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Utility facility: Do it free for learnability
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Wiki
What it is What we did Why we did it (instructional purpose) How its results are assessed
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Wiki What it is: -- a shared repository of knowledge, data, links
(exemplar: Wikipedia) -- an asynchronous source to your own & others’
data, links, etc. -- a simple, freely creatable, customizable place
(e.g., Wikispaces)
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wiki What we did: -- used a free easy wiki, wikispaces
-- created a Coastline/subject-matter-relevant site: http://ouiquioui.wikispaces.com -- linked the site to Seaport courses
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wiki Why we did it: -- to acquaint students with la mentalité wiki
-- to comfort students with French interface -- to permit easy sharing of resources
-- to promote interaction
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wiki How results are assessed:
-- Obvious methods, from within * quantitative * reportorial, written
-- Less obvious methods, from without * E-mail messaging * commenting by telephone, chat, etc
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Electronic live chat (ELC)
What it is What we did Why we did it (instructional purpose) How its results are assessed
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ELC
What it is: Unique linguistic hermaphrodite Speech-like: casual, quick, elliptical, dialectal Language-like: careful, edited, complete Synchronous, communicatively consequential
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ELC What we did: -- used a free easy chat service, Chatzy
-- made Coastline/subject-matter-relevant space -- password-protected the chatroom -- linked the site to Seaport courses
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ELC Why we did it:
-- to acquaint students with French argumentation (e.g., argument form can have more value than its content) -- to give comfort via anonymous, “faceless” French -- to promote interaction-- to permit easy sharing of resources
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ELC How results are assessed:
Obvious methods, “inside”-- quantitative-- reportorial, written
Less obvious methods, “meta-” judgment
-- E-mail messaging-- commenting by telephone, chat, etc.
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Utility facility
KISS Ask for help Look everywhere Use anything and everything Test it yourself! Test it among students!