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I hope everyone had a good weekend.  Sorry I wasn't able to join some of you for Karaoke, but I was delighted to hear that you were having some Friday Night Fun. Sometimes, fun is just fun, but I also think it can be an important ingredient of learning. There are all sorts of fun EFL learning possibilities using  music and songs as well.  You can find some links to online karaoke and other sites and resources for using Music & Songs to teach English at: http://www.efl537.com/skills/music  (no assignments, just for your information)
 

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The goal of week#2 is for you to focus on the aspects of CALL that you find most interesting and potentially useful in your teaching and to 'document your learning'.  By 'documenting your learning' I mean using all of this week's assignments (reading reviews, delicious bookmarks, daily reflections, etc.) to show and tell me what you've learned.  I will be available from 8:30am~noon each day to answer questions - please skype me or use the EF537 chat room to make contact.  If skype is not working on your computer, please try using a different computer.  Tomorrow (Nov. 10), I would like to have short one-on-one skype discussions with each of you to discuss your Week#2 assignments.

Week#2 Assignments  (these are assignments for the whole week, not just today)

• Complete the Week#2 Questionnaire

• Continue Exploring  the CALL Buffet and adding bookmarks to your Delicious account. 
  Buy the end of this week you should have at least 30 websites bookmarked and properly tagged  in your Delicious account. You can use the sites and links listed on the  EFL Sites Buffet Page  or you can explore on your own.  Feel free to share information with your classmates as you make interesting discoveries.

• This week's readings:
  
  You will need to find two more readings that are about a topic (or topics) in which you are especially interested.   You will need to search for readings by clicking on links listed on the EFL537 Reading List, the LearningCall.net Readings Index, or by using the Custom Search of CALL related journals.
   Before writing your Reading Reviews, please  let me know which readings you plan to review by answering the relevant questions in the Week#2 Questionnaire.   It asks you to tell me about your topic and the readings you plan to review or if you're having trouble finding readings, it asks you to describe what you are looking for. In your reading reviews, Try to include a discussion of how the topic of the reading  applies to CALL, your teaching environment, and how it might affect your practice.   Reading Reviews are due Nov. 12. 
  
  
• Continue writing daily reflections on your blogger.com blog. (blogger guide here)
  By the end of the course, you should have at least 8 reflection.  Feel free to post other assignments and personal writings as well. 

• Materials Archive - I want you to find and save web pages, activities, audio recordings,  videos, and other materials that you can use to teach English, even if you are using a computer that isn't connected to the Internet. See the course overview for details of how to save these files. 
   
• CALL Specialization Report/Presentation - This is a summary of what you spent most of Week#2 focusing on. It can be a written report, slide presentation, and/or audio recording discussing the area of CALL you focused on during Week#2.  Include links to any relevant  readings, resources, or websites.  Due November 14. 
  
• Week#2  Skills  
  All Week#2 Technical Skills are OPTIONAL!  These guides are here so that you can learn about these skills if you wish, but if you are not interested in a particular skill or you find it very difficult or stressful, I don't want you to waste your time and energy on it.  I'd much rather you focus on further developing skills you've already learned or focusing on other Week#2 assignments that are more meaningful to you. 

Skill Guide	Screencast	Task (see bottom of each Skill Guide)
Presentations Part 2 Downloading & Embedding	(none)	Embed a presentation from Slideshare or Google Docs on your blog.
Social Networking	(none)	Register for a few social networks and reflect on your experiences on your blog
Blogging & RSS	(none)	Subscribe to several blogs using Google reader
Chat	(none)	(no task)
File Storage	Watch Download	Create an Esnips account, upload files there, and update your EFl537.com profile
Image Editing	Watch	Take a screenshot, crop it and resize it. Then attach it to a blog post on EFL537.com
Video	(none)	(no task)
Site Building Options	(none)	Create a site at Posterous.com, Wikispaces.com, or other free site hosts.