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• Blogs• Wikis• Podcasts• Comunidades Educativas Virtuales• Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections• Intercultural communicative courses online• Moodles• Online bookmarks• Yahoo groups

What is a blog...?• a free, live online journal that can be

easily and instantly updated, written for a public who may also write back.

• “... a personal diary of events and thoughts, or a combination of the two, plus many other things...”

Blogs vs. Discussion Boards

• stds can start their blogs easily

• easy to link to other websites

• support discussion + informational posts

• may have good search engines built-in

• go public

• stds can’t start their own DB

• not generally so

• imply discussion

• not possible

• are private

advantages of using blogs

• allow instant publishing • cost little or nothing• provide a comment feature allowing interaction • are dynamic and focus on content :listening, talking,

collaborating, having a dialog, sharing• work for any subject• are empowering: give everyone a voice • make writing THE focus • promote ownership of work • allow us to learn from our students• allow us to reflect on our teaching and our student’s learning• allow the interchange of thoughts and ideas • are exciting

Types of weblogs for use in EFL

classrooms

• The Tutor Blog

• The Learner Blog

• The Class Blog

shared weblogs

• complete project work in small groups

• showcase products of project-based learning

• complete a webquest

Weblog softwarewithout commercial advertising:

• http://pitas.com/• http://diaryland.com/• http://www.upsaid.com/• http://webcrimson.com/• http://www.schoolblogs.com/

commercial software

• http://www.blogger.com/

Wikis

• piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any web browser

• a collection of Web pages which can be edited by anyone, at any time, from anywhere.

WorkInProgress• Authorship• Editing • Publishing• Re-writing• Un-publishing

Both allow uploading of files and photos by different users

• Blogs• structured• Highly personal• Focus: process• Administered by one

individual• Editable by creator• Chronologically

organized

• Wikis • flexible• Intensively

collaborative• Focus: content• Open to anybody• Editable by anyone• Organized in

innumerable ways

Wikis”quick”

• content is egoless, timeless, and never finished

• in constant state of flux• automatic linking between pages within

wiki systems• entries: unpolished, with gaps• can help build an understanding of a

community’s shared knowledge

Using a wiki for…• instructions, manuals, glossaries • a class or group project with a

bibliographic format • a letter or statement presented on

behalf of the class• a handbook or textbook: build a guide

to correct punctuation • any project not requiring authorship

podcasting

• publishing of audio/video via the web, designed to be listened to on a portable mp3 player or on a personal computer.

podcasting, what for?

• audio walking tours• record a std’s (funny) experience• interview friends/ family• review local restaurants• broadcast your band• start a gossip channel• create an audio international cooking show• current events and local news• travelling experiences• movies

educational virtual communities

• both real time and asynchronous • safe student environments• web page projection, many other

tools

Educational virtualcommunities

Intercultural E-Mail

Classroom Connections

mooddles

• Educational Virtual Communities• Both Real Time and Asynchronous • Safe Student Environments• Web Page Projection, many other

tools

Intercultural communicative courses online

Moodle: Opensource Classroom

Backflip/ MyBookmarks

• Online Bookmarks• Accessible from any online

computer• File sharing capabilities

Yahoo groups

• Online email listserv manager

• Archives messages• Public/private option• Database manager• Calendar and Chat• Moderate or not• Online File Storage

(20meg per group)• Online File Sharing

my cae experience

• http://caeb2006.podomatic.com/