social bookmarking and collaborative work

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SOCIAL BOOKMARKING AND COLLABORATIVE WRITING THROUGH THE CLASS BLOG Mª Luisa de Dios Perrino Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Valencia marisadedios@gmail.com @marisadedios 2010 CONFERENCE

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http://advancedenglish2.wordpress.com http://inglescomercial.wordpress.com http://palegodella.ning.com http://palegodella.grouply.com

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Introduction Changes in roles Social Bookmarking through the blog Collaborative writing through the blog. Conclusion Questions

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INTRODUCTION Eight conditons for optimal learning environments Egbert, J., & Hanson-Smith, E. (Eds.) (2007). CALL Environments: Research, Practice, and Critical Issues (2nd Edition).Alexandria, VA: TESOL, Inc.

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enough time and feedback authentic tasks learner autonomy is supported exposed to and encouraged to produce varied and creative language learner guided to attend to the learning process atmosphere with an ideal stress/anxiety level opportunities to interact and negotiate meaning

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With Web 2.0 and virtual learning environments we can provide our students with those key factors also when class time is over.

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CHANGES IN ROLES

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The student is a prosumer reads posts and interacts publishes posts actively participates in their own learning

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widens their sources of knowledge learns collaboratively: searches for useful resources shares knowledge works with others (positive interdependence)

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ACTIVE LEARNER MORE AUTONOMOUS RESPONSIBLE FOR OWN LEARNING

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The teacher not the only one who transfers knowledge students’ needs - available tools mediator learning tools facilitator and manager students’ guide: select and organize contents

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collaborative work facilitator task manager: sets tasks assigns groups suggests resources evaluates process and results

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blog colaborator, discussions prompter teaches contents how to learn how to cooperate to learn

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DAUNTING CHALLENGE

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SOCIAL BOOKMARKING THROUGH THE CLASS BLOG

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How do you store your favourite internet sites?

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What happens if your computer crashes?

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STORE

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Social bookmarkers: Teacher selects, organizes and filters links Filtered resources STORE + SHARE

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Mr Wong: Group bookmarking Students select favourite sites collaborate share in the blog Autonomy Self-learning store + share + collaborate

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How to use Mr Wong

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SoXiURzuLs Youtube: Mr Wong + eoimarisa

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COLLABORATIVE WRITING THROUGH THE CLASS BLOG

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Before the blog Student wrote an assignment (only when teacher set task) Teacher pointed mistakes and gave correction code Student corrected mistakes and handed it back and exercise was revised with teacher (not all students did this)

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In the blog

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Student publishes a post. Spontaneously Assignment Individually / collaboratively Text document format Other formats

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Student publishes a post. Spontaneously Assignment Text document format Other formats Teacher edits/points mistakes

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Student publishes a post. Spontaneously Assignment Text document format Other formats Peers read post Teacher edits/points mistakes

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Student publishes a post. Spontaneously Assignment Text document format Other formats Peers read post Teacher edits/points mistakes Peers write comments Student reads coments Student replies to comments Student replies to comments Blog visitors read post Blog visitors write comments Teacher reads and replies to comments too

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Marking writings: more rewarding less monotonous (variety) File: student's portfolio

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ACTIVITIES Expand the sentence .

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Collective story

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Collective tutorial

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Twitter

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Microstory competition

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Sticky notes wall

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Brainstorming

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Problem solving (I can't sleep at night) Grammar Structures: Making questions Transforming sentences Writing sentences

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Word cloud (wordle)

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Pair or group work:

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Digital leaflets

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Digital poster

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Youtube: glogster tutorial + eoimarisa

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Digital stories Students write stories online and have them read.

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Or read them themselves

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They also create animated stories

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CONCLUSION

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Collaborative work Group interaction even when the lesson is over Integration of different skills in one same exercise Interest for writing and reading Autonomy and self learning Student motivation Teacher motivation The use of ICT tools fosters

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The class blog is an excellent tool to teach English.