A short assignment

Dear Students,
I expect you to choose one of the websites I added to our blog, explore it and share your opinions with us.

If you have some websites or blogs that you think are suitable for language teaching and learning purposes, feel free to suggest them here. We can all have a look at them and give our opinions.

Best,
Gökçe

Blogs in Education

Ways to use blogs in education:
http://anne.teachesme.com/2004/10/05/

Creating blogs:

http://www.edublogs.org
https://www.blogger.com/start

Example educational blogs:

Mrs. Cassidy's Classroom Blog
http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337

The Anniston Star
http://starclassroom.blogspot.com/

Mrs. Myrmel's Classroom Blog
http://blogs.oaisd.org/236

Using Technology to Teach Reading and Writing

ABC alphabet and phonemic awareness
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/load.htm?f

Structural skills and knowledge
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/index.htm

I Spy
http://www.scholastic.com/ispy/index.asp

Identifying Tone
http://www.readingmatrix.com/directory/pages/Analyzing_Text/

Writing with Writers
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/index.htm

Synthesis and Evaluation Skills and Strategies
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/08/biodiversity.html

Mystery at Ghost of Mine http://www.planetozkids.com/Ace_Detectives/ghostmine/ghostmine.html

History Mystery website
http://teacher.scholastic.com/histmyst/index.asp

The Ocean’s in Trouble
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/grant/oceanpollution/index.html

Grammar Safari
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/student_grammarsafari.html

Irregular Verbs Quiz
http://www.englishforum.com/00/interactive/iverbs/

Links to some articles on technology

Podcasting: Audio on the Internet Comes of Age (Stanley, 2006)
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej36/int.html


Skype - An Emerging Technology (Rexius, 2007)
http://imet.csus.edu/imet9/portfolio/rexius_lani/286_project/skype.pdf


EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: Skype and Podcasting: Disruptive Technologies for Language Learning (Godwin-Jones, 2005)
http://llt.msu.edu/vol9num3/emerging/


EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: Blogs and Wikis: Environments for On-line Collaboration
http://llt.msu.edu/vol7num2/emerging/


ON THE NET: Wikipedia: A Multilingual Treasure Trove
http://llt.msu.edu/vol10num2/net/

Using Technology to Teach Oral Communication Skills

How does technology provide comprehensible input?

http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mummy/


In what ways can technology assist in creating a nonthreatening language learning environment?

http://www.manythings.org/pp/
http://www.manythings.org/el/
http://www.manythings.org/ac/

How can technology assist students in interactional communication?

http://www.rong-chang.com/book/
http://www.focusenglish.com/dialogues/conversation.html

How can technology assist students in transactional communication?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/index.shtml

How can technology support the current goals of pronunciation learning?

http://www.englishlearning.com/en/index.html


Skype

http://www.language-exchanges.org

Podcasts

http://www.epnweb.org/
http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/