Web 2.

0 Tools and Their Application in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia

Ag. Hardi Prasetyo

JETA Conference, UNY, 28 – 29 June 2010
Definition
Web 2.0:
◦ Tim O’Reilly: to describe a transition of the
Internet from a place where users consume
information to a place where they are creators
of information
◦ Sir Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the
internet): A piece of jargon, there is nothing
new with Web 2.0
Web 2.0 vs. Web 1.0
Web 1.0 Web 2.0
Users Consume information; Consume, create shared
READ content;
READ/WRITE
Content A few information Everyone who has
creators internet connection
WWW (the web) A place where users The web as platform; a
browse for data/content place for a Web 2.0
services /tools to run
Web 2.0 Tools
1. BLOG:
◦ an online, chronological collection of
personal commentary and links
◦ allows a single author (or sometimes a group
of authors) to write and publicly display
time-ordered chronological articles (called
posts)
1. Blog software/services:
◦ Wordpress: www.wordpress.com
◦ Blogspot: www.blogger.com
◦ Edublogs: www.edublogs.org
◦ LiveJournal: www.livejournal.com
◦ Typepad: www.typepad.com
Educational application:
1. Teachers can use blogs for course announcements,
news and feedback to students, e.g.
microteaching.wordpress.com; callpbi.edublogs.org;
2. Teachers’ professional development: e.g.
prasetyo.edublogs.org
3. Students’ website, to upload assignments, tasks or
exercises, or weekly reflection (see
www.netvibes.com/prasetyo)
4. Class website  collaborative writing, “Majalah
Dinding Online”.
WIKI
A tool that allows one or more people to
collaboratively build a website whose content
can be edited by any people who are allowed to
have access to it. E.g. Wikipedia (
http://www.wikipedia.org/)
Wiki has history and rollback function, which
enables users to examine and restore previous
versions of a certain page.
WIKI
Services or software that users can use to
create wikis are:
◦ PBWork (www.pbworks.com),
◦ Wikispace (www.wikispaces.com)
◦ and Wetpaint (www.wetpaint.com)
Educational application
1. Teachers can use wiki to supply course materials, tasks
or assignments, e.g. http://callpbiusd.pbworks.com/
2. Wiki can be used by students to collaboratively create,
share, edit and work on their tasks or assignment (i.e.
writing tasks or final project at the end of the
semester).
Social bookmarking tool
 provides users the ability to bookmark web pages, and
tag those bookmarked pages with significant or key
words (tags) that describe the pages recorded. Examples
of this tool are Del.ici.ous (http://delicious.com), Diigo (
www.diigo.com), and Stumbleupon (
www.stumbleupon.com).
Educational Application
 Teachers and students can collect and store resources
which can be used for teaching and research.
 Teachers and students (or groups of users) with a similar
interest can use the same and unique tag to bookmark
their resources. In that way, if they use the same
bookmarking service, then they can create network of
users and share each other bookmarked resources.
 Teacher and students can build up reading and resources
lists for the courses and share these lists through the
bookmarking services.
Multimedia sharing services
 These tools allow users to contribute/upload, search for,
download and display media.
Examples:
 Sharing images: Flickr (www.flickr.com)
 Sharing audio or podcast: iTunes (www.apple.com/itunes),
Odeo(http://odeo.com), PodOmatic (http://podomatic.com);
 For sharing video or vidcast: Google Video (
http://video.google.com), YouTube (www.youtube.com),
iTunes, Odeo and PodOmatic, TeacherTube, Teacher TV;
 For sharing documents, spreadsheet and presentation:
Slideshare (www.slideshare.net) and Scribd (
www.scribd.com)
Educational application
 Teachers and students can share any educational media
and resources.
 Teachers can ask the students to criticize and give
comments on the shared or upload media
 Teachers can record lectures and ask the students to
listen to the lectures again to reinforce their learning.
RSS and Syndication
RSS:
 RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication which allows
users to subscribe to online content (websites, blogs or
podcasts) using an RSS reader or aggregator without
visiting the websites. Instead, information from the
website (i.e. new blog posts, new podcast episodes, new
news feeds, etc.) is collected within a feed and piped to
the user in a process called syndication.
Educational application
 In a wiki group project developed collaboratively, RSS
feeds can be used to keep all members of the group up
to date with changes or revision since they can be
automatically notified of changes as they are made.
 Teachers and students can subscribe and are aware of
the new blog posts from blogging services, new
bookmarked pages from social bookmarking services,
new episodes of podcasts, or current news (from the
BBC or any other news providers). See
http://www.netvibes.com/prasetyo#General or
www.bloglines.com
Collaborative editing tools
 allow users in different locations to collaboratively edit
the same document at the same time. Examples are
Google Docs (for text documents, presentation slides
and spreadsheets), and Gliffy (www.gliffy.com for
diagrams).
Educational application
Google Docs can be used to
collaboratively work over the web, either
simultaneously (real time or synchronous)
or share work edited by different
individuals at different time.
Social networking
 These systems or services allow people to network
together for various purposes. Examples include
Facebook, Friendster and MySpace (for social
networking/socializing), LinkedIn (for professional
networking) and Second Life (virtual world). Ning (
www.ning.com) or Spruz (www.spruz.com) also falls in
this category.
Educational application
 Facebook can be used to announce course assignments,
course schedule, or other events related to courses.
 The students can use the Note facility in the Facebook to
promote their writing, and to invite others to give
comments. This can be useful for editing and revising
writing assignments.
 Ning or Spruz can be used as Content Management
System (CMS) or Learning Management System
(LMS).
Points to ponder
Before you apply technology (any kinds of
technology) in your classroom, consider
these followings:
◦ Does it help your students?
◦ Is it useful for your students?
◦ Will it create meaningful, interesting, authentic
and relevant learning activities/experiences for
your students?
◦ Does your environment support the use of
technology?
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