WEB 2.0 tools for EFL teaching

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Hey guys!

First time here? Because of the presentation @ Braz Tesol One Day Seminar in Brasília, Brazil?

WELCOME!

Hope you get some nice ideas to head for a TEACHER 2.0 future!

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Here you are my presentation online, with the links and extra sites:

Some food for thought:

The machine is Us/ing us

Cheers

ThiEdu

more about RSS:

How I Use RSS To Make My Life Easier

The following graphs compare how often the Democratic and Republican candidates for president are mentioned by name in the blogosphere, both in the last 30 days and in the last 90 days. We’ve also included charts for several wild-cards who are not candidates (yet?).

Conversations in the “world live web” reflect how interesting a candidate is to bloggers; a candidate may get a lot of mentions for both positive or negative reasons. (Full disclosure: TechPresident editor Micah Sifry is the older brother of Technorati founder David Sifry. Display of these charts is part of their secret plan for world domination.)

Over the last 30 days:

DEMOCRATS:

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Frustrated because you like to know about new comments on other bloggers’ posts , especially if you’ve left a comment, but find it time consuming going back to the post to check for new comment?

Tracking Comments

1. Create an account with coComment.
2. Install simple extension capture tool.

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I think that Del.icio.us is one of the most useful Web 2.0 tools. It facilitates:

- saving and accesing your bookmarks online

- promoting your own sites (you bookmark in Del.icio.us your best pages, don’t you?)

- finding bookmarks from other users on your network (they are searching for relevant sites for you)

- networking with other users who are inyour network.

- reading your network’s bookmarks, since Del.icio.us provides convenient RSS feeds.

- use a “profile” tag, such as emapey’s bookmarks tagged with
“profile” on del.icio.us to feature your sites, best posts and articles

and important sites linking to you.

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Podcast for learning

source: training zone

Young employees are digital natives, so what better way to develop their skills and share information with them than with a podcast, says Duncan Gotobed. Podcasts are easier to develop than you might think, he says. Read his practical guide to creating and using them.

Organisations are increasingly using new media such as podcasts to help them develop their employee’s skills and share knowledge between them.Podcasts in particular – which are a series of online audio or video files that can be downloaded onto a computer, MP3 player or an iPod – are being used as one of these key learning tools.

They are easy to produce, at a fraction of the cost of typical elearning, and can be far more engaging. Podcasts are also easy to deploy, as employees can download the audio or video files from a page on the intranet. It doesn’t require any additional investment in IT infrastructure or ‘consulting time’ to make it happen.

“Podcasting allows employees to use their downtime to learn – whether it is on the daily commute, on the treadmill, or walking the dog.”

People are also leading increasingly busy lives and the thought of squeezing a day’s training into an already overcrowded schedule is often just too much to think about. Podcasting allows employees to use their downtime to learn – whether it is on the daily commute, on the treadmill, or walking the dog. However, to get people to listen to podcasts in their own time they have to be interesting.

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thought provoking statistics and questions on the world 2.0

An official update to the original “Shift Happens” video from Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, this June 2007 update includes new and updated statistics, thought-provoking questions and a fresh design. For more information, or to join the conversation, please visit http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com — Content by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, design and development by XPLANE.

related links:

http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/

ypou can find the script here (in pdf)

There’s the easy way or the hard way. RSS makes your life easy but for people new to RSS it’s easy to overlook it’s importance. And educating, those new to the concept of RSS, how to use it effectively should be a priority.

What is RSS

Spend any time on the Internet, and you will see the word RSS or the orange icon normally used to indicate a site has RSS feed. RSS is an acronym which stands for Really Simple Syndication.

In simple terms RSS is a simple and effective way of keeping in touch when new information is added to a website without having to visit the site.

Check out RSS in Plain English for an excellent explanation of how RSS saves you time.

Forget about bookmarking sites in your web browser…

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sub-title: the future of the internet – internet 3.0!! :O

We know the enterprise has come to change the way we search for information on the web. But is Google just about that?

Watch the following video and get to know google’s master plan. Afterwards, comment on the final question:

“Does Google worry about our privacy?”
and
“Will we have some problems concerning privacy in the near future, due to being too much exposed on the web?”