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Glossary of acronyms, terms and jargon

• Mush-ups
• Linguist mush-ups
• Code switching
• Digital natives
• Digital immigrants
• CAI Computer Aided Instruction
• CALL Computer Aided Language Learning
• CMC Computer Mediated Communication
• NNS Non-Native Speakers
• MOO Multi-User Domain - Object Oriented
• A MOO is an object-oriented database housed on a remote server. Users from around the world can log into a MOO to communicate with other MOO users, or players, either synchronously or asynchronously.

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What is Web 2.0

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“Web 2.0 has a variety of definitions. It can be described simply as the version of the web that is open to ordinary users and where they can add their content. It refers to sites and spaces on the internet where users can put words, pictures, sounds and video. It is a very simple idea in theory. In practice, it signifies the transfer of control of the internet and ultimately the central platform for communication, form the few to the many. It is the democratization of the internet.” Rob Brown 2009 p 2

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“"Web 2.0" is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centred design, and collaboration.” (2010) Wikipedia/web 2.0, Web 2.0 is also known as “read-write-web” as it enables users to both, read content and write or post their own content and as “The Social Web” as it is essentially a means of Social interaction and communication.

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“Our students’ realities in terms of the way they communicate and learn are vastly different from our own” W. Richardson (2009) P 5

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“They are building vast Social networks with little or no guidance. They are using much more complex and flexible digital information and by and large without any instruction on it differs from the paper world” W. Richardson (2009) P 5

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Websites

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Stduent Websites

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ISIS

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Wikis

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Wikis are very similar in appearance to traditional websites with one major difference Wikis are in essence a collaborative tool were multiple users can work together on a single project form any computer in any country on the planet. “If you want to find the most important site on the Web these days, look no further than Wikipedia” W. Richardson (2009) p 55

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“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That is what we’re doing”, J. Wales (2004) Founder of Wikipedia.

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The Facts

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“Wikipedia was launch on 1st January 2001, within a year it had acquired 20,000 articles in 18 languages. As of December 2007 Wikipedia UK alone had over 2 million articles making it the largest encyclopaedia in history” R Brown (2009) p 39

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In 2005 Nature published a study showing that Wikipedia “was accurate as Encyclopaedia Britannica. Today Wikipedia has become even more accurate, not less.” E. Qualman (2009) p 23

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Blogs

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Blogs are very similar to a diary that is online, in so much as they are time dated and in a continual process of change and addition of content. However they differ in many ways, Blogs are often created around a theme e.g. food, weather, cars, the news or the local area etc. Blogs are open to the online audience and what is of utmost importance is that Blogs are open to feedback from the reader.

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The Facts

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“two new blogs are created every second” W. Richardson (2009) p19

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Podcasts

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Social Networking

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Social Bookmarking

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Social video, image and file sharing

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Web 2.0 “The Social Web” and ELT an Overview

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Web 2.0 from a theoretical perspective

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Web 2.0 and Communicative Language Teaching

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Web 2.0 and Constructivism

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Web 2.0 and Sociocultural Theory

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Web 2.0 and Task Based Learning

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Web 2.0 and Language Acquisition