Jumat, 29 Juni 2018

CALL and its Development History

Assignment 4.1:

At this session we will be mainly doing two things, doing internet research and making presentation materials. In order to do the internet research you may consider the following information about internet research tools.
1. Search Engines:
In order to do an internet research we need reliable tools to search for abundant information in the Internet. The tool to do so is normally known as 'search engines'. The 'Search Engine' is a web-based software that is designed to search for information in the Internet. People today rely heavily on search engines to find information they want. This is because by using search engines people can find almost any kind of information, food, drink, direction, job vacancies, sales etc. The most popular search engines today is google (eBizMBA, 2014), probably not a single internet user not knowing what google is. But is it only google that we can rely on to find information on the Internet? Of course not. The following is a website that list many other websites that can be useful for internet research:
There are also two videos on YouTube explaining about startegies to use search engines:
  1. Web search strategies for research
  2. Smart web search strategies 1
  3. Smart web search strategies 2
More detailed information about search engines can be found in section 5 of this course.
Having learned how to search effectively on the interenet using search engines. It is time for you now to research about' what CALL is?' and 'The History of CALL'. You begin the research by firstly visiting the links below to get a picture how people see the history of CALL, before you contruct your own understanding about the history of CALL based on your research results.
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  1. Warschauer : CALL an Introduction
  2. The history of CALL
Having read the information in the two links it is time for you to further your research by exploring more the internet about the history of CALL and what CALL is? You can use
  1. http://www.google.com
  2. scholar.google.com
  3. http://eric.ed.gov/
  4. http://academic.research.microsoft.com

2. Evaluating information on the Internet
Anyone can publish on the interent. Thus information reliability and validity should be well considered when dealing with information found in the internet. Otherwise. we will be misinformed and end up with making wrong decision. The following sites gives some ideas of how to evaluate information found in the Internet.
  • Evaluating information found on the Interent (Macquarie University)

3. Presenting information using timeline

One way to present information is by using timeline. It is a visual representation of informations arranged in chronological order. There are many ways to create timeline. Below are some tools that can be used to create a timeline.
Sample Timeline

  1. http://www.tiki-toki.com/
  2. http://www.timetoast.com/
  3. http://timeglider.com/
  4. http://www.dipity.com/

  If you want to know how others make timeline  see some examples of Timeline that can be found here:
  1. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/81365
  2. http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/55/The-Fight-for-Democracy-in-the-Middle-East/#vars!date=2010-12-24_21:05:01!
Some information about timeline can also be found in tutorialsals section. 
4. How to use timeline to support teaching
 Once we can make timeline and r teach our students to make timelines. Then the next think to to consider for teachers are how they can use the timeline to support their teaching. Below is a link to a web page provindg information of how tie line can be used to support teaching:

Assignment 4.2:
Comment on one of  your friends opinion on the discussion in session 3
Assignment 4.3:
Now that you have learned how to make timeline.  It is time for you to create your own timeline an interactive timeline. by using either tool as mentioned above. Alternatively you can also choose tool of your choice. In this assignment, you have to make Timeline about the development of CALL in history. The information can be found in the links in point 1 or you can do the web research using the suggested method above 9 (see point 1 search engines).
Once you finished making your timeline, you can either save it in PDF and send me the PDF file or just send me the URL of your timeline.

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