*Post the course materials in instructor’s blog
*Have students work in groups of 4 or 5 and connect to instructor’s blog by wap
*Group members work together to figure out the concepts of these terms.
*Use google in Wap.google.com if needed
*Then have students discuss the question “Are any of these forms of communication more important than the others?”Each group should choose one as the most important.
*Encourage different groups to share their views and evaluate others' views by using qq.
*Each group picks one to generalize group views in class
Home work: students reflect on the CMC and Emerging technologies they learnt by posting on their own blog.
It looks like you would be interested in exploring mobile-learning. A few things in this post are a bit unclear to me, for example, who are your target learners and what are the language learning aims of your example? Also, I'm not famiar with qq so you could actually describe this technology in more detail here, or link to a description on the web somewhere.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment.
ReplyDeleteI post part of my research proposal to make it clear.
Target Learners: tertiary students, English majors.
Target Needs/skills of Learners:
*the need of using technology in a convenient and affordable way
*the need of e-learning in a zero-computer classroom
*the skill of searching and filtering information
*the skill of blogging
*the skill of using English in communication
Intended Technology for the target needs/skills: Wap 2.0
You can also refer to the link http://mrdictionary918.blogspot.com/2010/02/hi-tech-in-zero-computer-class.html
especially the comment part for more information
Interesting premise but a bit difficult for Hong Kong students given the stringent measures placed on the use of cell phones. That being said, a detailed lesson plan on the benefits of this approach might change people's minds.
ReplyDeleteHey! Good job! QQ expert! I still have the common concern that whether the parents allow this method or not. You know, they are not that supportive in online chatting. Even though this is a good way of learning, they may still consider it as useless or harmful "game" for their children.
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