A very brief overview of a few CMC technologies you can use with your students.

1. Thomas Tasker
English Language Fellow Program
tct118@psu.edu

2.  tesolukrainesummerinstitute.
pbworks.com
 personal.psu.edu/tct118/
presentations

3.  Chat  Blogs
 Skype  Email
 Second Life  Facebook
 Wikis
 Adobe Connect
 Podcasts
 Video
 Voice message
conferencing
boards
Synchronous CMC Asynchronous CMC

4.  Why add communication
technologies to your curriculum?
 Students are already expert users
 Pushes language learning outside
the classroom
 Promotes authentic language use

5.  Does the technology increase
the efficiency of student
learning?
 What does the technology
allow me to do that I can’t
already do using other means?
 Does the technology decrease
my workload?

6.  How can the new technology fit
into my curriculum?

7.  What is the right tool to use
for the task I want to do?
 Blogs, Voicethread, & Wikis

8.  A blog is an online, semi-public journal
that displays the user’s posts, and
allows visitors to post responses
 Blogging = individual reaction to
something + the comments of others
 Informal, independent writing

12.  Blogging = individual reaction to
something + the comments of others
 Informal writing
 Autobiography
 Student responses to reading, films,
class discussions, curriculum topics
 Add pictures, links
 Students, teacher subscribe to each
others’ blogs

13.  What are the potential problems of
asking your students to keep a
blog?

14.  Group conversations are collected and
shared in one place
 Multimedia slide show (posted by students
or the teacher)
◦ Pictures
◦ Documents
◦ Video
 Students comment on the slide show using
◦ Text
◦ Audio
◦ Video

17.  http://voicethread.com/share/2054840/

18. Wiki = web-based collaborative writing
space
 Wiki wiki means ‘quick’ in Hawai’ian
 Allows multiple users to add and edit
content of one shared space
 Users add new pages to create a
network of hyperlinked documents
 More student control = more success

19.  Class Resource - Students write an online
text of your curriculum, adding links to
expand class knowledge
 Group Projects - Build collaborative pages,
start discussions and encourage comments.
 Student Portfolios - Give students their
own page to post content, upload
homework, and share their work.
 (from pbworks.com/content/edu-classroom-teachers)

21.  http://ukraineefl.wikispaces.com/

22. 1. Go to www.wikispaces.com
2. Click on ‘Wikis for individuals
and groups”
3. Register

23.  Write a few sentences about yourself or
something you’re interested in.
 Add a picture you like from the Internet
(first download the pic to your desktop)
 Create links to 3 other pages
 Add links to your favorite websites
 Add a video you like from youtube.com
 Click on ‘Gadgets’ and add something else!