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Week Two:Jan. 21 – Jan. 27
Blogs
Introduction to blogs – types of blogs and some ways to use them for ESP: watch the video, Blogs in Plain English, by Common Craft.
Examples of blogs used in ESP courses.
Using Twitter through Mobile Phones
Introduction to RSS news feeds and their use in ESP classrooms.
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Tracking favorite ESP blogs through subscription to RSS news feeds readers, like My Yahoo, Blogline, and BlogBridge
Week Four: Feb. 4 – Feb. 10
Buthaina Al-Othman is currently an EFL and ESP instructor at the Language Center of Kuwait University. She has been a member of the Webheads in Action community online, since it was founded in 2002. Buthaina is also a member of the TESOL Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) and has been one of the TESOL Electronic Village Online (EVO) coordination team, since 2005. If you'd like to know more about her and her work, please visit her web site at: http://alothman-b.com – Email: buthaina.alothman (at) gmail.com
Debra Lee is President of Language4Law, Inc., a non-profit online law and language website. She has also just begun a PhD in Instructional Technology because she is fascinated by Web 2.0 tools and their use in ESP. All of her courses have an associated wiki, blog, or Moodle. She has been teaching, writing materials, and presenting on legal English for over thirteen years. She is co-author of American Legal English, and you can see one of her co-created wikis at http://onlinelearning101.pbwiki.com.
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Resources
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Final live informal group-meeting, including a short presentation by the participant, Hala Salih on using Web 2.0 tools for her ESP classes in Sudan.
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Bonus Question & Activity
What's the difference between tags found in Technorati and those found in Delicious? Hint: some activities and Vance Stevens' presentation in week 2 (see Recordings page)
Create tag bundles to organize and classify saved links - Then, add the badge of tags list / cloud on your blog or wiki - Hint: these activities can be completetd on your delicious Settings page
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Create tag bundles to organize and classify saved links - Then, add the badge of tags list / cloud on your blog or wiki - Hint: these activities can be completetd on your delicious Settings page
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Task 6: Practice teaching activity: Using recommended or popular del.icio.us shared tags for your ESP students/using student accounts''
Bonus Activity
A) What's the difference between tags found in Technorati and those found in Delicious? Hint: some activities and Vance Stevens' presentation in week 2 (see Recordings page)
B) Create tag bundles to organize and classify saved links - Then, add the badge of tags list / cloud on your blog or wiki - Hint: these activities can be completetd on your delicious Settings page
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Week 5
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Technorati tags vs Delicious tags ( Week
Activity 1
Task 1: Del.icio.us's tutorial video - Watch the video, SocialBookmarkinginPlainEnglish, by Common Craft.
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Task 3: Subscribe to http://del.icio.us/network/web2foresp08 and start posting links to web2foresp08 delicious network - use this format %5Bfor:web2foresp08%5D in the tagging section, then click Save
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Task 4: Start bookmarking, tagging, networking, and sharing: network and share with others in your area of esp - examples of some popular ESP tags: health, science, engineering, tourism, business, businessenglish
Task 5: Create tag bundles to organize and classify saved links - Then, add the badge of tags list / cloud on your blog or wiki - These activities can be completetd on your delicious Settings page.
Task 6: Practice teaching activity: Using recommended or popular del.icio.us shared tags for your ESP students/using student accounts''
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Short presentation & group discussion on open source software and Moodle. (Feb. 9, 1500-1600 GMT)
Jay Pfaffman, University of Tennessee (guest speaker)
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www.ozgetheteacher.wikispaces.com
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How to edit your profile on your blogger blog? Please see the answer HERE
3) How to Subscribe to a blog and a RSS feed
Excellent 6 step on how to subscribe to RSS feeds using Google Reader
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The following two screen shots should illustrate the directions, listed above.
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How to stop your email address from being visible on your blog?
Directions:
1. Sign in your blog
2. Look for the link to your Profile page on your blog Dashboard, (it's usually located to the right side of your Dashboard page).
3. Click on Edit Profile
4. Uncheck the box opposite to "Show my email address"
5. Click on Save Profile at the bottom of your profile page, and that's it!
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Social bookmarking for networked learning experience in ESP
Co-Moderators: Christine Parkhurst and Buthaina Al Othman
Introduction to del.icio.us and why every ESP instructor needs to use it: review of tags, Technorati ( Week 2)
Task 1: Del.icio.us's tutorial video - Watch the video, SocialBookmarkinginPlainEnglish, by Common Craft.
Task 3: Subscribe to http://del.icio.us/network/web2foresp08
Task 4: Start bookmarking, tagging, networking, and sharing: network and share with others in your area of esp
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Social bookmarking for networked
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Co-Moderators: Christine Parkhurst and Buthaina Al Othman
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Introduction to del.icio.us and why every ESP instructor needs to use it: review of tags, Technorati ( Week 2)
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Task 2: Create your del.icio.us account and post your favorite tags: what have you found? organize by esp area
Task 3: Subscribe to http://del.icio.us/network/web2foresp08
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Task 5: Practice teaching activity: Using recommended or popular del.icio.us shared tags for your ESP
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Participant Wikis
Other Communication Tools
Twitter(Web/SMS)
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http://onlinelearning101.pbwiki.com
http://onlinelearning101.pbwiki.com/
http://ama07storytelling.pbwiki.com/
http://summer2007photos.pbwiki.com/
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http://onlinelearning101.pbwiki.com
http://ama07storytelling.pbwiki.com/
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Take a look at some of the wikis created by course participants and moderators.
http:onlinelearning101.pbwiki.com
http://ama07storytelling.pbwiki.com/
http://summer2007photos.pbwiki.com/
http://tic07.wikispaces.com/English+Class
http://uwasakeng9217.pbwiki.com
http://foundationone.pbwiki.com/
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Participant Wikis: Take a look to get ideas for your own wikis.
Wikis for collaborative learning in ESP classrooms
Co-Moderators: Debby Lee and Jen MacArthur
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I would ask my students to create their own blogs and i would subscribe to their feeds.I will use RSS feeds to subsribe to important ESP sitesfor my own professional development as an ESP teacher.
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I'll subscribe to the feed of my class wiki to receive updates on my students' collaborative writing projects. I'll also subscribe to feeds of my Ss' blogs to be aware of posts they do so that I can comment on a timely manner.
Buth
Ask students to subscribe the feeds of class Twitter, Wiki, and blog so that they are posted on new activities and announcements.
Buth
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wikis for collaboration.pdf
An Educause article from Feb. 2008 on using wikis for collaboration
Weblogs in School,
a collection of various professional blogs, by Will Richardson
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Web 2.0, by Stephen Downes
weblogs: a history and perspective, by Rebecca Blood
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In-the Flow and Above-the-Flow, by Michael Idinopulos - an interesting article about two kinds of wikis to bring into an organization)
Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? by Bryan Alexander
An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Tagging in Blogs ,
by Christopher H. Brooks and Nancy Montanez
How I Use Twitter? A tweet, by Robin Good
Students Using Wikis for Note-Taking
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You are all invited to build and grow this page!
Please share your ideas, in the table below, on ways you plan to use RSS technology for your ESP classes
To add your ideas, you need to click on "Edit Page" tab, shown on the top of this page; then use the invite key or password %5Bevoesp08%5D Thank you!
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Moodle: Why Cheaper is Better
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orientation & discussion (Jan 19, 2008 12:00-13:00 GMT)
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orientation & discussion (Jan 19, 2008 12:00-13:00 GMT)
Vance Stevens' on Blogging & Tagging for ESP/EAP (Jan 22, 2008 12:00-13:00 GMT)
Short presentations & group-discussion on blogs and tags with special guest, Michael Ivy (Jan 26, 2008, 20:00 - 21:00 GMT)
Short presentations & group-discussions on RSS technology, Google Reader, Twitter, and Wikis (Intro. to Week 4)
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We will also practice adding photos, audio, and video to the wiki pages. However, if you don't have pictures, audio, or video to upload, a WikiSandbox has been created at the bottom of this page with sample photos, audio, and video for you to use to practice uploading, resizing, and organizing your website.
You will be able to copy the photos, audio, and video to your desktop and then upload them in whatever wiki you choose to create.
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wiki.
We will also practice adding photos, audio, and video to the wiki pages. However, if you don't have pictures, audio, or video to upload, a WikiSandbox has been created at the bottom of this page with sample photos, audio, and video for you to use to practice uploading, resizing, and organizing your website.
You will be able to copy the photos, audio, and video to your desktop and then upload them in whatever wiki you choose to create.
We will help you create a peer editing component using your wiki with a partner from the class--wait for further details via the YahooGroup. If you are particularly interested in the wiki week and have set your YG account to digest or special notices only, you might want to change your setting for this week to individual emails.
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We will help you create a peer editing component using your wiki with a partner from the
Share your wiki via Twitter, YahooGroups or the Web 2.0 for ESP blog (comment on the wiki week post).
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Read the following article about Web 2.0 applications (including wikis) for educators. Wikis and Podcasts and Blogs! Oh, My! What Is a Faculty Member Supposed to Do? from Educause.
Choose the wiki you want to use to set up your site. Jen and I can give better advice about PBWiki. Buth can help with Wikispaces.
Now set up your wiki. If you don't have pictures, audio, or video to upload, a WikiSandbox has been created at the bottom of this page with sample photos, audio, and video for you to use to practice uploading, resizing, and organizing your website.
You will be able to copy the photos, audio, and video to your desktop and then upload them in whatever wiki you choose to create.Create a peer editing component using your wiki with a partner from the class.
the Web 2.0 for ESP blog (comment on the wiki week post).
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http://pbwiki.com
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Read this page, especially choosing a wiki, and skim some of the resources on the Wiki section of the resources page (Resources) to get an idea of how wikis have been used for other classes. You might also want to take a look at the following two wikis (one by Jen and Debby) and the other used by Debby for an LLM class she teaches each summer. %5BOnline Learning 101 and Vanderbilt Pre-LLM Summer Program%5D
Set up your wiki. If you don't have pictures, audio, or video to upload, a WikiSandbox has been created with sample photos, audio, and video for you to use to practice uploading, resizing, and organizing your website.
You will be able to copy the photos, audio, and video to your desktop and then upload them in whatever wiki you choose to create.Create a peer editing component using your wiki with a partner from the class.
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Sample Education Wikis
An interesting site with many examples of educational wikis (most are K-12). However, good ideas for ESP wiki sites also.
Web 2.0: Building the New Library, by Paul Miller
ESL Lesson Plan Blog, by Carol Rueckert
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Students Using Wikis for Note-Taking
from Lifehack.org
This is interesting if your students have access to computers and the Web.
Waht Is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies, and impacts for education, by Paul Anderson (complete report 46 pages in pdf format is HERE
Matrix of Possible Uses of Blogs in Education, by Edtechpost
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Seven Things You Should Know About Wikis
from Educause
Readers on Web 2.0 and Learning (Recommended by Stephen Downes)
Ten Tips for a Better Weblog, by Rebecca Blood
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Webheads vRoom in Learningtimes
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Jay Pfaffman
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You can use some of these pictures or add your own to the wiki you create during this week.
You can also use this audio file to add to your wiki or create your own file using Audacity (open source audio recording software).
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If you do not have your own pictures or audio files to play with, then you can use some of these files. Remember when you upload pictures to your own wiki, you need to resize them so that you don't take up too much of your space.
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website.
You will be able to copy the photos, audio, and video to your desktop and then upload them in whatever wiki you choose to
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Share your wiki
PBWiki
http://pbwiki.com
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Buth
Set up your wiki. If you don't have pictures, audio, or video to upload, a WikiSandbox has been created with sample photos, audio, and video for you to use to practice uploading, resizing, and organizing your website. You will be able to copy the photos, audio, and video to your desktop and then upload them in whatever wiki you choose to create.
Create a peer editing component using your wiki with a partner from the class.
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Debby
Set up your wiki. If you don't have pictures, audio, or video to upload, a WikiSandbox has been created with sample photos, audio, and video for you to use to practice uploading, resizing, and organizing your website. You will be able to copy the photos, audio, and video to your desktop and then upload them in whatever wiki you choose to create.
Create a peer editing component using your wiki with a partner from the class.
Share your wiki in Debra Lee's TappedIn office space. Instructions on how to get there will be sent to all participants. We will choose two times for "show and tell" to try to incorporate all time zones.
PBWiki
WikiDot
www.wikidot.com
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Debby
Set up your wiki. If you don't have pictures, audio, or video to upload, a WikiSandbox has been created with sample photos, audio, and video for you to use to practice uploading, resizing, and organizing your website. You will be able to copy the photos, audio, and video to your desktop and then upload them in whatever wiki you choose to create.
Create a peer editing component using your wiki with a partner from the class.
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Set up your wiki. If you don't have pictures, audio, or video to upload, a WikiSandbox has been created with sample photos, audio, and video for you to use to practice uploading, resizing, and organizing your website. You will be able to copy the photos, audio, and video to your desktop and then upload them in whatever wiki you choose to create.
Create a peer editing component using your wiki with a partner from the class.
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Recordings
Tutorials
Recordings(Live sessions)
Resources
WalkieTalkie
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co-Moderators
Christine Parkhurst is an Associate Professor at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, where she has taught for over twenty years. She has also published and presented in the field of English for Medical Purposes.
Buthaina Al-Othman is currently an EFL and ESP instructor at the Language Center of Kuwait University. She has been a member of the Webheads in Action community online, since it was founded in 2002. Buthaina is also a member of the TESOL Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) and has been one of the TESOL Electronic Village Online (EVO) coordination team, since 2005. If you'd like to know more about her and her work, please visit her web site at: http://alothman-b.com
Debra Lee is President of Language4Law, Inc., a non-profit online law and language website. She has also just begun a PhD in Instructional Technology because she is fascinated by Web 2.0 tools and their use in ESP. All of her courses have an associated wiki, blog, or Moodle. She has been teaching, writing materials, and presenting on legal English for over thirteen years. She is co-author of American Legal English, and you can see one of her co-created wikis at http://onlinelearning101.pbwiki.com.
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Blog:
URL of RSS feeds of Web 2.0 for ESP Twitter: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/12764142.rss
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To subscribe to one of our session's feeds, just copy and paste the url of one of the links above according to the instructions of your news reader.
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of Web 2.0 for ESP Yahoo Group:
URL of RSS feeds of Web 2.0 for ESP Blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Web20ForEsp?format=xml
URL of RSS feeds of Web 2.0 for ESP Twitter: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/12764142.rss
URL of RSS feeds of Web 2.0 for ESP Wiki:
To subscribe to one of our session's feeds, just copy and paste the url of one of the links above according to the instructions of your news reader.
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To subscribe to one of our session's feeds, just copy and paste the url of one of the links above according to the instructions of your news reader.
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URLs of Session Flows
YahooGroup
Blog
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(This is just in, a must read that has it all: Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0, by John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler)
Week 1:
What Is Web 2.0?
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Task 5: When you are finished with the above tasks, please go to your blog to post an entry about what you learned
Introduction to Twitter, the micro-blogging tool - Do I really need this tool for my ESP classroom?
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Task 5: When you are finished with the above tasks, please go to your blog to post an entry about what you learned
Introduction to Twitter, the micro-blogging tool - Do I really need this tool for my ESP classroom?
Task 1: Join Twitter and then follow the Web 2.0 for ESP08 twitter
Task 2: Post your first twit to Web 2.0 for ESP08 twitter to tell us what you are doing?
is also available
Task 4: Create your ESP Class Twitter, and then add a link to Twitter update to your ESP class Blog
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URLs
Please Subscribe to each of the following RSS Feeds, below to be posted on updates everywhere in Web 2.0 for
URL of RSS feeds of Yahoo Group: :http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/web2_for_esp/rss
URL of RSS feeds of Web 2.0 for ESP Blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Web20ForEsp?format=xml
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URLs of All RSS Feeds for Web 2.0 for ESP Mediums
Please Subscribe to each of the RSS Feeds, below to be posted on updates everywhere in Web 2.0 for ESP:
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Task 4: Pleease go to our Feeds Channels wiki page to subbscribe to the RSS feeds mentioned in Task 2
Task 5: When you are finished with the above tasks, please go to your blog to post an entry about what you learned
Introduction to Twitter, the micro-blogging tool - Do I really need this tool for my ESP classroom?
Using Twitter, the micro-blogging tool for quick networking and immediate learning. How?
Activity 2 - Please do the following tasks
Task 1: Join Twitter and then follow the Web 2.0 for ESP08 twitter
Task 2: Post your first twit to Web 2.0 for ESP08 twitter to tell us what you are doing?
Task 3: Subscribe to the RSS feeds of our session's Twitter - (the URL of the RSS feeds of our session's Twitter is available at the Feeds Channels wiki page).
Task 4: Create your ESP Class Twitter, and then add a link to Twitter update to your ESP class Blog
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This EVO 08 session's Twiiter at Web 2.0 for ESP08 twitter will be only following participants who choose to follow it!
You could useTwitter through Mobile Phones / IM, (these are other options to where you'd like to receive your tweets. These options are offered on your Twitter Setting.).
Recommended Reading: Please see Resources page under Week 3
This week Guest Speaker is Jacinta Gascoigne, VET e-learning International Project Manager Australia
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Co-Moderators:
Introduction to RSS news feeds and their use in ESP classrooms.
RSS's tutorial video - Watch the video,RSSinPlainEnglish, by Common Craft.
news
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Activity 1 - Please do the following tasks
Task 2: Subscribe to the RSS
Task 3: Subscribe to the RSS
Task 4: Subbscribe to the RSS
Task 5: When you are finished with the above tasks, please go to your blog to post an entry about what you learned
Introduction to Twitter, the micro-blogging tool - Do I really need this tool for my ESP classroom?
Task 1: Join Twitter and then follow the Web 2.0 for ESP08 twitter
Task 2: Post your first twit to Web 2.0 for ESP08 twitter to tell us what you are doing?
Task 3: Subscribe to the RSS feeds of our session Twitter
Task 4: Create your ESP Class Twitter, and then add a link to Twitter update to your ESP class Blog
Note: You could useTwitter through Mobile Phones / IM, (these are other options to where you'd like to receive your tweets. These options are offered on your Twitter Setting.).
Recommended Reading: Please see Resources page under Week 3
This week Guest Speaker is Jacinta Gascoigne, VET e-learning International Project Manager Australia
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MyYahoo
Task 2: Subscribe to the RSS feed of our Yahoo
Task 3: Subscribe to the RSS feed of our
Task 4: Subbscribe to the RSS feed of your own Blog and to that of comments you post to our blog or any other blog (Make sure your RSS feeds is enabled on your blog)
Task 5: When you are finished with the above
Introduction to Twitter, the micro-blogging tool - Do I really need this tool for my ESP classroom?
Using Twitter, the micro-blogging tool for quick networking and immediate learning. How?
Post
Task 2: Post your first twit to Web 2.0 for ESP08 twitter to tell us what you are doing?
Using
Task 3: Subscribe to the RSS feeds of our session Twitter
Task 4: Create your ESP Class Twitter, and then add a link to Twitter update to your ESP class Blog
Note: You could useTwitter through Mobile Phones /
Recommended Reading: Please see Resources page under Week 3
This week Guest Speaker is Jacinta Gascoigne, VET e-learning International Project Manager Australia
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How I Use Twitter? A tweet, by Robin Good
In-the Flow and Above-the-Flow, by Michael Idinopulos - an interesting article about two kinds of wikis to bring into an organization)
Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? by Bryan Alexander
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Task 2: Subscribe to the RSS feed of our Yahoo Group and aad it to your RSS feeds reader
Task 3: Subscribe to the RSS feed of our Blogand aad it to your RSS feeds reader
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Group and aad it to your RSS feeds reader
Task 3: Subscribe to the RSS feed of our
Task 4: Subbscribe to the RSS feed of your own Blog and to that of comments you post to our blog or any other blog (Make sure your RSS is enabled on your blog)
Task 5: When you are finished with the above tsaks, please go to your blog to post an entry about what you learned
Introduction to Twitter, the micro-blogging tool - Do I really need this tool for my ESP classroom?
Using Twitter, the micro-blogging tool for quick networking and immediate learning. How?
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