1) Brief descriptions of the tools and links to their websites
- Synchronous CMC Tool website: http://www.scribblar.com
: Scribblar provides mutual interaction between teachers and students. It has a whiteboard function in the presentaion room so teachers can show students the class materials and teach by pointing and writing the contents at the whiteboard. Teachers and students also can speak and listen to class materials through the audio function. It will make students very convenient to take teachers' lecture or important announcements without going to school or academies. Teachers are also able to convey their lectures to students using this interesting and neat functions speak in person to students and get questions and opinions from their students. However, users have to pay for lots of plans that provides big amount of document pages, presentation rooms and numbers of users.
- Asynchronous CMC Tool website: http://vocaroo.com/
: Vocaroo.com is a simple online voice recording service website. Students easily can record the contents and save the files. And then they can share thier recorded files using embed or e-mail functions. It's comfortable and easy. Users also can upload the other audio(recording) files that they already got done before. This website has no complicated procedures or functions at all.
2) Your thoughts about how the Synchronous CMC tool and the Asynchronous CMC tool could support learning and the development of language skills. Are there any similarities and in how they could support languag learning?
- Synchronous CMC tool: Synchronous tools are likey to help listening and speaking skills in language learning since students have to open their ears and mouths to get information and participate their teachers' class contents or assignments. Teachers will definitely use synchronous tools for supporting students' listening and speaking skills. Furthermore, teachers can directly give feedbacks to students in person so the effectiveness of various synchronous tools could be doubled compared to the Asynchronous assignments or classes. The most powerful strength of synchronous tools are animated interaction between students and teachers.
- Asynchronous CMC tool: Instead of the animated interactions of synchronous tools, Asynchronous has different ways to support language learners. By using the tools such as e-mails and recordings teachers can handle the large amount of students' works. In other words, asynchronous tools are effective for language assignments that needs evaluations and assessments of teachers. It is also convenient and comfortable to students. Students who do not feel comfortable for direct conversations or active participation because of the affective-filter for their language speaking, they can do the works individually and submit their works to their teachers only to get the feedbacks. They still can using convenient computer/Internet based tools to save time and efforts.
- Similarities: Synchronous and Asynchronous are both computer based learning tools using advanced technology. They have a little bit of difference on the direct interaction point but have same good points of practicality and efficiency. Both can be interesting ways of improving language learners' listening and speaking skills as well.
3) Some of your ideas of possible activities and ways that the tools could be used in a language class to supplement in-class content and instruction.
-English job interview simulation(for Undergraduates)using Skype
: First, teacher need one more interviewer who can help him/her. The interviewer should be a Native English speaker for describing real situation. Teacher will let each student know their interview-time so that make students can get access on the right time and start. If the interview starts, interviewers will ask several same questions to all students. After the interviews are finished, teacher will use the Scribblar.com presentation room to give feedbacks on the questions to students. Teacher and the Native speker will talk on the micro-phone with explanations about the interview situations, sentences and words and give tips for good answers. Students also can ask questions to them in that presentation room.
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