Open and Participatory Environments in Language Learning

Open Participatory Media Environments in Language Learning Barbara Dieu and Patricia Glogowski 49thTesol Conference New York, April 5th 2008

CONTEXT
What is your teaching context, who are your learners and what are their interests and needs?
What social tools and platforms are there available?
Have you incorporated any into your language teaching curriculum yet? If you did, how did you go about it? Why? If not, why?

Barbara
EFL bilingual high school (French-Portuguese)
460 hours of English in middle school
20 to 28 students per class
3 classes 50 ’ per week
of which 1 x 50’ in computer lab
Blog, bloglines, wiki, Flickr, social sites
Bilingual dictionary, thesaurus, class wiki, podcasts, study skills, rubrics, CC photos

Patricia
University preparation program
Upper intermediate level
16 stds per class
20 hours a week x 8 weeks
of which 2 or three hours computer lab
social media platforms
Google alerts, scholar,surveymonkey

OPEN AND PARTICIPATORY
What is your perception of open and participatory online environments for language learning?
Why do you think they are called 'open' and 'participatory'?
How can we help learners to improve on their language skills through experiential learning and networking in these socially and linguistically rich environments?

Open Learning Diagrams by Stephen Downes (We added the captions) borrowed from: http://it. coe . uga .edu/itforum/paper92/paper92.html Closed Course Management System

Identify Source
Describe
Compare
Contrast
Analyze
Interpret
Personal opinion

http://poetrysalon.typepad.com/

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CHALLENGES
What are some of the challenges and what are the constraints for you?
How can you solve them?

Challenges/constraints
Data location
Access to data
Retrieving it
Who else can see it?
Service disappears
Username and password management
Security risk (using the same)
Copyright
Inappropriate use

A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web
1) Ownership of their own personal information, including:
Their own profile data
the list of people they are connected to
the activity stream of content they create
2) Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others
3) Freedom to grant persistent access to their personal information to trusted external sites.
Authored by Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, and Michael Arrington
September 4, 2007

Thank you!
Patricia Glogowski
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Barbara (Bee) Dieu
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Open and Participatory Environments in Language Learning

by Barbara Dieu on Apr 05, 2008

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