Explorations

Explorations

We will not have time to cover all of these topics, but for those interested, here are are some CALL tools, resoources, and examples that may be of interest.

Blogging * Chatbots * Professional Development * Social Networking * Video

Blogging

Blogs

Past EFL537 students

Ellen
Joanna
Phong
Violet
(more on the profiles page listed under 'blog)

Many more listed on these sites

International Edubloggers Directory of ESL & EFL blogs
Lexiophiles list of Top 100 Language blogs
EFL Blog List

More EFL Teacher blogs

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

Blog Hosts

Chatbots

MyBot: http://www.a-i.com/
ALICE Bot: http://alice.pandorabots.com/
Web Hal: http://www.zabaware.com/webhal/index.html
Eliza Bot: http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html
Turing Hub: http://www.robitron.com/TuringHub/
Santa Bot: http://www.santabot.com/
Oddcast Bot: http://demo.vhost.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk-oddcast?botid=e10677c3ee36f742
Pandora Bot (text only): http://demo.vhost.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=e10677c3ee36f742
Virsona Bot: http://www.virsona.com/
Nik Peachey explains how we can create a chat bot and how to use it in ESL classes: http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2008/09/artificial-intelligence-chat-bots-and.html

Professional Development

It's a new world of professional development - informal, interactive, & personal. Below are some site/communities of interest. Please add other sites that you can see using in your professional development to your del.icio.us

Social Networking

Social Networks in Plain English
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.
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.
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.