John Blog's List: internet resources in efl

• • http://www.thethinkingstick.com/the-age-of-composition
    
    15 Aug 2009
• I’ve learned more about English, grammar, wording, etc in the past four years of blogging than I ever did in 20 years of schooling (through MS degree). The only question I have left is, why?
• f students understand how to organize and know audience, why do we expect them to be motivated to turn in a paper that will only be read by one person, and be looked at through a process lens and a grammar lens of writing mechanics and not about the actual writing itself?

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• A wiki is a website where users can add, remove, and edit every page using a web browser. It's so terrifically easy for people to jump in and revise pages that wikis are becoming known as the tool of choice for large, multiple-participant projects.
• Wikipedia builds on transparency, simple linking, and a low barrier to entry for crowds of people to be involved in editing and authoring. We can use these same qualities with just two or three people for a different outcome: a shared workspace and, in effect, a shared memory.

• This requires them to have their own email addresses. For consistency, I maintain the same structure for domain names, usernames and passwords. An example could be the first 3 letters of first name + first 2 letters of last name eg hugwe The password can have an additional number followed by two random letters/symbols eg hugwe4w! Personal, unique, readily remembered and easily identifiable to those who need to know. BTW did you recognise this famous Australian – hugwe4w! ?

• First, conduct a detailed search of the Internet for websites that are trying to provide similar materials and accomplish the same tasks you have in mind. This will give you an idea of what is available online and help you to further develop your ideas.
• Next, try to develop your ideas into a specific niche in one area instead of trying to cover too much. By doing so, you can prepare material that focuses on depth, not breadth, in content. Do not spread your work and energy too thin; find a specific area that has not been explored and build a site around that one theme. Use your background to create, not replicate, something that has already been done. Do something new.
• A good understanding of what can and cannot be accomplished online and clear objectives are needed if you want to contribute to online language learning. Two particular concerns deal with (a) the technology itself for creating web-based multimedia, and (b) the users' understanding and reaction to it.

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