Week#3 - Site Building

EFL537 Spring2008 Podcast#1
(sorry world, student access only)
Sharing interesting sites, blogs, resources from the past week and thoughts about portfolio possibilities.
Screencasts

3 page htmlcast

Edublogcast

Prepare Your Computer

Audio Show & Tell

We begin today by recording  'Show & Tell' in small groups.  Please go to your designated Recording Station, and take turns answering this questions:
  • Take turns sharing the most interesting site, blog, or reading you've found related to CALL.  How would you use it in your practice?
  • What ideas have you had for your EL537 'personal portfolio' items?
Group members are encouraged to ask  questions and make comments or suggestions. Each person should record between 3-5 minutes.
To record audio using Audacity
1) Click the 'Record' button

2) Click the 'Stop' button
To Save the file as an mp3
Click File /Export


1) Save it in c:\EFL537
2) Make sure 'mp3' is selected as file type
3) name it 'week3-yourname'
4) Click Save

When you see the window below, ignore it and simply click OK,


Later on , we'll learn how to use this window to add 'meta-data' to the mp3 file.
basically ,it's what you see on your mp3 player when listening to a file.

Presentations

Presentations


Presentationcast


Slideshares tagged EFL ESL

Activities
Tools and Trends in Self-Paced Language Instruction

Presentation Examples

Uploaded on authorSTREAM by DaveGrewal

Graphics


Understanding Graphic File Formats


Irfanview - an free image viewer program that can be used to view, edit, and convert image files.


Gimp
GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs.

Readings
Reading Authentic EFL Text Using Visualization and Advance Organizers in a Multimedia Learning Environment

Your Website

As part of your personal portfolio for this class, you will need to build yoru own website. Typically, these include
  • Introduction
  • CALL Toolkit
  • TEFL Program Portfolio
  • EFL537 Portfolio

but as always, I'm open to alternate plans.

You can choose to use

1) and html site (worldbridges.info space) ,
HTML Examples - Jamie, Zoe, Past EFL537 Classes

2) Hosted Blog (edublogs, blogger, etc.), or your own Wordpress
Examples- Kelly , Joy , Wesley Fryer, Always Learning
or
3) our own Wordpress (Jeff hosted) - for those especially interested in learning about Wordpress

For those interested, here are some more Electronic Portfolio Resources

Assignments

  • Use a menu table to make sure all pages link to each other
  • include an image on at least each page
  • embed a slideshare presentation or Youtube video on one of the pages.
The content of the pages is up to you.If you prefer some more specific guidance, create these three pages
  • index.html - a 'welcome to my site page'
  • tools.html - tools you're interested in using
  • presentations.html - the embedded content and a short description
  • Create those same three pages on your Edublog - You do not need to create the menu table
    Edublogcast
  • Please reflect on your readings (document your learning) somewhere - Edublogs, EFl537 blog, create a slideshare, up to you
  • Next week, we will be practicing audio & video content production. If you'd like to 'read ahead', resources are here