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Transcript of GloCALL Plenary 2008
Individuals, Community, Communication and Language
Pedagogy
Emerging technologies that are shaping and being shaped by
our field
Dr Debra HovenAthabasca University
http://io.acad.athabascau.ca/~debrah/GLoCALL2008.html
CALL today
• What is it?
• What does it look like?
• What can we do with it?
• How can we use it to teach?
• What can our students learn?
Some confusion lately …Is it all CALL??
CALL CMC
CELL SNS
TELL WSCL
MALL CMCL
WALL LMSetc …
Time to change our terms?
• Chapelle (2000)
• Kern (2006)
Is networked CALL still CALL?
Fitting the pedagogy to the technology …
Six roles of CALL today
1. Instructional CALL
2. Discovery/exploratory CALL
3. Communications CALL
4. Social networked CALL
5. Collaborative CALL
6. Narrative/Reflective CALL
In the context of …
Classroom learningPersonal learningAutonomous Learning Lifelong LearningLanguage Learning Skill DevelopmentContent/Learning Management SystemsPersonal Learning EnvironmentsBlended/Hybrid Learning
1. Instructional CALL• (Tutorial CALL)
• Various pedagogical models …
• Teaching discrete or context-embedded language
• Across skills: reading, writing, speaking, listening
• Focussed learning
• Objective oriented
• Convergent/closed tasks
Some examples …• Hot Potatoes: various activity types
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
… and a range of instructional pages built on these:
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/sites6.htm
• Real English videos & lessons
http://www.real-english.com/new-lessons.asp
Some examples …• Michael Krauss’ online activities
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html
• Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
http://www.esl-lab.com/
• Internet TESOL Journal’s ESL Activities
http://a4esl.org/
2. Discovery/exploratory CALL
• Inductive learning models
• Learning-focussed
• Skill or knowledge oriented
• Knowledge transformation
• Individually or collaboratively constructed
• Divergent or convergent tasks
Some examples …
• Simulations – Travel sim: Grand Canyon
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/travelsim/
• Role plays/enactments– The NASA exercise: Lost on the Moon
http://nasa.perbang.dk/– ESL Flow
http://www.eslflow.com/roleplaysdramatheatregames.html
& more examples …• Webquests
http://webquest.org/index.php
http://bestwebquests.com/what_webquests_are.asp
http://students.ed.qut.edu.au/n0487902/CLN618/WebQuest/
• Second Life version for teens:
http://teen.secondlife.com/
& a commentary on the use/abuse …
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20070319/
3. Communications CALL
• CMC (computer/technology mediated communication)
• Communication focussed (language for communication)
• Language for real purposes
• Culturally embedded
• Convergent or divergent tasks
• Synchronous, delayed synchronous
or asynchronous
Some examples …
• Chat (audio & video enhanced)– GoogleTalk, IM, MSN, Yahoo Messenger
etc
• MOOs
SchMOOze
http://schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu/
& more examples …• VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
– Skype
http://www.skype.com/intl/en/welcomeback/
• Tandem exchanges
http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
• Synchronous multimodal communicating– Elluminate (Vrooms)
http://www.elluminate.com/vroom/ – WiZiQ
http://www.wiziq.com/
4. Social Networked CALL• Social or radical constructivist pedagogy
• Wisdom of the crowd
• Connectedness
• Disruption
• Personal, community, shared and collective ownership
• Context-embedded & context-distributed
• Co-creation of meaning/knowledge through aggregation
Some examples …• Blogs
– Individual/class: http://www.blogger.com/
http://www.alaskool.org/projects/day_in_life/dil2.htm#– Class/shared
http://classblogmeister.com/
http://katsstudents.blogspot.com/
• Photos & video– Flickr
http://flickr.com/– Picasa
http://picasa.google.com/
& more examples …• Personal webspaces (adaptable)
http://www.facebook.com/– & for teaching a class:
http://www.facebook.com/friends/?everyone&ref=tn#/group.php?gid=2389494301
– MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/ – BeBo
http://www.bebo.com/
& yet more examples …• Bookmarking & tagging Tag clouds
– Del.icio.us
http://delicious.com/ – Technorati
http://technorati.com/
• Mobile & web devices: Twitter
http://twitter.com/
• Collaboratories
http://collaboratory.nunet.net/cwebdocs/
• Folksonomies
http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html
5. Collaborative CALL
• Social constructivist pedagogy
• Co-creation of knowledge
• Language acquisition through negotiation of meaning
• Divergent tasks
• Individuals bring their skills to the task
• The whole is greater than the sum of the parts
Some examples …• WikisWikispaces
http://www.wikispaces.com/
http://youthwiki.wikispaces.com/Marshall+School%2C+AK
PBWiki
http://pbwiki.com/
http://www.wetpaint.com/
• Google Docshttp://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html
& more examples …
• Collaboratories– The water habitat project
http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ent/gallery/pop3/pop3_1.cfm
• Folksonomies
http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html
6. Narrative/Reflective CALL– Starting from the personal: ownership &
direction– Personally-meaningful language– Language for real purposes & real
audiences– Multimedia & multimodal– Learner- & learning-focussed– Divergent or convergent
• Digital storytelling
• e-Portfolios
Some examples …• Dr Helen Barrett’s Digital storytelling site
http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/index.html
• Dr Arnie Abrams
http://www.arnieabrams.net/handouts.htm
• ePortfolios for various purposes & of various kinds
http://electronicportfolios.org/
http:www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/portfolio/port_eng.html
Looking from the past to the present & the future …
CALL, the present & the future …
• What is important?
• What is ideal?
• What is possible?
• What will soon be possible?
• What fits with our learners’ contexts?
• How can this enrich their learning?
• How will this improve their learning?
Thank you! Your questions?
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