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Web 2.0: Liberating the learner
Eric Baber
Open University
IATEFL BESIG Joint coordinator
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• “Second generation of theWorld Wide Web”
• Term first popularised in 2004 by O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International when used as conference title
• Web 1.0: a medium. Web 2.0: a platform.
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Web 2.0
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• Means of connecting people,allowing them to discover otherswith similar interests
• Community-building tools such as, Frappr, Facebook, Yahoogroups
• Leads to communities such as Webheads, ExtremeTechnoELT
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Social phenomenon
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• Content creation no longer domainof individuals or organisations (e.g.lecturers, publishers)
• Collaborative content-creation and sharing is key: Wikipedia, Google docs, Flickr, del.icio.us
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Content revolution
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• One of many blog hosts
• Allows individual students andteachers to set up their own blogs (‘weblogs’)
• Can be used for disseminating information/ ideas, practising writing, reflective learning…
• Readers can comment on blog entries and other comments
E.g: Dekita Orchard, Mr. Paetkau, Anne Fox, Y.H.Chen, Leylop
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• One of many RSS readers(‘aggregators’)
• Allows a user to ‘subscribe’ (free) to a blog or other RSS-enabled website
• Informs you of updates to the blogs/ websites to which you’re subscribed
• Means you can save a LOT of time by not visiting sites with no new content
E.g: Bloglines, SharpReader, FeedDemonwww.ericbaber.com
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• Podcasts are audio files thatcan be downloaded via RSS
• Podcasts can be saved on computer, MP3 player, burned onto CD for later listening
• Good for listening practice, especially when accompanied by exercises
E.g. Listen to English, BusinessEnglishPod, Aiden Yeh’s Speech Class, PadPod
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Skype
• Enables synchronous onlinemeetings/ lessons
• Audio/video (video WindowsXP only), audio conference max. 5 people
• One-to-one/group text-chat
• With plugin Unyte desktop sharing & collaborating
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Webheads
• Community of language learnersand teachers interested in the useof communications technologies
• Free to join; very active e-mail discussion group
• Have held “convergences” for past two years – online conferences
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Liberating the learner
• Learners now have free and easyrecourse not only to English-languagecontent, but to other speakers ofEnglish (native and non-native)
• Host of communications mechanisms
• Can focus on a topic, with English being merely a tool
• Can focus on the process of learning English
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