Conferences for students on the Internet

 

e-Groups. My personal choice for a conference and electronos group platform comes complete with chat, talk(audio), calendar, file exchange and much more. It is "free", i.e. paid by commercials or you can choose to pay 4.95USD for the non commercial version.

Kent Andersen
The Language Plaza webmaster
We have been investigating the use of voice-over-Internet and
audiographics tools for this purpose since 1997.  Although we have not been using NetMeeting and have no immediate plans to use videoconferencing, you might like to read some recent publications of ours.  Firstly, in ReCALL, Vol 11 (2), http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/eurocall/recall/rvol11no2.pdf :
Hauck, M. & Haezewindt, B. (1999). "Adding a new dimension to distance (language) learning and teaching - the tutor's perspective." pp. 46-54.
Kötter, M., Shield, L. & Stevens, A. (1999). "Real-time audio and e-mail for fluency:
Promoting distance language learners' aural and oral skills via the Internet". pp. 55-60.

Secondly, Shield, L. & Hewer, S. (1999) A Synchronous Learning Environment to Support Distance Language Learners. In: Cameron, K. (ed) CALL in the Community, proceedings of Exeter CALL 99, Exeter: Elm Bank. pp.379-389.
Hewer, S. & Shield, L. (1999) Building up fluency on-line, Netword, 25. (Spring) p.8

Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.

Lesley Shield & Markus Koetter

Lesley Shield
Lecturer in Language Learning and Technology
l.e.shield@open.ac.uk

Markus Koetter
Research Lecturer in Language Learning and Technology
m.koetter@open.ac.uk
NETEACH, a VERY useful listserver with questions and answers concerning teaching with the Internet. 

Some useful NETEACH-L commands are:

    Subscribe to the list
         sub NETEACH-L Firstname Lastname

     Unsubscribe from the list
         unsub NETEACH-L

     Stop messages temporarily
         set NETEACH-L mail postpone

     Restart messages after postponing them
         set NETEACH-L mail ack

     Receive messages in digest form (all the messages for one  day)
         set NETEACH-L mail digest

     Discontinue receiving messages in digest form
         set NETEACH-L mail ack

If you try these and still have problems with your subscription, please write to Suzan Moody, NETEACH-L owner   The Chinese University of Hong Kong smoody@cuhk.edu.hk 

 

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