Possibilities of Web 2.0 Technology in Teaching EFL Writing: Use of Groupware, Weblog and BlogCasting YASUDA, Masami, Kwansei Gakuin Univ., Myasuda[at]kwansei.ac.jp WorldCALL 2008 Fukuoka International Congress Center, and Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan 5-8 August, 2008 Aug.7, 2008 WorldCALL 2008 Fukuoka Intern’l Congress Center, Fukuoka, JAPAN.

2. Introduction - L2 writing Dichotomies/Dilemmas Fluency and accuracy Contrastive rhetoric debate Process vs. Product debate Assessment Feedback and error correction Casanave, Christine Pearson. (2004). Controversies in second language writing. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Univ. of Michigan. Cornor, Ulla (2002).   New directions in contrastive rhetoric, TESOL Quarterly, 36(4), pp. 494-510. Hyland, Ken, & Hyland, Fiona. (Eds., 2006). Feedback in second language writing: Contexts and issues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Sachs, Rebecca, & Polio, Charlene. (2007).   Learners' uses of two types of written feedback on a L2 writing revision task, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 29(1), pp 67-100. Zamel, V. (1985). Responding to student writing. TESOL Quarterly, 19, 79-101.

3. Past and Current Project: Email Grading E-mail work Video - Separate video output (OHC) Audio Recording 1) Yahoo site 認証必要 2) Mirror site (infoseek): some years with index only

6.1 Text to Speech Online Tools 1. vozMe: Type or copy-paste the texts to convert to ‘Create MP3’ at a click! 2. Expressivo – You can listen to books, messages, RSS feeds, articles or even e-mails. You can easily create audio books on your mp3 player. Purchase needed 3. Cepstral - The text to speech conversion to the text into a WAV file. Purchase needed. Six Online Tools - Text to Speech tools you would not want to miss TechDune - Tech News, Software & Hardware Reviews, Internet, Humor

6.2 Text to Speech Online Tools (2) 4. Ivona Speech Synthesizer – Text to speech conversion tool online 5. SpokenText - SpokenText.net Converts & records to speech automatically: PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, RSS news feeds, emails and web pages. 6. Talkr – Converts RSS feeds into MP3 files Text to Speech tools you would not want to miss (2) TechDune - Tech News, Software & Hardware Reviews, Internet, Humor

6. RSS Readers RSS readers My Intro of RSS and Podcasting for Students: Web site - Podcasting with RSS & WEB 2.0 Local file: Podcastingrss.html What is RSS? Video dotsub.com/films/ - Captioned video site (ENG, FR, GER, JPN, etc.) Skip to 2007

7. BlogCasting: Weblog Projects - 2007 RSS mixer with Text2Speech “Odiogo.com” “Talkr” My memos: PHP Forum site

8. BlogCasting: (2) Weblog Projects - 2007 Students WordPress Blog, via Odiogo.com WordPress: 2007 - “Great oaks from little acorns grow” Free e-mail Sign up: Odiogo.com sign_up.php - Blog or Feed URL HTML: iTunes and other RSS feeds via Odiogo.com: Podcasts-html.php with Audio JAVA icons Xml: (for Feed Browsers ONLY) - Diego Feed site: Podcasts-xml.php And! Not only MP3 but also ??? to display on Jet Audio, iTunes, and iPods

9. BlogCasting: (3) Weblog Projects - 2007 Students’ WordPress Blogs, via Odiogo.com HTML: iTunes and other RSS feeds via Odiogo.com: Podcasts-html.php with Audio JAVA icons Memos: PHP Forum: thread 313#313 Yes! Not only MP3 but also ---- Jet Audio - Lyrics!! embedded in MP3 Play & view, on Jet Audio, iTunes, and iPods! - Awesome Next slide

10. BlogCasting: (4) Weblog Projects - 2007 MP3 with Lyrics!! Jet Audio - Embedded in ID tags via Jet Audio Play & view, on Jet Audio, iTunes, and iPods! – Awesome!!

11. BlogCasting: (5) Weblog Projects - 2007 Students’ WordPress Blogs, via Odiogo.com Simple PodCasting site: kglaw.muxtape.com Memos: PHP Forum: thread 313#313 Next slide

12. Summary: BlogCast with RSS Mixing and Text2Speech

22. Text to Speech Tools: Windows 1. LaLaVoice Toshiba’s product  「日本語で読み上げます。」 Google Search + LaLa Voice 2. TextAloud – NeoSpeech product TextAloud reads text from email, web pages, reports and more, aloud on your PC. It can output reading to MP3 or Windows Media files. Demo Flash - View Demo (internet) Local software demo (personal) --> 3. MS Word with VB macro Word Speak 2001 for Macintosh MS Website WordSpeak – Google search Local software demo (personal) -->