@@@  Thinking on the Application of Multimedia into College English teaching. @@@

     

                     The four main that the new generation should learn how to know, learn how to do, learn how to leave together, learn how to be. The teaching target of college English is to cultivate the student’s comprehensive capabilities to use English, especially  the listening comprehension and oral expression ability.

         1.  The Current Status of the Multimedia Teaching Method in  College English teaching
                We can cultivate the students’s English abilities, which are the final teaching aim  and developing  the student’s English intercommunitive ability.

         2.  Relationship between the Qualities of the College English Teachings and Multimedia Teaching
                 The teacher should make innovation on the College English Test and be more active  in  the teaching and carry out effective quality education.

          3.  Misunderstandings and Disadvantages of Multimedia teaching  in College English Teaching
             - Teachers neglecting the essentials
             - Teachers over use multimedia and neglecting its auxiliary teaching function
             - Some teachers being impercipient to multimedia method.

         4. Some suggestions on  Multimedia Teaching in College English Teaching
             -  Teacher should change  their ideas of using multimedia teaching that the determinant  of  teaching optimization doesn’t   rely on using whichever  media but the education concept.
              - We should devote major efforts to developing multimedia teaching mode based on network  circumstance. the students’ interest of self –study English will be strengthened, their ability of speaking and listening to English will be also heightened.

         5.  Conclusion
            The using of multimedia in nowadays, multimedia is a part of thing to developing the teaching in the college classroom. We should support and apply multimedia teaching method into both teachers and learners.

    
        @@@  Innovative Educational Technology In The Global Classroom.@@@
      From this article, Globalization and innovation are the important of Education-ESOL teachers, TESOL teacher. It's a part of development educational practice. This article said that "When creating a technology-integrated assignment,teachers should consider what they want student to learn from it in terms of both the technology and academic content." It means teachers should create and cultivate student's learning in a language classroom in order to make them interesting in some lessons. Teachers need to know how to use instructional technology to teach students who represent generations to come.
     How to integrate culture in the context of globalization and provide ESOL teachers with various innovative learning modes?
                1.  Integrating Instructional Technology into An assignment
                2. The ELL Case study (ELL = English Language Learning)
                3. Blogging
                4. Pod casting
                5. Creating a wiki
                6. Online discussion
                7. Implications

Asynchronous Tools
Asynchronous tools enable communication and collaboration over a period of time through a "different time-different place" mode. These tools allow people to connect together at each person's own convenience and own schedule. Asynchronous tools are useful for sustaining dialogue and collaboration over a period of time and providing people with resources and information that are instantly accessible, day or night. Asynchronous tools possess the advantage of being able to involve people from multiple time zones. In addition, asynchronous tools are helpful in capturing the history of the interactions of a group, allowing for collective knowledge to be more easily shared and distributed. The primary drawback of asynchronous technologies is that they require some discipline to use when used for ongoing communities of practice (e.g., people typically must take the initiative to "login" to participate) and they may feel "impersonal" to those who prefer higher-touch synchronous technologies






Synchronous Tool

Synchronous tools enable real-time communication and collaboration in a "same time-different place" mode. These tools allow people to connect at a single point in time, at the same time. Synchronous tools possess the advantage of being able to engage people instantly and at the same point in time. The primary drawback of synchronous tools is that, by definition, they require same-time participation -different time zones and conflicting schedules can create communication challenges. In addition, they tend to be costly and may require significant bandwidth to be efficient

ref: http://www.asaecenter.org/Resources/articledetail.cfm?itemnumber=13572

          People write blogs as a way to express themselves and their knowledge or expertise. People read blogs as a source of information or because they find the writer interesting. Blogs are extremely useful, both to the writer and the  

 reader. The writer may have a lot of knowledge to share, and the reader may want an informal way to learn about a topic. Some people use blogs to find other people with similar problems, issues or situations. Blogs can be anonymous, which helps a lot of people share information without being known. Some people like to state their feelings. Kind of like your message board in WikiAnswers or talk page in Wikipedia. Same thing really.

          

          Personally I enjoy writing and write about topics that I am interested in and that I like to write about. (I even have a blog about 'writing') Also once in a while write about products that I like, or that I am interested in 'Pre-Selling' those (Affilliate) Products, with almost all products that I (pre)sell on my blog I usually genuinely think it's about products that I believe are great products or that I have or enjoy myself. Products that

It is also possible to receive comments about experiences from other people.

          I write about several other subjects that have myinterest such as Travel (and as mentioned before) the process of writing itself, Movies, Music and a few other areas of interest for several of those areas I have (one or more)different 'Blogspots'.

ref: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_people_use_blogs