Learning English On the Net (LEON)

Discussion and journal of research, presentations, discoveries, questions, feedback, reactions, and useful information on LEON. Links to the newest web resources for effectively learning and teaching English on the Internet through technology and mobile communication. This blog includes my own personal journey in accomplishing the goal of making effective use of computer / technology tools for teaching English. This blog was first started on March 7, 2001

Saturday, August 29, 2009

An Overview of Web 2.0 Tool for Language Learning (Eurocall 2009 Presentation)

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Resources, Web Links, Sites and Shared Bookmarks

Links related to understanding the basic tenets and uses, but also some advanced applications of Web 2.0 tools:

Categories of Web 2.0 Tool/Sites/Apps
(as yet incomplete - a continuing work in progress)

Webinars, Web Conferences, Virtual Classrooms, Online Meetings

1. WebIQ Link to my rehearsal session in the WebIQ virtual classroom: http://www.wiziq.com/tutorsession/detail.aspx?id=57FA06CD5D4B42F49AC2542A633ED085

Web2.0 Overview for Language Teaching by dbrooks

Get your own Virtual Classroom

2. Scribblar - I have created a EuroCALL2009 Room inside Scribblar. Visit it to try it out. I suspect that there are plenty of other such sites that are superior to this.

Collaborate Now on Scribblar!
My Scribblar room (you don't need to register to use it)

3. Cover It Live! http:www.coveritlive.com
See the Live Event Session (button in the right hand column)

4. ScribbleLive - actually a live real-time blogging tool for multi-users using a variety of input devices or venues. See the button in the right hand column.

Live Online Participation via WizIQ, Scribbelive, etc

WizIQ Link for Live Session (virtual participants)
Click this link to join a WizIQ Online Classroom -->
http://www.wiziq.com/tutorsession/detail.aspx?id=5B236BEDF19F46CC8CCB868B69241045

Overview of Web 2.0 Tools for Collaborative Language Learning by dbrooks

Get your own Virtual Classroom

Diigo Bookmarks on Web2.0 Tools (shown as a WebSlides Show)

View the Web 2.0 sites one by one using my Diigo Bookmark converted to a WebSlides Show:
http://slides.diigo.com/widget/slides?sid=24191

Eurocall 2009 Session WebConference on Scribbelive and DimDim

Live Event on Scribblelive (multi-user blogging of a live event from various user devices) at EuroCALL 2009 Conference in Gandia, Spain on the campus of UPV on Friday, 11 Sept, 2009 at 17:15-18:30pm

Session is: An overview of Web 2.0 Tool for Collaborative Language Learning

Presented by David L. Brooks, Kitasato University, Japan

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DimDim

Overview of Web 2.0 Tools for Collaborative Language Learning (Slideshare)

Overview Web2.0 Tools For Collaborative Learning

View more presentations from David Brooks.

Skitch testimonial - mine and Kirsten's from the site

Skitch_site_testimonial03, originally uploaded by d.brooks.

In preparing course materials, task-based student learning projects, and academic presentations, I have come to find Skitch a useful tool to getting 'pieces' of the web into those products.

Skitch illustrates a new type of computer software combined with Web 2.0 Netapp (Internet application) that can harness the best of both. It is very versatile in what you can accomplish and also for what purpose and allows various working/learning styles to operate independently.

Biography

I retired from full-time employment as university professor of English as a foreign language in March 2019, continuing to work as a part-time teacher for one year longer (March 2020). So I have lived and worked in the Tokyo area since 1979, making it 44 years since I immigrated to Japan, my wife's mother country. When I left teaching, it was also just a month before the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic hit the world in Feb/March 2020. During that last year as an university employee, I was in transition from a full-time professorship to Adjunct Professor status (part-time teacher), which began in April, 2019, but ended abruptly in March 2020 with the onset of the COVID pandemic and subsequent shut-down of most societies work activities -- at least at the university. Nowadays, there are several activities that now occupy my abundant free-time: 1) I'm in the process of re-examining and expanding the scope and business objectives for my Japanese corporation, Edvantix, Inc. (K. K. Japan).

During my final years (April 2018 - March 2020) as a full-time faculty member at Kitasato University, I have been attempting to expand the workload and status of my own company, Edvantix, Inc. (K.K. Japan), 2) I was also interested in starting a new company (corporation, LLC, or sole proprietorship - as yet undecided), whose business enterprise revolves around: A) edutrekking (organizing and leading educational field trips / learning expeditions), B) Substitute Teacher Service, C) Overseas Study Programs Advice & Arrangements, D) Intercultural training and workshops for individuals, education, and company groups. While Edvantix, Inc. will be expanding its activities, both in terms of employees, and its clients, both in Japan and abroad, at least I was once considering establishing my new sole proprietorship to be based in Waimea, Hawaii (Big Island). I would (or should) be setting up shop by April 2024 and begin operating initially in Tokyo, California, Spain, and on he Big Island of Hawaii, although there are still some big hurdles and questions that need to be answered first.

Incidentally, I also travel extensively for business and leisure. As a long term resident of Japan who has raised a bilingual family, I've spent more than 30 years investing time and effort into internationalizing Japan's educational system. I have had a lot of both wonderful and frustrating experiences - and it appears there will be a lot more along the way. My free time and vacations are spent exploring my interests: traveling, learning about new cultures and languages - first hand, respecting our planet's living eco-systems, and developing and actualizing my own evolution and personal growth, discovering new forms of artistic expression -particularly in world music. My hobbies are - along with scuba diving, interacting with Web communities, learning new technologies (e.g. Twitter, iPhone, etc), hiking & camping, and cooking.

I love photography and travel and culture, particularly the intricacies of cross-cultural communication and intercultural differences, so, of course, I dabble in taking photos, collecting and playing various musical instruments, and do scuba diving. I also try to do underwater digital photography when I get the chance.

To read more and see my photographs, visit my Flickr profile at:
http://www.flickr.com/people/dbrooks_tokyo/

P.S. Flickr will be limiting free accounts to 1000 uploaded photos, but all of my 15,000 photographs will still be available on Flickr, which has been a quiet hobby of mine since 1999 or so.

Rehearse of ScribbleLive and WizIQ used simultaneously on Sept 6 for EuroCALL session

5:53 AM: d.brooks Rehearsing for EuroCALL using Scribblelive Join the rehearsal at www.scribblelive.com
6:00 AM: d.brooks Is anybody here yet?
6:06 AM: d.brooks
6:13 AM: shizukob
6:13 AM: d.brooks Shizuko, are you there?
6:13 AM: d.brooks Shizuko, are you there?
6:20 AM: shizukob Hi, this is not such a great rehearsal, but at least we know it works. The good things it the video footage from the Macbook isight cams can be accessed simultaneously from both Scribblelive (multi-user blog) and WizIQ (virtual classroom) - only 14 second-long vids can be recorded (must SAVE) in ScribbleLive and a total of only 3 vids per user.

Learning English On the Net (LEON)

Saturday, August 29, 2009

An Overview of Web 2.0 Tool for Language Learning (Eurocall 2009 Presentation)

Live Online Participation via WizIQ, Scribbelive, etc

Diigo Bookmarks on Web2.0 Tools (shown as a WebSlides Show)

Eurocall 2009 Session WebConference on Scribbelive and DimDim

Overview of Web 2.0 Tools for Collaborative Language Learning (Slideshare)

Skitch testimonial - mine and Kirsten's from the site

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EuroCALL Session Sept 11 17:30-18:15 Gandia, Spain via DimDim WebConference

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Rehearse of ScribbleLive and WizIQ used simultaneously on Sept 6 for EuroCALL session

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