What is CALL? It's YOU! Vance Stevens - Ankara2007

What is CALL? It’s YOU! Computer-assisted Language and Literacy By Vance Stevens Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi Prepared as a Plenary Address for the Ankara University Development Foundation Schools annual ELT Conference, April 14, 2007

This presentation is online

Live webcast on Elluminate courtesy of Learning Times, http://tinyurl.com/y3eh

Starting with Dr. Senem Yildiz's presentation at 07:10 GMT (10:10 in Ankara).

Vance Stevens presenting at 08:15 GMT

The recorded presentation will be podcast

probably at http://webheadsinaction.org

And/or http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/

This presentation link: http://tinyurl.com/ yvx6yd

Where can YOU webcast? Webheads presentation tools

Learning Times http ://www.learningtimes.org

Create an acct for free

Have access to library of digital media content

Webheads Meeting room is at http://tinyurl.com/y3eh

Alado http://www.alado.net/webheads Long-time supporter of Webheads and other charitable learning initiatives

Who are Webheads?

Link to world of Webheads http://webheads.info

http://www.webheadsinaction.org part of the Worldbridges network of webcast and podcast sites http ://www.worldbridges.net

Hosts of Webheads in Action Online Convergence May 18-20 http://wiaoc.org

What’s a podcast?

It’s an audio blog

Subscribe to its RSS feed and it automatically updates new content to your computer

You can record using Audacity , open source) http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

You can open a podcast site at http://www.podomatic.com

Besides my site, Terry Freedman’s Coming of Age: http://comingofage.podomatic.com/

Open source , Web 2.0 tools are FREE and more importantly, freely available

Podcast blogs are a good example of a Web 2.0 tool

What is Web 2.0?

Read write web

Content created by anyone – YOU, your students

TWO way communication

Dynamic vs. static web pages

Conversations (classic: Cluetrain Manifesto http://www.cluetrain.com/ )

Attitude of sharing / creative commons

Associated with tagging / social networking

Examples: Wikis and Wikipedia, blogs, Google tools, photo sharing sites like Flickr, Bubbleshare … Graham Stanley’s examples: http://www.pod-efl.com/video/Web%202.0%20&%20Language%20Learning.mov

What’s wrong with this picture? From http://www.call-is.org/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=95

Why Computer-assisted Language and Literacy ?

CALL is only partially, if any longer …

About programmed instruction / mastery learning

Contained in shrinked-wrapped software packages

Non-communicative

Seamlessness : Computers are (or should be) no longer the focus of CALL activities

CALL should build on basic computer skills and literacies that are transferable across curriculum and beyond into lifetime learning and productivity

Why should Literacy replace Learning in the acronym CALL?

The learning is important, but understood

Multiliteracies subsume skills that must be acquired

Developers and CALL Coordinators are, or should be, grappling with literacy issues; not interface ones

Why? “CALL” software should conform with norms of intuitive software use;

should be something we DO with commonly available tools in course of daily solutions to needs we address with technology,

not something contrived with no relationship to heuristics of ongoing solution to problems

Literacy: the KEY, and ANCHOR, to CALL development

The KEY: understand what software tools there are to help us solve problems;

The ANCHOR: set problems for language learners that utilize computer-based tools to give learners something to discuss and negotiate in resolving the problem task

LITERACY: how can teachers achieve these awarenesses and inculcate them in students

How teachers can acquire literacy skills through free online professional development

Free training available annually: e.g TESOL Electronic Village Online http://evo07sessions.pbwiki.com/

Free online conferences

K-12 Online http://k12onlineconference.org/

Webheads in Action Online Convergence May 18-20 http://wiaoc.org

Subscribe to Podcasts; e.g. Worldbridges http://www.worldbridges.net

Join Communities of Practice: e.g. Webheads http://webheads.info

Of decreasing imporance

Attending F2F conferences such as this one

Possibly those tuning in at a distance are benefiting more in terms of literacy skills

They are USING the technology in one of the ways just mentioned

Community of Practice Approach: How Webheads got to Turkey

Where’s Rif? http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/webheads.htm

Meet Arif http ://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/rif.htm

Vance and Rif co-author a paper from a presentation given online, Nov. 2001 http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/t2t2001/proceeds.htm

What’s the connection with China?

Meet Yaodong: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/chat2001/wfw010527.htm

A day in the life of an online language educator: http://tesl-ej.org/ej23/int.html

October 31, 2001, connecting live online in synchronous text, voice, and video-enhanced chat, two classes of non-native English speakers from Turkey and China: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/chat2001/wfw011031.htm

Conclusions: Desireable Characteristics of CALL

Communicative

Authentic

Constructivist

Seamlessly integrated with

Curriculum

Normal routine of computer use

Tool/task based

F.U.N.

Conversational

Dynamic/interactive not static/one-way; Web 2.0  3.0

Having F.U.N. We’re sorry … This slide show has been temporarily disrupted by serious professionals engaging in F rivilous U nanticipated N onsense We now return you to your regular program … Woops: How’d this slide get in here??

What tools meet these criteria?

Media production

Media reception

Aggregation

In particular, for language learning: podcasting

MUVEs such as Second Life

We’ll now look at examples …

What tools meet these criteria? Media production

Sharon Betts: Tools of the Trade: Tools I learned while working to become a Webhead at http://webheadtools.motime.com/

What tools meet these criteria? Aggregation

Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com

Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us

Tagging

Technorati http://www.technorati.com

What tools meet these criteria? Multi-user virtual environments

Facebook http://www.facebook.com / MySpace

Second Life http://www.secondlife.com

Studies on Second Life from an educator’s perspective: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/arabia2007/00.htm

New Media Consortium video http://www.nmc.org/sl/2006/06/12/seriously-engaging-movie

LanguageLab.com has a 21 sim island, where they'll be teaching students English and Spanish using voice enabled SL http ://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18510/page1/