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Week 2 (Jan 23-29)

Co-moderators: Hala Fawzi and Leanne Mackenzie

Text and Voice synchronous communication tools: Tapped In, Yahoo Messenger and Skype (in Worldbridges)

1. download and install Yahoo Messenger (YM) and Skype, if you haven't done so yet; then,

a. create a Friend (buddy) List (YM) / Contacts (Skype) using the participants' Yahoo and Skype IDs available at our Participants page; or in our Yahoo Group Database (write your ID's in the database so you can be contacted by other participants);

b. configure your computer to use Yahoo voice services effectively. Go to YM main window, Help > Audio Setup Wizard, and follow the steps;

c. explore these tools and their features, including voice chat, by joining any of the moderators and other participants for chats or conferences (group chats), and reflect on their potential in TEFL/TESL;

d. send a message with your reflections on these tools

2. join Michael Coghlan at Yahoo Messenger on Wednesday, Jan. 25th at 12:30 GMT, for a chat on the use of voice communication tools;

3. Join Jeff Lebow and Dave Cormier at Worldbridges on Sunday, Jan 29, at 16:00 GMT for a webcast, and voice and text chat on Webcasting and podcasting.

4. Post your comments about these live presentations on our BaW-06 blog

Questions of the week:

a. How do you start a conference and invite guests at Yahoo Messenger ?

b. How do you save your chatlogs to your hard drive at YM?

c. How do you display your picture at YM?

Post your answers to our YG list. Let’s see who can answer these questions! :-)

Suggested readings

Please contact the group list or any of the moderators (at the emails below) if you have any problems.

VIP(oints):
1. While exploring these synchronous communication tools, you are encouraged to:

a . share experiences and reflections at all times, and

b . think about and discuss the potential of text and voice chat for the EFL/ESL teaching and learning process (how can it be used? for what purpose? at what level?) and send your comments to the group mail list.

2. Post your reflections about the weekly readings to our forum

Advice: Do not forget to open a Becoming a Webhead (BaW) folder with any number of subfolders in your Bookmarks or Favorites in order to keep relevant and useful links for quick reference. Well-organized bookmarks are extremely helpful and save a lot of time!

Remeber that you can also register for free to del.icio.us, where you can save your favorite pages with a click, and classify them with tags. You can retrieve your pages from any computer connected to Internet. We have created a BaW del.icio.us site for our group. Share your links here


Dafne and Teresa