Telecollaboration: Examples
Asynchronous | E-mail,
Listservs, & Threaded Discussions |
Blogs and Wikis | Adding Audio-Video |
Podcasting |
Synchronous | Chat Rooms & Instant Messaging |
Virtual Places | Video Conferencing |
E-mail, Listservs, & Threaded Discussions
If you started from the top of these modules, you should have some experience now with the discussion board (NiceNet) used for the discussions in these modules. Here are some others:
Leloup, J. Some example lesson plans::
email: http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/methods/obj4/email4.html
listservs: http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/methods/obj4/edg4.html
bulletin board: http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/methods/obj4/usenet4.html
Gonglewski, M., Meloni, C., & Brant, J. (2001). Using E-mail in Foreign Language Teaching: Rationale and Suggestions. The Internet TESL Journal, v7, n3. http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Meloni-Email.html
Blogs and Wikis
What do think about this suggestion for an activity
to build
a mini-wikipedia as a class project?
Go to the very bottom of the page - (Wednesday, March 03, 2004) Micro-WikiPedia:
Wiki Lesson Plan
Thorne, S. L. & Payne, J. S. (2005). Evolutionary
Trajectories, Internet-Mediated Expression, and Language Education.
CALICO Journal, v22, n3, p-p 371-397. http://language.la.psu.edu/~thorne/thorne_payne_calico2005.pdf
Go to p. 382 for the section on Blogs and Wikis. What do you
think about the "study abroad blog" idea?
Chat Rooms & Instant Messaging
Virtual Places
Adding Audio-Video
Duber, J. (n.d.). Cutting Edge CALL Demos. CALL @Chorus. http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/call/cuttingedge.html
Web-Based Speech: Web-Based Applications that Replace or Extend the Traditional Language Lab. (n.d.) Yamada Language Center website. http://babel.uoregon.edu/ortesol.html
Video Conferencing
Podcasting
A list of a lot of language podcasts: http://www.podcast.net/cat/89
• Arabic (10) • Chinese (49) • Dansk (27) • Deutsch (230) • Dutch (64) • Español (135) • Finnish (13) • Français (178) • Greek (9) • Hebrew (4) • Hindu-Urdu (17) • Italiano (107) • Japanese (78) • Korean (4) • Other Languages (144) • Português (32) • Russian (22) • Türkçe (16)
Chinese - http://www.chinesepod.com/
Pod-EFL – long list of links for ELT podcasting down the right side
http://www.pod-efl.com/Spanish 4 You - http://ssl4you.blogspot.com/
There is a list of 12 podcasts with a theme conversation.Below you will find blog posts with the script of the conversation in Spanish and then English with a list of vocab in the middle.Learn Italian Pod - http://www.learnitalianpod.com/