EFL537 - Winter 2007

This contains an archive of most resources, assignments, and other class related materials used during the Winter 2007 edition of EFL537.

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Syllabus

Course Syllabus EFL 537

Faculty Name:  Jeff Lebow
Email address:  j.lebow@snhu.edu
Office:  Virtual Office at http://jefflebow.net/office
Office Hours:  Office hours will vary. For a schedule of office hours (virtual and in lab), see http://jefflebow.net/office/hours
Phone: (603) 574-4923
Syllabus .doc

Course Overview

Course Schedule

Weekly Agendas


Course Overview (Spring 2007)

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK

Call Dimensions: Options and Issues in Computer Assisted Language Learning (2006)  by Mike Levy, Glenn Stockwell, ISBN: 080585634X

COURSE PREREQUISITES

The equivalent of a United States Bachelor’s degree and 550 TOEFL score paper -  based, or 213 on the computer-based test for a non-native English speaker.

 COURSE DESCRIPTION

 This course provides a hands-on, collaborative environment in which to learn about and explore the use of computer technology for language learning.  As much as possible, participants are encouraged to use the various technologies we’ll be learning about to develop learning materials that will be relevant to their teaching context.  Participants are also encouraged to use these technologies to collaborate with and engage other EFL professionals in learning about the theory and pedagogical foundation of CALL.  Assessment is based on each student’s project portfolio, skills development, and participation (in class and online). 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

EFL537 students will be able to integrate the learned theories, pedagogy, and technologies into their practice as learners and educators.  Specifically, they will

  • Overcome any affective filters that might prevent them from including CALL tools in their teaching. 
  • Demonstrate competence in basic computer skills including desktop management, web posting and site building, use of CMC, and accessing multimedia files.
  • Familiarize themselves with advanced computer skills such as producing audio and video materials, creating interactive web based quizzes, accessing materials via RSS, and functioning in 3D virtual environments.  
  • Demonstrate an understanding of theory and research related to CALL
  • Produce and test instructional materials designed for their target learners.
  • Use computer technologies to engage in meaningful professional development.  

COURSE EVALUATION CRITERIA

Skills Assessment                           25%

  • Midterm - 10%  
  • Final - 15%

Participation                                   25%

  • Attendance - 10%
  • Engagement - 15%

Portfolio of Learned Objects        50%

Students will post 'learned object' online as a way of demonstrating what they've learned about a particular aspect of the CALL Dimensions listed below.
    Required Components -25%

  • Theory – 5%
  •   Research – 5%
  • Professional Development - 5%
  • Resource Review - 5%
  • EFL Learning Object - 5%

     Free Style Components   - 25%
    These can be additional posts similar in form to the required components or they can be other types of posts that demonstrate CALL practice or learning.  

ATTENDANCE POLICY

Students will lose one percentage point for each absence.  Arriving more than 15 minutes late will result in losing half of a percentage point.  In case of  weather conditions that prevent the class from meeting, we will plan to have a ‘virtual class’.  Students should stay tuned to EFL537.com for updated information in such a situation.

CLASS SCHEDULE

Most classes will follow this basic schedule

5:00~6:00pm   Office Hours/Lab Time [optional] - an opportunity for students to work on projects in the computer lab and/or speak with the instructor about issues or questions they have (technical and otherwise)
6:00~6:15pm
  Learner Lounge - Informal discussion about recent blog posts, 'affective issues', CALL news.  Prep time for those making presentations
6:15~7:15pm
  CALL Dimension Presentation/Discussion - learning about various 'non-technical' aspects of CALL
7:15~8:15pm
  Skills Training & Practice - learning technical skills that can be used in CALL
8:15~9:15pm
  Materials Development & Application - Learning about 'what works' and developing materials that will meet educational goals as educators

(Don't worry - we'll fit a 15 minute break in there somewhere) 

Weekly Plan

Below this weekly schedule are  lists of various CALL dimensions,  skills, & tools we'll be covering during this course.  The order in which topics will be presented will be determined by the presentation schedule and student interest.
Week
Dimensions, Theory, &  Research Skills Training
Toolkit Items Materials
Development & Application
Assigments / Resources
Week#1
January 10
Agenda
Introdution &
History of CALL
Glossary Items:
-Desktop Management
-File Types
-Web Navigation
-Email Basics
-Basic Search
-Windows Explorer
-Volume Control
-Firefox
-Discussions with Pioneers in Practice
- Professional Development
- EVO2007
- Introduction to CALL (Warschauer)
- Introduction to CALL (Davies, et al.)
- Invitation to CALL
-Davies Futurelab article
-LLAS article
-History of CALL at archive.org
-TESOL  CALL-IS
- A Brief History of CALL Theory
-Dimensions:
Chapters 1
Week#2
January 17

Theory & Research
Glossary Items:  Behaviouristic, Communicative, Integrative
-Posting Basics
-Basic html
-File Transfer
-File Attachments
-SeaMonkey
-Xinha
-FireFTP
-EVO Reports
-Brainstorming Possibilities
-Dimensions:
Chapters 5 & 6
Week#3
January 24

Theory & Research (part 2)
Glossary Items:
-social bookmarking
-collaboration tools
-content management systems
-Del.icou.us
-Yugma

-del.icio.us accounts
-Worldbridging space
-Dimensions:
Chapters 5 & 6
Week#4
January 31

Design & Evaluation   
Glossary Items:

-Presentation Tools
- Quiz & Game creation
-screen capture tools

-Powerpoint
-Impress

-Dimensions:
Chapters 2 & 3
Week#5
February  7

Design & Evaluation   
Glossary Items:



-Dimensions:
Chapters 2 & 3
eek#6
February  14

Practice & Integration
Glossary Items:



-Dimensions:
Chapters 7 & 9
Week#7
February  21

Practice & Integration
Glossary Items:



-Dimensions:
Chapters 7 & 9

Week#8
February  28


Glossary Items:




Week#9
March 7


Glossary Items:




Week#10
March 14


Glossary Items:




Week#11
March 21


Glossary Items:





Dimensions, Theory, &  Research Skills Training
Toolkit Items
  •  Theory & Research
  •  Design & Evaluation   
  • CMC    
  • Theory & Research 
  • Language Learning Areas 
  • Practice & Integration
  • Obstacles    
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Privacy
  • Security
  • Learning Styles
  • Licensing
  • Copyright
  • Professional Development
  • Virtual Communities
  • Bookmarking - browser based, web based
  • RSS
  • Podcasting/Vlogging
  • Tagging
  • Content Management Systems
  • Computer Mediated Communication
  • Collaboration Tools (Desktop Sharing, Wiki's etc. )
  • IM & Telephony
  • Presentation Software    
  • Audio    
  • Video
  • Screencasting    
  • Graphics    
  • Quiz & Game Creation Tools    
  • Virtual Worlds
  • Research techniques (effective searching)
  • Social Networking

Assignments

 Midterm Recap of Assignments and Projects

 Assignment#1

 Assignment#2

  • Create a blog post on EFL537.com that includes bold text, different sized text, an image,  and a link to an external URL.
  • Send me an email from your yahoo account.  Inlcude link to your del.icio.us account, Flickr account, & your EVO Yahoo Group.
  • Post at least 5 online resources to EFL537.com (including at least two'learrning materials', one theory and one research resource) and one .  Please choose resources that you think are especially useful or meaningful to you.

    •   Assignment#3

  • Post and tag at least 3 resources on to your Del.icio.us page (these can include the ones you posted at efl537.com). 
  • Upload at least two pages to your Worldbriging space.  Include a link to an external URL, a link from one of your pages to the other,  an image, a table, & formatted text.

    • Assignment#4

    • Create a powerpoint or Impress presentation that inclues at least 3 slides, formatted, colorful text, a transition effect, and an image.
    • Create any kind of quiz or game using Hot Potatoes and upload it to your Worldbridging space. 
    Assignment#5

    Final Exam Demo

    Download this file http://efl537.com/finalinstructions.tar
    Uncompress it and follow the instructions.

     

    Final Exam

    Instructions for your final exam are here:
    http://efl537.com/final-exam-instructions.tar

    Uncompress that file, follow those instructions.
    Good luck...

    When you're done with the exam, please complete your
    Portfolio Submission Form

    Finally, please take this survey at surveymonkey.com
    (password: efl537)

    Final Exam

    Final Exam

    • Part 1 (5 points) done at home
      Create a Bubbleshare that includes at least 3 images, audio, & a text bubble.
      Post it on your blog or html space.  This can also be used as part of one of your portfolio items.
    • Part 2 (10 points) done in class
      Download this compressed file, extract it, and read it for your final exam instructions. They will be something like...
      • Add the given podcast to your Google Reader.
      • Take a screenshot image, resize it to 500pixels wide, and save it as a .jpg file.
      • Download the latest audio from that podcast. Look at the metadata for that file.
      • Record a short mp3 file telling me the metadata information about the artist and album title.  Upload that mp3 to your Worldbridging space.
      • Email me at jeff@efl537.com  including the URL to that audio file and attaching the 500 pixel wide screenshot image.

    Week #10 Agenda

    Week #2 - January 17, 2007

    Week 2
    January 17, 2007 

    Assignments

    • Create a blog post on EFL537.com that includes bold text, different sized text, an image,  and a link to an external URL.
    • Send me an email from your yahoo account.  Inlcude link to your del.icio.us account, Flickr account, & your EVO Yahoo Group.
    • Post at least 5 online resources to EFL537.com (including at least two'learrning materials', one theory, and one research resource) and one .  Please choose resources that you think are especially useful or meaningful to you.
    • Read Dimensions, Chapter 6 and find other relevant Research materials online.
    Agenda Below

    CALL Lounge

    • Anxieties & other issues

    CALL Dimension - Theory

    • Discuss meaningful theory encounters
    • Traditional Learning .vs hyperlinked learner centered learning

     Computer Prep

    • Save this file into c:\Program Files\Audacity
    • Open Windows Explorer
    • Connect to the WebHuddle
    • Open Seamonkey

    Skills Training

    • What is a website?
      • Basic html
      • File Transfer
        • FTP Programs
        • FireFTP extension
        • Publishing
        • File Structure
      • Content Management Systems
        • Overview of what they do
        • Options for formatting posts (rich text, xinha, copy & paste)
    • Basic Search
    • How do you... ?'s
      • create an online diary
      • decide appropriate size for photo attachments
      • create and use audio files
      • convert a word-processing file to an html format?
      • send an attachment in the html+ format?
      • protect yourself fom viruses and spyware
      • move files from your recorder to your website
      • get a domain name
      • design your website

    Skills Assessment


    Week #4 - January 31, 2007

    Week #4 Agenda

    Prepare your computer

    • Activate Flash by going to this page and following the 'Install missing plugins'  instructions (top right)
    • From your Toolkit CD, install Open Office, Hot Potatoes, & Wink
    • Save lame_enc.dll into c:\Program Files\Audacity  (screencast)
    • Add these search options to your browser search tab
      (del.icio.us , Technorati, Flickr tags, Wikipedia)
    • Add the del.icio.us extension to Firefox 
    • Open these tabs in Firefox

    CALL Lounge
    • Assignments Due by Monday night
    • Toolkit CD Overview
    • EFL537.com Profile Page (my account/edit/portfolio)
    • Midterm Practice next week
    • Del.icio.us tags    for:efl537, learningcall
    Design Discussion and Show & Tell

    Skills Training
    •  Presentation Software (Powerpint & Impress)
    • Screen Capture Tools (Wink & Windows Media Encoder)
    • Skills Assesment
      • Create a powerpoint or Impress presentation that inclues at least 3 slides, formatted, colorful text, a transition effect, and an image.
      • Create any kind of quiz or game using Hot Potatoes and upload it to your Worldbridging space.


    Sandbox Playtime

    Portfolio Planning & Pondering

    Assigments

    Week #5 Agenda

    Week #5 Agenda
    This Week:
    • Security Warning
    • Social Networking & the Read/Write Web
    • Get to know your Wordpress
    • Search Revisited
    • MidTerm Prep
    • Portfolio Update  
    • Assigments Below

    Prepare your computer

    • Activate Flash by going to this page and following the 'Install missing plugins'  instructions (top right)
    • Save lame_enc.dll into c:\Program Files\Audacity  (screencast)
    • Save this file efl537.opml into your temp directory
    • Add these search options to your browser search tab
      (del.icio.us , Technorati, Flickr tags, Answers.com, Wikipedia)
    • Add the noscript &  del.icio.us extensions to Firefox 
    • Register at gmail.com (you should have recieved an invitation from Jeff)
    • Open these tabs in Firefox

    CALL Lounge


      Social Networking & the Read/Write Web

    Conent Management Systems

    Get to know your Wordpress

    Login, click Site Admin

    • Options/General: change Title, Tagline
    • Plugins/Plugins - Podpress, Activate
    • Presentation/Themes - choose your theme of preference
    • Manage/Categories - Add New
    • To post, Write/Write Post - Enter Title, post, 'Add Media File', enter information, click 'Publish'

    Search Revisited

    • From Google Search Basics
       

      Phrase searches are particularly effective if you're searching for proper names ("George Washington"), lyrics ("the long and winding road"), or other famous phrases ("This was their finest hour").

      Here's how you'd find pages about bass-heavy lakes, but not bass-heavy music:
      bass -music

      If you want to search not only for your search term but also for its synonyms, place the tilde sign ("~") immediately in front of your search term.
      ~food ~facts
    • Importance of HOW you search and WHERE you search
      Search Options
      Technorati, Answers.com,  del.icio.us, Wikipedia

    • Media Search

       Building a LearningCall node at learningcall.net
    MidTerm Prep

    • Create a 'YourName-Temp' Directory on your C Drive. 
    • Download the indicated photo to your temp directory, rename it to classaction.jpg, create basic metadata for the file, email it from your yahoo account to me.
    • Record and save a short audio file (.mp3) of you sharing your thoughts about that photo (and/or whatever else is on your mind).  Edit the mp3 file to include Title, URL, & License.
    • Upload an html file to worldbriding.net/you/midterm.htm that shows that image, a short description, and a link to that audio file.
    • Add that URL to our del.icio.us account and tag with ' for:efl537 midterm '
    • Post that audio file as a podcast on your Wordpress blog.
    •  Extra Credit: Take a screenshot photo of you viewing that blog post in your RSS reader of preference and downloading the file with your MediaCatcher.
    Watch Midterm 
    Screencast Guide

    Portfolio Update
    Your Contributions & Creations
    • 10% Learning Call Items (possible nodes - licensing, search, keyboarding, privacy, ..)
    • 15% Personal Web Portal (html or  cms)
         - Components could inlcude your EFL537 &, TEFL Program materials, online resources (del.icio.us or other), & a personal profile.
         - See past EFL537 Personal portfolios & an example of a Wordpress E-Portfolio
    • 25% A 'Featured Project', extra Learning Call nodes, and/or a collection of Sandbox reports.
    Assignments

    Week #7 Agenda

    Prepare you computer 

     Activate Flash by going to this page and following the 'Install missing plugins'  instructions (top right)  ______
     Save lame_enc.dll into c:\Program Files\Audacity  (screencast guide)  ______
     Add these search options to your browser search tab
    (del.icio.us , Technorati, Flickr tags, Answers.com, Wikipedia)    		  ______
     Add the  del.icio.us extensions to Firefox   ______
    Install 7zip from the online download or your EFL537 CD
    		______
     Join tonight's Yugma.  ______
       
     

    Assignments you should have completed already

    Create any kind of quiz or game using Hot Potatoes and upload it to your Worldbridging space.
    		   
    		______
    Choose your license of preference - options and info at: http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses & post information on your website (worldbridging and/or Wordpress)

    		______
    Post a blog entry and/or a podcast on your Wordpress blog reflecting on your EFL537 thusfar.
    		______
    Check out some EFL related podcasts.
    http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Listening/Podcasts/
    http://www.podcastdirectory.com/search/keyword.php?page=1&search=efl
    Make a few listening recommendations in your Del.icio.us (tag with ' listening audio '  and any other tags (like podcast) that might be relevant.
    		______

    Skills Training

    Image Management and Editing Using IrfanView
    Watch Screencast Tutorial



    Decompressing compressed files using 7zip
    Watch Screencast Tutorial




    Setting up your Wordpress - Categories, Links, & Pages
    Watch the Screencast Tutorial

     

     


    Portfolio (50 points needed)
    Required

    20pts.
    		Your Personal Portal - This can be created in html at your Worldbriding space or at Worldbridges.info using your Wordpress.  This should include links to all of your EFL537 work, an overview of  your participation in the TEFL program, an overview of your personal CALL Toolkit, and licensing information.  It can also contain a personal introduction, teaching philosophy demonstration, and anything else you'd like to include.




    Possibilities (at least 30 points needed)

    10pts. Integration/Reflection Report - Choose a Theory or Research paper or online resource and share your reflections on it, particularly noting how this applies to your language teaching context. This can be produced as a document, html page, blog post, powerpoint presentation, podcast, or combination thereof. Source material can be in any language, but the report must be in English. You can find some online sources at:
    http://iteslj.org/links/
    http://tip.psychology.org/theories.html

    10pts. A LearningCALL.net node - create an online page that could include text, images, links, audio, video and/or a powerpoint presentation to teacher future CALL students about any aspect of CALL.  Possibilities include licensing, search, keyboarding, privacy, design, learning styles, and cultural differences.
    10pts An obstacle analysis - Provide a fairly detailed overview of what challenges you or others may face in implementing CALL in your educational environment. Present as many solution options as possible.  As always, collaboratioon is encouraged and mutlimedia is a plus.
    5pts. Your Del.icio.us Links - must contain at least 25 sites, all with 1-2 sentence descriptions and proper tagging.
    5pts. Lead a discussion at Chinswing.com - Post an audio questions or topic starter at that site, ask for participation from classmates, friends, colleauges, fellow evo participants and others.
    5pts. Your Google Reader list (opml file).  Subscribe to at least 12 CALL related rss feeds and provide a text or audio description of them.
    20pts.
    		A CALL lesson and/or curriculum.  This can be an overview of a computer based curriculum or a more developed specific lesson effectively using as many tools and resources as possible. These can include links to new media, self produced audio or video, online images,  and web based interactive quizzes (Hot Potatoes).


    ??pts.
    		Create your own portfolio assignment that use CALL tools to demonstrate your understanding,  experimentation, and/or application of CALL.


    This week's assignments -

    ­
    PORTAL PREPARATION
    You should have at least the basic design and menu structure built by next week's class

    NEW MEDIA
    Listen to the latest episode of Grammar Girl and read some of the commetns below the post.
    Watch the episode 293  of The Daily English Show


    Watch this video in which Sarah shows how she produces the show.

    Also, check out Sarah's use of CALL in providing private internet English lessons.  
    Listen to Ronaldo's Dispelling myths and stereotypes about your country  discussion at Chinswing.com.
    Check out some of other discussion on the Global Issues, Education, or other Chinwing channels.
    Check out Miz Mercer's class podcast and website.
    Write a reflection on the use of new media in language learning, particularly how you might use it in your teaching and/or professional development.  You can post this on your Wordpress blog or Worldbridging space.

    Week #9 Agenda

    • Assigments
      • Post something in the classmate collaboration forum.
        Due: Thursday, March 8,  8pm.
      • Respond to at least three of your classmates. If an item already has four responses, please choose someone else's item.
        Due Monday, March 12, 11:59pm
      • Be prepared to make a 3-5 minute informal presentation about one of your portfolio items during next week's class.  The goal is to share the content learned and methods used in creating this item and get any useful feedback that might help you improve it.


    • Assignment checklist
      Have you...
    ....posted a blog entry and/or a podcast on your Wordpress blog reflecting on your EFL537 thusfar? (from week 5)

    ...written a reflection on the use of new media in language learning, particularly how you might use it in your teaching and/or professional development and posted it on your Wordpress blog or Worldbridging space? (from week  7)

    ...sent Jeff an email describing your portfolio plan, including basic descriptions of the topics you'll be reflecting upon and/or analyzing? (from week 8)

    .... created the basic design and menu structure of your personal portal? (from week 7)
    •  Show & Tell
      Give us a 3-5 minute tour of your personal portal and overview of the items included in your portfolio.

    Week 8 Agenda

    Week 8 Agenda

    Prepare your computer as necessary:

    Tonight's Yugma

    If you plan to export mp3 files
    Save lame_enc.dll into c:\Program Files\Audacity  (screencast guide)

    If you would like to use the delicious Firefox extension
      Add the  del.icio.us extensions to Firefox

    If you would like to add search functionality
     Add these search options to your browser search tab
      (del.icio.us , Technorati, Flickr tags, Answers.com, Wikipedia)
    ­
    If you would like to access flash pages
      Activate Flash by going to this page and following the 'Install missing plugins' instructions (top right)


    Tonight's  Tasks

    1) If you have not already watched the Wordpress screencast, please do so.

    Setting up your Wordpress - Categories, Links, & Pages
    Watch the Screencast Tutorial

    2) Send Jeff a short email describing your Portfolio plan.  20 points will come from your personal web portal.  What other projects will you do? Must add up to at least 30 points.
    More detailed descriptions included in the week#7 agenda

    10pts. Integration/Reflection Report
    10pts. A LearningCALL.net node
    10pts An obstacle analysis
    10pts.
    		A learning podcast
    5pts. Your Del.icio.us Links
    5pts. Lead a discussion at Chinswing.com
    5pts. Your Google Reader list (opml file).
    20pts.
    		A CALL lesson and/or curriculum. 


    ??pts.
    		Create your own portfolio assignment that use CALL tools to demonstrate your understanding,  experimentation, and/or application  of CALL.

    3)  Work on your personal web portal and portfolio objects.
    Your web portal should include

    • SNHU TEFL list of artifacts
    • Links to all sites and materials produced for EFL537
    • Your Toolkit - short desciptions of all software and web based tools you use to produce CALL materials
    • Link to at least 15 EFL related resources. You can categorize them as you wish - teachers, learners, reading, podcasts, etc.
    • A short 'about you' page.




    Week#1 - January 10, 2007

    EFL537 Week #1

    Assignments

    Skills Training Audio
    Download mp3


    Agenda Below
    CALL Lounge
    • Getting to know each other
    • Concerns & Hope
    Course Intro 
    • Objectives
      • Overcome anxiety
      • Learn skills & experiment with tools
      • Learn CALL theory
      • Apply skills
      • Develop Professionally
    • Assignments & Assessment
      • Participation
      • Skills
      • Portfolio (required & free style)
      • Group Work Options
      • Use the technology to learn about it

    • Learning Plan
      • Dimensions, Skills, Practice
      • Flexible Syllabus
      • Lab Time, Virtual Office Hours, Snow days - good new, bad news
    About CALL - Brief Intro and History
    Brainstorm aspects of CALL Theory, Research, & Dimensions we'd like to learn.
    Skills Training
    • Tools & Skills Brainstorm
    • How do you....  Forum
    Basics - Tutorial #1
    - Windows Explorer (NOT IE)
    • Drives
    • View Options
    • View/Status Bar
    • Tools/Options
      • Display filesize information (check)
      • Hide extensions (UNchecked)
      • 'File Types' Tab - Open with / File type list
    - Right Clicking
    • New Item , Open, Open with, Copy/Cut/Paste , Properties (General/Summary tabs)
    • Broswer - save link as/
    - Save as Window - location, filenames, file type
    - File Menu (File, Edit, View, Tools, Help)

    Skills Assessment Task
    • Save the designated file from the URL given
    • Rename it, add meta data (title, keywords, comments, etc.)
    • Email as an attchment to j.lebow@snhu.edu and include information about the file's size in the email.
    If time permits, we will discuss basic audio recording and volume control.
    Materials Development & Application
    Guests:     Dafne Gonzales, EVO2007 Coordinator
                  Dave Sperling, Mr. Eslcafe.com
    Discussions with Pioneers in Practice
    Dafne's Vaestro Discussion
    Scott's student produced podcasts
    Moodle for Language Teaching
    - Professional Development
    - EVO2007
     

    Week#11 Agenda

    Week #11 Agenda
    Tonight's Yugma


    5:00 ~ 6:00 - Last minute Prep

    6:00 ~ 7:15

    7:30 ~ Yabbadabbadoo! Time

    • Present a 5-10 minute tour of your portfolio

    Week #3 - January 24, 2007

    Week 3

    Assignments

    • Post and tag at least 3 resources on to your Del.icio.us page (these can include the ones you posted at efl537.com). 
    • Upload at least two pages to your Worldbriging space.  Include a link to an external URL, a link from one of your pages to the other,  an image, a table, & formatted text.
    • Read Design related materials - Dimensions: Chapter 2,
    • Assess at least two instructional CALL sites - one that you think provides an example of 'good design', one that provides an example of 'poor design'. Post you thoughts here.

    Future Reading/Listening
    (for Week 5)
    Social Networking & Education - what's really ahead and why it's important
    Open Web Publishing Week 1 Webcast with Clarence Fisher


    Prepare your computer
    • Open these windows
      • Windows explorer
      • Firefox
      • Seamonkey

    • Add these search options to your browser search tab

    Synchronous online collaboration Tools -  (Snow Day & Virtual Office Hours Practice)

    Skills Training


    Skills assessment

    • Post and tag at least 3 resources on to your Del.icio.us page (these can include the ones you posted at efl537.com). 
    • Upload at least two pages to your Worldbriging space.  Include a link to an external URL, a link from one of your pages to the other,  an image, a table, & formatted text


    Show & Tell

    Share and discuss the resouces posted.

    • Theory & research
    • Learning Materials
    • Other

    Discuss Personal Project Possibilities

     Free Play Time

    Introduce Dafne's class
    Share our thoughts on design and architecure of CALL




    Toolkit

    Below is a partial list of the tools we'll be using.   Feel free to start experimenting... or wait until after we've discussed the Complete List during Week#1. .


    Tutorials

    This section contains a list of tutorials and skill guides.

    Basic Html

    Hypertext Markup Language (html) is the type of code used to create web pages.
    Examples of this code are:

    <b>bold </b> = bold
    <i>italics</i> =  italics
    <a href="http://snhu.edu"> a link</a> = a link

    html code for this sentence looks like this:

    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html">html code</a><b> </b>for this <i>sentence </i><b>looks </b>like <font size="4">this</font>: 

    More info about html at:

    html can can be writen diectly with a text editor or can be generated by an html editor is provides a 'wysiwyg' interface.

    Some common html editors are:
    Open Source and/or free
    Commercial
    html files usually have an ( .htm or .html ) file extension .  These files can be uploaded from an author's computer to a web server using an FTP program or the publish function of some html editors.

    List of File Types & Extensions

    Below is a list of the commonly used file extensions.  This list was gathered from Wikipedia's  List of File Formats page. You can find a complete list of file types and extensions there.


    Archive and compressed

    The most common compression files to the standard user are .zip and .rar. However, there are many more.

    • 7z 7-Zip compressed file
    • ALZ - Alzip format
    • cab - Microsoft Cabinet
    • deb - Debian Linux install package
    • gzip (.gz) - Compressed file
    • jar - ZIP file with manifest for use with Java applications.
    • RAR Rar Archive (.rar), for multiple file archive (rar to .r01-.r99 to s01 and so on)
    • sit - StuffIt (Macintosh)
    • tar
    • .tar.gz, .tgz (gzipped tar file)
    • zip

    Database

    • DB - Paradox
    • DBF - DBase, DBase III/IV/V, Microsoft FoxPro
    • FRM - MySQL table definition
    • MDB - Microsoft Database (Access)
    • MFD - Microsoft SQL Server Database
    • MYD - MySQL MyISAM table data
    • MYI - MySQL MyISAM table index
    • NSF - Lotus Notes database
    • NTF - Lotus Notes database design template
    • ODB - OpenDocument database
    • SQL - bundled SQL queries
    • WDB - Microsoft Works Database

    Document

    These files store formatted text.

    Font file


    Graphics

    Raster graphics

    Raster (or Bitmap) files store images as a group of pixels.


    Page description language

    Presentation

    Script


    Sound and music

    Lossless audio

    Lossy audio

    Other music formats

    • VGM - (stands for "Video Game Music", log for several different chips)
    • PSF - Portable Sound Format
    • NSF - (bytecode program to play NES music)
    • MP3 - MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
    • MOD - (Soundtracker and Protracker sample and melody modules)
    • PSF - PlayStation sound format.

    Playlist formats


    Spreadsheet

    Tabulated data

    Video

    Main article: video file formats.
    • 3GP - the most common video format for cell phones
    • GIF - Animated GIF(simple animation; until recently often avoided because of patent problems)
    • ASF (ASF is a shell, which enables any form of