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Hey folks! Welcome back
This week’s topic will be on ICD (instructional courseware design). Remember its ICD, not OCD

ICD is creating instructional materials to make language acquisition more appealing and effective. Basically make a courseware to make learning fun! Now ICD consists of these two theories.
  •  Behaviorist Theory: Deals mainly on learners’ behaviour towards the given stimulus.
  •  Constructivist Theory: Learners build their knowledge on specific subjects based upon their prior knowledge. Learners are required to engage and be responsible of their own learning.

Instructional Design is creating the material/lesson to help the learners. As the designer, they must analyze the students’ needs. ISD involves the following:
  •          creation of syllabus
  •          planning of lessons
  •          material selection and adaptation
  •          planning of implementation and intervention

As ISD in CALL, I mentioned before that it is the usage of computer in the lesson. It can only act as support to the lessons and not as a complete replacement of teachers in class.

Next stop is PLATO. Not Plato the philosopher, but PLATO - Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations (1960 – 2006). 


It was the first computer assisted instruction system and it can be programmed to teach any course. But it was hella expensive


Lastly is ADDIE
*side note this name is so weird cause it was my ex’s nickname and he was
Anyway………….



ADDIE is a framework for the developmental of instructional coursework.

thank you for reading !

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Chapter 3

Hey folks !

Welcome back.
This week's entry isn't much cause we only had one class. I felt like 💩 cause I was like half an hour late to the class. It wasn't cause I woke up late or anything, it was just the traffic. For those who don't know, I drive back and forth between KL and  Bangi everyday. And just my luck on that day the traffic was bad before I was even half way through.


Well enough of that. Let's get learning
This week we touched on CMC and ESL. Now what on earth is CMC? CMC stands for Computer Mediated Communications. What that means is basically any communications through computer.
Eg; Facebook, Twitter etc


CMC has been used in education since the late 1980's and in 1990's CALL was introduced. (you can refer to my previous post to know more on CALL) A simple example would be "You've Got Mail". anyone seen that movie before? If you haven't then you've missed out in life


Emails,forum,blogs and such are categorized as asynchronous CMC which is basically no immediate respond. Unlike synchronous CMC which is instant and direct communication. Eg Whats App,chat rooms etc.

In late 2000's, CMC was implemented in long distance learning (and relationship in my opinion 😏) Its simply video conferences and E-learning.

That is all for this entry. See you next time!

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Chapter 2


           
Greetings and welcome back ! I see you came back for more hehe..

  For this week, I'm going to cover Evolution of CALL and also Search Engines. So get some snacks and here we go


  1. Evolution of CALL

Now, there are 3 levels of progression in CALL. First off, behaviouristic CALL, communicative CALL and lastly integrated CALL. 
Now for behaviouristic CALL, it goes back in the 1960's. Because of its programmed instruction, it was repetitively drilling students but only testing them using audio-lingual method. Students simply just listen and write their answer. 



Next is communicative CALL. This was developed in the 1970's-1980's. It doesn't focus on grammar but simply the usage of the language itself. Grammar became implicit.  




Lastly is integrated CALL or as I would like to call it the Age of the CD-ROM's


A little throwback story, back when I was a practicum teacher, I had also thought IT class and children these days have never even heard of diskettes. I realized how old I was  😭


Anyways, this was made popular was internet was became high speed and hypermedia was accessible. What is hypermedia you ask? Hypermedia is the extension of hypertext. Its a non-linear medium that can include sounds, videos etc and can be either interactive or non-interactive. 
Now, as I mentioned integrated CALL became popular when internet became high speed. This had a major role on English language and learners were no longer just recipients but they can also be the creators and communicators. 

Are you still with me? 



     2.  Search Engines

I'm going to make this short and sweet cause its a pretty simple thing. 
Search Engines = web tools eg - Google,Yahoo,Bing 
There are 4 parts
  • Database - which is simply the storage of all the indexed webpages
  • Web crawlers/Spiders - bot that 'crawls' collecting info that then stored in database
  • User interface - the 'front desk' of the site where users enter their input and results are shown
  • IRS (Info Retrieval System) - match user's query with right results and presented according to relevance

And that is all from me on this week's entry. Hope this will help and be benificial to you earthlings. 
sayonara and arigato






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Chapter 1

Hi, its Hannah..


Just kidding, its Balqis here and welcome to Chapter 1.
My first impressions of this subject was not what I expected. You see, I took IT for my elective back in high school. Though similar, this class had me thinking twice about what I knew. 
I also thought that instead of this blog becoming just a journal, this would also be a great place for me to not only share, but also make my own notes of the lessons. So here we go.

For this week's lesson we were introduced to Blogs and CALL. Both very familiar but I had some catching up to do. First off was, what is this 'Blog' these humans keep talking about? Well, Blog is simply a place in the World Wide Web for people to share and talk about any information they want. We touched on a few types of Blogs as we created our own. 

Weblog

  • frequently updated website
  • easy to set up and maintain
  • can also display pictures and videos
Tutor Blog



  • own by the teacher
  • content mainly syllabus,material,assignment   
  • student not allowed to comment
Class Blog
  • site shared within the class
  • used for discussions and comments are allowed
  • student involve in the content
  • teacher as moderator
Learner Blog


  • students own blog
  • students share thoughts and reflect
  • online journal
 But why we use blogs? 
However there are some disadvantages of blog


CALL
Computer Assisted Language Learning


CALL is basically a software to help teach language eg : hotpotato or prezi
There are 4 types of CALL programs. Below is the list and some examples of the programs.

  • CALL-Specific Software – sites or ELT software (CD) for games and exercises
  • Generic Software – Words, Excel, PowerPoint
  • Web-based Learning Programs – online dictionary, Wikipedia
  • CMC (Computer Mediated Communication) – online communication (email,forum etc)




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