Secondlife Reflection

Like things... Well.... The Avatar character is very nice! There are many design of characters, and we can choose what we like it! Dislike things,, It is very difficult to use it. I didn't know that where is my character and there are many strangers. How could you use it for your teaching? Well, I will show my students what is secondlife and how to use it! If some students want to make their character, I 'll teach them, optional. Advantage is make many friends in there. But, disadvantage is very difficult to me for using this website!

Video conference reflection

I think, this conference is very exciting. It can concentrate to class and learners may feel like exciting and they will have a novel experience. So, I  like it!! But, I don't like preparing this and that, like headset with microphone, does the camera work nomally or broken. How to using video conference in education? Well, first, the class is cancel!! And I meet my learners in oovoo video camera at my home.
Learners are less stressful and they feel restful. Advantage is concentrating, restfulness, and we can use free! But, disadvantage is that expensive for buying equipment, like camera and headset.

Week 10. Things to Consider

1. If you wanted to make a simple exercise for your students, what would you do and how would you do it ?

- I want to make word search puzzle First, I decide some words, mixing with many of alphabets.
So, students find the word, and they may be excited.
Another simple exercise, multiple choice. First, represent the what the word meaning. And then, students choices what is the word.

2. What is an authoring tool and what can they be used for?

-An authoring tool is an installable program that allows you to create materials in electronic format which can then be distributed on a CD-ROM, DVD, USB pen drive, floppy disc or via a web page to our learners. Authoring tools usually feature a simple design interface, with drag-and-drop elements allowing you to add pictures, sounds and video material to the screen, along with navigational options such as forward and back arrows, and content menus.  The most famous authoring tool in our field is Hot Potatoes. It is using for multiple choice, short answer, jumbled sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill.

Week 8 Things to consider

Discuss how to set up a simple blog, wiki, OR podcast project with learners.

How to set up a simple blog.
-To set up a blog, we need to a lot of informations, photos and we have to create an account.
In blog, we can publish what we think about something, sharing many of photos, make many friends or followers, and we can post audio and video equipment. Also, we can set up blogs for students. We can share about education, and we can do work as a group.

How to set up wiki.
-Use a free wiki websites. ex) www.pbwiki.org
Using a wiki websites, the teacher sets up the first page of a wiki, and the steps the learners will need to take in the project. The teacher has added an image to the wiki page, and outlined the things the learners will need to do to complete the project.

How to set up podcast.
-Use a free podcast site. ex) www.podomatic.com
The teacher set up a podcast page. This needs to be done at home or in the computer room.
To record a pod cast, the teacher needs a computeeer and internet connection, and a microphone and speaker or a headset.

Discuss a how a tutor, student or class blog can be used with learners.

Tutor blog- Tutors are post setting homework, provide a summary of class work, provide links to extra reading/listening material, Q&A, and exam/study tips.

Student blog- Students are post personal and family information, extra writing practice on class topics, regular comments on current affairs and research and present information on a topic.\

Class blog- There are information or news of class. Reactions to a film, article, class topic, and current affairs. Things learners like/don't like doing in class. A class project on any topic.

They provide a 'real-world' tool for learners!!

Repflection paper

I have learned about how can we teaches english with using multimedia technology.
Before I attend this class, I was very nervous. Because, I didn't use a lot of thing.
For example, google, blog, and English website (ESL program). I think that it is a burden of teaching English. After, take this class, I could overcome my fear of using technology.
In this class, professor told me that what is good website to teach english.-www.manythings.org
When I entered to the website, I was surprised...!! Because, there are lots of informations to study and teach English. There are a number of materials to teach or study english and it was separeate kinds. For reading, speaking, writing, listening, grammar and pronunciation.. etc.
For the first time, I evalutated about that website. Who is made it? Is the content up-to-date?
Does the site work well? Actually, I didn't understand why are we assess the website. But, after i tried, I realized that why do we have to evaluate. From taking this class, I concerned to find the website for english education, and I found that popular websites(ex: google, podcast, youtube..) are giving us to help study english. In this case, I started to use my blogger again, and I tried to ask to professor what i don't know when i do a activity. I hope that my confidence and ability will develop.

Extra credit

1. Youtube -www.youtube.com

Youtube is the Popular video website in the world.
Many people will think that is very strange. But, in this website, there are the number of information. In usually, teenage or twenties like watching drama, award red carpet, reality show and interview, etc. It helps to practice listening, writing and speaking. It will tiring to begin with, but it soon get used to it. Furthermore about entertain, there are lots of news clips like cnn or abc ,etc. So, I recommend this website.

2.Google -www.google.com

Google is the best searching website in the world. It contains a lot of things in there.
When we find about something, we can find easily about that.
It is very quick and very useful to anybody. The website's design is very simple, but it makes very clearly. When we use the google map or images, it can searches specific and detaily.

Week 5 Assignment,

What is the methodology for creating and using webquests?

-Creating a webquest is not much detailed technical knowledge. It is very easy to use to students and professor or teachers. Research skills, Analytical skills, and Word processing skills are steps for planning Internet-based lessons and including how to make the webquests. First, write the web page, engage learners, scaffold thinking and decision: implement and evaluate.
It is using to produced by learners of a more detailed and long-term projects.

Examine how the Internet can be used as a starting point for authentic, relevant simulation work and as the source of materials which promote collaborative learning, communication, knowledge sharing and higher-level thinking skills.

-The Internet is use very largerly giving learners assess to authentic websites. There are lots of website and informations.!! But, in these days, people are concerned about entertainment, fashion, beauty, movie and song. So, let me introduce these websites to study english interesting.

• www.myfashionlife.com - about fashion & beauty


• www.the-movie-times.com - about hollywood movies.


• www.eonline.com - about entertainment.

There are lots of informations, each other. It contains multimedia materials, and articles in there. So, it may useful to study english and their concerns.

Website Evaluation

I chose a website to explain. http://www.manythings.org
This website is very good!! There are lots of information for study and teaching in English.
This page is created by Charles Kelly and Lawrence Kelly. They are expert to in this field, and they made many of written books and websites for people. This page is content reliable and factually correct to me! This page content is up-to-date. The last updated page was 'Learn a song- twinkle twinkle little star'. It was updated at 24th march, 2012. This website is very interesting and stimulating! I think that many kinds of English information are listed in there, like speaking, listening, reading, vocabulary, grammar.... etc. And there are many games in there! Hangman, crossword puzzles, matching game,...... etc. So, many students will interest to study english. This page is attractive and very east to navigate. It is work very well, I think that there aren't broken links. I didn't a lot of large files, but there are mp3 files in there..!
So, When students want to download the listening file, they will download it. It is very useful.

Week3 Assignment

1.Consider the difference between EFL related and authentic websites.
-In related websites, EFL websites provide content that student's can use for an exam or homework. In authentic websites, EFL learners are deal with authentic sites, guiding them through not only the text. And Students can be chosen to fit students' interests.

2.Consider how to evaluate a website for classroom use.

1)Accuracy

• Who wrote the page? Is this person an expert in the subject matter? Check qualifications, experience - look for an 'about me' link.


• Is the page content reliable and factually correct? Cross-reference with other similar websites and encyclopedias.

2) Currency

• Is the content up-to-date? Check factual information against other reliable sources.


• When was the page last updated? Check for information at the bottom/top of the page.

3) Content

• Is the site interesting and stimulating? Consider the content from your learners' point of view.


• Is it attractive and easy to navigate? Check the colour combinations, the logic of the links and visual structure.

4) Functionality

• Does the site work well? Are there any broken links? Be sure to check all pages, and follow all links to all pages you intend to use.


• Does it use a lot of large files or alternative technologies? Check how quicklt it loads for learners; check sound, video and animation work.

In my opinion, I think that the Currency and Functionality are very important! In currency, we want to see a new posting or update program in website and we can enjoy it. And, in functionality, we have to check up the computer, the website links, sound or video programs.

Week 2 Assignment

1. Consider the causes of technophobia and suggest ways to overcome it.

I suggest the two ways to people who overcome technophobia

-1)Making new materials can be spend much times, both for using paper and technology. So, we need to collaborate in schools and lesson plans, as well as use the technology-based resources.

-2) Some computer-based work is alone activity. So, it needs to make pair work or small group work. But, we have to use one computer.

2. What are the basic skills and equipment that instructors need in order to start using technology in their instruction?

-1) Skills: Using Microsoft Word (for using to show simple words) , Powerpoint(to show story),
E-mail program(how to send the e-mail)
-2)Materials: Computer, Speaker or headset, Internet connection