Blogging

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Blogging Podcastingenhancing students
learning through Web 2.0 tools

• Dra. Mar Camacho
• Universitat Rovira i Virgili
• Catalonia

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• The Web is Us/ing us

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Web 2.0

• A new attitude towards the use of the Net
• Access to multiple channels languages
• Based upon social networks and communities
• Users active content creators who collaborate
  together
• Continuous processes of knowledge generation

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Web 2.0 Education 2.0
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Some Web 2.0 tools

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Blogs
http//wordpress.com
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Social Bookmarking
http//del.icio.us/
http//del.icio.us/
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Geotagging
http//tagzania.com/
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Wikis
http//www.wikispaces.com
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Podcasting
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RSS
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Social Networking
http//secondlife.com
http//myspace.com
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http//secondlife.com
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Web 2.0 in Language Teaching/learning

• new horizons / specific didactic objectives

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Blogs
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Blogs

• Spaces of real-world reading writing experience
• Lx and non-lx competence acquisition
• Instant feedback, publishing and sharing
• Ss use peer networks to develop their own
  knowledge
• Hypertextual representation of ideas

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Blogs in language learning

• Practice of reflective writing
• Track Ss progress (Portfolio)
• Deliver educational contents (Ts Blogs)
• Debate discussion
• Project work, cultural exchanges
• Broadcast activities carried out in class

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Podcasts
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Podcasts

• Educational use of audio resources (MP3s, MP4s)
• Develop Ss communicative skills, specially ORAL
  production and listening competences.
• RSS (newspapers, radio programmes) and are
  renewed permanently.
• Ss create their own content, share it benefit
  from others
• Access to authentic language.
• Promote interculturality respect towards other
  languages

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Podcasts in Language Learning

• Contents in the pocket

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Podcasts in Language Learning

• Oral production activities storytelling, chain
  stories, life stories

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Podcasts in Language Learning

• Listening activities related to literature..
  Participation I audioforums (eg. Chinswing)
• Project presentation. Embedding it in the blog.
• Use adapt the numberless resources existing in
  the web!

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• Shall we sing?

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Conclusions?
All the actors from the educational field
(teachers, tutors, trainers, administrators, or
those responsible for policies) will find the Web
2.0 technologies efficient and promising both for
the educational process and for self
development. The limits of my language
mean the limits of my world Ludwig Wittgenstein,
1922
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• Grazie per la vostra attenzione!
• mar.camacho_at_urv.cat