Using the computer in ELT:technology, practice and theory

目录
Pre-Course Activity—Let's Get Prepared
Task 1 Hi! Let's study together
Task 2 Let's unpack the package together
Task 3 Let's map out the course territory
Appendices
Unit 1 ICT Basics
Warm up
Activity 1 Understand how a PC works
Task 1 Let's first assemble a functional PC
Task 2 Let's tear a PC apart
Task 3 Let's match the parts with their functions
Task 4 Let's see how the software works
Task 5 Let's see how we interact with a multimedia PC
Task 6 Let's take stock
Activity 2 Understand how the Internet works
Task 1 Let's look at the network hardware
Task 2 Let's look at the network software
Task 3 Establish our identity on the Internet:IP address and URL
Task 4 Let's travel with our emails all over the virtual world
Activity 3 Explore the Internet resources
Task 1 Let's use browsers and search engines to seek information
Task 2 Let's explore virtual libraries and CALL materials
Task 3 Let's have an instant online talk
Task 4 Let's personalise Web browsers
Activity 4 Reflect upon the ICT impacts—Forum 1 Has ICT altered the way we live?
Task 1 Let's attend Professor Cybernet's talk at our first forum
Task 2 Let's have an instant and online post-talk discussion
Task 3 Special readings for this unit
Task 4 Let's do self-assessment
Appendix
Unit 2 CALL:A Historical Survey
Warm up
Activity 1 Familiarise ourselves with the terminologies and some key concepts
Task 1 Let's get the terminologies straight
Task 2 Let's get some concepts straight(1)—join the reading group
Task 3 Let's get some concepts straight(2)—reading-sharing from the e-Panda group
Task 4 Let's beef up Walter's reading report
Activity 2 Review text-based CALLs
Task 1 Let's experiment with some early authoring packages
Task 2 Let's experiment with CALT
Task 3 Have you saved your worksheets and uploaded them?
Activity 3 Review multimedia-based CALLs
Task 1 Let's start with a VCD CALL
Task 2 Let's taste an interactive CD-ROM CALL
Task 3 Have you saved your worksheets and uploaded them?
Activity 4 Experiment with some network-based CALLs
Task 1 Let's surf a language learning lab
Task 2 Let's visit Dave's ESL cafe
Task 3 Let me show you around Beiwai Online Platform(BOP)
Task 4 Let's unearth the underlying structure of BOP
Activity 5 Reflect upon the ICT impacts—Forum 2 From print text to multimedia to hypermedia:What does it mean to the learner and the teacher?
Task 1 Let's attend Professor Hall's speech on the evolution of media and its social/educational impacts
Task 2 Let's have an instant and online post-talk discussion
Task 3 Let's do some special readings for this unit
Task 4 Let's do self-assessment
Unit 3 Learning,Teaching and CALL Modelling
Warm up
Activity 1 Let's do some readings on learning and teaching
Task 1 Let's do some schematic thinking about CALL modelling
Task 2 Let's join the e-Panda reading group
Task 3 Let's enjoy Willow's book report about her first reading task
Task 4 Let's hear James'book report
Task 5 Let's beef up Willow's and James'book reports
Activity 2 Let's do some critical reflections on learning and teaching
Task 1 Let's theorise about a baby learning to walk
Task 2 Let's join Professor Cybernet's workshop
Task 3 Let's reflect upon what researchers say about ELL and ELT
Task 4 Let's take stock
Activity 3 Make factor and perspective analysis of modelling
Task 1 Let's map out students campus life activities for the visiting Martians
Task 2 Let's bid for the projects to be funded by the Martians
Task 3 Let's see who has won the bid
Activity 4 Forum 3—Exploring hybrid modes of learning and teaching:An integrated approach
Task 1 Let's attend Professor Joyes'speech first
Task 2 Let's organise an online debate
Task 3 Special readings for this unit
Task 4 Let's do self-assessment
Unit 4 Self-Access Learning Centre,Real or Virtual,and CALL Evaluation
Warm up
Activity 1 Let's first learn from others'experiences
Task 1 Let's attend Willow's literature survey report
Task 2 Let's hear James'report about virtual self-access learning centres
Task 3 Let's"visit"a real-life self-access learning centre
Task 4 Let's read a paper by Huang and Gu
Task 5 Let's reflect upon what we have done by writing about it
Activity 2 Let's make a conceptual design
Task 1 Let's familiarise ourselves with existing models and get our objectives straight later
Task 2 Let's adopt Gardner and Miller's integrative approach
Task 3 Let's not forget learner and teacher training:"Get self-trained first" requests Professor Cybernet
Task 4 Let's draft a proposal for setting up a self-access learning centre
Activity 3 Let's set up a personal mini-self-access resource centre
Task 1 Let's learn how to digitalise a print text and a photo image
Task 2 Let's learn how to do text image processing/editing
Task 3 Let's learn how to digitalise an audio cassette
Task 4 Let's learn how to digitalise a VHS tape
Task 5 Let's learn how to edit audio and video streams—an optional task
Task 6 Let's learn how to cope with large files:Compressing and burning our own CD-ROMs
Activity 4 Let's do some critical evaluation of CALL applications
Task 1 Let's join the e-Panda group debating on the methodology of using control and target groups
Task 2 Let's attend Walter's report
Task 3 Let's attend James'report
Task 4 Let's make a trial evaluation of a CALL application
Activity 5 Forum 4—Exploring learning and integration
Task 1 Let's first attend Professor Eric Hall's speech on"Learning,Learner and Autonomy"
Task 2 Let's have a follow-up instant messaging debate
Task 3 Let's do some special readings for this unit
Task 4 Let's assess ourselves
Appendices
Unit 5 CALL Authoring:Taxing the ICT Potential
Warm up
Activity 1 Let's familiarise ourselves with the general stages of CALL authoring
Task 1 Let's familiarise ourselves with five general stages of authoring
Task 2 Let's familiarise ourselves with the authoring environment
Task 3 Let's familiarise ourselves with divisions of labour
Task 4 Let's"compare notes"with Professor Cybernet—experiencing action script writing
Task 5 Let's"compare notes"with Willow—experiencing multimedia footage production
Task 6 Let's pause and take stock
Activity 2 Let's have some hands-on experience of a linear presentation of multimedia materials
Task 1 Let's draw a group project planner
Task 2 Let's join the e-Panda group project—Phase 1:Needs analysis and design
Task 3 Let's join the e-Panda group project—phase 2:Development
Task 4 Let's join the e-Panda group project—Phase 3:Testing and delivery
Task 5 Let's enjoy the e-Panda group's demonstration of its project product
Task 6 Let's reflect upon our authoring experience by checking it against Professor Luther's scheme of linear authoring
Activity 3 Let's have a hands-on experience of working with hypermedia
Task 1 Let's download Hot Potatoes and set it up
Task 2 Let's learn to author network-based quiz exercises
Task 3 Let's test the JQuiz test exercises in pairs
Activity 4 Forum 5—Goal-directed approach to blended learning design
Task 1 Let's attend Professor Wood's speech
Task 2 Let's have an online debate
Task 3 Let's do some special readings for this unit
Task 4 Let's do self-assessment