Suzanne Cloke

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Title
Suzanne Cloke University of Padova CMC SIG
Event April 18th, 2008
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The Process

• Finding a Partner
• Deciding on Web 2.0 Tools
• Managing the Exchange
• Choosing Interculture

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Finding a partner

• Web Search
• Skype tandem exchange
• Italian Department, University (email)
• University of Washington Next Fall
• Conferences
• University of Melbourne, Australia
• Sabanci University, Turkey

A language exchange community for everyone
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The Right Partner?

• Similarities
• Ages? / Level? CEFR A2, B1, B2
• Languages?
• Italian English
• English English English as a lingua
  franca
• Objectives
• Calendar
• Lesson times (synchronous? asynchronous?)
• Expectations
• teacher commitment
• student assignments
• Tools (technical support?)

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Objectives /Syllabus

• Intercultural Competence
• Skills based
• Speaking Listening
• Reading Writing
• Speaking Writing
• ESP
• Communications articles? ads? Web pages?
• Science research?
• Content-based
• Teacher Training
• Literature
• Topic based

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Padova-Sabanci Exchange
The Students
Italian 2nd semester 10 weeks 16 students
Turkish 2nd semester 12 weeks 15 students
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Web 2.0 Tools
Wiki
Interculture
Chats
Blogs
Forums
Questionnaires
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Choosing Interculture
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The Padova-Sabanci Syllabus

• Padova-Sabanci Exchange
• Intercultural Competencegt Cultura Questionnaire
  and related articles
• Skills based
• Speaking Listening-gt Skype Exchange
• Analysis of Discussion Skills using
  Self-Critique Language
  functions Turntaking, interrupting, etc.
• Reading Speakinggt Read online articles and
  discussgt Write in Blog
• Speaking Online Research gt Write Essays in
  Wiki (Compare and Contrast Argumentation)
• Peer editing in Wiki
• Topics based - Educational systems
  (Compare-Contrast), the environment
  (Cause-Effect), Globalization, English as a
  language franca...

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The Padova-Sabanci Activities
Week 1 Sign up for Skype Complete intercultural
questionnaire in Cultura Write personal
descriptions in wiki (Read articles on Turkey
and Italy) Week 2 Discuss results of
intercultural questionnaire Discuss and comment
on articles and questionnaire in the blog Write
questions about educational systems for the first
Skype exchange Week 3 Participate in first
Skype exchange on education Post comments on
Skype exchange in blog (Read articles on Turkey
and Italy) Week 4 Italian students write
compare-contrast essays on Educational systems.
(Write questions for the next Skype
exchange.) Week 6 Participate in and record
Skype exchange. All students complete post
exchange critique. Turkish students read and
comment on Italians compare-contrast
essays.
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The New Interculture Wiki
http//interculturewiki.pbwiki.com/

• Resources to access and use
• - see how Web 2.0
• tools function
• - copy the format
• - make use of others online resources
• Corpora
• Native speaker
• Learner
• Telecollaboration
• Wikis vs Blogs vs Essays
• Skype conversations and
• video conferencing...

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Visit http//tulanepadova.pbwiki.com/
http//interculturewiki.pbwiki.com/ http//
intercultura-it-aus.wikispaces.com/ To learn
about blogs, wikis, social annotating,
chats,
etc., visit Sarah Guths Web 2.0 workshop wiki
http//web2workshops.pbwiki.com/ Contact me
mundysuzanne.cloke_at_unipd.it
Special thanks to Elisa Facciolo for creating
great ppt templates!
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