Notes for Tuesday, April 13, 2010

In today's class we'll finish our demo of the use of Second Life as a CALL tool. By now everyone should have an avatar and be able to log on and explore SL in class. We'll be using "SLurl's" to jump to places of interest.

The list of SLurl's we'll be exploring can be found at http://slurl.wikispaces.com/

In addition, I'll be giving a demo of how to use Blackboard from an instructor's point of view. All students in this class are listed as instructors in the "Ling 487 CALL Practice Site" Blackboard site and will be required to log on and modify at least one element of the site as an instructor in today's class.

Class on Thursday, April 15, is an open lab session. No additional readings or homework is due (beyond your weekly blog post) for Thursday so you can use the class time to work on your final project and your e-portfolio. For details on these assignments, go to our class Blackboard site and click on the "Assignments" tab.

ooVoo room

http://videocallroom.oovoo.com/room/terrieb/room/1

Meebo test

Meebo Room

Notes for Thursday, April 1, class

Group Wiki pages due by class time today. Presentation of wiki pages in class for peer feedback. http://ling487.wikispaces.com/

Discussion of updated syllabus for final weeks of the term.

For Next Tuesday

• (optonal) Read Belz,J. & Vyatkina, n. (2005). Learner corpus analysis and the development of L2 pragmatic competence in networked intercultural language study: The case of German modal particles. CMLR, 62, 17-48.
• (required) ReadWare, P. D., & Kramsch, C. (2005). Toward an intercultural stance: Teaching German and English through telecollaboration. The Modern Language Journal, 89(2), 190-205.
• Explore free web-based video conferencing tools and be prepared to discuss what you consider to be the best 1-2 for learner-learner video conferencing and teacher-learner video conferencing. You can start by exploring this site http://www.voip-sol.com/7-leading-browser-based-video-conference-tools.

Dates for Final Project presentations

Tuesday, April 20
Aja/Jay/Jesse (30 min)
Deena/Christine (20 min)
Erin (10 min)

Thursday, April 22
Kaz
Miglena
Nicholas

Tuesday, April 27
Bailey/Maria
Jessina/Christina
Kristen

Thursday, April 29
Bill/Sabah
Jeffrey
Lisa
Hanan