VNU-Spring 2008 - Day6

Read Week#2 Overview
Administrative Odds & Ends
- Proejctor & Speaker Status?
- Preferred EFL537.com user ID's

buihongnham ,buihongnham673, or buihongnham_72
Hang Thi Thu Nguyen or moon75463
NGo Quoc Son or Son
ngochd75 or pearlsound7576

Blog Issues
- Non-existent Edublogs (Tam , Le , Tau, Spring)
- No posts - (Tai, Phong)

Resource Surfing
I would like most of the class to spend some time looking through this collection of online resources. Try to find resources that most interest you and don't waste time on ones that don't (or that don't load quickly enough). You can add sites of interest to your Del.icio.us Bookmarks and save documents, pages, audio files, and presentaitons to your 'Materials Archive'.
Audio Production Training
While most of the class is doing that, I would like four 'audio specialists' who are interested in learning how to record audio files. Each of you will need to be at a computer capable of producing and listening to audio. (switch computers with someone else if necessary). Audio Specialists, Jeff will skype you to tell you more about what you'll be doing. When ready, please go to the Audio Resource Page to begin your training.
Recording VNU EFL537 Talk Shows
Break into four groups (one 'audio specialist' to each group). The audio specialist will serve as a 'talk show host'. The topic of the show is 'Intereting Resources you've found online and how you might use them in your work'. Make sure everyone has a chance to speak and feel free to ask each other follow-up questions. If you're more comffortable speaking in Vietnamese at times, that is OK.

Assignments

Publish a reading reflection on the EFL537.com website ( you can choose a reading from the Reading List)
Make sure your blog (Edublogs.org or Wordpress.com) is functioning, has at least one post, and is listed properly on your EFL537.com profile page
Experiment with recording audio and produce an mp3 file. If successful, post it on the EFL537.com site (Create/Audio) - How to post audio on EFL537 Guide.

Audio Resouce Page

Audacity - a cross-platform, open sourcei tool for recording and editing audio. Audacity is pretty easy to install and use, however there is one addition step during installation that can be confusing. To install Audacity, follow these instructions on the Audacity Install Guide.

Screencasts

Support

Day 6 Online Resources

Day #6 Online Resoureces

You won't have time to check them all of these, but try to find resources that most interest you. If a site doesn't seem interesting (or doesn't load quickly enough), don't waste time on it. so You can add sites of interest to your Del.icio.us Bookmarks and save documents, pages, audio files, and presentations to your 'Materials Archive'.

Listening Activities

Manytings.org Listening
CLA audio based listening exercises online
Listen to English: E. L. Easton
Language Activities: a) Listening & Speaking
Arlyn Freed's ESL/EFL Listening Resources with reviews of web sites (audio and video)
Interactive Audio-Picture English Lessons
Adult Learning Ac tivities - California Distance Learning Project
British Council - Learn English: Songs and Lyrics

Podcasts (regularly produce audio recordings)

Readings & Resources

Downloadable Documents from Scribd.com & Lulu.com

Teaching Materials

Tech Training

EFL Teacher Blogs
Assorted blogs from EFL teachers around the world. Potentail source for more learning materials and building global connnections.

Aaron Campbell, Japan

Bee Dieu, Brazil

Nelba Quintana, Argentina

Richard Firsten, USA

Teaching English in Korea, James Trotta

Scott Sommers, Taiwan

Doris Molero, Venezuela

FCE Blog, Claudia Ceraso, Argentina

Michael Ivy, Rome

Daniel Kirk, Japan

Maria Jordano, Spain

Michael Ivy, Italy

Neil Whitfield, Australia

Nina Liakos, Maryland USA

Larry Rhoe, China

Brad Stephenson, Japan

Michael Coghlin, Australia

Nancy McKeand, Louisiana USA

Jimbo (Jim Hall), Japan

Dennis Newson, CTJ Online, Germany

Nathan Bauman, Korea

Marie Irene, Venezuela

Vance Stevens, UAE

Graham Stanley, Spain

From a recent post at: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/20_ways_to_learn_a_language_online....
Language Lessons

Mango Languages: 12 different online language courses presented in conversational format with prices starting at free.
Vocabulix: Free vocab building lessons in Spanish, German and English, as well as other languages, with a baked in social network.
Pod Network: Spanishpod - Frenchpod - Chinesepod - Free online lessons in three languages.
BBC Languages: A host of language learning tools and self-contained online courses from the BBC.
eLanguageSchool.net: Free lessons for learning 10 different languages online.
Linkua: An online marketplace of real-life language tutors. There's nothing like learning a language directly from a native speaker.
LiveMocha: This site combines lessons, with an online community allowing you to practice speaking with native speakers, which dovetails nicely into the next set of sites.

Practice Speaking

SharedTalk: A language exchange covering 113 languages from the makers of the popular RosettaStone language learning software.
xLingo: A language exchange that lets users create and share flashcards with each other.
Palabea: Reviews of language learning software in addition to an online language exchange.
iTalki: A language exchange with a Yahoo! Answers-style QnA site, and a wiki-based public knowledge base for 10 different languages.
Huitalk: Forums, articles, vocabulary lists, and a language exchange using Skype.
Interpals: A large language exchange from a popular penpal social network.
Mixxer: A free language exchange using Skype built by Dickinson College.
TT4You: A free global language exchange site.
Language Buddy: A free language exchange with 115 supported languages.
Convesation Exchange: Text and voice chat, email, or face-to-face meetings can bet set up via Language Buddy to improve your conversational skills.
Lingozone: Build vocab skills by playing game of Word Ladder and Hangman, while making friends with whom to practice speaking.
Language Exchange Network: Think Craigslist for language learning; this site has super-simple language exchange classified listings.
MyLanguageExchange: One of the oldest online language exchanges (this site was a Yahoo! Internet Life pick in 2001), it claims over 1 million members speaking 115 different languages.