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- 1. Web 3.0 :A Smart Way to Develop Competence in English Language Teaching Dr. Meenu Pandey Professor & Head LNCT,Bhopal [email protected]
- 2. .Information & CommunicationTechnology English Language Teaching The technology based tools that teachers can use to help students gather information about English and facilitate their language acquisition through communication and may develop competence.
- 3. From bricks toclicks… and beyond The Genesis of “The Web” In the beginning there was an expansive void…. Web 0.0 From a historic point of view 1990/1991 is the official birth of the (commercial) Internet, which was available to the general public. From this date on you see a lot of technical and infrastructural evolution.
- 4. Outline • Generations ofWWW. Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3. Web 1.0 The static web & shopping carts Experts call the Internet before 1999 “Read-Only” web. The average internet user’s role was limited to reading the information which was presented to him or her. The best examples of this 1.0 web era are millions of static websites which mushroomed during the dot-com boom. There was no active communication or information flow from consumer (of the information) to producer (of the information). But the information age was born! Web 2.0… Web 2.0 is Dynamic Web , about Reading and Writing Web 3.0: The semantic executing web and Machine Centric Web will be a “Read-Write-Execute” web.
- 5. Web 2.0 People CentricWeb Technologies and Trends Social networking sites: Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, … etc. Tagging or Labeling Content: Del.icio.us. Wikis: Wikipedia. Community-generated content: eBay. Open Services: Google. P2P: Bit Torrent. New Web technologies: XML, RSS, Ajax. Open Source Software
- 6. Web 3.0 Machine CentricWeb • The third generation of Web technologies and services that emphasize a machine-facilitated understanding of information on the Web. Evolution Paths • Semantic Web Intelligent System Planning Business and Network Applications … etc. Video Web Web 3D Ubiquitous and Pervasive Web
- 7. Web 3.0 Semantic Web •It is a group of methods and technologies to allow machines to understand the meaning - or "semantics" - of information on the World Wide Web. • The semantic web is a vision of information that is understandable by computers, so computers can perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, combining, and acting upon information on the web. • The development of Web 3.0 focuses on adding metadata or information to describe the content of the web which: Provide an intelligent level to the web site. Enable the user to communicate completely with the machines. Enable machines to communicate with each others.
- 9. Web 3.0 What doesit need? • Advanced Technology; Software, Hardware and Protocols. • Larger Bandwidth and network capacity. • A good level of Privacy, Security and Controllability should be granted over Web 3.0 to encourage people to use it.
- 10. The Future isNow Web 4.0 – Open, Linked and Intelligent Web Although Web 4.0 still is in developing mode and the true shape is still forming, first signals are in that Web 4.0 will be about a linked web which communicates with us like we communicate with each other (like a personal assistant). Web 4.0 is called the “symbiotic” web. This Web will be very powerful and fully executing. Web 4.0 will be known as the read- write-execution-concurrency web.
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- 14. WHICH TOOLS TOUSE?
- 15. Examples of Web3.0 • Podcasts • Social Networking • Blogs • Wiki’s • Image Sharing • Social Bookmarking • Mash-ups • Virtual Worlds http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/google-earth-17.jpg Google Earth
- 16. E-mail A medium forsending and receiving information E-mail Writing projects Discussion lists Chats Internet in English language learning and teaching Jarvis, The Teacher Trainer (2002)
- 17. E-mail writing projects: •Examples – Electronic pen-pal (E-pal) – Submitting and marking HW – Language advising (E-consultation) Internet in English language learning and teaching
- 18. BLOGS Usually kept byone person, who will regularly post comments, thoughts, experiences, to a web page. May consist of written text, include pictures, photos, audio, video. Readers can post comments if allowed.
- 19. Blog (web log) •Website where entries are written in chronological order; displayed in reverse chronological order • Provide commentary or news on a particular subject (e.g., food, politics, news; personal online diaries). • Typically combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and media related to its topic. • Ability to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. • Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on other media.
- 20. Blogging Websites 1. Blogger:http://www.blogger.com 2. Live Journal: http://www.livejournal.com 3. Edublogs - Free Education Blogs: http://edublogs.org 4. Blackboard: http://courses.wwu.edu
- 21. Educational Blogs Examples •Larabee School Portable C Blog (Bellingham) • Room 208 Blog (Wells, ME) • Google: blog subject area • Math Blog - Mathematics is wonderful!
- 22. Wiki’s (means “quickquick”) • Website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content • Collaborative technology for organizing information on Web sites • Allows for linking among any number of pages • Ease of interaction & operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring
- 23. Examples of Wiki’s •Wikipedia: a multilingual, web-based, encyclopedia project • Wiktionary multilingual dictionary with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations • Wikidictionary: another free dictionary, words with definitions • WikiQuote a free online compendium of quotations from notable people and creative works in every language
- 24. Websites for ‘wiki-ing” •Wikispaces: free to educators • MediaWiki: Used by the WikiPedia project ------------- • Jotspot: Free wiki hosting service; custom software includes calendars, photo galleries and spreadsheets (acquired by Google) • WikkaWiki: a standards-compliant, lightweight PHP/MySQL wiki engine
- 25. Image Sharing • Flickr:photos, search engine, share photos, has a blog • Shutterfly: photo service, share/enhance photos, organize • Photobucket: upload, share, search photos, running count of images
- 26. Video Sharing • Usergenerated sites mostly offer free services whereby users can upload video clips & share it with the masses • Examples: – YouTube – TeacherTube – GLEF Videos
- 27. Social Bookmarking: • Away for Internet users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages • del.icio.us: (pronounced as "delicious") – a web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. – can view others bookmarks, use tags) • Social Marker: makes social bookmarking of websites an easier process. • Top 5 Social Bookmarking Services:
- 28. Mashups • Hybrid applicationthat draws from multiple sources to create something new. • Google Mashups Mania Covers the cool new Google Maps mashups, tools & applications being created by people over the world • Google Earth Pick any where in world to zoom to from space • Google Maps Help Center –Create mashups and simple applications quickly –A limited test and access is restricted to a few
- 29. Search Engines • Google •Ask.com • Yahooligans
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- 33. Keeping Students Engaged Foran entire class: • eClicker – free application features a means of polling classes during lectures by send a signal via wi-fi to any enabled device in the room. • i-Prompt Pro – free app that acts as a teleprompter for location reporting, infomercials, video blogs etc. For Learners to include the followinnts: Listening, – Listening – Speaking – Reading – Writing – Speaking – Reading – Writing These strategies are helpful for Native English Speakers and Language Learners
- 34. Pitfalls to watchout for: Unwanted comments. Correction. Privacy. Advantages: • Personal writing space. • Way to connect with others. • Place to collaborate. • Student Portfolios.
- 35. •WIKIS Word processing document otherscan add or edit. Non-linear structure, may link back and forward to other pages. Collaborative writing, add new pages, edit previous entries or pages displays . Students collaboratively construct websites as part of class content. They can work together from separate locations, 24 hours/day
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- 38. Promote the Developmentof Writing Skills • https://storybird.com/ – free interactive website that provides tools to write books while teaching media literacy and online social interaction. You can create assignments and lesson plans for monitoring. • WorldLingo – app that provides several online translators used to translate text, documents, websites and emails • http://www.parapal-online.co.uk/ - free online English lessons for improving writing, listening, reading, vocabulary, and grammar
- 39. Encourage Listening Skills andVerbal Interaction • http://www.eslcafe.com/ – free tools such as hint-of- the-day, idioms, phrasal verbs, pronunciation power, quizzes, slang and student forums • Educreations – free app turns the iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Uses voice recording, realistic digital ink, phots and text while learning a concept • http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/ – provides language partners to improve your English skills, online practice lessons, chat rooms and other resources
- 40. Provide Ways toPractice Literacy Skills • http://www.englishmedialab.com/ – free online lessons and videos ranging from beginner to advanced, grammar exercises, vocabulary, and pronunciation activities • http://www.educanon.com – free interactive video site what permits you to bring in your own videos and create stopping points with questions/answers along the way • http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/make - free website that includes kids games, listening activities, reading games, online writing practice, and grammar games
- 41. Provide Vocabulary Support •http://livemocha.com/ – free language learning tool with online interactive lessons, language partners, user created courses. You can submit text and audio files to native speakers for corrections and edits. • https://cramberry.net/ – free online flashcard site which records your progress so you can study more effectively • Popling – free app makes flashcards that pop up on your computer throughout the day.
- 42. http://englishplace.wetpaint.com …reference, research andself access learning … VIDEOS
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- 44. Social Bookmarking users savelinks to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages. They can be saved privately or shared. They can be viewed chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.
- 45. Advantages: • Provide aspace for writing, revising and submitting. • Can have multiple authors. • Encourages social interaction and collaboration. • Easy to see changes and restore to an earlier version. Pitfall to watch out for: Privacy Not very good at keeping information that requires hierarchical organization.
- 46. Web 3.0 &ELT • Interaction & Communication • Integrated Use of Skills • Peer Editing, Peer Feedback • Personal Involvement • Real Life Communication • Going Beyond Examination • Training For Real Life Professional Needs
- 47. How To UseBlogging • Divide the class into groups. • Each group is in charge of one blog. • Each group is in charge of one syllabus topic. • They present the topic in an interesting manner using a blog or Google Site. • Groups read other group blogs and post comments. • The best blogging group gets a reward.
- 48. Your Questions: GoogleWave • What is Google Wave? How can it be useful in Languge teaching? • How much time should be spent on computer- based instruction compared with teacher directed instruction in kids ELT. • How can teaching be made more effective in mixed ability English language classes?
- 49. How To UseGoogle Wave • Divide the class into groups. • Each group starts a new wave. • Each group is responsible for one syllabus topic. • Other groups post questions, feedback and comments. • The waves are embedded in blogs or Google Sites.
- 50. “We need to thinkof the Internet as a container for media and a space for collaboration, just like the classroom has always been for us.” Valerie Beer EVERYTHING AT YOUR HAND
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