Technologías Colaborativas en el Aprendizaje de Idiomas Extranjeros

Blogs Wikis Podcasts Comunidades Educativas Virtuales Intercultural 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 software without commercial advertising: commercial software

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 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 listserv manager Archives messages Public/private option Database manager Calendar and Chat Moderate or not Online File Storage (20meg per group) Online File Sharing

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