TSLL2010

8th Annual Conference on
Technology for Second Language Learning (TSLL)
held in conjunction with
The second annual conference of
Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching

September 10-11, 2010

The role of CALL in hybrid and online language courses

Plenary speaker: Senta Görtler, Michigan State University

More info

行きたいけどなー。Iowa (Des Moines)は直行便がない。チケット手配するのは今からだと面倒かね。

IOLC 2010 - 3rd International Online Language Conference

IOLC 2010 - 3rd International Online Language Conference
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: May 15, 2010
Abstract Review Notification: After review by conference committee
Early Registration: April 15, 2010
Full Paper Submission: July 31, 2010
Full Paper Review Notification: After review by conference reviewers
(normally within 2 months)
Normal Registration: August 31, 2010
Conference Dates: September 23 & 24, 2010

GLoCALL - Globalization & Localization in CALL

GLoCALL - Globalization & Localization in CALL
June 15
Deadline for proposal submissions
July 20
Notices of acceptance sent out
September 15
Deadline for speaker pre-registration
September 30
Submission deadline for Conference Proceedings
October 15
Deadline for general pre-registration
November 15
Release of a preliminary conference program
December 1
Pre-conference workshops
December 2-3
Plenaries & concurrent sessions

Nakasendo Conference

Nakasendo 2010 - Teachers as Learners, Learners as Teachers

学会

日本比較文化学会
日本比較文学学会
日本英文学会
比較文学する研究会
日本社会学会
情報社会学会
情報文化学会
英米文化学会
言語文化教育学会
アメリカ学会

Google Experimenting With Social Calendar Previews

Google Experimenting With Social Calendar Previews - ReadWriteWeb
Google introduces sneak preview into social calendar - techshout

Turning learners' dictionaries into learning dictionaries

Announcement from JACET 英語辞書研究会

2009年度JACET英語辞書研究会第三回例会を開催します。

講　師：Paul Nation（Victoria U of Wellington, NZ教授）
演　題：Turning learners' dictionaries into learning dictionaries
場　所：東洋大学白山キャンパス ６号館3階（6301教室）
（白山「第二」キャンパスではございませんので、ご注意願います）
日　時：12月12日（土） 16：30～18：00（質疑応答を含む）
受　付：16：00～
参加費：500円（会員・非会員を問わず）
☆キャンパスマップは、下記URLをご参照ください。
http://www.toyo.ac.jp/access/hakusan_j.html
http://www.toyo.ac.jp/campus/hakusan_j.html

大学英語教育学会英語語彙研究会

大学英語教育学会英語語彙研究会

12月5日。一度行ってみるかな。発表はしないけれども。

Presentation List - JALT CALL 2009

Presentation List
Jalt CALL 2009
http://jaltcall.org/content/course/view.php?id=16

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Call for papers on LanguageQuests extended - 2 Nov

Call for papers on LanguageQuests extended - Site

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The 4th JALT Joint Tokyo Conference

Northeast Modern Language Association

Northeast Modern Language Association

面白そう！

41st Anniversary Convention ortheast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-11, 2010

Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure
The 41st Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.
Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2009

Call for papers
The Publishing Revolution: Creating Textbook Content with Web 2.0 Tools

As textbooks continue to increase prices, publishers and Depts. of Education call for ways to provide instructional materials for the web. The use of computer, instructional software, internet resources and other media is generating courses where content is both designed to and created by a specific student community. Teachers and students are able to post updates, corrections and suggestions, with materials then reused for other courses. This presentation is open to projects involving the use of Multimedia Web 2.0 tools (wiki, blogs, podcast) for all language instruction. Andre Villagra .

Asia TEFL 2009

Hands-on session is impossible!
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Effective integration of technology in classroom instruction:

There are numerous web-based tools available that can be utilized for educational purposes, including learning management systems (LMS), blogging platforms, social networking/messaging services, photo/slide/video sharing sites, and online quiz and survey builders, and an increasing number of teachers are becoming interested in or have already started integrating these tools in classroom instruction. Those interested, but uncertain or not yet confident about incorporating some newer technologies into their lessons and activities, may be wondering how beneficial it can be, if it is too time-consuming, where they should start, or what particular tool(s) they should choose.

This workshop will provide those undecided with an opportunity to try out some of these web tools so that they can see what teaching/learning activities are enabled or facilitated, and examine if/how these technology-enhanced activities fit into their curriculum or teaching context. Participants will experience how these tools can facilitate frequent interaction, instant feedback, and effective sharing of students’ work. Sample activities taken from the presenter’s classroom practice will illustrate how the teacher can adapt particular tools differently in different contexts, including a grammar course held in a traditional classroom setting and a TESOL course or others using a computer lab.

In addition to hands-on experience using and preparing some of these technology-enhanced activities, issues related to learner characteristics, such as accommodating different learning needs, getting/keeping all students active in their learning, and preparing weaker students for self-paced study will be addressed. Resources and activities for this workshop will be managed through an LMS (Moodle). (249)

Mari Yamauchi teaches English and TESOL at Kobe Kaisei College. Her research interests include teaching EFL to Japanese university students, developmental education, cross-linguistic studies of tense and aspect and written text analysis. (32)
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JALT CALL #105

#105
Don Hinkelman
Sapporo Gakuin University (JAPAN)
'Sharing Reusable Learning Objects in Moodle' (Room: CALL Lab)

http://elearning.sgu.ac.jp/
*login info given

Shareing cart (My Course)
　↓(pay points)　 ↑
Metadata form
　↓　　　　　　　　　 ↑ (get points)
Sharing Cart (Repository)

http://ept3.sgu.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=2

*****
To use the repository:

1. unzip sharing cart ( ... folder の場所だったような....[block] [sharing_cart])
   
2. moodle/block/
3. notifications to activate
   

要確認

*****

http://www.handoutsonline.com/

Shared glossary

Demo

Downloading/Uploading 以外にもさまざまな関わり方がある

JALT CALL #032

Thomas Robb
Kyoto Sangyo University (JAPAN)
'The Moodle Reader Module: A progress report'

http://www.moodlereader.org/index.html/
Basic Infomation　

• ゲストログインID もらった。
• 上のサイトでダウンロードできる。
• 1.9 で動く
• MoodleReader パッケージ
• クイズ・パッケージ

文の並べ替え：MoodleReaderパッケージを入れないと使えない(?)。非標準。

Ordering
Ordering items are a non-standard item type the requires a plug-in (supplied) that goes in the “moodle/questions/type” directory. The number following the “>” sign indicates the number of lines to show in any given instance of the quiz item. The number is normally 50-60% of the total number of items. Note that there is no blank line between each event since the entire set is one item.　

Gift Format
Put the following events in the order that they really happened.
{>7
Barbara Collins complains to Janet about being fired from her clinic.
Janet Leighton visits her lawyer.
Janet Leighton tells her lawyer that she wants to change her will.
Janet's ex-husband visits her to ask for her money or the house.
Janet's son, Chris visits her to ask for money for a new car.
Janet's ex-husband kills her.
The police discover Janet's murder.
Kate Miller asks Inspector Williams to come to Leighton's house.
Kate and Williams visit Barbara Collins.
Kate and Williams visit Simon Leighton.
Kate and Williams visit Chris Leighton.
The inspector asks Simon, Chris and his wife to come to Janet's house.
Simon says that he killed Janet.
}

JALT CALL #034

James SICK
J. F. Oberlin University (JAPAN)
'Student-created Moodle courses as a means of solidifying and retaining knowledge of CALL resources'

Sandbox
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Sandbox
Demo
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154

JALT CALL #84

Tom Robb
Creating a video cloze

http://tesolonline.net/moodle19b/

DVD => mpeg file (ripping soft が必要)　その後は自動的？
＊permission needed

video + cloze

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Upload the desired video in an acceptable format. (.mpg, .swf)
Prepare the video dialog as a plain text file.
Create your cloze items, replacing each word or phrase with this format:
{:SHORTANSWER:=word ~*#word}
(The item with the "=" is the correct answer, the item with #word is the feedback which is the same as the correct answer. Students can view this feedback by mousing over their wrong answers.)

Create a quiz with a single "Embedded Answers (Cloze) item
Place the entire text with the shortanswer items in the question window.
At the top of the question window click on the chain icon and link to the video file in your course files area. (Note that you might have to temporarily have some text such as "xxx" to that there is something to highlight in order for the chain icon to be activated. You can delete the text afterwards.)

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How to increase the maximum php upload size
HTACCESS
Put this line in your .htaccess file, if allowed by your provider.
php_value upload_max_filesize 1024 = 20M

PHP.INI
Modify the value in your php.ini file to read:
upload_max_filesize = 20M;
Note that sometimes you can access the main php.ini file for you site. Some hosts do not permit access but allow you to create a php.ini file at the top level of your own area, the values of which will override the defaults.

JALT CALL #078

Mike McKay
Wiki

VLE : Cypris Chat
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cypris%20Island/11/28/22
http://professormerryman.com/

WebTech Learning
1 Word, Blog, Wiki ->2 ->3 ->4

MediaWiki
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
(download -> install: not for beginners)

「クラス」（名前）をセット
＝＞あとは、学生が「クラス」をクリック→名前・IDを入力→リンク作成→1つ記事作成（最初の1週間でOK）　・・・けっこういける？

Groupwork organization is good too : roles assigned

• Teacher - Eidtor (A lot of communication)
• Teahcer - Leader (A lot of communication)
  
• Editor/Leader - writers/readers (monitoring/collecting)
  

Teacher's work

• attendance/participation check
• grade the last article (writing in the wiki article?)
• RSS -> keep contact with Ss
  
• Talk!
  

Group writing / Individual writing

Easier wikis

• Wetpaint
• Wikispaces
  

JALT CALL

#066

途中から聞いた。Voice Thread ... けっこう面白そう。

Hawking

Presentation available at:
http://mrstoutsblog.blogspot.com/

JALT CALL

#103

*lower levels of English proficiency
*smaller to larger classes (10 - 40)

IE Core... small group discussion
IE Writing
IE Listening

Weakness of the listening course ... like a test! ... passive

Evaluation
-Kikuchi 2005
-Dias & Kikuchi 2006, 2008

Change to "active" listening course
-teacher
-system/material (use of resources available on YouTube, etc.)
- self-access sessions + teacher-orchestrated sessions (blended)
- assessment / testing

ppt available at:
www.cl.aoyama.ac.jp/~dias/

"Lisening Report" ... 面白そう！（students choose what they want to watch）

Grades .... テストと活動の評価の比率を変える
- reward extra work/self accsess activities

vieojug.com
matttrailer/com.battam_begins_2005

group leaders

have them produce sth/perform


Managing larger classes

Some control (of materials) from T might be helpful

Randall なんかも使って自習


Reallyenglish
＊Learning path is calculated based on diagnostic tests

http://www.aboutus.org/ReallyEnglish.com

http://staff.reallyenglish.com/robert/index_ja.html

http://www.folc.jp/online/detail/?No=0094
http://www.hotdocs.jp/file/26841


*Class management system (free)
http://www.nicenet.org/

yappr
http://en.yappr.com/welcome/Welcome.action