Transcript From Web 1.0 to 2.0 – and back again?

Move along, now: From Web 1.0 to
2.0 – and back again?
Eric Baber
Educational Technologist
[email protected]
Overview
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Introduction
Web 1.0 vs. 2.0
Introducing a new technology
Web 1.0: Types of online materials
Web 2.0: Types of tools
Online communities, resources and providers
Challenges
Introducing a new technology
Web 1.0: Types of online materials
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Text (Word, .pdf)
Audio (streaming, podcasts)
Video (streaming, vodcasts)
Activities
Text
• Lesson plans
• Worksheets (grammar, vocabulary, skillsbased…)
• Webquests
• Role plays
• … anything you can find in printed form
Audio & Video
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Interviews
Discussions
Debates
News
Topic-based programmes
Teaching/learning tips
Adverts
YouTube/Google videos
Activities
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Quizzes
Matching activities
Jumbled words
Cloze activities
Web 2.0: Types of tools
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Email discussion lists
Web-based discussion forums
Blogs
Wikis
Online communities, resources and
providers
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Quia.com
BBC Learning English
British Council
english360.com
Cambridge University Press
Quia.com
• www.quia.com
• Hundreds of activities to choose from –
mostly online-only
• Authoring tools that allow you to create your
own activities
• Student tracking facilities
• No social networking facilities though
BBC Learning English
• For learners and teachers
• www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish
• www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/teachinge
nglish
• Lesson plans, quizzes, peer-to-peer
discussions, blogs
• The Flatmates soap-opera. Audio files, text,
worksheets for use in class
British Council Teaching English
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http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk
Methodology articles
Lesson plans
Activities
Moderated comments and Questions &
Answers
British Council Learn English
Professionals
• http://www.britishcouncil.org/professionals.htm
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Articles for learners on specialist English
Lesson downloads
Work skills section
Grammar and vocabulary-builder activities
Podcasts
english360.com
• Platform for teachers to produce materials for
use with learners
• Teachers can put together “projects” (learning
paths) for their learners
• Teachers can use each others’ materials for
their own students. Materials authors receive
payment
english360.com
• Can incorporate text, images, audio, video,
quizzes & range of activities
• Courses can be public or private
• Courses currently available include Sales &
Negotiation and Business Presentations in
English
• Range of social networking tools (internal email, forums, blogs…)
Cambridge University Press
• www.cambridge.org/elt/resources
• Good range of worksheets, infoquests,
articles, podcasts, wordlists and activities
• Largely materials that supplement
coursebooks, but can be used on their own
• Website specifically for professional English:
www.cambridge.org/elt/pro
Other providers and sites
• www.tes.co.uk/resources (cross-discipline)
• www.teachingideas.co.uk (Primary)
• www.eleaston.com (index of websites dealing
with ELT)
Challenges
• Finding good quality materials
• Finding materials for your teaching situation
• Balance between bottom-up/free-for-all and
moderated content
• Finding one site that does it all: social
networking, professional materials, materialssharing…
Question
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Would you prefer:
a) A website containing materials that have been
professionally produced
b) A platform that allows you to create your own
materials and share others’
c) A one-stop-shop of both?
Thank you for attending!
Eric Baber
www.ericbaber.com
www.ericbaber.com/downloads
www.cambridge.org/elt/pro
www.cambridge.org/elt/resources