1. Individuals, Community, Communication and Language Pedagogy Emerging technologies that are shaping and being shaped by our field Dr Debra Hoven Athabasca University http://io.acad.athabascau.ca/~debrah/GLoCALL2008.html

3. CALL today What is it? What does it look like? What can we do with it? How can we use it to teach? What can our students learn?

4. Some confusion lately … Is it all CALL?? CALLCMC CELLSNS TELLWSCL MALLCMCL WALLLMS etc …

5. Time to change our terms? Chapelle (2000) Kern (2006) Is networked CALL still CALL?

6. Fitting the pedagogy to the technology …

7. Six roles of CALL today 1.Instructional CALL 2.Discovery/exploratory CALL 3.Communications CALL 4.Social networked CALL 5.Collaborative CALL 6.Narrative/Reflective CALL

8. In the context of … Classroom learning Personal learning Autonomous Learning Lifelong Learning Language Learning Skill Development Content/Learning Management Systems Personal Learning Environments Blended/Hybrid Learning

9. 1. Instructional CALL (Tutorial CALL) Various pedagogical models … Teaching discrete or context-embedded language Across skills: reading, writing, speaking, listening Focussed learning Objective oriented Convergent/closed tasks

11. Some examples … Hot Potatoes: various activity types http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/ … and a range of instructional pages built on these: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/sites6.htm Real English videos & lessons http://www.real-english.com/new- lessons.asp

12. Some examples … Michael Krauss’ online activities http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppic ks.html Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/ Internet TESOL Journal’s ESL Activities http://a4esl.org/

13. 2. Discovery/exploratory CALL Inductive learning models Learning-focussed Skill or knowledge oriented Knowledge transformation Individually or collaboratively constructed Divergent or convergent tasks

14. Some examples … Simulations –Travel sim: Grand Canyon http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/travelsim/ Role plays/enactments –The NASA exercise: Lost on the Moon http://nasa.perbang.dk/ –ESL Flow http://www.eslflow.com/roleplaysdramathe atregames.html

15. & more examples … Webquests http://webquest.org/index.php http://bestwebquests.com/what_webquests_are.a sp http://students.ed.qut.edu.au/n0487902/CLN618/ WebQuest/ Second Life version for teens: http://teen.secondlife.com/ & a commentary on the use/abuse … http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/2007 0319/

17. 3. Communications CALL CMC (computer/technology mediated communication) Communication focussed (language for communication) Language for real purposes Culturally embedded Convergent or divergent tasks Synchronous, delayed synchronous or asynchronous

18. Some examples … Email Chat (audio & video enhanced) –GoogleTalk, IM, MSN, Yahoo Messenger etc MOOs SchMOOze http://schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu/

19. & more examples … VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) –Skype http://www.skype.com/intl/en/welcomeback/ Tandem exchanges http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ Synchronous multimodal communicating –Elluminate (Vrooms) http://www.elluminate.com/vroom/ –WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/

21. 4. Social Networked CALL Social or radical constructivist pedagogy Wisdom of the crowd Connectedness Disruption Personal, community, shared and collective ownership Context-embedded & context-distributed Co-creation of meaning/knowledge through aggregation

22. Some examples … Blogs –Individual/class: http://www.blogger.com/http://www.blogger.com/ http://www.alaskool.org/projects/day_in_life/dil2.htm# –Class/shared http://classblogmeister.com/ http://katsstudents.blogspot.com/ Photos & video –Flickr http://flickr.com/ –Picasa http://picasa.google.com/

23. & more examples … Personal webspaces (adaptable) –Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ –& for teaching a class: http://www.facebook.com/friends/?everyone&ref =tn#/group.php?gid=2389494301 –MySpace http://www.myspace.com/ –BeBo http://www.bebo.com/

24. & yet more examples … Bookmarking & tagging  Tag clouds –Del.icio.us http://delicious.com/ –Technorati http://technorati.com/ Mobile & web devices: Twitter http://twitter.com/ Collaboratories http://collaboratory.nunet.net/cwebdocs/ Folksonomies http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer- mediated-communication/folksonomies.html

25. 5. Collaborative CALL Social constructivist pedagogy Co-creation of knowledge Language acquisition through negotiation of meaning Divergent tasks Individuals bring their skills to the task The whole is greater than the sum of the parts

26. Some examples … Wikis Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/ http://youthwiki.wikispaces.com/Marshall+Sc hool%2C+AK PBWiki http://pbwiki.com/ http://www.wetpaint.com/ Google Docs http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html

27. & more examples … Collaboratories –The water habitat project http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ent/gallery/po p3/pop3_1.cfm Folksonomies http://www.adammathes.com/academic/c omputer-mediated- communication/folksonomies.html

28. 6. Narrative/Reflective CALL –Starting from the personal: ownership & direction –Personally-meaningful language –Language for real purposes & real audiences –Multimedia & multimodal –Learner- & learning-focussed –Divergent or convergent Digital storytelling e-Portfolios

29. Some examples … Dr Helen Barrett’s Digital storytelling site http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/index. html Dr Arnie Abrams http://www.arnieabrams.net/handouts.htm ePortfolios for various purposes & of various kinds http://electronicportfolios.org/ http:www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/portfolio/port _eng.html

30. Looking from the past to the present & the future …

31. CALL, the present & the future … What is important? What is ideal? What is possible? What will soon be possible? What fits with our learners’ contexts? How can this enrich their learning? How will this improve their learning?

32. Thank you! Your questions? Email: debrah@athabascau.cadebrah@athabascau.ca AU webspace: http://io.acad.athabascau.ca/~debrah/GLoCALL2008.html http://io.acad.athabascau.ca/~debrah/GLoCALL2008.html Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/debrahhttp://www.slideshare.net/debrah Blogs: http://lifentheuniverse.blogspot.com/ (old)http://lifentheuniverse.blogspot.com/ http://deincanada.blogspot.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/index.phphttp://www.facebook.com/index.php