CALL Software
Jun Da, Middle Tennessee State University
http://lingua.mtsu.edu/
Diane J. Tedick, Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
http://www.carla.umn.edu/about/profiles/Tedick.html
Sally Campbell, Francesca Davies, Graham Davies
http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/whoare.htm
Michael Barlow, The University of Auckland
http://www.michaelbarlow.com/
CALL Software Reviews
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/call/reviews.html
CALL Software for Chinese, Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA)
http://clta.osu.edu/reviews/reviews.htm
CALL Facility as University of Cambridge
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/call/
Friday, January 29, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Comments on "Planning Tips on Internet for English Teaching"
Original article: Warschauer, M., Shetzer, H., & Meloni, C. F. (2000). Internet for English teaching: TESOL Alexandria, VA. [Chapter 7]
To get the students involved in English learning with Internet assisted, planning is one of the most fundamental and essential steps.
Tips on the planning phase:
1. Time: less, clear and relatively straightforward projects → more, complicated and diversified projects;
2. Computer and Internet access: access to school computers, the most user-friendly types of hardware or software, individual e-mail accounts for each student;
3. Communication: e-mail lists for groups or the whole class;
4. Hands-on training: assistants, handout preparation, pre-training;
5. Partners: multiclass projects--- complex, differences in schedule, level or goals;
6. Team teaching: multiclass projects- reliable partner with similar teaching approach, discussing goals ahead of time, e-mail list for teachers.
7. Student interaction: students’ self introductions and information exchanges;
8. Monitoring: guidelines and timetables preparation, students involved, clear communication;
9. Assessment: assessment clarification;
10. A shared experience: experience sharing by both students and teachers.
To get the students involved in English learning with Internet assisted, planning is one of the most fundamental and essential steps.
Tips on the planning phase:
1. Time: less, clear and relatively straightforward projects → more, complicated and diversified projects;
2. Computer and Internet access: access to school computers, the most user-friendly types of hardware or software, individual e-mail accounts for each student;
3. Communication: e-mail lists for groups or the whole class;
4. Hands-on training: assistants, handout preparation, pre-training;
5. Partners: multiclass projects--- complex, differences in schedule, level or goals;
6. Team teaching: multiclass projects- reliable partner with similar teaching approach, discussing goals ahead of time, e-mail list for teachers.
7. Student interaction: students’ self introductions and information exchanges;
8. Monitoring: guidelines and timetables preparation, students involved, clear communication;
9. Assessment: assessment clarification;
10. A shared experience: experience sharing by both students and teachers.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
First Greeting, Second Post...
Aloha! This is Jessy! Welcome to my blog and have fun! Here is a primary plan for my little teaching box and some experiences I want to share.
On this blog, I would like to share some useful links, articles, and maybe a few technologies as far as I know. Hopefully, I will also update my reflective posts every two weeks. Some interesting pictures, news, songs and segments of TV series or movies will be shown on it occasionally.
When I was in college, the two main technologies we used were e-portal/blackboard and multimedia system. The blackboard was quite similar to the one we are using now, so I’m kind of familiar with it.
Sample of E-portal/Blackboard
My teachers used the blackboard to distribute notifications, class notes, assignments and etc. They also put some topics on the discussion board. There were some links to different departments, internal systems and other resources. It was really convenient for us to find the useful information.
On this blog, I would like to share some useful links, articles, and maybe a few technologies as far as I know. Hopefully, I will also update my reflective posts every two weeks. Some interesting pictures, news, songs and segments of TV series or movies will be shown on it occasionally.
When I was in college, the two main technologies we used were e-portal/blackboard and multimedia system. The blackboard was quite similar to the one we are using now, so I’m kind of familiar with it.
Sample of E-portal/Blackboard
My teachers used the blackboard to distribute notifications, class notes, assignments and etc. They also put some topics on the discussion board. There were some links to different departments, internal systems and other resources. It was really convenient for us to find the useful information.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Useful Links
Applications of Computer in SLA
Davies Graham
http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/cvgd.htm
Adela Gánem, University of Essex
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~aganem/
Donna Mydlarski, The University of Calgary http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~mydlarsk/index.html
Andrew Lian, Western Illinois University
http://andrewlian.com/andrewlian/prowww/
Tim Johns, Birmingham University
http://www.eisu.bham.ac.uk/johnstf/index.html
Roger Kenner, Concordia University
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~rkenner/
Davies Graham
http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/cvgd.htm
Adela Gánem, University of Essex
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~aganem/
Donna Mydlarski, The University of Calgary http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~mydlarsk/index.html
Andrew Lian, Western Illinois University
http://andrewlian.com/andrewlian/prowww/
Tim Johns, Birmingham University
http://www.eisu.bham.ac.uk/johnstf/index.html
Roger Kenner, Concordia University
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~rkenner/
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