Education, more than any other human
endeavor, should be a real and lasting beneficiary of the ICT revolution.
However the potential of this revolution can only be realized if
those engaged in delivering education are knowledgeable, skilled,
and able to apply these technologies effectively and efficiently.
Raj Dhanarajan, President Commonwealth
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Activities
week 1 / week 2
/ week 3 / week 4 / week
5 / week 6 / week 7 /
week 8 / week 9 / week
10 / week 11 / week 12
Week 1 (Jan 9 - 15)
Introduction
- Getting to know each other and the computer lab equipment.
- Check the web site and get familiar with all the content contained
on each page. Remember that you will need to read this page to
know which are the tasks for each week of this course.
- Discuss the evaluation plan with teacher and classmates.
- Register in the Becoming a Webhead Yahoo Group.
- Get familiar with the setting of the Yahoo Group.
- Check out the Web
site of the BaW session.
- Complete the exploratory survey
- Register in Moodle (our course communication center). See Moodle
tutorial
- Complete your profile in Moodle
- Go to the Forum: "My
expectations" (week 1) and write the reasons you had
to join this course, what you would like to learn and any obstacles
you think you might encounter.
- Share your reflections with the class.
- Read the article: Warschauer, M. (1996). Computer-assisted language
learning: An introduction
- Discuss article with classmates
- Go to the Wiki: "My
reflections", and write your ideas about this first session.
- Before our next class, take the time to check
the week
1 activities for the BaW session. If you have questions, post
them to the Question and Answers Forum in Moodle. They will be
answered by your teacher or by any of your classmates who can
answer your question or doubt. We are here to learn together :-)
- Select 1 reading
from BaW session week 1, and jot down your comments on the BaW-06
Forum
Week 2 (Jan 16 - 22)
Asynchronous communication modes
- Share impressions about the BaW session and the reading you
selected
- Reply to a comment made by another participant of the BaW-06
forum
- Complete the BaW week
1 activities (if you have not done so)
- Get in pairs and discuss the following topics
a. What advantages/disadvantages do you see in the use of a forum
for language learning?
b. How different are forums and distributions lists?
c. Is there a difference between e-mail and distributions lists?
d. Which one(s) would you prefer for your teaching context, and
why.
e. How different are the forums in Moodle from the BaW forum?
f. What difference(s) do you perceive between Moodle and Yahoo
Groups?
- Share your comments with the whole class.
- Go to the BaW
YG and select two introductions posted by other participants
(not in this class) and reply to them.
- For next session each one of you will select
two readings
(week 2 Baw), and write 3 -4 questions about each of them. Post
your questions to the Moodle forum: "Questions
about readings". Name the thread with the name of the
reading, and then add your questions to the reading and the link
to the page where the reading can be found.
- Don't forget that on Saturday 21, at 9:00 am (13:00 GMT) there
will be a Tour to Tapped
In guided by B.J. Berquist. Be sure to be there before the
time, and log in as guest or register to become a member (it is
free). Your computer should have Java Web Start in order to be
able to get access to the place. We are usually there at noon
GMT (8:00 am). If time allows, we will get there in this session.
- Check BaW week
2 activities
Week 3 (Jan 23 - 29)
Text and Voice synchronous communication tools
- Discuss the session at Tapped In. What you liked and disliked.
- Open Yahoo Messenger. Add your classmates' Yahoo ID's to your
buddy list. With your teacher and classmates (in a conference
window where you will be invited by your teacher ) learn about
all the features in Yahoo Messenger.
- Open a new conference and invite a classmate who has read at
least one of the readings you selected. Take turns to share your
questions and discuss them. Make sure to save the chat.
- Post your chat to the Forum "chatlog
week 3". You can post it as an attachment if you saved
it as Word document, or just copy and paste.
- Read the chatlog and reflect about:
a. the experience of using text chat to discuss
a topic
b. la coherencia del discurso en el chat
c. would it have been different if there had
been more than 3 people? How about if you had used voice instead
of text?
- Go to the BaW
YG, and send a message with something you would like to share
or ask, or simply reply to two posts sent by other participants.
Try to answer the questions for the week.
- Don't forget that Michael Coghlan will be at Yahoo Messenger
on ...., , at .... GMT, for a chat on the use of voice communication
tools. In case you cannot attend, talk to me to have a voice session
at YM any other time during the week.
- Visit the BaW
blog and post your reflections.
- Check BaW week
3 activities for next week. Select two readings and jot down
what you agree and disagree with in those readings for
next class. Read: -Augar, N., Raitman, R. & Zhou,
W. (2004). Teaching and learning online with wikis. [link]
Week 4 (Jan. 30 -Feb. 5)
Building an online presence: Blogs, Wikies and
Web pages
- Attend session on blogs and podcasting at the Alado
room (8:30 - 10:00 GMT)
- Creation of blogs at blogspot
(creation - adding links - adding images)
- Creation of a Web page using Front Page - Uploading Web page
to server (Geocities).
- Do week
3 BaW-06 activities
- Updating your wiki page in Moodle (reflections) - Internal links
Week 5 (Feb 6- 12)
Virtual classrooms and voice mail
- Catch up on last week's activities
- Do week
4 BaW-06 activities (if no time in class, for next week)
- A must read article: "In
Blogging, the Benefits of Exposure Are Worth the Risk"
Week 6 (Feb 13 - 19)
Developing online class materials. Fostering students'
autonomy and reflection
- Catch up
- Using voice tools
Week 7 (Feb 20 - 26)
Blended learning. Assessment in e-learning
- Catching up
- Creating interactive exercises with Quia (http://www.quia.com)
- Blended Learning. What is it? Advantages/disadvantages
Week 8 (Feb 27 - March 05) - Carnival
- we can meet online
The Art of e-teaching.
The need for teacher training: Communities of Practice
- Listen to the presentation on
'Learncasting, Podagogy & Language Teaching' :
http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=1151315
- Post your reflections to the wiki in Moodle.
Week 9 (March 6- 12)
Blended Learning and the Art of e-teaching (catching up)
- Discussion about e-teaching. Is it different from f2f teaching? Check out this Web site of a presentation given by Arnold Mühren about "The art of e-teaching"
- Position essay: Post your reflections to your wiki page, in Moodle, about:
- Artists are special people with special skills that not everybody possesses." "Does it mean that e-learning is not for everybody? What are those skills teachers and learner should have? Are they teachable? If so, How can we get teachers to master these skills?
- "What should be the role of a moderator/tutor? Is there a difference between those two terms?"
- What's the place of Communities of Practice in Professional development (teacher education in our case).
- Listen to the panel presentation on Blended Learning given at LT by Rita Zeinstejer (Argentina), Aiden Yeh (Taiwan), and Buth Al-Othman (Kuwait): http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=1139156
Week 10 (March 13 - 19) Working on final project. Discussion of readings
- What does an online lesson consist of?
- Discuss your ideas for the lesson.
Week 11 (March 20 - 26)
- Working on final project.
The deadline to post your final project is: Tuesday, March 28
Week 12 (March 27 - April 2)
Course evaluation - self-evaluation
- Presentation of lessons
- Please write your feedback about the course in your wiki page in Moodle
- Write your self-evaluation in your wiki page.
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