Web 2.0 Technologies in Teaching EFL Writing: Class Blogs with Text to Speech (BlogCast) for Oral Presentation and Process Writing YASUDA, Masami, Kwansei Gakuin Univ., Myasuda[at]kwansei.ac.jp Theme: Expanding learner potentialー it's your CALL! JALTCALL SIG 2009 Toyo Gakuen University, Hongo Campus, Tokyo, JAPAN. June 5, 2009 JALTCALL SIG 2009 Toyo Gakuen Univ., Hongo Campus, JAPAN E-Learning at KG Univ.

2 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 3. BlogCasting**: Weblog☆ Projects – 2006 ～ 2008 Paper Pencil Email /ML Blog /RSS Text to Speech* *Text to Speech (Assistive Technology) + ☆Weblog **BlogCasting = Word-Processor ★Word Processing  ★ Local Thin Client  Web editor  Cloud Computing ★

4 4. 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

5 5. Past Projects: Video Narrative Project Video Narration – Student’s audio in Final Project Student audio in MP3-shrt Local: audio file Web site: VoiceBlog site Past Presentations: PPT in SWF 3/5/2007: Local file: KG030507-3.swf (3/5/2007): Drive HQ published folder http://myasuda-foseek- bbs100106-s.html

6 6. Weblog Projects: since 2006  BlogCasting Weblog Projects: http://advcomp.wordpress.com/ Advcomp.wordpress.com/ RSS FEED mixer-project-2007/ Students Weblogs and comments Privacy protection with PINs Advcomp.wordpress.com tag=classblog myasuda - my.land.to /treebbs/tree.php?n=470

7 7. RSS (Rich Site Summary) 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.)

8 8. Weblog Projects – 2006: How to read students’ Blog threads: via WEB Portal Page http://protopage.com/ : SPA (CNET Single Page Aggregators)

9 9. Additional Benefit: BlogCasting by RSS Mix & Podcasting Forum BBS in PHP attb – myasuda “Feed2Podcast” – 2006 RSS mixing and audio generation How to register RSS? Registering my WordPress blog site New feed (XML) to be created http://atbb.jp/myasuda/?infoseek But, No Longer Available! - 2007 Out of service! “Feed2Podcast” Click to browse screen shots

10 10. Text to Speech Text to Speech One of Assistive Technologies Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe, at TED Conference Ted Conference site YouTube

11 11. 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

12 12. 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 Notes: ‘MacinTalk’ on Macintosh – has a longer history on Text2Speech!

13 13. BlogCasting: RSS Mixing and Podcasting “Feed2Podcast” No Longer Available! 2006 Out of service! “Feed2Podcast” Configuring Widgets: Still images posted at PHP Forum site in 2007 Reactivated but gone again. Feed2Podcast setting images Skip to 2007

14 14. RSS Mixing (2): Podcasting with Vocal Fruits Show time: Join05210700005.avi Show time: Join05210700008.avi

15 15. BlogCasting: (1) Weblog Projects - 2007 RSS mixer with Text2Speech “Odiogo.com” “Talkr” (unstable) My memos: PHP Forum site

16 16. BlogCasting: (2) 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

17 17. BlogCasting: (3) Weblog Projects - 2007 MP3 with Lyrics!! Jet Audio - Embedded in ID tags via Jet Audio Play & view, on Jet Audio, iTunes, and iPods! – Awesome!!

18 18. BlogCasting: (1) Weblog Projects - 2008 RSS mixer with Text2Speech “Odiogo.com” The WordPress plug-in instructions can be found here. My memos: PHP Forum site Local image file

19 19. BlogCasting: (2) Weblog Projects - 2008 KGLaw BlogCast 2008 “Odiogo.com” KGLaw BlogCast: Portal site Local image file

20 20. BlogCasting: (3) Weblog Projects - 2008 KGLaw BlogCast 2008 Local image file Samples of text2Speech audio Advcomp – Education course kglawf81 – Freshmen 1st kglawf82 – Freshmen 2nd kglaws81 – Sophomores

21 21. Feasibility: tasks & class size: Reflections from BlogCasting**: Weblog☆ Projects – 2006 ～ 2008 *Text to Speech (Assistive Technology) + ☆Weblog **BlogCasting = ★Word Processing  ★ Local Thin Client  Web editor  Cloud Computing

22 22. Summary: BlogCast with RSS Mixing and Text2Speech

23 23. Technology in Language Teaching and Learning Figure 1 Range-of-Use Technology Chart Szecsy, Elsie M. "Technology in Language Teaching and Learning." Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education. 2008. SAGE Publications. 29 Mar. 2009. <http://www.sage-ereference.com/bilingual/Article_n313.html>. Source: EnGauge. Available from http:/ / www.ncrel.org/ engauge.　Broken Link Copyright © 2006 Learning Point Associates. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.