ELT Education and Technology

 

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ELT Education and Technology History of CALL and Web 2.0 Tools for LSRW..

Introduction :

Web 2.0 tools are free digital programs that can be used for creating and sharing student-generated projects and products. They are interactive, multi-purpose, easy-to-use digital platforms that encourage students to collaborate with each other or create and share individualized response products.

Web 2.0 tools provide engaging ways students can interact with, and most importantly, learn from course material. They are particularly helpful when aligned to teaching and assessment exercises meant to increase student engagement, require students to summarize information, or verbalize insight into their conceptual understanding through means other than traditional writing exercises.

Web 2.0 tools also provide students an opportunity to interact with others as they share their knowledge. Students can collaborate with classmates to create response products, or they can share completed products with peers in their class, students in other sections, or other learners around the world. Web 2.0 tools create opportunities for students to share what they are learning with a wider audience.

What is Web 2.0 technology?

Web 2.0 is the term used to describe a variety of web sites and applications that allow anyone to create and share online information or material they have created. A key element of the technology is that it allows people to create, share, collaborate & communicate. Web 2.0 differs from other types of websites as it does not require any web design or publishing skills to participate, making it easy for people to create and publish or communicate their work to the world. The nature of this technology makes it an easy and popular way to communicate information to either a select group of people or to a much wider audience. The University can make use of these tools to communicate with students, staff and the wider academic community. It can also be an effective way to communicate and interact with students and research colleagues.  

There are number of different types of web 2.0 applications including wikis, blogs, social networking, folksonomies, podcasting & content hosting services. Many of the most popular websites are Web 2.0 sites such as Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr.

 Blog Text/ video/ audio

eGroups 

Discussion Forums

Wikis ,social networking

LMS/CMS

tokbox , Voxopop ,

FoRVO , listen and write , 

ESL video.com, 280Slides, WRDL worldle , penza.

Familiar examples of Web 2.0 sites and tools include wikis and blogs (PBworks and WordPress), social networking sites (Facebook and Twitter), image and video hosting sites (Flicker and YouTube), and applications to generate Web content for education, business, and social purposes (Wikipedia, Weebly, and Instagram). It is important for teachers to remember that the magic is not necessarily in the tool itself; teachers must first consider their objectives for the lesson as well as the purpose of the student response project. The right tool can help students synthesize their learning, engage more deeply with the content of a lesson, and interact with other learners in more meaningful ways than traditional response projects or assignments.

Blogs

A blog is a contraction of the words web log. Blogs usually provide commentary or information on a particular issue, event or topic. In some  cases, blogs can be about a particular person; an online, public, personal  diary. A blog is usually maintained by a single person or a small group of  contributors. Visitors to the blog can comment on the entries made or  respond to comments made by other visitors. Blogs are primarily text but  can also be the form of photos or other images, sounds, or films.

Social Networking

Social networking allows an individual to create a profile for themselves on the service and share that profile with other users with similar interests  to create a social network. Users can choose to have public profiles  which can be viewed by anyone or private profiles which can only be  viewed by people that the users allow. Users can usually post  photographs, music and videos on their site. Popular social network  services include Facebook www.facebook.com and MySpace  www.myspace.com.

One of the benefits of Web 2.0 tools is their ease of use. Most students find these tools to be intuitive and user-friendly. Because of this, there is little time wasted in learning how to use the programs. The tools facilitate interactive learning and innovative responses to assignments and assessments. Students see their ideas take shape quickly, and they are rewarded with professional-looking results. It is also easy to edit the projects as they are being developed so students tend to take more risks during the creative process. This ease of use combined with the quality of the finished products increases students’ self-efficacy, and it motivates students to engage more earnestly and actively in the content of their responses.

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