Blog #8: Open Topic / Reflection

For your final blog post, please feel free to write about any topic related to the course.  For example, you can reflect on what you have learned about in the course and your e-portfolio project and also discuss any future goals or plans you have to use technology in your classroom.

Blog #7: Mobile App Review

Search for a language learning application designed for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.  Provide a link to the application's website. Write a brief review of this application that includes information about the app's functions, which devices it is compatible with, and how it can assist or enhance the language learning process.

Blog #6: Digital Storytelling

Write brief reviews about the two tools you used to create short lessons with this week (Digital Storytelling through Storybooks, Cartoons & Comics).  How could these tools be used by teachers AND students?  How could they be incorporated into a class?

Blog #5: Corpora, Concordance, Collocations, Word Frequency

Check out the following sites and report back on how they could be used to inform materials development and classroom instruction:

Compleat Lexical Tutor: http://www.lextutor.ca/
Corpus of Contemporary American English: http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/

Blog Post #4: Podcast Review

For this post, please write a short review of a podcast.  You do not need to choose a podcast that is designed specifically for English learners, but you can choose an ESL/EFL podcast if you want. Please do the following:

-Listen to one or two of the podcasts.

-Provide a link to the podcast on your blog. Give general information about the content and quality.

-What do you think about the podcast?  Which type of learners could benefit from the podcast?

Blog Post #3: Synchronous and Asynchronous CMC Tools

Please review one of the Synchronous CMC Tools AND one of the Asynchronous CMC Tools we looked at this week in class.  Please include the following in your blog post:

1) Brief descriptions of the tools and links to their websites

2) Your thoughts about how the Synchronous CMC tool and the Asynchronous CMC tool could support learning and the development of language skills.  Are there any similarities and differences in how they could support language learning?

3) Some of your ideas of possible activities and ways that the tools could be used in a language class to supplement in-class content and instruction.

Blog Post #2 - Presentation Tools & Screencasting Tools

In class this week, you were asked to use one of the available Presentation Tools or Screencasting Tools to create an embeddable presentation or activity for an ESL/EFL class.  In your next Blog Post, you need write about the following:

1. Describe the Presentation Tool or Screencasting Tool you used.  Provide a link to the website. 

2. Describe the presentation or activity you created using the tool.  Provide a link to the location of your embedded presentation on your Google Site.

3. Describe your experience using the tool.  Would you recommend it to other teachers?  Why or why not?

4.  Describe potential uses the tool could have in the Korean EFL learning context.