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?

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

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

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?

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

Identify Source

Describe

Compare

Contrast

Analyze

Interpret

Personal opinion

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

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

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

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 [email_address] Barbara (Bee) Dieu [email_address]

Patricia Glogowski

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Barbara (Bee) Dieu

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