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USING PODCASTS IN MY CLASSROOM:      Podcasts are a series of videos or just audio that are uploaded to a website that anyone can download and view. The content of these podcasts can be about anything. They can be about politics, food, games, new products, the culture of a city, or someone's everyday life. Anyone who is interested in these items can view or listen to the podcasts at anytime from anywhere using a variety of electronic mobile devices.      Because the content of these podcasts is so various they are really useful for education. Odds are, if you are interested in learning something, you can find a relevant podcast to help you. Learning languages is no exception. There are podcasts for learning many languages and the culture of the countries that speak those languages. As a student or a self-learner, they are extremely useful for improving one's language ability and learning about specific elements that are rarely explained in textbooks. As ...

TED-ED VIDEO LESSON LEARNING OUTCOMES:                   (MOD#8 p2) In the TED-ED video lesson that I made, the content focuses on the location particles '에,' and '에서.' For the most part, they mean "to" (as in: "I went to the store.") and "from" (as in: "It's an hour from here.") respectively. There are a couple other major different between these two particles that are explained in the video lesson. As one can imagine, these particles are necessary for everyday Korean language use. It would be quite difficult to express many ideas without knowing them. Students must be able to both identify these particles when they are used and they also must know how and when to use them in their own language use. Since there are some major differences besides just denoting "to," and "from," students should be able to explain why one should be used rather than the other in specific contexts. Thus, my learning objec...

REACTION TO FLIPPED CLASSROOMS                               (MOD#8) These two articles (one found here and the other here ) are not much different from other articles I've read about flipping one's classroom. It seems to be a good way of trying to have students get the most out of their class time at school by having them initially learn the material and concepts at home and then come to school to practice what they had learned with their peers while the instructor facilitates the interaction of the students' usage of the concepts. In this way, the students are able to use the class content in a more meaningful way, and the teacher gives advice, asks engaging questions, and makes sure that the students correctly understand the material and that they are on task. When you add all of these elements together, they give us those perfect stereotypical photos of the teacher and the students all smiling together in ...

Professional Development With Twitter and 'Twitter Chat':                        (MOD#6 P1)      The Twitter chat that I participated in was the Educational Technology Chat or #edtechchat . I chose this one because, not only did it start at a good time for me, but also it is extremely relevant to the LAI 590 class. Before I get into the details of the Twitter Chat and of how I believe it can be beneficial to professional development, I would like to share an event of how Twitter itself has been beneficial to me as an educator after just only a few days of signing up for the website. When I was looking for 10 educators/ microbloggers in my are of study to follow, I found it very difficult because there are not many 'Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL)' teachers out there to connect with, so I tried a bit harder. I found " The Modern Language Teachers Association of Queensland Inc. (MLTAQ) " on Twitter and sa...

Using Twitter to Enhance One's Teaching:                                                  MOD#6 P2      Before I even read the articles, I began to see the educational use of twitter as I explored it. I created a Twitter account years ago not long after it became extremely popular as I wanted to see what all of the hype was about. However, to my disappointment, there was nothing interesting about it. It was very similar to Facebook, if Facebook didn't have anything but its status bar. At the time, it just seemed like a platform on which to follow celebrities, which I had no interest in. I shortly deleted my account after just creating it and never went back onto the site until recently. I have to say that this is a much different Twitter now than the one I knew all those years ago. It has a new look, and for the purpose of teaching, it is just...

THE FILTER BUBBLE (MOD#5 post4)      Facebook seems to have picked up on the rumor that their site is encouraging "filter bubbles" and "echo chambers." One of the articles states that Facebook has attempted to reduce this effect by making it so that when a user on Facebook clicks on an ad or news story, that, instead of ads or news from the same source reappearing, ads and news related to that topic will appear from a variety of sources. This is to provide the user with a variety of different view points on a particular topic.      However, Facebook seems to be skeptical overall about the idea that their website creates these "filter bubbles" and "echo chambers." Through one of their own studies, they claim that it isn't their fault, but rather the users' fault for surrounding themselves with friends who have the same or similar points of view as them. I have to disagree with Facebook's attitude towards this phenomenon as almost...