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Daily Reflections
At the end of each day, please post a short (100-200 word) blog entry reflecting on what you learned that day, challenges you faced, and anything else you'd like to share with me about your course experiences that day. Some days, I may give you a specific question to address in your reflection. Please give these posts a title like 'Daily Reflection - Day#1'.
Week#1 Skills Training
Click on each page, read the instructions, and complete the task at the bottom of the page.
Required Skills
Elective Skills (if you complete the above tasks, please work on these)
Alumni Thoughts
You can see all sorts of work from previous students by checking the profiles page.
Below are some selected writings from former EFL537 students - overviews of their EFL537 experience and words of wisdom to those who follow. You don't have to read all of them, but taking a look will hopefully provide some useful insights.
Please go to EFL Sites Buffet Page
This is a list of websites and online resources that can be used for language learning. Please explore these sites during the next few days at your own pace. You DO NOT need to look at everything. If a site is loading slowly, not working properly, or just not interesting, move on to something else. If your explorations lead you to a site that's not on the list below, that's fine. When you find something you think is useful, please bookmark it with Delicious (if you know how) or at least take note of the site name and address. Please feel free to share information with your classmates as you make interesting discoveries.
Readings:
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| Week#2 |
Week#2 Assignments
The goal of week#2 is for you to focus on the aspects of CALL that you find most interesting and potentially useful in your teaching and to 'document your learning'. By 'documenting your learning' I mean using all of this week's assignments (reading reviews, delicious bookmarks, daily reflections, etc.) to show and tell me what you've learned.
- Continue Exploring the CALL Buffet and adding bookmarks to your Delicious account.
Buy the end of this week you should have at least 30 websites bookmarked and properly tagged in your Delicious account (using EFL related words and 'efl537'). You can use the sites and links listed on the EFL Sites Buffet Page or you can explore on your own. Feel free to share information with your classmates as you make interesting discoveries.
- This week's readings:
You will need to find two more readings that are about a topic (or topics) in which you are especially interested. You will need to search for readings by clicking on links listed on the EFL537 Reading List, the LearningCall.net Readings Index, or by using the Custom Search of CALL related journals.
Before writing your Reading Reviews, please let me know which readings you plan to review by answering the relevant questions in the Week#2 Questionnaire. It asks you to tell me about your topic and the readings you plan to review or if you're having trouble finding readings, it asks you to describe what you are looking for. In your reading reviews, Try to include a discussion of how the topic of the reading applies to CALL, your teaching environment, and how it might affect your practice. Reading Reviews are due Nov. 12.
- Continue writing daily reflections on your blogger.com blog. (blogger guide here)
By the end of the course, you should have at least 8 reflection. Feel free to post other assignments and personal writings as well.
- Materials Archive - I want you to find and save web pages, activities, audio recordings, videos, and other materials that you can use to teach English, even if you are using a computer that isn't connected to the Internet. See the course overview for details of how to save these files.
- CALL Specialization Report/Presentation - This is a summary of what you spent most of Week#2 focusing on. It can be a written report, slide presentation, and/or audio recording discussing the area of CALL you focused on during Week#2. Include links to any relevant readings, resources, or websites. Due November 14.
- Week#2 Skills
All Week#2 Technical Skills are OPTIONAL! These guides are here so that you can learn about these skills if you wish, but if you are not interested in a particular skill or you find it very difficult or stressful, I don't want you to waste your time and energy on it. I'd much rather you focus on further developing skills you've already learned or focusing on other Week#2 assignments that are more meaningful to you.
| Skill Guide |
Screencast |
Task (see bottom of each Skill Guide) |
Presentations Part 2
Downloading & Embedding |
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Embed a presentation from Slideshare or Google Docs on your blog. |
Social Networking
Twitter Tips |
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Register for a few social networks and reflect on your experiences on your blog |
Blogging & RSS
Blogger Tweaking Guide |
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Subscribe to several blogs using Google reader |
| Chat |
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(no task) |
| File Storage |
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Create an Esnips account, upload files there, and update your EFl537.com profile |
| Image Editing |
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Take a screenshot, crop it and resize it. Then attach it to a blog post on EFL537.com |
| Video |
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(no task) |
Site Building Options
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Create a site at Posterous.com, Wikispaces.com, or other free site hosts. |
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