VNU EFL537 Reading List
This is a list of suggested readings. You do NOT need to read them all. You DO need to write at least 5 reading reflections, so choose the readings that interest you. You can also choose your own readings from the sources listed on the Readings page.
- Using Technology to Teach Reading Skills
- Using Technology to Teach Writing Skills
- Using Technology to Teach Speaking and Pronunciation Skills
- Using Technology to Teach Thinking Skills
- Using Technology to Teach Listening Skills
- Trends in Digital Media 2007, Elizabeth Hanson-Smith
- Blogging in the Language Classroom: It Doesn't "Simply Happen", Carla Arena
- Using Podcasts in the EFL Classroom, Anne Fox
- Language Learners & Computer Games: From Space Invaders to Second Life, Graham Stanley & Kyle Mawer
- Open Educational Resources and Practices, Leigh Blackall
- Writingmatrix: Connecting Students with Blogs, Tags, and Social Networking,Vance Stevens, Nelba Quintana, Rita Zeinstejer, Saša Sirk, Doris Molero & Carla Arena
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Open Educational Resources and Practices
Southern New Haimpshire University
Learning Online
EFL 537
Professor: Jeff Lebow
Student: Tong Hung Tam
Open Educational Resources and Practices
As Keats and Schmidt (2007) mention, there are a lot of benefits from the internet that enable many educational resources for teachers as well as learners. By accessing to these resources, we can not only know about knowledge but also culture of the people and countries that speak English. We can find and select many useful softwares to apply in teaching. Surfing on edublogs will help us to store websites about using technology in teaching and we can have reference addresses to choose the activities, tasks, ... in teaching. We also discorver new aspects such as culture, commercial operations, media, ... that help us overcome difficulties in designing lessons and using high tech in teaching. By opening educational practices and resources, we can share our experiences and contribute our ideas with others to make our process better. With opening policy in educational aspect, we can easily access to different resources of information and we can even open some by ourselves to use and help others. How to open and use resource and practices effectively depends on the designers who know what they will use for, who will use them, what benefit users get after access to them. Based on these, designers are able to design good things for many people