JALTCALL2009

Web 2.0 Technologies in Teaching EFL Writing: Class Blogs with Text to Speech (BlogCast) for Oral Presentation and Process Writing

YASUDA, Masami,

Kwansei Gakuin Univ.,

Myasuda[at]kwansei.ac.jp

Theme: Expanding learner potential ー it's your CALL! JALTCALL SIG 2009 Toyo Gakuen University, Hongo Campus , Tokyo, JAPAN. June 5, 2009 JALTCALL SIG 2009 Toyo Gakuen Univ., Hongo Campus , JAPAN E-Learning at KG Univ.

2. Introduction - L2 writing

Dichotomies/Dilemmas

Fluency and accuracy

Contrastive rhetoric debate

Process vs. Product debate

Assessment

Feedback and error correction

Casanave, Christine Pearson. (2004). Controversies in second language writing. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Univ. of Michigan. Cornor, Ulla (2002). New directions in contrastive rhetoric, TESOL Quarterly, 36(4) , pp. 494-510. Hyland, Ken, & Hyland, Fiona. (Eds., 2006). Feedback in second language writing: Contexts and issues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Sachs, Rebecca, & Polio, Charlene. (2007). Learners' uses of two types of written feedback on a L2 writing revision task, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 29(1) , pp 67-100. Zamel, V. (1985). Responding to student writing. TESOL Quarterly, 19, 79-101.

3. BlogCasting ** : Weblog ☆ Projects – 2006 ～ 2008 Paper Pencil Email /ML Blog /RSS Text to Speech * * Text to Speech (Assistive Technology) + ☆ We blog ** BlogCasting = Word-Processor ★ Word Processing  ★ Local  Thin Client  Web editor  Cloud Computing ★ ◎ × ◎ ○ ▼ 2006 - ○ △ ○ ○ ▼ 2007 - B. E. D. C. A. Years / Spec’s △ × × ◎ ○ - 2005 △ ◎ ○ ○ ▼ 2008 -

. Past and Current Project: Email Grading

E-mail work

Video - Separate video output (OHC)

Audio Recording

1) Yahoo site 認証必要 2) Mirror site (infoseek): some years with index only

5. Past Projects: Video Narrative Project

Video Narration –

Student’s audio in Final Project

Student audio in MP3-shrt

Local: audio file

Web site: VoiceBlog site

Past Presentations:

PPT in SWF

3/5/2007: Local file: KG030507-3.swf

(3/5/2007): Drive HQ published folder

http://myasuda-foseek- bbs100106-s.html

6. Weblog Projects: since 2006  BlogCasting

Weblog Projects:

http:// advcomp.wordpress.com /

Advcomp.wordpress.com/ RSS FEED mixer-project-2007/

Students Weblogs and comments

Privacy protection with PINs

Advcomp.wordpress.com tag=classblog

myasuda - my.land.to /treebbs/tree.php?n=470

Skip to 2007 Skip to 2008

. RSS ( Rich Site Summary) Readers

RSS Readers

My Intro of RSS and Podcasting for Students:

Web site - Podcasting with RSS & WEB 2.0

Local file: Podcastingrss.html

What is RSS ? Video

dotsub.com /films/ - Captioned video site (ENG, FR, GER, JPN, etc.)

Skip to 2007

. Web log Projects – 2006 : How to read students’ Blog threads: via WEB Portal Page http://protopage.com/ : SPA ( CNET Single Page Aggregators )

. Additional Benefit: BlogCasting by RSS Mix & Podcasting

Forum BBS in PHP

attb – myasuda

“ Feed2Podcast” – 2006

RSS mixing and audio generation

How to register RSS?

Registering my WordPress blog site

New feed (XML) to be created

http://atbb.jp/myasuda/?infoseek

But, No Longer Available! - 2007

Out of service! “Feed2Podcast”

Click to browse screen shots

10. Text to Speech

Text to Speech

One of Assistive Technologies

Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe, at TED Conference

Ted Conference site

YouTube

Filmed Feb., 2008.

11. Text to Speech Online Tools

1. vozMe:

Type or copy-paste the texts to convert to ‘Create MP3’ at a click!

2. Expressivo – You can listen to books, messages, RSS feeds, articles or even e-mails. You can easily create audio books on your mp3 player. Purchase needed

3. Cepstral - The text to speech conversion to the text into a WAV file. Purchase needed .

Six Online Tools - Text to Speech tools you would not want to miss

TechDune - Tech News, Software & Hardware Reviews, Internet, Humor

vozMe Skip to 　RSS Mixing

12. Text to Speech Online Tools (2)

4. Ivona Speech Synthesizer –

Text to speech conversion tool online

5. SpokenText - SpokenText.net Converts & records to speech automatically:

PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files,

RSS news feeds, emails and web pages.

6. Talkr –

Converts RSS feeds into MP3 files

Text to Speech tools you would not want to miss (2)

TechDune - Tech News, Software & Hardware Reviews, Internet, Humor

Notes: ‘ MacinTalk ’ on Macintosh – has a longer history on Text2Speech ! Skip to 　RSS Mixing

. BlogCasting : RSS Mixing and Podcasting

“ Feed2Podcast”

No Longer Available! 2006

Out of service! “Feed2Podcast”

Configuring Widgets: Still i mages posted at PHP Forum site in 2007

Reactivated but gone again. Feed2Podcast setting images

Skip to 2007

. RSS Mixing (2): Podcasting with Vocal Fruits Show time : Join05210700005.avi Show time : Join05210700008.avi Next slide

. BlogCasting: (1) Web log Projects - 2007

RSS mixer with Text2Speech

“ Odiogo.com”

“ Talkr” (unstable)

My memos:

PHP Forum site

Back to 2006 Skip to 2008

Students’ WordPress Blogs, via Odiogo.com

HTML: iTunes and other RSS feeds via Odiogo.com: Podcasts-html.php with Audio JAVA icons

Memos: PHP Forum: thread 313#313

Yes! Not only MP3 but also ----

Jet Audio - Lyrics!! embedded in MP3

Play & view, on Jet Audio , iTunes , and iPods! - Awesome

MP3 with Lyrics!!

Jet Audio - Embedded in ID tags via Jet Audio

Play & view, on Jet Audio , iTunes , and iPods! – Awesome!!

RSS mixer with Text2Speech

“ Odiogo.com”

The WordPress plug-in instructions can be found here .

My memos: PHP Forum site

Local image file Back to 2007 Back to 2006

KGLaw BlogCast 2008

“ Odiogo.com”

KGLaw BlogCast: Portal site

Local image file Back to 2007

KGLaw BlogCast 2008

Local image file

Samples of text2Speech audio

Advcomp – Education course

kglaw f 81 – Freshmen 1st

kglaw f 82 – Freshmen 2 nd

kglaw s 81 – Sophomores

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21. Feasibility : tasks & class size: Reflections from BlogCasting ** : Weblog ☆ Projects – 2006 ～ 2008 * Text to Speech (Assistive Technology) + ☆ We blog ** BlogCasting = ★ Word Processing  ★ Local  Thin Client  Web editor  Cloud Computing ◎ ○ ○ ◎ ▼ Feasibil-ities > 200 人 < 30 人 < 150 人 > 50 人 < 20 人 Class size Writing for Small classes and Presentation for large classes Writing for Small classes Writing for large classes Writing and Presentation Writing Tasks/ Skills ◎ ○ ○ △ ★ ▼ 2006 ～ 2008 E. Text to Speech * D. Blog /RSS C. Email /ML B. Word-Processor A. Paper Pencil Techno-logies

. Summary: BlogCast with RSS Mixing and Text2Speech RSS Mixer with Text to Speech Playlist, Feed, New XML iPods, iTunes, Presentations, Other PodCasting sites Next slide?

23. Technology in Language Teaching and Learning

Figure 1 Range-of-Use Technology Chart

Szecsy, Elsie M. "Technology in Language Teaching and Learning." Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education. 2008. SAGE Publications. 29 Mar. 2009. < http://www.sage-ereference.com/bilingual/Article_n313.html >.