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Graham’s presentation last week at Blogstreams Salon on Podcasting in EFL inspired me to give podcasting a try with my own students here in Kyoto. Taking a cue from Bob and Rob, and a pointer from Charles Kelly to David Battino’s java-based popup mp3 player, away I went.
My first [...]

Skype Journal: vSkype video conferencing adds multi-user and collaboration
It looks like Skype has taken a turn for video conferencing. Have a look at the screenshot on this post and imagine the educational possiblities, especially in language learning or intercultural studies. It won’t be long until the use of such applications will be the [...]

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This Sunday at TappedIn, Blogstreams Salon features Barcelona-based Graham Stanley on Podcasting in EFL/ESL. A member of the TESL Podcasting Forum, Graham has recently been experimenting with podcasting as a way to integrate audio content into the language learning activities of students in a classroom. To find out more about what podcasting [...]

At Blogstreams Sunday evening (GMT19:00), ElderBob kindly pointed us to Ineen, which, like Skype, allows users to make free telephone calls to other users on the internet. It also allows for multiple participant audio conferencing and comes with video conferencing for up to four people. Best of all, it has a recording feature, [...]

Will asks what blogs should students read. Well, there should be an online service where people enter their profile information and are matched with others according to specified criteria. This would be a great way for students to find reading material right off the bat.

This semester I’m teaching an elective EFL course at Kyoto Sangyo
University entitled, Internet Communication, in which Japanese students
are putting their English to use by  learning to use the social
networking features of Livejournal and
Flickr to interact with people all over the world.  We are using 
Moodle as a course management tool on which weekly
assignments are posted, links [...]