2. Blended Learning: supporting Multiliteracies, networking
and collaborative learning in a MOOC like program.
Face to Face Component
On-Line Component
How we Blend
Assesment: Test and Projects

3. Our Mind Set:
Our world has flattened and is interconnected
Information is just going to continue to grow exponentially
Students of today and tomorrow learn differently than we did
We are life long learners
We are self-directed learners
“The illiterate of the 21st century
will not be those who cannot read
or write, but the ones who cannot
learn, unlearn and relearn”
(Alvin Toffler)
“How we connect with
each other is how
learning occurs”
(Stephen Wilmarth)
“Collaboration and
sharing knowledge are
highly prized skills”
(Alan November)

4. “Combining face-to-face and technology helps
engage the teacher and students into a learning
community where everyone benefits and grows
into a lifelong learner. Learning is becoming
relationship-based or a huge learning network”
(Nellie Deutsch)
.

5. What are Digital Literacies?
They refer to our ability to effectively
make use of the technologies at our
disposal. It’s not only a checklist of
technical skills, but also about the social
practices that surround the use of new media.
So not just knowing how to create a blog entry,
but knowing how to use this to connect with a
wider community of readers and writers, and
what sort of online persona one projects
though one's post.
Not just knowing how to upload photos to
Flickr ( a photo sharing site), but knowing
whether to publish them under a Creative
Commons license and what this implies in
terms of digital rights and usage.
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles/digital-literacies-what-are-they-why-should-we-ca

6. 5-lenses Model / Pegrum, M. (June 2009)
technological
pedagogical
social
sociopolitical
ecological

7. Connectivism is a learning
theory for the digital age
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/688902
George Siemens
Stephen Downes

8. “We blog to teach and
learn about writing,
communication,
networking,
presentation,
publishing,
commenting, reflection,
organization and
collaboration skills. …..
……..Blogging is about Digital Citizenship,
Media Literacy, Information Literacy and
Global Awareness. “

9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc
Written and Narrated by Dave

10. World Link is Heinle's best-selling core series for young adult/adultyoung adult/adult learners of
English from the false beginnerbeginner to intermediate levelintermediate level.
Level 1 and 2Level 1 and 2
Level 3 and 4Level 3 and 4
Level 5Level 5
Level 6 ConversationalLevel 6 Conversational
Level 7 OccupationalLevel 7 Occupational
Level 8 WritingLevel 8 Writing
mandatorymandatory

11. – WorldLink
Resources
– (MyELT – Site)

12. Blogs:
On line portfolio-Journal
• Homework, Interests
• Video, Audio, Text Images
Classroom:
F2F interactions
• New Interchange,Worldlink,
• Conversations, PowerPoint,
• Group tasks
• Cell phones: recorder, video,
and photos
Google Services:
• G-mail
• Google images
• Google Talk
Facebook
• Photos, Videos,
• Music, Forum, blog, groups
• Wall Comments
Twitter
Wetpaint
Team Work
Collaboration
Podcast:
Final Project
EFL Podcast
Second Life
• Tours
• language school
• roleplaying

13. http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/
http://doris3meflcenter.bl
ogspot.com/2010/10/intr
oducing-geraldine-
cubillan.html

14. http://daviddanielmelean.blogspot.com/

17. https://www.facebook.com/groups/5204964451/

22. https://www.facebook.com/groups/reallifeenglish/

24. Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/USF/147/221/23

25. The Merlin Learning Quest for English language learners.
http://maps.secondlife.c

26. http://josemejiasji.blogspot.com/
http://ortegaquintero.blogspot.com/

27. We skype in order to expose
and connect teachers and
students locally and globally to
peers, experts, eye witnesses.
We become more fluent in
networking and and
information literacies,
speaking, listening and
presentation skills are honed.

28. https://www.facebook.com/MyFaceForPeaceVenezuela?fref=ts

36. http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/geraldine3001-695605-
Stage 1
* Get in groups
• Assign roles
• Select a topic
* Divide contents to research
Stage 2
* Research topic and relate it to
your assigned content
• Design slides: mind maps and
charts
• Reflect on what you and your
group learned
• Write a transcript to explain your
mind map
• Edit with a tutor
• Record your presentation

37. Stage 3
•Upload PPT to Authorstream
• Post PPT to your blog
• Make a poster to display your
work
• Be ready to present in front of
an audience
Stage 4
• Show your work and share your
findings.
• Decorate your stand and be
ready to answer questions of your
classmates.
• Answer your professor questions
about your work.

38. For the Oral test you will need
to:
• Design 3 mind maps like the
ones showed in the pictures
bellow.
• Also, you will need to have a
conversation with a partner. Be
ready to ask and answer
questions in a short conversation
about the lessons practiced in
class..
• Bring something to share with
your classmates (a little snack).

39. • All mind maps must be on paper.. No
digital material.. We'll be placing your
posters on the wall for everyone to look at
and learn from.
• And the most important.... Have fun!!!
Take a lot of photos and post them to our
Facebook group..
More memories of past
exams... here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s
https://www.facebook.com/media/se

40. http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/2013/07/oral-test-mindmaps-may-july-2013.html

41. Blended EFL Classes at University LevelBlended EFL Classes at University Level - 2013
Dr. Doris Molero
University Professor
Rafael Belloso Chacin University
doris3m@gmail.com
doris.molero@urbe.edu

42. References
• From Blogs to Bombs (Mark Pegrum)
http://e-language.wikispaces.com/mr2
• Seminal reading on Multiliteracies: The New London Group (1996).
A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. Harvard
Educational Review 6, 1. pp.60-92. Retrieved in 2009
from: http://wwwstatic.kern.org/filer/blogWrite44ManilaWebsite/paul/
articles/A_Pedagogy_of_Multiliteracies_Designing_Social_Futures.
htm
• Stevens, Vance. (2009). Modeling Social Media in Groups,
Communities, and Networks. TESL-EJ, Volume 13, Number 3:
http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/past-issues/volume13/ej51/ej51int/
• Tour to the British Council Isle in Second Life
http://pioniadestiny.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-04-
05T18%3A03%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7
• Russian Venezuela EFL project in SL
http://pioniadestiny.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-04-
05T18%3A03%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7
•

43. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw&feature=fvwrel