266+Green

Using the Web 2.0 Teacher Toolkit to Enhance Collaboration Among Learners || Catherine Green, American Institutes for Research, CA, United States, cgreen@air.org Li-Lee Tunceren, St. Petersburg College, Florida, United States, Tunceren.Lillien@spcollege.edu || With the emergence and increasing popularity of Web 2.0 tools, user-generated content has altered the online environment from a "search and pull-down" mode to a more responsive, interactive "create and upload" format. Facilitating synchronous and asynchronous collaboration in virtual groups, creative online instructors across numerous disciplines and levels of education have transformed passive learning experiences into engaging environments that promote co-authorship and construction of knowledge in multi-modal environments. Blogs and wikis, for example, are ideal tools to foster reflective communication among learning communities. Social networking sites are being repurposed in novel ways to promote learning through familiar technology.
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Using PowerPoint, the presenters will briefly review the literature in Web 2.0 use in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). A growing body of research by English as a Second and Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) teachers and teacher educators demonstrates that rich cross-cultural, computer-mediated learning environments employing Web 2.0 tools are transforming language learning and professional development practices around the US and the world. The presenters will focus in on the impact of using Web 2.0 tools to foster collaboration among participants in two contexts in which they work: 1) direct instruction to higher-education ESL students in Florida and 2) alternative deliveries of professional development for adult educators in California. The presenters will use interactive tools to involve the audience in a lively discussion of how these and other examples of Web 2.0 technology applications in TESOL could be adapted for use with teaching in different fields to enhance collaboration. || General Session Forum All ||
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