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Week 2:

 

Moderators: Jose Antonio & Larissa

 Guest presenter: Michael Coghlan

 

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Week 2: January 18-24

Text and voice synchronous communication tools: Tapped In, Yahoo Messenger and Skype in Worldbridges.

 

Moderator:

Jose Antonio and Larissa Olesova

 

 

 

Week 2: Objectives Activities  Questions of the week  Suggested readings Top

 

 

 

 

 

 

Objectives

 

 

By the end of this week you will have: chatted with moderators and participants through different synchronous media explored powerful features of these media created your own virtual office at Tapped In explored voice chat and webcam-enhanced chat applications attended the live presentation on the topic of the week commented on the presentation of the week answered the questions of the week read and commented on the Week 2 readings

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Activities 

1. Download and install Yahoo Messenger (YM) and Skype, (concerning skype, if you already have it, you might consider going to Skype and see what's new for the latest version) if you haven't done so yet; then,

 

 

2. Join Michael Coghlan at Yahoo Messenger on DAY, Jan, DATE at TIME GMT, for a chat on the use of voice communication tools;

 

3. Post your comments about these live presentations on our blog.

 

 

 

Questions of the week 

 

*How do you start a conference and invite guests at Yahoo Messenger?

 

*How do you save your chatlogs to your hard drive at YM?

 

*How do you display your picture at YM?

 

Post your answers to our YG list. Let’s see who can answer these questions! :-)

 

 

Suggested readings

 

Click here for a brief overview of each suggestion.

 

• Almeida d'Eça, T. (2004). Online Tools that Promote Language Learning and Foster Professional Development. Polifonia, 2004 pdf. 187Kb.

• Lai,C. & Zhao,Y. (2006). Noticing and Text-Based Chat. Language Learning and Technology, Sep. 2006 pdf. 488Kb.
• Gonzalez, D. & Esteves, L. (2006). Enhancing Collaboration Through Chat in ESP: A Conversation Analysis. IATEFL Poland Computer SIG Journal,May 2006].
• Gonzalez, D. (2003). Teaching and Learning Through Chat. A Taxanomy of Educational Chat for EFL/ESL. IATEFL Poland Computer SIG Journal, Oct. 2003.
• Chat as a Teaching Tool. Pointers & Clickers (1999).

 

1. While exploring these synchronous communication tools, you are encouraged to:

 

• share experiences and reflections at all times, and
• think about and discuss the potential of text and voice chat for the EFL/ESL teaching and learning process (how can it be used? for what purpose? at what level?) and send your comments to the group mail list.

 

2. Post your reflections about the weekly readings to our forum.

 

Advice: Do not forget to open a Becoming a Webhead (BaW) folder with any number of subfolders in your Bookmarks or Favorites in order to keep relevant and useful links for quick reference. Well-organized bookmarks are extremely helpful and save a lot of time!

 

Remember that you can also register for free to del.icio.us, where you can save your favorite pages with a click, and classify them with tags. You can retrieve your pages from any computer connected to Internet. We have created a BaW del.icio.us site for our group. Share your links here

 

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