Transcript Hinkelman2003-eLearning

EFL Classroom Support with
On-line Discussion Forums
e-Learning Systems
Don Hinkelman
Sapporo Gakuin University
第２０回 JALT北海道学会
2003.10.25
Accelerated Learning
Why do students learn fast abroad?
Frequent Feedback
 Meaningful Communication
 Task or Purpose that is compelling
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Why not the same accelerated learning
here in our classrooms?
Do you want to…?
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Announce school and class activities
Publicize events, send email to a whole class
Automatically grade quizzes and tests
Keep student-teacher journals
Then you
Share files and photos
need a
Run a discussion board or chat
CMS!
Collect a semester of assignments and marks
on one screen for final grading
Create a sense of ‘community’ in your class
What is a “CMS”?
Class Management System
 Course Management System
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Or generically called a….
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Content Management System
Or sometimes called an…
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e-Learning System
Today
We will look at four points.
1. What is Computer-Mediated
Communication (CMC)
2. How to Make a Blended Learning
Environment
3. Why an open source software.
4. How to make our own CMS
1. Computer Mediated Communication
One-Way Communication
 Announcements, Text, Images
Two-Way Communication
 E-mail
 Discussion Board (BBS)
 Chat
 Survey
 Ratings, Comments, Assessments
 Quizzes, Tests
Community = Shared Database
Public comments
 Posted files, reports, presentations
 Common images, photos
 Growing, evolving
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Case Study of
Computer-mediated Communication
Four year private university in northern Japan,
5500 students, co-ed
Four classes completed first semester
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1st year, general English, psyche majors
2nd year, general English, commerce majors,
3rd year, ICC seminar, English majors, 14
4th year, ICC seminar, English majors, 9
Four classes in-progress
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1st year, general English, psyche majors, 32
2nd year, general English, commerce majors, 25
3rd year, ICC seminar, English majors, 14
3rd year, ICC lecture, English majors, 70
2. Blended Learning
Environment
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Face-to-Face:
Classroom 60%
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Online:
Home, Computer Lab 25%
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Fieldwork:
Home, Community,
International Exchange,
Internships
15%
Classroom Activities
Structured conversation, pair
 Free conversation, pair
 Lecture, explanations
 Group role play, interviews
 Textbook reading, quizzes, exercises
 Presentations to classmates, teacher
 Games and simulations
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Online Activities
Quiz
 Forum
 Journal (web log)
 Chat
 Journal
 Group Project
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3. Why Open Source?
Low cost start up
 Individual teachers can begin without
school-wide adoption
 Flexible, adaptable
 Community of teachers sharing new
extensions and improvements
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Why not open source?
Some schools ready to commit to a
Commercial CMS
 Blackboard
$295 per course per year
 WebCT
site license starting from 800,000 yen
 eCollege
 Microsoft
Classroom-focused Tools
1. Claroline Open Classroom
 Integrated phpBB with classroom tools
 News, Assignments, Texts, Photos could
all be posted
 Multi-lingual
 But…
Classroom-focused Tools
2. Blackboard
 Easy to install
 Good support
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Classroom Focused Tools
3. Courseforum
 Lower cost. $80 multi-courses
 Very flexible, very responsive developer
 Easy for students to post
 Not obvious, not fun for me to design
 No quiz module, too little structure
Classroom-focused Tools
4. Moodle “Modular object oriented
distributed learning environment”
 Easy to install
 Excellent, enthusiastic support
 Large community of educators
 Array of activities, strong quiz module
 Easy to design a class
 Free
But…
Blocks to setting an e-Learning system
I don’t have a web server.
 I don’t know how to program.
 I have never made a web page.
 I have no computer budget.
 I don’t teach in a computer room.
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Where to make a website
School (free but no control, no personal
stuff, no interactive boards)
 Personal Office (no limits)
 Provider (1000-3000 yen per month)
NetMondo.com (2500 yen/year)
 Yahoo Groups (free but ads, set template)
 .Mac (12,000 per year, no interactive tools
-- no cgi, php)
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To host yourself, do you have?
PC with Windows, Linux or Mac OS X
 24 hour internet service with IP address
 Domain Name
 Apache, PHP, MySQL installed*
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*go to hotscripts.com, find a one-step installer
What is the best provider?
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Go to a provider rating site
i.e. www.webhostindex.com:
My recommendation: netmondo.com
Cost: $22/year paid by credit card
Features: 500mb space, free domain name,
100 email addresses, 20 mailing lists, 20
MySQL databases
My Experience: 2 hour service response time
(I expect 24 hour response)
Thank You!