Week 8: Audioboo, baby

     The course began on Monday with Jena's excellent presentation on Audacity. I didn't know so many things could be used in audacity for students' language proficiency. Her presentation was fun and interactive. After Jena's presentation, we moved to Google Groups and Audioboo. Google Groups was quite interesting. I expected a clearer interface, but I'm sure the update of it is in the making. We commented on one another's MD#1. It was fun to do, I liked writing my opinion and noting the differences between MDs online. It was CMC! Google groups is both asynchronous and synchronous at the same time, I suppose. After this we went to Audioboo. It was exciting to record my voice over the computer. I felt like one of my PIE students. It was also nice to listen to my classmates' responses. Joe likes a restaurant called Bella Brava and Jena likes Campus Coffee Bean due to "fun" memories of studying for the comps there. Anyway, this week was a nice week. I read Diez-Bedmar and Perez-Paredez on CMC peer feedback which showed that learners tend to trust their own knowledge more than a native speaker when it comes to providing feedback through CMC.