1. While you are waiting…
1. Follow at goo.gl/MWEGl
2. Make sure you are a member of the Google Group (should have rcv’d
an email invite).
3. Sign up for this site:
1. Audioboo (audioboo.fm)
4. Download on your smartphone/table (if you use one) a QR code
reader (for next class).
1. iTunes: QR Reader for iPhone
2. Google Play: QR Droid or Scan

2. Asynchronous CMC
CALL 3/4/13
Follow at goo.gl/MWEGl

3. Today
• Discuss materials development 1
• Modes of Asynchronous CMC
• Writing
• Audio
• Video
• Homework: Service Encounter (for 3/25)

4. RSS feeds
• An RSS feed allows a reader to automatically receive updates from a
source you subscribe to.
• Use an RSS reader/aggregators to subscribe to blogs, Youtube
channels, Audioboo, news services, etc.
• Automatically follow your students’ work to facilitate asynchronous
CMC.
• Also a great tool for collaborating related reading/news.
• Example RSS readers: Google Reader, Feeddler, Flipboard, Pulse,
Feedly

5. Lesson plans reviews
• Login into the Google Group and find your discussion thread.
• goo.gl/EKojz
• Look at the presentations of your group members.
• In the discussion thread, respond to the topic and your groups’
comments.

6. Groups
Turkan, Erin A, Jena Dan, Alan, Marianna
Kerry, Hongbo, Kristen Randy, Erin S
Joe, Haley Cynthia, Katie, Guanya
Nour, Karen, Taichi

7. Asynchronous CMC
• Writing
• Google groups, discussion threads (e.g., BBLearn discussion), wikis, blogs, micro-
blogging (e.g., Twitter)
• Audio
• Audacity, Audioboo, Voicethread, podcasts
• Video
• Youtube, screencasting

8. Tech presentations
• Nour: Wikis

9. Audio
• Jena: Audacity
(http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)

10. Audioboo
(audioboo.fm)
• Record up to 3 minutes of audio, post them on your Audioboo
channel.
• Can add pictures, location, etc.
• Can upload via smartphone, website, or email.
• Can link to outside social media.
• Can subscribe to Audioboos via iTunes/RSS feeds.
• Can respond to other Audioboo messages.
• Also, Stephen Fry (lots of interesting, short passages)

11. Let’s try it out
• Go to audioboo.fm, sign-up for an account.
• If you would like to use the program on a mobile device, download it.
• In browser: audioboo.fm/jwsmart
• In mobile app: Browse -> Featured Boos -> Search jwsmart
• Listen to my message and record a response.
• Include a picture of the restaurant, if possible.
• If you have a device w/ you, record it now (or use a headset)
• Otherwise, record it before next class (via laptop, phone, etc.). You can also send via
email.

12. In-class project (for 3/25):
Service Encounters
• Service encounters include a broad range of activities, such as
• visiting a professor in an office hour,
• ordering food at a restaurant,
• going to an office for a service (e.g., doctor, registrar),
• making an appointment.
• They can be in person or over the phone.
• SEs are often difficult and intimidating to learners.
• Learning about SEs can be motivating and an excellent basis for
TBLT.

13. Service Encounters Homework
• Develop a short teaching activity about a type of service encounter at
an American university.
• Create* or find an excellent example of a service encounter to use as
a model.
• Use one of the modes of CMC we have covered in class as a teaching
tool.
• We will work on this in class today and Wed. Submit it on your blog by
3/25 (after spring break). We will share.
*Get permission if you are recording/filming someone.

14. QR code reader for next class
Download on your smartphone/table (if you use one) a QR code reader
(for next class).
• iTunes: QR Reader for iPhone
• Google Play: QR Droid or Scan