Week 4 - The Internet is a Growing Community

This week I worked with Dan Isbell on Google Drawing. We wrote about Time Management. It was fun to create a "drawing" though I thought we'd literally be taking a paint pencil and drawing. It's more like shape-developing and designing. Anyway, here is our google image below:




For this week we read Dubravac, Ch. 4 which is about theories of second language acquisition. There are property, transition, and environmental theories. Wang & Vasquez purport that Web 2.0 is changing not only the world, but the university classroom. If you don't understand the difference between Web 1.0 & 2.0, they put it like this: Web 1.0 is that time where the internet was just reading and retrieving information. You go to a website, find out some information and you're done. Now, the internet is interactive. You create and share information along with chatting with people, writing comments, adding your ideas... it's more participatory. This more interactive phase of the internet is what they would cal Web 2.0. Wang & Vasquez (2012) state that language learning environments using Web 2.0 has broadened CALL research. This goes to show that the research field for studies in CALL is very open, and the road less-traveled. Perhaps, because it is still fairly new. The internet is only about 30 years old...