Gradebook Updated on Blackboard

I've updated the grade book on Blackboard with everything up the what was due before today. So this does not include Prompt #5, HTML #5, or the wiki and voicethread stuff that is due today.

I'll be checking these things starting tomorrow, so please have them all posted by tonight if you didn't get them posted by the start of class time.

Reading Prompt #5

• RICHARDSON Ch. 8. Podcasting, Video and Screencasting, Live Streaming: Multimedia Publishing for the Masses
• BLACKBOARD - McQuillan, J. (2006). iPods in Education: The Potential for Language Acquisition
• BLACKBOARD – Stansbury, M. (2009). iPods help ESL Students Achieve Success. eSchool News (May 11).

Do you have an iPod or another type of .mp3 player? If so, have you used it or anything other than listening to your own music, such as downloading and listening to podcasts? Note some of the points McQuillan made about how podcasting can support second language learning. Which of the ideas from the readings would you be interested in trying out in your own classroom?

Reading Prompt #4

* LEVY – Ch. 2. Design

* RICHARDSON Ch. 5. RSS: The New Killer App for Educators

Comment one one or two issues raised by Levy and Stockwell CALL educators must think about when it comes to the design of CALL products. Then, comment on what types of RSS feeds you might be interested in using with students or following yourself.

A touch of tech enhances math class | Yakima Herald-Republic Online

A Washington elementary school is having students blog about math via iPod Touches! Click on the headline to read the whole story.

Do you think this is a good idea, or do you think this is a little too much for young elementary school kids? Post your thoughts below!

-Dr. Wright

A touch of tech enhances math class | Yakima Herald-Republic Online

SUNNYSIDE, Wash. -- Jennifer Garcia and Jalisa Lopez need help with math. So, the fifth-grade girls get out their iPods and start texting.

OMG!

Teacher Jessica Schenck does not take the gadgets away or send the girls to the principal's office. In fact, nearly every kid in Schenck's Chief Kamiakin Elementary School class punches diligently on the screens.

"I need 2 read the question twice and check my work twice," Garcia types into the virtual keypad of the iPod Touch.

Voice-to-Text Demonstration

Hey everyone, my e-mail with my voice-to-text finally came through on my e-mail. See below to see how it turned out. Notice too that it was still recording after I thought it had stopped! :-)

"Voice recognition(?) technology has a lot of potential to help English language learners learn English. I'm very anxious to try that out in our class. Stop, and if I played it back."

Education Technology News: China Gets ESL Material via Mobile Phone, Thanks to Pearson, Nokia

We'll be talking later in the course about standalone technology for language learning, but here's a recent news story on that topic:

China Gets ESL Material via Mobile Phone, Thanks to Pearson, Nokia

Publishing group Pearson and phone maker Nokia know a good opportunity when they see it. They're partnering to sell English-language learning materials to mobile phone users in China, the country with more English learners than in any other country, according to Reuters.

Full Story:

Education Technology News: China Gets ESL Material via Mobile Phone, Thanks to Pearson, Nokia