1. Independent Study Bites via the Web By David Hill “Learning is what remains after all that was learned has been forgotten.”

2. The Situation Motivation: “I have to study English” Wide variation of student ability How to encourage regular study

3. Independent Learning Teach defines scope of the learning Student works at his own pace Teacher supports and assesses How to apply this to ~200 students? A web-based application? (Computer Assisted Language Learning)

4. Where is it applicable? Input – Reading and Listening – YES! Output – Writing and Speaking requires greater teacher input Learning tasks like Vocabulary – Ideal! Enter Word Friend [Stage Left] Please come into my classroom for a few minutes!

5. In Class: Week 1 “Getting to Know You” Note down your check code Browse to www.myfigtree.net?wf=institution_idwww.myfigtree.net?wf=institution_id Survey’s purpose: introduction and goal-setting

6. Week 2 “Introducing Word Friend” 1 Study day = 3 minutes Homework: 1 point = 3 study days of both modes Continue every week. (2x3x3 = 18 min a week) Maximum: 10 points

7. Week 3 “Let’s Chat” Daily review question Student can see class’s responses plus teacher’s comments.

8. A Class Set Up Page currently in design phase Currently done via a text file

9. Monitoring: The Class Report

11. Passing Comment The correction is no great burden It provides effective review It could be done as a class activity

12. Semi-Automated Testing An optional extra Decide on a set of questions with variationsset of questions Translate into Korean - optional Record your questions – MP3 8 questions in 3½ minutes -> 20 students in 80 minutes Score = f ( Σ Questions+Answers)

13. Requirements Internet Explorer 6+ Firefox: ‘IE Tab 2’ plug-in An earlier version was FF compatible so possible a later version

14. The Pedigree Operational for the last year Version 1.0 was first developed in 2008 Dialogues & photo upload added in the Fall of 2010

15. The Potential Cloze exercises Games Puzzles Dictation Exercises Recording ? … your ideas!

16. “A man’s got to know his limitations”

17. If only … I could replicate

18. Thank you for Listening Please visit www.myfigtree.net?eng=kotesol and let me know your thoughts