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Summary on Podcast.

Summary on Podcast

 

Podcasting is the name given to the publishing of audio via the Internet, designed to be downloaded and listened to on a portable mp3 player of any type, or on a personal computer. There are so many types of podcast for example:

Authentic podcasts

Teacher podcasts

Student podcasts

Educator podcasts

Students can download the audio files through the link which is put on

Web log and can transfer to a portable mp3 player and also can record

To  cd- rom for use in class. It is very easy to download audio file from webpage and we can get update through RSS subscription. For this we have to simply copy and paste the address of RSS feed into the RSS Reader programmed and the software automatically downloads the subscribed podcasts to our mp3 player or computer. Nowadays students also have the opportunity to reach a wider audience by offering their shows as a podcast. Students take more care with preparation because the audience might be all over the world.

Also Podcasting is a useful tool for language learning. It gives them a potential audience of thousands for their work. Podcasts can be interactive, and the audience can be invited to send their comments, giving valuable feedback to the children about their work. As we know podcasting can be used for, music, talk shows , training and in story. In my view podcasting is an interactive tool. Most podcast use a weblog as their home page. When you visit the blog you should see links to audio files.

  

Final Task - Task 1 ( Nicenet )

Task 1: Explore the possibilities of Nice net and then think of an imaginary class that you might set up on this e-learning platform. Describe:

(a) The kind of students that you would have

(b) The kind of course that you would like to run

(c) And how will you use this platform to make maximum use of e-learning possibilities

-Nice net’s primary offering, the Internet Classroom Assistant  is designed to address the pedagogical needs and limited resources of teachers and their students.” According to the creators of Nice net, the aim of the Web site was not to replace the traditional classroom, but rather to foster opportunities for learning and communication among students and between students and the teacher outside of the classroom.

Nice net is a web-based tool for running an educational program at any level: a college course, a second-grade class, or a medical school course. It has capabilities for two-way communication between members; for announcing schedules and schedule changes; for reminding you of tasks; for sharing useful web links with other members; and for submitting text information electronically. It is accessible from any computer with an internet connection and web browser, so no matter where you are, you can always get to it. It is free, has no advertising, and does not share your personal information or e-mail address with any commercial entities.

(A)   Nice net, one of many web based learning management systems (LMS), provides teachers with the opportunity of working with students, whether in distance mode or in addition to face to face teaching. It works entirely via the internet browser without making any further software demands on teachers or students.

(b) the kind of course that I would like to run in my classroom

My goal is to help them to understand grammar as much as possible so the students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of grammar outside the class. When I create the class, I will give, e.g. five tenses with examples, where students will have the deadline to complete their tasks. I will also post some of rewarding web pages where my students can practice more. Students will also post comments about the web pages, e.g. what do they think about the web pages; is it a rewarding tool for them to improve their skills of reading, writing, speaking; is it suitable for them and so on.it is useful for them to learn a language.

(c) I will you use this platform to make maximum use of e-learning possibilities

Nice net is very useful tools for language learning.. I will use for maximum e-learning possibilities.

First, I can create conferencing sessions with students under Conferences. Here, teachers can post discussion questions and students can respond to the questions while communicating with other students.

-Nice net allows for Link Sharing, where the teacher can post a list of useful links for the students. For example, Hyland (2003) provides a list of useful links that could be included in an ICA for students in an academic English writing class. These links provide students with additional support outside of the classroom. Just as teachers can choose to allow students to post their own conference topics,

-I can also post homework assignments by clicking on Assignments. They can choose to send an automatic e-mail reminder to students and can choose the number of days before the due date to send this reminder. Students can then submit their homework by clicking on the Assignments prompt.

-Nice net has   another features is teacher  can post additional notes or readings by clicking on the prompt Documents. By clicking on the prompt Class Schedule, students can see the class calendar and upcoming events. By clicking on Class Members, participants can access a list of names and contact e-mails for the member in their ICA.

- I use nice net for Language learners: for grammar, spoken English and who wants to

learn communication skill.

-Teachers can share important links to their students and lead them

to a new world of learning

- I used Nice net to have students post homework assignments, first draft writing assignments, final draft writing assignments, and class work writing.

-Students can learn to help each other by clicking on “reply” and asking questions if what they read is confusing or missing something. Students can reply by pointing out specifically what they like about a piece of writing. Many students enjoy using Nice net. In my experience it is motivating for them do their best work.

- Teachers and college professors to update their knowledge

and get new methods to teach for new materials for teaching.

-A place where assignments can be posted by the teacher and then students post their writing

-A place to post pre-selected links

-A place where a teacher can read student work samples and any member of the class can also read other students’ writing.

-A place where any member of the class, teacher or students, can reply to a posted piece of writing

How Do You Use Delicious to Develop the Five Fluencies?

How Do You Use Delicious to

Develop the Five Fluencies?

Solution Fluency

The problem-solving process is made easier using efficient social

bookmarking. Delicious bookmarks are tools that provide excellent resources for research in efficient problem-solving. As sites are researched and the bookmark database expands, tags can be used to narrow searches and make the process easier.

Information Fluence

Just saving bookmarks is a lower-order thinking skill. But with

Delicious, the appropriate use of tags, notes and keywords when bookmarking web sites and URLs indicates a higher level of understanding of the researched and bookmarked materials. This will help the student generate a base of much more relevant and informative sites for whatever research is being undertaken.

Collaboration Fluency

Delicious bookmarking networks are all about collaboration.

Teachers and students can work together by all creating their own individual accounts, and a “class account” through which everything can easily be moderated. Everyone can then share their findings and research on group projects.

Creativity Fluency

The creativity enhanced from social bookmarking comes from the interesting ways in which information can be organized and represented. Students can make creative use of charting or mind mapping techniques when organizing their findings during the website researching and bookmarking process.

Media Fluence

Social bookmarking is a chance for students to enhance their basic

understanding of how a website delivers its message and represents its content as they conduct searches for the best websites to bookmark for their project information database. They choose the best of what they discover to share on the class network.

The Digital Citizen

The students learn to conduct themselves appropriately in the

online world by avoiding sites that are inappropriate or offensive. They gain an understanding of the importance of courtesy and civility in social networks. They learn to respect each others’ choices and contributions in the teamwork process.

Social Bookmarking and Delicious...

Social bookmarking ?

Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a

public Web site and “tagging” them with keywords. Bookmarking,

on the other hand, is the practice of saving the address of

a Web site you wish to visit in the future on your computer. To

create a collection of social bookmarks, you register with a social

bookmarking site, which lets you store bookmarks, add tags of

your choice, and designate individual bookmarks as public or

private. Some sites periodically verify that bookmarks still work,

notifying users when a URL no longer functions. Visitors to social

bookmarking sites can search for resources by keyword, person,

or popularity and see the public bookmarks, tags, and classification

schemes that registered users have created and saved

Delicious ?

Delicious is an online Web 2.0 social bookmarking tool that enables you to save URL’s(Universal Resource Locator) or web addresses to a personal account. It is a free service,and requires a registration.Adding extensions to your browsers (Firefox and Internet Explorer) adds toolbar buttons that allow you to quickly bookmark web sites. Then, you organize them using tags to make it easy to sort or search, add notes, or share with others in your network. This tool allows teachers and students to save URL’s in a portable format that can be reached from any browser, and to collaborate by sharing these with their network.

Visit http://delicious.com or http://del.icio.usto get started with social bookmarking.

Benefits of Social Bookmarking

• Social bookmarking helps in quick indexing by the search engines. It acts as bait to these search engines. Within a day of your submitting your website to these bookmarking sites, you can expect to be visited by all the major search engines.
• It also guarantees a lot of traffic to flow from these sites to your site. The best part is that most of that traffic would be targeted traffic. That helps in getting return visits, especially if your website offers good, useful content.
• Generally these social bookmarking sites let you submit a very detailed profile where you can list all your web pages and also post links to your sites. Thus you end up branding yourself.
  
  
  

Delicious in the Classroom

Anytime/Anywhere—It’s That Easy

·         Social networking tools like Delicious are not only brilliant for both remembering URL’s and

·         web locations, but it’s also way more accessible. It’s better than adding to your “favorites” locally

·         on your computer because your Delicious account is able to be accessed from any computer

·         you happen to have handy, simply by logging in at the web site.

·         Students and staff alike should use the tag keywords and notes to make retrieval of

·         saved locations easier. The more detailed and accurate the keywords are, the easier it is to

·         organize and search for resources.

Cool Collaborations

·         Delicious is also great for collaboration. The students and teachers all create a Delicious

·         account for each person, and the teacher creates a “class account”. The students and

·         teacher share their Delicious account names and add each other to their networks. They

·         also add the class account to the network.

·         Now when the students (or teachers) are bookmarking sites, they add “network tags”.

·         These are tags for their peer and class accounts. When they tag a site to a member of

·         their network using these tags, the new bookmark appears in their inbox for them to

·         either save or delete. Students and teachers can now share and collaborate on their

·         research and learning for any given project.

Thinking It Through

·         As a stand-alone concept, the idea of simply bookmarking a website is a lower-order

·         thinking skill. What’s great about Delicious is the advantages of properly identifying the

·         bookmark, using the descriptive mindset needed for tagging. This way, teachers can

·         clearly see the level of understanding of a project’s purpose in the student’s selection of

·         bookmarks. They also see how well they understand the content and relevance of a

·         given site, from the notes and tags that the student writes for searching purposes.

·         The teacher can also moderate the URLs submitted by students by saving or deleting

·         them. This gives teachers a good amount of control over content that may be deemed

·         harmful, inappropriate, or just plain irrelevant to the underway project. As this happens,

·         the teacher can more easily guide students toward making the right choices in their

·         quest to amass bookmarks for project research.

Submission Report - Wiki

                 

In November 3 2003, the article ‘What is Wiki’ is written by Nathan Matias. In this article, we can see the purpose behind the emersion of Wiki. Wiki have better functions rather than E-mail. Wiki is also known as Hypertext and Relational Database.

Wikis can be used for a large variety of tasks from personal not-taking to collaborating online. personal wiki.

In this article, we can know how Wiki exactly works and ends our every false notion of Wiki. Notebook is the best give example of how wiki works and it is a personal wiki. . In Notebook, new wiki automatically contain help information and a great tutorial. Notebook works like a web browser. In this article Nathan shows us how Wiki and Notebook is utilized in the same manner. He has shown us that in creating links and pages both wikis and notebook have the same functions. Nathan has also shared his views about wiki as web community software.There are many different wiki software like Meatball wiki, Green cheese where people communicate online and share their links and information. According to me, wiki makes classroom interesting, students can do online project on wiki. Wikipedia is one of the largest knowledge based wikis. 

Wiki is also helpful in classroom. The students can also do online project on wiki. The students can post their home work on wiki page. Wiki makes the classroom more enjoyable.

I will use wiki for those students who actually not smarter, sharper .I will post an article related of syllabus and there is some questions of the article so they have to give answer on wiki page. 

A short report on ' Wiki plain in English'

This video is present by Common Crafts  in May 2007. This video is about  ‘ Wiki in plain English ’ is about the use of wiki. Wiki is a best for creating new pages and linking. In this video talking about how the wiki useful for co-ordination to us rather than e- mail. E-mail is not good co-ordination and organize groups input, so there is better way than e-mails. Wiki is a good website , it makes easy where everyone can write,edit,rewrite their own ideas. On wiki , Edit and Save buttons are very important. When the user clicks on edit button and it creates a new page on wiki and then writes the text and save it. Everybody can write and edit it. There is an another one button that is  ‘Link’ on wiki they can also link a website.
According to me, Wiki is more useful than E-mail for co-ordination with use of wiki everybody connecting with each other  All can Edit, Save and Link share their information. Wiki is very for doing group workshop, online submission.
In my classroom, if I use Wiki for students activity then I will send a link of YouTube video of only introduction of William Shakespeare and then student have to watch this video on YouTube  After watching a video, they have to collecting further information or more information of Shakespeare’s life and make a brief report and post it on wiki. And anybody can read, edit and save on wiki. Thus, with the help of this activity they can learn how to use web tools in the classroom.