Web 2.0 Websites for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

By Hui Xuunlhelenxu@gmail.com

University of Nebraska-LincolnNebraska Department of Education

What are Web 2.0 Websites?

Facilitate interactive information-sharing, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web.

Give its users the free choice to interact or collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators.

Examples of Web 2.0 include:  social-networking sites, blogs, wikis, video-sharing sites, etc.

What's a Wiki?

A Wiki is a website that lets any visitor become a participant. With a wiki you can create web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit and work on together.

“I can "statements

I can create a Wiki. I can add a wide variety of media on my

Wiki page. I can edit another Wiki and post my

comments on a discussion question in a Wiki.

www. Wikispaces.com

Wiki for Teachers

“Wikispaces for teachers” provides you with a wiki suitable for classroom use;

Free and Ad-free; Customize the security settings to

decide who is allowed to view and edit your wiki space.

What can you

do with a Wiki?

Create your Wiki Sign up a Wiki. Create a home page with a brief self-introduction, and

include different types of media(e.g.: picture, audio, video, etc.)

Create 3 pages: “Photopeach”, “Voicethread” and “Lingt”. Post your technology products during the Chinese Teacher Training in your own Wiki.

Join my Wiki as a member at: http://unlhelenxu.wikispaces.com/

Edit my page “Chinese Teacher Training” by adding your self-introduction and your media. Please do not forget to include your name.

Comment on the discussion question on my Wiki.

PhotoPeach

PhotoPeach is an online slideshow creation tool that allows you to create a lively slideshow by moving your photos like a video with your choice of background music, and captions on each photo. Teachers will also be able to create quizzes based on certain photos.

“I can” statements

I can create a slideshow with captions and music.

I can create a quiz based on the pictures of the slideshow.

I can leave comments on my peer’s slideshow.

Example: “动物园游” http://unlhelenxu.wikispaces.com/Photope

ach

Create Your PhotoPeach Slideshow

Create a slideshow about one of your peers and make a quiz for us to guess who the person is;

Embed your slideshow in your Wiki and send it to another peer;

Leave comments on your peer’s slideshow.

Lingt

Lingt allows teachers to easily create online assignments that engage and assess students’ spoken and written performance.

“I can” statements

I can create an online assignment that incorporates voice/texts/videos/images.

I can assign an online assignment to a peer.

I can see my peer’s responses to my online assignment.

You will be able to use images, texts, videos, and voice to create this online assignment.

•Students can respond with a voice or written response.

Send your students the assignment link: lingtlanguage.com/your-user-name. You can pretend to be your student and take the assignment yourself.

Click the assignment name to see your students’ responses.

Example:对话 http://lingtlanguage.com/previewassignme

nt/523714644383/

Create Your Online Assignment

Using Lingt, working in pairs, you are going to create one online assignment from your lesson plan and send it to your partner.

Take an online assignment created by your partner.

Take an online assignment regarding ideas of the use of Lingt in a Chinese classroom at: http://lingtlanguage.com/unlhelenxu/

Voicethread

A Voicethread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos.

It allows you to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). 

Share a Voicethread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

“I can” statements

I can create a Voicethread that incorporates images/voice/text/audio/video.

I can leave written/spoken comments on another Voicethread created by a peer.

An Example: “大白菜” https://voicethread.com/?#u1416522.b107

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Create a Voicethread

Create one Voicethread based on “Brown Bear”/ “Zodiac Animals” and make comments on another peer’s Voicethread;

Comment on my Voicethread regarding ideas of the use of Voicethread in a Chinese classroom. The Voicethread can be found in my Wiki.