferencing and blogging. There are also lots of ways of recording and editing audio as a method of improving pronunciation, boosting learner confidence, extending speaking skills and deepening understanding. Filmmaking and animation also draw on a variety of useful skills and promote creativity, collaboration and personalised learning.
  • Technology is not going away and language teachers need to embrace its full potential to engage our 21st century learners.
  • Agustin Vizcaino on 27 Jul 13
     
    The article describes how technology (I took it as one of the terms for media) is important in the foreign language classroom.
  • Agustin Vizcaino on 27 Jul 13
     
    I am opening the article and is not showing the highlights. Hopefully it will when I share the article.
rfrisch125

Music Unit - Creative Language Class - 2 views

www.creativelanguageclass.com/music-unit

rubrics culture music compelling comprehensible

shared by rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • So many opinions were out there on social media. I decided to focus this unit even more on this popular music event.
  • So many opinions were out there on social media. I decided to focus this unit even more on this popular music event.
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      There are always good themes but we need to figure out how to make them focused, comprehensible and doable. That is the key.
  • Lots of comprehensible input there! They learned about new genres. Some said they added music that we learned about in class to their playlists. Love that!
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      Comprehensible and compelling input. Plus, added Spanish music to their audio files. The best language learners are the ones who listen to music and watch videos.
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  • The main culture goals:
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      Seeing how she described the cultural aspects of the unit really brought into focus what she was trying to accomplish. From here she will be able to set up tasks and activities that meet these goals.
  • Now the major communication goals:
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      I like how these three areas help define what the students will be able to do.
  • For example, for the last presentational goal where they tell what happened, they only used a few verbs (won, nominated, said) as memorized chunks. Intermediate students were able to give more details and it sounded like a true narration of events with transitions.
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      I love this! each level can accomplish the goal by sheltering or minimizing the vocab.
  • And the remaining 3 C’s:
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      Wow this lady really knows what she is doing!! I haven't seen a rubric like this before. I like it.
Marlene Johnshoy

Using Social Media to Build a Personal Learning Network | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...uild-personal-learning-network

PLN Twitter Facebook Mancinelli Edutopia

shared by Marlene Johnshoy on 08 Jul 20 - No Cached
  • Marlene Johnshoy on 08 Jul 20
     
    "More and more teachers are taking to Twitter and Facebook to share ideas and strategies with peers throughout the country."
anonymous

The Flipped Classroom Advances: Developments in Reverse Learning and Instruction - 1 views

21k12blog.net/...verse-learning-and-instruction

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  • anonymous on 19 Jul 12
     
    re-posted here from Connected Principals.] Steven B. Johnson writes in Where Good Ideas Come From about the revolutionary power of social media such as Twitter to advance ideas and innovation in a myriad of fields, and it has been fascinating to see this concept in action in the swift spread over the past six months of the practice of flipping classrooms, which is also known as reverse instruction or learning, and is closely related to (or often synonymous with) teacher vodcasting.
Alyssa Rutherford

using-facebook-for-learning - 0 views

theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/...cebook-for-learning-point.html

Facebook learning Social Media

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  • Alyssa Rutherford on 09 Jul 11
     
    Reasons not to use Facebook: counter-points given
Francisco Dumanig

https://www.ispringsolutions.com/blog/what-is-synchronous-learning - 2 views

Any learning activity in which all learners are simultaneously participating is called synchronous learning. It's real-time, highly interactive, and very social.

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Isolde Mueller

Annotated Bibliography - Twitter, Social Networking and Communities of Practice - 0 views

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  • Isolde Mueller on 25 Jul 12
     
    This is an interesting collection (from 2009-but still) of articles/ book chapters around social networking. The author reads the various projectors as communities of practice. Not all articles deal with language acquisition, but are still interesting. One of them delves into why and how students use Facebook. One of them looks at virtual learning communities in the US and Australia vs. Europe. Good spring board to look at some of our topics more.
Abby Bajuniemi

Education Nation: 7 Tips For Using Social Media in Your Classroom - 4 views

www.educationnation.com/index.cfm

shared by Abby Bajuniemi on 23 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Role playing is an absolute blast when combined with social media. The concept is super simple and generates powerful learning opportunities. Assign students to a role and they engage other students (who are also assigned roles) in character.
    • Abby Bajuniemi
      Abby Bajuniemi on 23 Jul 12
       
      This is interesting. I wish there were more discussion on this. 
  • Wellington Espinosa on 23 Jul 12
     
    Education Nation is a nationally broadcast, in-depth conversation about improving education in America. During an interactive summit on Rockefeller Plaza, parents, teachers and students will meet with leaders in politics, business and technology to explore the challenges and opportunities in education today.
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