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Telecollaboration: Readings
This first series of articles are not specifically for language learning,
but Judi Harris' articles are the best place to start for ideas on telecollaboration! She's
written many articles and a book on Telecollaboration (maybe she coined
the phrase?). Her website is where you'll find a lot of good information
- read it all! http://virtual-architecture.wm.edu/Foundation/
but start with these two (pdf files):
Harris, J. (1998) Curriculum-Based Telecollaboration: Using Activity Structures to Design Student Projects. Learning and Leading with Technology 26:1.
Harris, J. (2000) Taboo Topic No Longer: Why Telecollaborative Projects Sometimes Fail. Learning and Leading with Technology, 27:5, 58-61.
Background Readings
There is a lot of information available on telecollaborative types of
projects, so for this Telecollaboration module, information will
also be divided up
into
five sub-topic
areas
so
that you may concentrate on just one, if you
wish. Sometimes projects will use more than one vehicle for communication
(i.e., an email project that posts project results on a webpage).
E-mail, Listservs, & Threaded Discussions
What is
a listserv?
What are emoticons?
Silva, P.U., Meagher, M.E., Valenzuela, M. and Crenshaw, S. (1996) Email:
Real-Life Classroom Experiences with Foreign Languages. Learning and
Leading with Technology, 23:5.
Chat
Rooms & Instant Messaging
What is Instant Messaging?
Almeida d'Eca, T. (2003). The Use of Chat in
EFL/ESL. TESL-EJ,
v7, n1. <http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej/ej25/int.html>
Virtual Spaces
Peterson, K. M. (2003). Synchronous
virtual environments in computer assisted language learning (CALL):
New pedagogical
approaches. Learning Technology, v5, n3. IEEE Computer Society.
http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues/july2003/#2.
Adding Audio-Video
Most of the text-based categories above now have the ability to incorporate
graphic, audio, and video within them, but there are also some applications
that have been developed with audio-video purposes, based on the function
of threaded discussions, and others.
Video Conferencing
What is video conferencing?
Podcasting
What is podcasting?
Article about Chinesepod - http://www.slate.com/id/2139939/
Blog about podcasting for language learning
http://www.weblogs.uhi.ac.uk/pools/?p=59
iPods helping languages click
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/education/13834582.htm
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