What I learned on Sep. 3

In this session we discussed digital native/immigrant, Network-based language teaching, and the article about when to use technology. In our group, we could not come up with any excellent idea on any of this topic, but we realized that the style the article affects our reading, especially attitude or motivation for the reading. If an article is written in a magazine style with some pictures, it will help us to relax and feel less stress to keep up with the content. When the discussion was shared with the whole class, we found some of the classmates preferred to read articles on screen. It was so interesting a fact to me since I always printed out whatever the materials are. For the articles of Activity #1, I tried to read on screen, and it was very tiring and I felt like the screen damaged my eyes…

Getting back to the topics in class, we also worked on GoogleDoc which was not familiar to me at all. Although I haven't seen how it will help my language teaching yet, it seems useful if I try to utilize it for writing courses (e.g., peer-reviewing/editing, collaborative writing, project related to writing, etc.). It seems that GoogleDoc is easier to utilize for these writing activities than Wiki, but I should consider those potentials further.