1. Take a quick survey about how you read.
We'll discuss the results in a bit:
Survey: goo.gl/CRGfD or
3. • Infinite readings available (and
sortable/searchable)
• High interest, relevant reading;
personalization of reading materials.
• Share reading materials and discuss them.
• Interactive reading (discussions, blogs,
commenting)
• Tools to aid in comprehension.
4. • Tutorials/reading aids
• Corpora
• Dictionaries (external, pop-up)
• Text archives (e.g., archive.org, Gutenberg
Project)
• Sites for news, hobbies, etc.
• Reading aggregators (e.g., RSS, Twitter)
5. Tutorial software - not as in vogue, but still
around.
Provide readers with tools that can use
alongside reading activities:
• Use Google Drawing for graphic organizers
• Have learners vote/compare ideas using surveys.
• Provide discussion questions/discussion community as
learners read (e.g., blog, thread, Twitter)
6. • Use corpora for vocabulary (create lots of
examples with KWICs)
• Teachers can use concordancer to find out
frequent vocabulary, word clusters of
specific texts.
• Researchers design better word lists (see
Miller, 2012 and Gardner/Davies' work).
7. External dictionaries
• Easily available, free, audio/video/images of words
• Monolingual, learner, bilingual/translation
• Multimedia glosses
Embedded/internal dictionaries
• Plugins for browsers (e.g., One Click Popup Dictionary
for Firefox, Google Dictionary for Chrome)
• Consulted more frequently than external (Chun, 2001)
8. • Any literature out of copyright available
online for free.
• Much of it is available as audio as well
(e.g., recordings on The Internet Archive).
• Two good sources to check out: The
Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg.
9. What websites/news feeds do you regularly
read?
• Survey: goo.gl/CRGfD
• Results:goo.gl/K0V9x
• Summary:goo.gl/7KYoS
10. A feed of news stories that
• takes from multiple sources that you choose.
• can be selected based around a theme/topic/type of
source.
• gives you a preview of multiple stories at once (e.g.,
headline + image).
You can create a shared login or have students
follow certain sources.
Examples: Pulse, Flipboard
11. Sign up for...
• Pulse (pulse.me) or
• Flipboard (requires tablet/smartphone).
• Create a reading list based on your own interests or
what you think might be good for teaching.
• What are some pedgagogical possibilities here?
13. RSS readers and services like Twitter
automatically generate previews of full-
length articles:
14. Sign-up for Twitter, check out the service.
Find people/things to follow for learners.
Add your Twitter account to the Wiffiti board by tweeting
using the hashtag #calltweet (put it at the end of your
message)
goo.gl/fqWea5
Come up w/ an activity or teaching idea for with Twitter.
Prepare to share it with the class.