Learning Call: TTP Week#3 - Feed Me, Archives, & Google Tools

Sunday, March 15, 2015

TTP Week#3 - Feed Me, Archives, & Google Tools

Week#3 Tasks

PART 1

Setting up a TTP Spring 2015 Archive
Inspired by 성우's Saturday Night Band Posting Extravaganza ....
I have made the TTP Spring 2015 Group Blog private.
This creates a closed space where we can all post categorized notes, reflections, and materials during and after TTP.

PART 2
Feed Me with Feedly.com! Download the LearningCalFeeds2015.opml file here

Keeping up with the endless stream of great CALL content out there can be overwhelming. One of the tools that can help us 'sip from the firehose' is an RSS Reader. This is a way to have new content come to you rather than having to constantly check sites you follow. We will get things set up in class, but if you have any questions about how the magic happens, the screencast below shows how to use Feedly.com to subscribe to sites you like. It was recorded for last year's TES531 course, but most of it is still up-to-date.

Once it's all set up, you can spend some time exploring the sites in your Feedly (and perhaps adding others). As always, use Diigo to bookmark any interesting sites you encounter.

PART 3

Check your Gmail for a message from Xreading.com
This is the online source of extensive reading materials.

Once logged in, click on 'Add book' to check out online book options.

PART 4

Explorations in different parts of the Google Universe.
Google offers a variety of useful tools which are included for free with a Google account. Below are screencasts that describe some of these tools. There were also recorded last year, but are mostly up-to-date.

Gmail	Drive	Google Plus & Photos	Calendar	Translate
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(the video file links are there in case you want to download these for offline viewing)

To Do Possibilities:

Add a forwarder from your Gmail account to your main email account (if gmail isn't your main account)
Create a short Google Presentation (2 slides is OK) , post it on your blog, and make 'pufslebow@gmail.com' an editor.
Upload a photo or two (or 100) to your Google photo space and share them with your TTP Classmates classmates in Google Plus.
Use Google Translate (online or mobile) and see if it can accurately transcribe you speaking these Pronunciation Practice Sentences and Minimal Pairs

Chrome TOOLS

There are also a variety of ways to 'extend' Google's Chrome browser to add functionality.

You can see all extensions in the 'Chrome Web Store'. (despite the word 'store', extensions are free)

Below are some CALL-related extensions.