Syllabus

Content-based Course: Internet English Educational Projects (IEEP)
Fall-Winter semester, 2008-2009
B. Brinkman

Objectives
In this class we will carry out several activities and projects which use the internet. Among these projects will be ones related to the use of e-mail, blogging, creating photo album and video sites, social networking, knowledge of self, English, Japanese, and other language-learning sites, machine translation, comparison of internet services, and other projects. Students will create an internet-based portfolio of their work. Students will carry out their own research project and introduce their findings in a final paper and presentation.

Schedule

1. Thursday, September 25

Course introduction. Orientation. Overview and research interests.

2. Thursday, October 2

E-mail. Free and school accounts. Forwarding. Internationalized and professional signature and settings. E-mail tasks.

3. Thursday, October 9

Blogging. Types of blogging and purposes. Platform comparisons. Blogging project.

4. Thursday, October 16

Knowledge of self: Learning style, personality, and career. Writing/blogging task.

5. Thursday, October 30

Language learning, dictionaries, reference, machine translation.

6. Thursday, November 6

Creating an online photo album. Comparing services. Uploading, favorites. Uploading a presentation. Photo album project. "Badge" task.

7. Thursday, November 13

Online Libraries. (Text, audio, video) VOA audio and text. Live music archive. Prelinger archive.

8. Thursday, November 20

Social networking: a history of MySpace, FaceBook, Mixi, and other social networking sites. Privacy issues. Social networking task.

9. Thursday, November 27

A short survey of Distance Education around the world. Podcasting. Google Maps/Earth/Space, Travel or other topics.

10. Thursday, December 4

Creating your own video channel on YouTube/Google. Favorites and uploads. YouTube Project. YouTube/blogger task.

11. Thursday, December 11

Research paper rough draft due. Formatting, writing and presentation help.

12. Thursday, December 18

Presentations day 1, Research paper editing

13. Thursday, January 8

Presentations day 2, Research paper editing

14. Thursday, January 15

Review test. Research Paper Final draft due. Self-evaluation, Course evaluation. All assignments due.

Evaluation

Presentations: 20%
Tasks and Portfolio 20%
Tests: 20%
Participation: 20%
Research Paper: 20%

Texts
Materials will be provided by the instructor.