Glogster..

Definition:

Glogster is a free membership service that allows to you create posters and then share them online!

Just trying to create my own poster..hold on a …month

Wordle..

Definition:

“Worlde is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.” (-> www.worlde.net)

Moodle..

Definition/Function of “Moodle”:

• free online-learning  platform
• having class without meeting in a room
• Teachers:

1. create online courses by uploading material
2. create databases
3. start discussions among the students concerning relevant topics
4. control/observe what the students are doing
5. give tasks
6. possibility of teaching without meeting with class

• Students:

1. can find all the material relevant for the course
2. communicate both with the teacher and the other learners
3. open new discussion topics and share material
4. leave comments about other posts

In my opinion, the most functions of moodle can be replaced by a typicial blog. The only thing is, that discussions can´t be lead easily through a blog. Furthermore, it is more helpful to discuss in reality to practise the English speaking skills.

What happens to time-worn concepts of classrooms and teaching when we can now go online and learn anything, anywhere, anytime?

Will Richardson’s Blog – “The New Face of Learning: The Internet Breaks School Walls Down”:
What happens to time-worn concepts of classrooms and teaching when we can now go online and learn anything, anywhere, anytime?

Does this article support our concept of learning?

It fits as far as the following points are concerned:

• You can content to people and ideas and conversations.
• On the internet you can learn anything, anywhere and anytime.
• Internet faciliates to easily consume other people’s ideas, share your own in return, and communicate with other educators around the world from whom yua can learn every day.
• There is no linear curriculum to learning, no formal structure other than the tools you use to connect to the people and sources that point you to what you need to know and learn.
• Internet creates active contributors who are communicating online, IMing, gaming, participating, producing…

BUT

• you are also a continuous learner in a quickly changing world of information that is challenging many of the traditional structures of education. The traditional school model does not fit into this new learning scenario.

Conclusion:
We as future teachers can teach our students how to make the connections themselves, to find the sources and resources they need when they need them, instead of depending on us to provide them.

Learning is…

Learning is…

…when you are interested in the topic or/and transfer it to personal knowledge

…when you deal with it intensively

…when you are able to reconstruct it

…when you use it for new material.

Postersession topic…

“To what extent do blogs support the learning process? A research on web 2.0 teaching and learning methods”

Podcast about “Podcasting” as Mp3…

In former times we knew audio tracks as a moderator talking on the radio, or listening to a person by making a phone call, CDs, tapes or gramophone records as well as the voice of anybody talking through a microphone.

Today, there is a sensational new way of recording and listening to audio tracks… podcasts are a creation of media data like radio broadcast,  newscasting , speech practices, audio data like Mp3 and i-tunes  who are published in the world wide web.

Recently, my friend told me that instead of listening to the  news on television or on the radio he uploads the world news from i-tunes to his i- pod every day and then listens to the podcasts news while driving to the university in the train every day. This sounds to me ultramodern and astonishing. Especially, when I remember myself listening to tapes with my walkman!

As a future teacher it is my task to think about the usage of podcasts or podcasting in English lessons. Since almost every school is equipped with computers,  audio players and microphones it is possible to use podcasting for pronunciation practises, listening comprehensions, singing songs, making interviews available for the class and so on..

I assume that, if teachers more often istructed their pupils to work on their English skills by making podcasts and listening to podcasts the speaking and listening skills would be improved. By making their own podcasts on class blogs they can hear their voice and their mistakes and correct themselves in a better way. Moreover, by listening to other podcasts they would get used to the English language sound and learn from others.

I definitly plan to work with podcasts as a teacher in some years after my studies