MultiMedia in TESOL Blogs wikis and podcasts KueiMin

Multi-Media in TESOL Blogs, wikis and podcasts Kuei-Min Huang, Ph. D

Today’s Outline n n n Blogs Wikis Podcasts

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How to Blog?

What’s wiki? n n A wiki is like a pubic website, or public web page, started by one person, but which subsequent visitors can add to, delete or change as they wish. A wiki is like having a publicly accessible word processing document available online, which anyone can edit.

Blog vs. wiki blog wiki A online journal or diary More like an open website Usually written by one person Anyone can add/delete/change the content With some measure of security None Linear structure Dynamic

A wiki n n The most famous wiki: www. wikipedia. com On your own please go visit Editing wiki pages

Trust and security Wikis are generally designed with the philosophy of making it easy to correct mistakes, rather than making it difficult to make them. Thus, while wikis are very open, they provide a means to verify the validity of recent additions to the body of pages.

Trustworthiness Critics of publicly editable wiki systems argue that these systems could be easily tampered with, while proponents argue that the community of users can catch malicious content and correct it.

How to start using a wiki with learners n n The best way: set up a simple collaborative writing project with a topic that interests all. A good example is – (in)famous people

Step 1 - Preparation before lesson n Approx. 30 -60 mins Use a free wiki site, the teacher set up the first page of a wiki. Outline the topic of the project and the steps your students will need to take in the project.

Step 2 - (In)famous people: description n Approx: 1 hour Put learners in pairs and tell them that they are going to write a description of a famous person that contains a number of factual error. You may want to give an example of a description of a famous person with factual errors, which you have already written yourself in the wiki.

Step 3 - (In)famous people: Corrections n n n Approx. 1 hour Allocate one description to each pair from the previous class The pair reads the description, click on the Edit tab for the wiki page and corrects any ‘wrong’ information in the description.

Practical Session n 1. 2. 3. n n With your study group, please set up a wiki by using one of the following free sites. PBwiki: www. pbwiki. com Media Wiki: www. mediawiki. org Wikihost: http: //wikihost. org Create a file of a description for a famous person which contains 3 errors. Please e-mail your wiki sites to kuei_min. huang@uch. edu. tw

Pod casts n n n http: //www. clivejames. com/point-ofview http: //www. bbc. co. uk/worldservice/lear ningenglish/081222_download. shtml A free podcast site pod. Omatic ( http: //www. poddomatic. com )