1. WebCEF Or how web 2.0 tools can be used in language teaching …

2. Media tools for language learning  20 th century  21 st century: Web 2.0 Web conferencing Online Communities of Practice  Case: WebCEF

3. 20th Century tools for language learning

5. Or this …

6. … the internet?

7. 21 st Century…

10. Social software enables online interaction, facilitates virtual relations and creates virtual environments where people can collaborate or create virtual communities. “ “

11.  A second phase in the ‘development’ of the World Wide Web thanks to social software  From a collection of websites to a complete platform of interactive web applications for end-users of the Web

12.  Weblogs  Podcasting  RSS  Video 2.0 (Youtube)  Social Bookmarking  Forum  Photo 2.0 (Flickr)  Wikis  Web conferencing sputnic.europace.org

14. How 2.0 in education?

15. Case language learning & teaching Web conferencing tool (Flashmeeting) Online Community of Practice …WebCEF

16. WebCEF EU project 3 years www.webcef.eu Development of an online platform for assessment of language proficiency

17. WebCEF provides  language learners the opportunity to let their samples be assessed by teachers and students all over Europe  language teachers the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues across Europe and to improve their skills in the use of the CEF scales

18. 1. Recording through Web Conferencing software …. Flashmeeting is used as recording facility to make samples … Students create and upload video samples with webcam

20. 2. Evaluation European-wide evaluation by students and teachers in an online annotation tool for language assessments According to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEF)

21. 3. Further discussion in CoP Further discussion in an online community of practice for expert teachers in each country

22. How does it work?

23. Teacher defines the task

24. Student performs task while recording sound and image

25. Student uploads the sample

26. Teacher assesses the sample

27. Assessment form

28. Assess- ment summary

29. Detailed assessme nt back

30. Advantages  Multiple assessments => more objective  Peers and teachers  Self-evaluation  Recordings: Look back, play again  Streaming: accessible everywhere

31. Food for thought Can Web2.0/Social software be applied in your educational context? How? What about pedagogical changes & new learning strategies. What will be the role of the teachers? How and when will Web2.0/social software become a widely-spread phenomenon in education?

32. Participate? Helena.bijnens@europace.be http://www.avnet.kuleuven.be http://www.webcef.eu Thanks!