If you should have any questions, I will be available in my stud.ip chat room.
Dear students,
the next step in your project is to create tasks. You should consider task criteria that are summarized in the previous post.
The tasks should be made for the learners and give clear instructions to what they have to do (task as workplan).
They should contain the following information for the learners:
Purpose: Why do the learners have to do the task?
Product: What is the outcome the learners are working on?
Procedure: What are the steps in the task as workplan?
Put the tasks either in a new ‘Class blog’ or ‘Class wiki’.
Dear course participants,
in the process of designing the project outline, you should consider the project criteria which you can download here: project-criteria1. These criteria will be used for the evaluation of your projects.
Dear students,
today you will design an outline for a Web 2.0 project in a classroom. You can use textbooks and the Bildungsplan (google ‘Bildungsstandards Baden-Württemberg) to get ideas for a certain grade. Please keep in mind that you have to follow the curriculum standards and later on you will have to define which standards and competences you want to achieve.
And this is how you have to do it:
Designing a project plan
The project plan should be at least one DINA4 page. The plan should contain the following information:
General information about the project:
- grade, age, background (e.g. countries), … of the learners
- topic and time frame
- what kind of collaboration?
Purpose of the project:
- why are you doing the project?
- what is the content and why is it relevant for the learners?
- which skills will the learners develop? (Please specify the standards taken from the Bildungsplan BW)
- which aspects of ICC will be developed?
Product of the project:
- what is/are the product/s of the projects?
- what relevance does/do the product/s have for the learners?
- how will the products be presented?
Procedure of the project:
- give a rough outline of the four stages of the project:
- preliminary stage,
- implementation stage
- and final stage (see Micall chapter for clarification)
Create a new wiki and post the project plan on one page. The wiki will be your own project wiki.
Dear Course Participants,
now you will get the opportunity for exploring blogging projects and write a report on your blog.
Procedure:
1. Make yourself familiar with all of the projects, browse through the blog(s) and try to get an idea of what the projects are about.
2. Write a report about one of the projects as a post in your blog. You should consider the following aspects:
Write a short description of what the project is about. (provide the link!)
How is language learning promoted?
What is your opinion about the project? How could the project be improved?
Project 1:
A project in a 9th grade secondary school, using blogs as reading journals (designed by Thomas Raith)
http://journalproject.wordpress.com/
Project 2:
A blog as a reader’s guide created by Modern American Literature students at Hunterdon Central Regional High School:
http://central.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/bees/
Project 3:
A group of Catalan students are going to Pornainen (Finland) in May. Students from Finland are coming to visit Caldes de Montbui next school year. This site is thought for exchanging information between both classes and make this project the most effective and interesting as possible.
http://www.classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=64097
Project 4:
Interactive Chatting Teddies: a collaborative blogging project in Argyll Scotland involving children in P1-3 (ages 4-8) and their teddy bears
http://www.talkingteds.blogspot.com/
How can Web 2.0 tools support language learning?
Published April 30, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a CommentNow you have reflected about your own language learning experience, discussed ideas about language learning theory and you read articles about the use of Web 2.0 tools in the language learning classrooms. Now you can tie these aspects together and elaborate on the question how Web 2.0 tools can support foreign language learning. xxx
Write a blog post and consider the following aspects / questions:
How can Web 2.0 tools support language learning (specifiacally reflect on the terms interaction, user generated content, social communities)?
What do you think does the Web 2.0 offer that other media or social arrangements in the classroom cannot offer?
Read your fellow students’ blogs and write comments on at least 3 blogs.
Dear course participants,
before we get started it is important that everybody has a blog Therefore, you need to do these steps:
Creating a blog
I personally would suggest wordpress.com for creating a blog, but you can use blogger.com or other providers as well.
1. Got to www.wordpress.com and create a blog
2. Write an email with the address of your blog to raith@ph-heidelberg.de
Writing a first post
Write a post in your blog. Discuss the following question:
How have you learnt to communicate in English as a foreign language?
Describe the process of your development.
Which experiences played a major role?
In how far has learning in school helped?
How will these experiences influence you as a teacher?
