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Exploring Multi-Media in TESOL: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts

Understand differences between blogs, wikis, podcasts. Learn how to use wikis for collaborative writing projects with learners. Start using online platforms to enhance language teaching.

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Exploring Multi-Media in TESOL: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts

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  1. Multi-Media in TESOL Blogs, wikis and podcasts Kuei-Min Huang, PhD

  2. Today’s Outline • Blogs • Wikis • Podcasts

  3. What are the differences? • http://drdm-drdm.blogspot.com/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page • http://seychellesiasbaseline.pbworks.com/ • http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/081222_download.shtml

  4. How to Blog?

  5. What’s wiki? • A wiki is like a pubic website, or public web page, started by one person, but which subsequent visitors can add to, delete or change as they wish. • A wiki is like having a publicly accessible word processing document available online, which anyone can edit.

  6. Blog vs. wiki

  7. A wiki • The most famous wiki: www.wikipedia.com • On your own please go visit Editing wiki pages

  8. Trust and security Wikis are generally designed with the philosophy of making it easy to correct mistakes, rather than making it difficult to make them. Thus, while wikis are very open, they provide a means to verify the validity of recent additions to the body of pages.

  9. Trustworthiness Critics of publicly editable wiki systems argue that these systems could be easily tampered with, while proponents argue that the community of users can catch malicious content and correct it.

  10. How to start using a wiki with learners • The best way: set up a simple collaborative writing project with a topic that interests all. • A good example is – (in)famous people

  11. Step 1- Preparation before lesson • Approx. 30-60 mins • Use a free wiki site, the teacher set up the first page of a wiki. • Outline the topic of the project and the steps your students will need to take in the project.

  12. Step 2- (In)famous people: description • Approx: 1 hour • Put learners in pairs and tell them that they are going to write a description of a famous person that contains a number of factual error. • You may want to give an example of a description of a famous person with factual errors, which you have already written yourself in the wiki.

  13. Step 3- (In)famous people: Corrections • Approx. 1 hour • Allocate one description to each pair from the previous class • The pair reads the description, click on the Edit tab for the wiki page and corrects any ‘wrong’ information in the description.

  14. Practical Session • With your study group, please set up a wiki by using one of the following free sites. • PBwiki: www.pbwiki.com • Media Wiki: www.mediawiki.org • Wikihost: http://wikihost.org • Create a file of a description for a famous person which contains 3 errors. • Please e-mail your wiki sites to kuei_min.huang@uch.edu.tw

  15. Pod casts • http://www.clivejames.com/point-of-view • http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/081222_download.shtml • A free podcast site podOmatic ( http://www.poddomatic.com )

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