VNU EFL537 Week#2 Overview

Based on your feedback about learning interests and technical situations,  I have made a few revisions to the requirements for this course.   Below is the final version of VNU EFL537 Course Requirements & Assignments

Required Assignments:

• Reading Reflections - at least 5 reflections(inluding the ones you've done so far)
  You can choose any reading from the VNUEFL537 Reading list or find others of special interest from the EFL Readings Section
  Try to include a discussion of how the topic of the reading  applies to your teaching environment and how it might affect your practice.  Please post these on EFL537.com as blog entries (create/blog entry). If you like, you can also post a copy of  these on your Edublog or Wordpress blogs.
• Bookmark at least 25 CALL related websites on your Del.icio.us accunt and tag appropriately. See the del.icio.us guide for information about how to install the del.icio.us plugin and tag bookmarks.
  Feel free to bookmark websites that aren't  related to CALL or this course.  For the sites that are, please tag them with 'efl537' and other appropriate keyword desciptions such as (listening, reading, quiz, video, blog, etc.)
• Build a Materials Archive
  Create an EFL537  folder (that can be stored on a flash drive) that contains  sub-folders for
  
  • Documents (.doc , .pdf )
  • Webpages (.html , .htm)
  • Presentations (.ppt ,  pps , .odp)
  • Media (.mp3, .wmv,  .swf)
    Find files that you can use in your teaching and save them in the appropriate folders.  It should look something like this.
• Build a personal website ( Edublogs.org or Wordpress.com)
  Create a page for ' About Me',  categories for 'EFL537', TEFL Program, and publish at least one post in each category.  Feel free to create additiaonal pages,  categories, & posts.  This is your site and can use it how you wish - during this course and after. 
• After the course finishes, submit a report, presentation, and/or audio recording discussing your short-term and long-term plans and possiblities for using computer assisted language learning in your teaching environment.

Optional Assigments
     You do NOT have to do these, but will receive credit for anything extra you produce.

• Record audio files using Audacity and post them to EFL537.com or your blog. 
• Post Powerpoint presentations to Slideshare
• Create a Hot Potatoes Quiz or Activity
• Become active in a social networking site like EFLClassroom
• Publish additional reflections and posts on your blog.

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Tools and Skills we plan to cover during Week#2.  I do NOT expect anyone to master these skills during the next 5 days.    It takes a lot of  time and practice (more than 5 days) to do so.  I do hope that experimenting with these during this course will help familiarize you with potentially useful tools and perhaps inspire some of you to further develop these skills as part of your long-term professional development.

• Audio Editing & Recording - Audacity 
• Presentations - Powerpoint, OpenOffice Impress, Google Docs 
  Online Presentation Sharing (Slideshare, Bubbleshare VoiceThread)
• Game & Quiz Production - Hot Potatoes
• Html Editing - Kompozer
• Social Netorking - EFLClassroom, Twitter, EdTechTalk,