Utility facility: Do it free for learnability

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Wiki

What it is What we did Why we did it (instructional purpose) How its results are assessed

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Wiki What it is: -- a shared repository of knowledge, data, links

(exemplar: Wikipedia) -- an asynchronous source to your own & others’

data, links, etc. -- a simple, freely creatable, customizable place

(e.g., Wikispaces)

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wiki What we did: -- used a free easy wiki, wikispaces

-- created a Coastline/subject-matter-relevant site: http://ouiquioui.wikispaces.com -- linked the site to Seaport courses

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wiki Why we did it: -- to acquaint students with la mentalité wiki

-- to comfort students with French interface -- to permit easy sharing of resources

-- to promote interaction

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wiki How results are assessed:

-- Obvious methods, from within * quantitative * reportorial, written

-- Less obvious methods, from without * E-mail messaging * commenting by telephone, chat, etc

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Electronic live chat (ELC)

What it is What we did Why we did it (instructional purpose) How its results are assessed

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ELC

What it is: Unique linguistic hermaphrodite Speech-like: casual, quick, elliptical, dialectal Language-like: careful, edited, complete Synchronous, communicatively consequential

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ELC What we did: -- used a free easy chat service, Chatzy

-- made Coastline/subject-matter-relevant space -- password-protected the chatroom -- linked the site to Seaport courses

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ELC Why we did it:

-- to acquaint students with French argumentation (e.g., argument form can have more value than its content) -- to give comfort via anonymous, “faceless” French -- to promote interaction-- to permit easy sharing of resources

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ELC How results are assessed:

Obvious methods, “inside”-- quantitative-- reportorial, written

Less obvious methods, “meta-” judgment

-- E-mail messaging-- commenting by telephone, chat, etc.

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Utility facility

KISS Ask for help Look everywhere Use anything and everything Test it yourself! Test it among students!