A presentation given at the EuroCALL 2009 Conference at the UPV Gandia Campus of the Universidad Polytechnica Valencia, Spain, held on Sept 9-12, 2009, session by David L. Brooks, Associate Professor, English as a Foreign Language, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Japan
1. An Overview of Web 2.0 Tools for Collaborative Language Learning EuroCALL 2009 Conference 9-12, September 2009 Universidad Politechnica Valencia, Gandia, Spain http: //leon . blogspot .com David L. Brooks, Associate Professor Kitasato University, Sagamahira, Japan
10. Obviously, something’s different. Consider then what these changes are and what they mean.
11. Why it matters? Humans are tool-gathers & tool-makers, thus retooling human society by designing more and better tools. Hot air balloons -> TWA -> NASA Gutenberg -> typewriters - Digital Media Model-T -> Ford -> Demise of GM Brothers Lumiere .. -->etc
12. Mankind’s Greatest Tool Language and Cognition ….the tools to transmit, manipulate, and encode meaning
13. Mankind’s Greatest Tool Language and Cognition ….the tools to transmit, manipulate, and encode meaning
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15. Teaching the Machine = Us using the Machine to teach it to use us to teach it…. Each time you post, add photo, tweet, bookmark a link or add tags, you are teaching the Web to think like a Planetary Thinking Machine, the Cloud Computer, the Universal Cyborg - Sky Net is coming to pass - slowly but inevitably.
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21. Criticisms of the rush toward a Web 2.0 based education Not accepting any today? No time for that!
22. Digital Tribes - the new social media reality Digital Natives Digital Immigrants Digital Refugees
62. 6. Knowledge Sharing: Wikis, Broadcasting, Web Meetings & Storytelling Wikispaces (see example used below: Alan Levine) Web-conferencing / Online meetings a) Elluminate b) WizIQ (also available as a Moodle module) Storytelling using Web 2.0 Alan Levine’s 50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story http: //cogdogroo . wikispaces .com/50+ways
67. Much of my blog’s content is simply pull in using RSS feeds and widgets.
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69. An Overview of Web 2.0 Tools for Collaborative Language Learning EuroCALL 2009 Conference 9-12, September 2009 Universidad Politechnica Valencia, Gandia, Spain David L. Brooks, Associate Professor Kitasato University, Sagamahira, Japan You can find the handouts, useful links, tutorials, a WebSlide (Diigo bookmarks), and this Powerpoint at: http: //leon . blogspot .com Learning English On (the) Net --> LEON