Friday, April 22, 2011

How do I forward all of my gmail to another address?

To forward all of your gmail to another email address (like hanmail or naver), click the gear setting and 'Mail settings.
Then click 'Forwarding and Pop/IMAP'. Enter the email address you want email forwarded to and click 'Send email verification instructions.



You will receive an email at the forwarding address.  Click on the link in that email.  Then go back to your gmail settings. Check 'Forward a copy of incoming mail to' select the forwarding address and 'Add a forwarding address'.


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Google Photos (Picasa)

Google's photo hosting service is called Picasa. Picasa is both a program you can download and the name for their online storage space.  To make things a bit more confusing, they've integrated this photo space with their new Google+ social networking service. your blog.

To get started, go directly to:  http://picasaweb.google.com/
You can click 'More/Photos', but this will take you to the Google+ photo interface which has fewer options.

For CALL practice I suggest going to:
http://picasaweb.google.com/



To upload photos to your web albums, click 'upload'.
You DON'T need to click 'Launch Picasa'.  






To upload photos, click 'Select photos from your computer'.

Enter a name for the album where it says 'Title'.
Select 'Public on the web' and click continue.

Locate and hightlight all of the photos you want ot upload. Then click 'OK'.

Once the photos are uploaded, you can make changes by clicking 'Orgazne & Reorder'

To embed the slideshow of photos on a blog, click 'embed slideshow'

Select the slideshow size, copy the code and paste it into yoru blog post
*remeber to select 'edit html', not compose

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Week#6 & 7

This week you have the option of  using tools and practicing skills we've already covered or trying a few new things.
If you'd like to review, here are some tasks to try
If you'd like to experiment with some new skills and resources, you can attempt these tasks below.
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Friday, April 15, 2011

Outdoor Activity #1 - U.N. Cemetery




Cemetery Website http://www.unmck.or.kr/

Leo's Story
Conversation with Leo Demay
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Chat Tools

Chat Tools

Chat can be a useful in a variety of ways for langauge learners. It can allow them practice their writing skills and overcome the affective filters that can be part of using their L2 to interact with others. There no formal assignment for this Training page, but feel free to blog about any of the tools you try.

    Chatbots are automated chat tools that can be pre-programmed say certain things or  interact with users.
    Text to speech chatbots allow you to create a speaking character (or  avatar)

    Press the play button to right to listen to a Voki Text to Speech Chatbot.  >>>>>


    Interactive Chatbots can be programmed to respond to users.
    This may be easier to understand by trying it rather than explaining it.
    You can chat with Albert Einstein here






    These are some of the places that EFL learners can go to engage in real time text chat.
    There are also many sites that allow you to create your own free chat room
    There are also a number or sites that facilate Voice Chat Discussions
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    Social Networking Guide


    Social Networking 
    From Wikipedia: A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as message boards, e-mail, instant messaging, and live audio/video interaction.


    One of the advantages of social networking for educators is that it allows us to connect with other educators and learners with common interests that we might never have the opportunity to meet in 'face to face' life.

    Social Network Platforms are websites (usually commercial websites) that allow users to form their own groups on that platform.
    Popular examples of these are Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, hi5.com, & Linked in. You can see a more extensive list of social network platforms here.
    Often sub-groups for within these platforms based on mutual interest. They can exist on multiple platform and/or have their own independent site as well.
    Examples:
    Groups that host live events:

    Combined Calendar(click agendafor easier viewing)
    Here's a video that attempts to explain Social Networking
    Common Craft: Social Networking in Plain English
    Microblogging refers to using services like Twitter
    Here are Barbara Sakamoto's thoughts on


    The key to making twitter interesting is finding interesting people to follow.   You can find some people at:
    To 'follow' someone, go to their twitter page anc click follow.  If you like, you can add them to an exisitng list or create a new one.

    Other Guides
    Examples of other social network platforms
    • WizIQ - a live, interactive classrom interface.  People come and teach a variety of lessons, many of which people can participate in for free.
      Upcoming Classes ,  Recorded Sessions Examples: Basic English Phonics Lesson 2 The short 'a' Sound , IELTS Preparation - Vocabulary for IELTS , Basic English Third Class
       (first few minutes or recordings are usually not interesting, you can scroll along the bottom to move to a more interesting parts of the lesson)
    • Shelfari - Shelfari is a popular social networking service for book lovers.
    • Linkedin - LinkedIn is a professional social networking website for business users, one of the most popular such sites out there. Some aspects of it are free, but many are paid.
    • Geni.com - An exciting social networking site enabling members to create their family tree. Although it’s a relatively new site, it has grown tremendously fast, and has hundreds of thousands of users.
    • 43 Things - A tagging based social networking site. Users create accounts and list a number of goals or hopes and these are parsed based on similarity to goals of other users.
    • Facebook.com - Facebook is a social networking phenomenon connection people with their friends, family and other users with similar interests.
    • Half.com - A leading student market place for buying and selling textbooks at discounted prices.
    • MySpace.com - MySpace is an interactive social networking website consisting of personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos. It’s currently the biggest social networking site out there.
    • RateMyProfessor.com - RateMyProfessor connects students aspiring to study similar courses by assisting each other.
    • WAYN - A social networking website uniting world wide travelers.
    Other EFL related site based social networks
    • Live Mocha
    • ESLCafe.com Forums
    • SharedTalk: A language exchange covering 113 languages from the makers of the popular RosettaStone language learning software.
    • xLingo: A language exchange that lets users create and share flashcards with each other.
    • iTalki: A language exchange with a Yahoo! Answers-style QnA site, and a wiki-based public knowledge base for 10 different languages.
    • Huitalk: Forums, articles, vocabulary lists, and a language exchange using Skype.
    • Interpals: A large language exchange from a popular penpal social network.
    • Mixxer: A free language exchange using Skype built by Dickinson College.
    • TT4You: A free global language exchange site.
    • Conversation Exchange: Text and voice chat, email, or face-to-face meetings can bet set up via Language Buddy to improve your conversational skills.
    • Lingozone: Build vocab skills by playing game of Word Ladder and Hangman, while making friends with whom to practice speaking.
    • Language Exchange Network: Think Craigslist for language learning; this site has super-simple language exchange classified listings.
    • MyLanguageExchange: One of the oldest online language exchanges (this site was a Yahoo! Internet Life pick in 2001), it claims over 1 million members speaking 115 different languages. 

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      Tuesday, April 12, 2011

      Map


      View Class 1 Map in a larger map
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      View Class 5 map in a larger map
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      Thursday, April 7, 2011

      Video Guide

      Video  Sites for Language Learning
      Examples
      Sites that can be used to download video from YouTube
      Screencapturing & Screensharing
      Interactive Audio/Video

      Video Email
      Register here: http://eyejot.com/join
      Click 'Compose New Message'

      TV & Movie Resources
      Online Video Sites & Tools
      • Dotsub - Facilitates user generated subtitles of video. Users can link to videos already online or  upload their own (see example below)
      • 22Frames.com - subtitled videos with lesson materials
      • Stroome.com  - online collaborative video editing
      • JayCut - facilitates online video editing
      • Teacher Tube - educational version of Youtube 
      • VideoSurf - Video search tool
      DotSub lets you choose our subtitle langauge







      The video below is an example of Dotsub.com's option for creating subtitles in many languages










      EFLBridges Interviews
      One of the most prolific EFL Video producers is Sarah, who makes
      The Daily English Show

      The video to the right is one of  her  shows.  Click the play button to watch it.
      A transcript of this show is at:
      http://thedailyenglishshow.blogspot.com/2009/02/965-quiet-vs-quite-i-like-totally-love.html

      This video is episode#965.  There are many more here:
      http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=thedailyenglishshow&view=videos
      Publishing a Video on YouTube
      First, sign in at Youtube.comwith you Gmail ID.

      *** In some countries (like Korea) it will be necessary to go to the bottom of the YouTube page and select
      Location: Worldwide
      in order to upload videos.
      Then Click 'Upload'

      There are two ways to publish videos on YouTube - upload a video file or record from your webcam.

      If you choose 'upload video', you can upload any of these file types:
      .mpg, .mov, .wmv, .flv, .avi, mp4
      Files can be up to 2GB in size, but must be less than 10 minutes. in length.
      After you chosen the file to upload, you'll see a window like the one below.
      Enter information about Title, Description, tags, and category.  You can also select your privacy settings.
      Then click 'save changes' and you're done.

      If you choose to record from a webcam, you'll see a window like this. Click 'allow'.

      When you see this window choose your video device and audio device.  You should see your video in the video window and audio volume meter movement on the side.  When you're ready, click 'ready to record'.

      When you're done, click the red square at the bottom.
        
      After that, you can preview (watch what you just recorded), re-record (if you're not satisfied and you want to do it again), or publish.

      Once you've published, you can click My Videos (upper right part of your screen)  to see what you've published so far.

      Then click edit to make any changes to the title and description of  your videos.


      Congratulations ~ You are now a YouTube Star!
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