Social Networking Sites

    SNS is an online services for communities of people who share an interest with one another to collaborate and surely we are aware of the potential benefits of bringing SNS usage into the FL class.

SNS in Education

• Provide a casual place of learning
• Encourage students to express their own thoghts
• Provide effective collaboration and communication
• Enhance students' learning experiences
• Build an online learning

      Using SNS in the class, We feel comfartable using the social networking site,

in our class SNS allows us to interact and build a learning community and allows us to personalize pages to exspress individuality and creativity. Besides: it allows us to pose question-answer to the community, also, we can share photos, music and videos. It allows us to hold forums to discuss topics of interest, it is user friendly and is a great tool for class communication. Thaks to SNS, students can be more active and they communicate with classmates about course-related topics.

    After all of this, I thik that SNS should be used both teachers and students in FL classrooms. Kara McBride are aware of importance using SNS and she says that Net Genaration has always had fast, interactive media sharing technologies surroinding them and 80%-90% of them have pofiles on SNS. This is a lifestyle to them and give educators reason to believe we should incorporate SNS usage into our class-related activities. 

What is a wiki? 

A wiki is a web page. There are participants who can create, edit or comment without any special technical knowledge. It is user friendly. Only need is a computer with an internet connection. It provides collaborative working, teaching and learning to participants.

Who uses wikis?

Teachers use the wikis in the “real world” (outside of K-12 schools). They have some aims to their students: collaborating on projects or trying to share things online. Besides, Wikis are used  more and more classrooms are now learning, creating, reading, and testing online. In order to keep up with our technologically demanding lifestyles, it’s also a fun way to engage students.

Why I chose wikis:

• Free
• Runs on older computers
• Runs on slower internet
• 'Think Pair Share' for the computer.

Classroom Wiki Uses

• Lesson summarize
• Notes collaboration
• Concept instruction&Exploratory
• Learn shares
• Individual assesments
•   Rewards
• Classroom organization

Example:
As a teacher: before the next lesson: I can share a video about my topic and want to watch it and think about the next lesson and make a brief provision to topic from my students. After they watch, they can write their thougts at that moment. 

COMPUTER-ASSISTED LEARNING (CALL)

                                     
                                     COMPUTER-ASSISTED LEARNING (CALL)


                                                                                                    LECTURER: FİDEL ÇAKMAK
                                                                                                         Prepared by:Ayşegül ERBİL

       Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is an approach to language teaching and learning. Its primary purpose is to integrate technology, internet, computer, and software programs with the face-to-face language education.


 CALL provides an effective learning environment that student can practice interactively. ıt supports and develops learner-autonomy and increases student motivation. 


HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CALL

•   Behavioristic CALL
•   Communicative CALL
• Integrative CALL

1) Behavioristic CALL has view of structural. the role of computers are drills and practices. the main objective is to accurancy. ıt focus on repetition to learners.

2) Communicative-Cognitive CALL: ıt focus on commnicative exercises and the main objective is fluency. Students use the computers to stimulate discussion, writing or chritical thinking and also spelling, grammar checkers and word processors. 

3) Integrative CALL has view of sociocognitive. Multimedia CALL and Web-based CALL has important roles to social interaction. Computrers are authentic discourse in this time.



CALL Software 

• provide realistic, native-speaker models of the language in a variety of media
• offer a language learning curriculum
• do a needs assesment
• determine the best next step for the learner and provide practice with that skill area 

Computer-Mediated Communication Programs

Synchronous Communication 

Synchronous is real time (online chat).

Asynchronous Communication

Asynchronous communication is provided via internet indirectly. E-mail, discussion forum, message board are the main samples to it.

The Future of CALL

 

Computers have important role in our life. They have progressive future and surely effect students and teachers like other people.  

Students have opportunities developing their writing with electronic literacy and increasing incorporation of intelligent CALL in to the classroom and also finding, evaluating and critically interpreting net-based information. 

WEB 2.0

Web 2.0 provies increasing of knowledge through web based tools to participate in online communities. they have more active role of potential writer, contributor and editor so they can create, consume and edit interactively. 

Wikis:

    is a web-page. Any users can access  the other wikis. 

it is collaborative.  Students:

• write
• edit
• change
• add content any time.

Blog:

     personal commentaries. It is composed of texts, images and related links. Readers:

• respond back to entiries
• join the discussion