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Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)

 

10 Critical success factors in building communities of practice

CMC: a window on L2 Spanish interlanguage

Interactional Coherence in CMC

Literature review: Using computer-mediated communication in second language classrooms (this is a .pdf with a great reference list)

Lonely and Bored Job Training: Can Collaborative Online Learning Make a Difference?

Second language socialization in a bilingual chat room: global and local considerations

Understanding the "other side": Intercultural learning in a Spanish-English e-mail exchange

Using computer-mediated communication for language and culture acquisition

Using native speakers in chat

Using Video Conferencingin Lecture Classes (*You need to register to read the article. Registration is free).

Virtual communities of practice as learning networks

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Course Management System (CMS)

 

Market for K-12 Course Management System Expands

Moodle: A virtual learning environment for the rest of us (Note: Moodle is a course management system with more features than Blackboard and WebCT).

Moodle for English teachers

Using Moodle to Build Social Capital

Using Moodle to Create a Better Online Community

WebCT Vision

 

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Distance Learning

 

Are you Ready for Mobile Learning?

Company's Survey Suggests Strong Growth Potential for Online Education

Copyright, Distance Education, and the TEACH Act: Implications for Teaching Writing  (available for members of CCCC).

Faculty Attitudes about Distance Learning

Faculty Self-Study Research Project: Examining the Online Workload

How Students Develop Online Learning Skills

Implementing Eletronic Porfolios: Benefits, Challenges, and Suggestions

Minorities and Online Higher Education

Pleasure and Danger in Online Teaching and Learning

Professors Online: The Internet's Impact on College Faculty

Student Distress in Web-based Distance Education

 

 

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e-Learning

The advantages of using technology in second language education

Blogging? It's elementary, my dear Watson!

CALL: Can a teacher do it alone?

Can software support children's vocabulary development?

Community Thread: A Student's Perspective of Online Learning

Cultural, disciplinary and temporal contexts of e-Learning and English as a foreign Language

A decade of adoption: how the internet has woven itself into American life

E-Learning at a Crossroad - What Price Quality?

Expert and novice teachers talking technology: Precepts, concepts and misconcepts

Findings from the teaching, learning and computing survey: Is Larry Cuban right?

Foreign language teachers' greatest hits

An Invitation to CALL: Foundations of Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Language e-learning on the move

Learning and teaching in cyberspace

Less teaching and more learning (You need to register first at OTAN)

The needs of L2 teachers in the application of instructional technology

Perspectives on technology in learning and teaching languages, by Richard Kern.TESOL Quarterly 40 (1), 2006.

Six myths in using technology - True or False?

Teachers’ Tools for the 21st Century: A report on teachers’ use of technology

Technophilia vs. Technophobia: A Preliminary Look at Why Second-Language Teachers Do or Do Not Use Technology in Their Classrooms

Unprepared students? What about unprepared instructors?

Why the e-learning boom went bust

 

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How to Create a Website

 

Creating a Personal Homepage with Netvibes: Six Tasks (1.3Mb pdf)

How to Grab an Image off the Web

How to Scan an Image


Make an ESL/EFL Teacher's Web Page

Make Your Own Web Page

Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines


Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design


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Netiquette

 

E-Mail etiquette - Net manners

Netiquette guidelines

Netiquette homepage

Online etiquette quiz

 

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Using software and multimedia

 

Adapting Online Computer Games to the Online EFL Classroom

Barriers to Adopting Technology: For Teaching and Learning (a .pdf file)

Coursecasting - Faculty Instructional Technology Summer Institute. [University of New Hampshire faculty training document]. (.pdf)

Digital Audio Journals

EasyWriter - Interactive Software for ESL Students

Free Online Games Develop ESL Students' Language Skills

Going to the MALL: Mobile Assisted Language Learning

iPod Education: Innovations in the Implementation of Mobile Learning (.pdf)

Learn How to Build a Video Podcast in 3 Steps

Leapfrog Hopes for Next Hit with Interactive Reading Toy

Marsha's sample sound files

Mobile learning attracts high school students

Mobile eldit: Challenges in the transition from an e-learning to an m-learning system (.pdf)

Podcasting in Online Education

Podcasting and Vodcasting (.pdf)

Podcasting for the College EFL Curriculum

Podcasting for an English for Professional Purposes Course

Project-based learning with multimedia - Curriculum activities

Simple sound files for oral practice by e-mail

Spoken Internet to Go: Popularization through Podcasting

Trend: Podcasting in Academic and Corporate Learning (.pdf)

Using PureVoice sound files

Vowels and Consonants

 

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WebQuest

 

Creating a WebQuest

Encouraging the use of technology in the classroom: the WebQuest connection

Some thoughts about WebQuests

A Template for WebQuest

Worldbridges: The Potential of Live, Interactive Webcasting

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Book Reviews

 

Advancing Campus Efficiencies: A Companion for Campus Leaders in the Digital Era - Anker Publishing.

Assessing Language Through Computer Technology, Cambridge University Press.

CALL Dimensions: Options and Issues in Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Mahwah Press.

CALL Environment, TESOL Series.

CALL Essentials, TESOL Series.

Calling on CALL: From Theory and Research to New Directions in Foreign Language Teaching, CALICO series.

The Changing Face of CALL - A Japanese Perspective, AA Balkema Publishing.

Case Studies on Information Technology in Higher Education - Idea Group Publishing.

Computer Applications in Second Language Acquisition, Cambridge University Press.

Computer Assisted language learning: An introduction. Tokyo: Logos International.

Computer-Mediated Communication: Human-to-Human Communication across the Internet, Ally & Bacon Publishers.

Distance Education and Languages, Evolution and Change, edited by Börje Holmberg, Monica Shelley and Cynthia White. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 2005.

Education the Net Generation (read this book online), Educause e-book.

Email English, Macmillan.

Globalized E-Learning Cultural Challenges, Idea Group Publishing.

Higher Education in the Internet Age - American Council on Education.

International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments, Series: Springer International Handbooks of Education.

Internet for English Teaching, TESOL Series.

The Internet, Oxford University Press.

The Internet and Young Learners, Oxford University Press.

Language Learning Online: Towards Best Practice, Swets & Zeitlinger.

Language Teaching and Language Technology, Swets & Zeitlinger.

Learning Languages Through Technologies, TESOL Series.


New Perspectives on CALL for Second Language Classrooms, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Opening Doors through Distance Language Education: Principles, Perspectives, and Practices, CALICO series.

A Practical Guide to Using Computers in Language Teaching, University of Michigan Press.

Preparing and Developing Technology-proficient L2 Teachers , CALICO series.

Recipes for Wired Teachers, JALT CALL SIG series.

Teacher Education in CALL, John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing (available for members of NCTE), Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Teaching and Researching Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Pearson Education.

Technology-Enhanced Learning Environments , TESOL Practice Series.

Tech-Talk, Better English through Reading in Science and Technology, a textbook.

Technology for Literacy Teaching and Learning,Houghton Mifflin Company College Division.

Theory and Practice on Online Learning - Athabasca University

Ubiquitous Computing in Education: Invisible Technology, Visible Impact - Lawrence Earlbaum Publication.

 

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