Web 2.0 Presentation (Video)

 

My introductory video to Web 2.0 for language learnning

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Transcript

0:15 hello my name is Graham Stanley and I'm

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a teacher of English based in Barcelona

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in

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Spain I'm particularly interested in the

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use of emerging Technologies and

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language learning and what I'm hoping to

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do with this short presentation is to

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introduce some of the tools of the new

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Web

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2.0 and hopefully show you a few

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examples of what can be done to engage

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our 21st century language

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Learners I'll also be taking a quick

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look at the exciting virtual world of

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second life which is buzzing with

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educational activity and full of

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promising possibilities and which some

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commentators have already predicted

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could be the Prototype of what the

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worldwide web may become in the not so

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distant future a three-dimensional web

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or web 3D as some have called

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it but before I move on to the third

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generation of the web what about the

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second generation Web 2.0 as it's been

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labeled well why the

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name what seems to be true is that the

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way in which many people interact with

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the web and what they want from it has

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changed the same is true in education

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with a lot of people so what are these

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new tools and how are they being used by

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language teachers

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a lot of them are transformative tools

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that are being talked about in lots of

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different fields especially where media

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is involved as they're all about making

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it possible for anyone to do at home

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what previously only professionals with

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expensive equipment could

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accomplish this new media is

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transforming the Press radio and

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television and the tools are blogs wikis

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podcasts and video and they're

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particularly useful for publishing

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students work online so let's start by

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having a look at blogs and how they are

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being used in English language teaching

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blogging appeals to language teachers

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because it's a way of opening up the

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classroom walls and showing The Wider

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world what is happening The Wider world

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can mean other students in the class or

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the organization parents other students

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and teachers in other schools and in

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fact anyone with an internet connection

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and an

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interest blogs have been used as ways of

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keeping track of what is happening in

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the classroom posting homework and

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linking to internet resources that are

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relevant to a group of students this is

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the most basic way of using a Blog and

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it's usually run by the classroom

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teacher if however you give each student

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a Blog then you're empowering the

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students and providing a much wider

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audience for anything they write it's

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also easy to connect with teachers doing

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the same thing in other parts of the

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world thus creating a small language

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learning

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community the wiki is the next tool I'd

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like to talk about a Wiki is basically a

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website that can be written to easily by

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a lot of people it's a space where

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content is given priority not design and

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any changes that are made to a page can

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be reversed because the wiki has a

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revision history

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function how are wikis being used by

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language

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teachers well as online classroom web

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pages that can be changed easily by

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teachers and students for classroom

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projects instead of putting students

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work on displays in the classroom

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teachers can pour students work on the

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web and then there are some projects

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such as wikil which allow students from

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all over the world to collaborate

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together about things that they're

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interested in as well as learning a

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language it's a little bit like the

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Project Wikipedia for

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students the last tool I'd like to talk

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about is podcasting which is a way of

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using voice to help students connect to

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others from around the world as well as

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providing lots of different resources

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for students to listen to of

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course podcast appeals to the digital

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natives the students of today and the

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future who think of the web as we the

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digital immigrants might think of a book

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or a telephone tools vital tools for

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getting information or for communicating

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with

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people why use

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podcasts well as there audio and video

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files that can be downloaded and

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listened to wherever you

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want you can take a language lesson with

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you and listen in your lunch hour using

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your mp3 player as many as many times as

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you want and teachers are starting to

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produce podcasts for their students and

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also to share podcasts made by students

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it's another great way of opening up the

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classroom to The Wider World students

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also take greater care of the work that

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they produce when they know there's an

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audience there are lots of directories

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where you can make students work

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available to the world and also get in

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contact with like-minded teachers who

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are running podcasting projects

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communities have practice online are

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probably the best places to get in touch

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with other podcasting classes and this

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way your students can be involved in

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producing exciting Intercultural radio

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shows for example for other students in

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different parts of the world a truly

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motivating

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project when running these projects

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blogs wikis or podcasts it's also very

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easy to show the students by using free

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tools available on the web that there is

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an audience of students and other people

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listening to them and this is extremely

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motivating I'd like to finish off by

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talking a little bit about virtual

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worlds in particular second life for

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many as I said earlier the Prototype of

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what will become the next generation of

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the web or web

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3.0 um is second life it's a virtual

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world where the residents the people who

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live there the avatars in this world

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create just about everything inside

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there and there is a lot of educational

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projects going

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on there are many real life educational

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organizations especially universities

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which have started using Second Life as

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a platform for their students for

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e-learning and they are creating tools

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which can be used for all sorts of

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educational purposes

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including language learning they're

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holding classes for their students

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especially for distant students

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and the platform is being used a lot for

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social networking there are communities

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of practice such as the web heads uh a

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community of Educators from around the

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world who meet together now in the world

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and lots of

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other organizations such as

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this many people think that this kind of

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convergence of the web media's video

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audio

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text and 3D gaming is a very very

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motivating way of educating the future

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generation of

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students who knows it remains to be seen

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but it's very real and it's happening

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now thank you very much everybody I hope

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this has been of interest to you um

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please get in touch if you'd like to

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know more

Second Life Language & Culture Discussion

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