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01/17/2010

EVO2010 Overview Week 2

Here comes a quick overview of the task that I have to do in week 2 of the EVO2010 sessions.

evovideo:
On Monday there will be a live meeting using Adobe Connect software. The assignments are related to more video lessons from real-english.com. Participants shall reflect how they would use these video lessons in their classroom.

evomlt:
For the multiliteracies session, we will have a look at the technological lens (according to the book "from blogs to bombs" written by Mark Pegrum). Participants will explore Flickr and set up their RSS reader. We will also learn how to tag all of our activities with "evomlt" so that they can easily be found by other people.

images4education:
Flickr is also a topic in this session. Participants will learn tagging their photos in Flickr, uploading and organizing their photos, and using some advanced features of Flickr. We will also learn how to use Flickr as a pedagogical tool, and learn about Creative Commons licensing.

evo-drama:
Week 1 was very informative with discussions and videos about using drama for language learning. Meanwhile I have finished the recommended readings for week 1 (well, at least most of it) and now I'm looking forward to learn more about the process drama tools. Participants will learn how to select theme and learning area. We will learn more about context, roles and strategies. There will be a live meeting today at midnight GMT but that is too late for me to stay awake. The group is also using voxopop.com as an audio discussion platform.

virtual-worlds:
Teaching Languages in a Virtual World will have some tours to different educational spaces in Second Life. I have marked two of them in my Google Calendar. The first one is on Monday where we will visit some educational places like Illinios State University and Second UMCS, Poland. The other one is a visit to Virtual Macbeth next Friday.

dmpt:
Digital Material preparation is focused on text-based materials this week. Participants will explore tools like DaFont.com, the Project Gutenberg, the Lorem Ipsum dummy text generator and Google Translate. One of the assignments is Data Driven Learning (DDL) which is completely new to me, so I will have a closer look at this learning tool this week.