GoConqr - CALL Week10

Week 10: Go further with GoConqr

• 
• Caption: By Chengcheng Zhong, Shasha Yang, Jianyang Zhang & Wending Yu

Outline

• Why GoConqr?
• Theoretical Mind Map
• Five Main Functions
• Discussion
• Affordances
• Limitations and Solutions
• Pedagogical Implications
• References
• 

Why GoConqr?

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWubGdhlMx4&feature=youtu.be (Embed)

Theoretical Mind Map

• 
• CALL

What can we do with GoConqr?

• Slide Set
• Mind Map
• Flashcards
• Note
• Quiz
• food vocabulary learning
• Fairy Tale Quiz
• food culture

Practice & Discussion

• 1. What are the affordances and
• limitations of GoConqr?
• 2. How can teachers use
• GoConqr in L2 teaching?
• 

Affordances

• Learning community
• Connectable function
• Containing all language learning process
• Free
• User-friendly
• Inside resource library
• 

Limitations and Solutions

• No word sounds (flashcard)
• Texts /images only (quiz)
• No enough statistic analysis (quiz)
• Limited function (slides)
• Text editing (note)
• Teacher's scaffolding
• Link the quiz into slides
• Self-review
• Screencast
• Link to blog

Pedagogical Implications

• 
• Notes: shared tasks & experience tasks
• Mind map: genre approach for writing; vocabulary group
• Flashcard: vocabulary learning
• Quiz: listening and reading comprehension
• Slide: class presentation

References

• 
• Boud, D. (2002). Introduction: Making the move to peer learning. In D. Boud, R. Cohen, & J.Sampson (eds.), Peer Learning in Higher Education: Learning From & With Each Other. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, Inc.
• Neumeier, P (2005) A closer look at blended learning – parameters for designing
• a blended learning environment for language teaching and learning. ReCALL 17/2:163–178.
• Pegrum M (2009) From Blogs to Bombs: The Future of Digital Technologies in Education. Crawley, Western Australia: UWA Publishing.
• Rovai A (2002) Building sense of community at a distance. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 3(1): 1-16.
• Senior, R. (2010). Connectivity: A framework for understanding effective language teaching in face-to-face and online learning communities. RELC Journal, 41(2), 137-147.
• Sfard A (1998) On two metaphors for learning and the dangers of choosing just one. Educational Researcher 27(2): 4-13.
• Williams, M. and R. L. Burden. (1997) Psychology for language teachers: A social constructivist approach. Cambridge University Press.