Blended Language Learning

Desired outcomes

At the end of day 3 participants will be:

-Introduced to blended language learning
- Able to describe/define weblogs
- Able to create a blog and make blog entries

-Aware of some blogging tools, blogs in EFL/ESL

-Aware of how blogs can be used in  in teaching & learning

-Able to describe/define wikis
- Able to create a wiki
- Aware of some wiki platforms, wikis EFL/ESL

-Aware of how wikis are used in teaching & learning 

My PowerPoint presentation: "Blending by the Nile:Integrating the Web into Sudanese EFL Classrooms". Available online here.

Nellie'sBlended Learning in Higher Education Around the World"(Brief and very informative.Excellent!Thanks Nellie!)

Carla Arena's screencast on blended learnig. (Teachers were impressed!Thanks Carla)

1. Yahoo Groups

How do I...

• Join SudaELTech Yahoo Group? Here is a tutorial: http://techtutorials.wikispaces.com/
• How to join a Yahoo Group
  
• Create a Yahoo ID
• Getting started with YG ( Tutorials created by EVO coordination team)
• How to add record at Database
• Using Files and Folders 
• Shorten a link?  TinyUrl 
• Resize my photo?
• Resize 2 mail 
• Take a screenshot with Paint? Check my few slides on slideshare

2. Blogs 

Blogs in Plain English (Watch on YouTube)

• Training video for using blogger
• how-to-create-blogs-1214816800548213-8.ppt available online here
• How to create an account at Blogger.com, and more
• Blogging tips (Susan Marandi's class wiki)

Popular Blogs sites:

• blogger.com
• Wordpress
• Edublogs

Further Readings

• Blogs and Wikis

• Blog Advice, Tutorials, and Resources

• Blogging for beginners

• Blogs for Professional Development

• Top Ten Reasons to Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog:elearning Technology

***Would you like to see how teachers around the world are blogging for professional development? An ELT Blogger Directory

3. Wikis

• Creat a PBwiki System Account? Check out this great tutorial.
• Add a video to pbworks
• Adding video tutorial (pdf)

Wikis in Plain English (Watch on YouTube)

Wikispaces Editing (Watch on YouTube)

More Video Tutorials

• Introducing the wiki concept 

• Getting started with pbworks 

• Getting started with wikispaces

Popular Wiki sites:

• pbworks
• wikispaces

• Wetpaint 

• Examples of Wikis

Further Readings

• Using wiki for Teacher Professional Development

• Blogs and wikis:Professional Development Tools (Presenttation at Slidsahre)

• 7 Things You Should Know about Wikis

• What a wiki is, why to use wikis in education, and how to use wikis in education.

• EFL Wikis

• Tutorials, articles and books

•  Wikieducatortutorial:what is a wiki? 

• Wikis http://wikiteachinglearningtips.pbwiki.com/Educational+uses+of+wikis

• 50 Wiki Ways.pdf

Podmatic

RSS

• RSS Workshop
• Oreilly's RSS 

• Will Richardson:RSS

• The ABCs of RSS 

• Wesley Fryer:What is RSS?

• Atomic Learning Video about RSS

RSS in Plain English (Watch at YouTube)

Web 2.0

• Everything about Web 2.0

• 74 Web 2.0 Sites in 41 Categories

•  Free Web 2.0 Project  book (Hey, look for me here! My name and project is there.)

•  Atomic Learning Video about Web 2.0

• How to Become More Tech Savvy This Summer  By Jim Moulton

• Web 2.0 for Teacher Professional Development  video for NikPeachey
  

 Links for further exploration after the workshop

• Today's Meet on Nik's Quick Shout  blog

Blended Learning

Bersin and Associates (2003). Blended Learning:  What Works? Research Report. Accessed March 6, 2010:http://tinyurl.com/bph5qe.

Brandl, K. (2002). Integrating Internet-Based Reading Materials into the Foreign Language Curriculum: From Teacher- to Student-Centered Approaches, Language    Learning & Technology, 6(3), 1987, p: 107. Accessed March 11, 2010: http:// llt. msu. edu. / vol6num3/ brandl/ default.html.

Driscoll, M. (2002) ‘Blended learning: Let’s get beyond the hype’. Accessed March 16, 2010: http:// www. te4be.com/pages/newblog/? p =425.

Duhaney, D. (2004). Blended Learning: Rethinking Educational Delivery for Development. Achieving Development Goals: Innovation, Learning, Collaboration and Foundations. A Conference by Commonwealth of Learning and the Caribbean Consortium 10/31/2006. Accessed March 13, 2010: http://pcf4.dec.uwi.edu/viewpaper.php?id= 304& print=1.

Dziuban ,C., Hartmen, J. and Moskal, P. (2004). Blended Learning. Research Bulletin, EDUCAUSE, 6 (7), March, 2004. Accessed March 6, 2010:

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERB0407.pdf .

Gonzalez, C., (2004). The Role of Blended Learning in the World of Technology. Accessed March 6, 2010: http://tinyurl.com/yyjfsgv.

Hofmann, J.,Miner,N.  (2008). Real Blended Learning Stands Up. Learning Circuits. Accessed March 6, 2010: http:// www. astd. org/ LC/ 2008/ 1008_hofmann.htm.

Watson, J. (2008).  Blended Learning:  The Convergence of Online and Face-to- Face Education. Accessed February 28, 2010: http:// tinyurl. com/yaozmqr.