TOETOE Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-resources

Alannah Fitzgerald

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hadevereux/3094488747/

Overview

• Left right left…– Digital infrastructure

• Beyond the book– Publisher engagement

• Open channels– TTV, OERu, China Open & Distance Ed

• Design-based research– Opening up entry points– Podcast corpora

• Project outputs

Copyright dances with copyleft

• Common in open corpora projects – FLAX being the best example of this, in step with

the open source software approach to development

http://www.flickr.com/photos/qmechanic/6338846194/

FLAX – Learning Collocations(BNC, BWE, Wikipedia)

http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=fp&sa=collAbout&c=collocations&if=flax

EAP student writing genres

http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=b&rt=r&s=ClassifierBrowse&c=BAWEPS&cl=CL1&if=flax&cls=

From OA to OER

http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=home&uiLanguage=en

CC-licensed OA journals

http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=licensedJournals&p=3&uiLanguage=en

Russell StannardTeacher Training Videos

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com

Using open channels

Lextutor

12/04/2023 9http://www.lextutor.ca

AWL – student sample

VocabProfile edit & checkRE-VP

Every country would like to establish themselves as a dominant superpower in the areas of economics and politics. America’s superpower status can be felt throughout the globe, and countries overseas are often required to adapt to American-style legislation that has been imposed as a result of foreign policy decisions made in America. Nevertheless, predictions about America’s imminent global decline are evident and the question remains as to which country will become the next economic superpower.

AntConc freeware – build your own corpus

http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html

AntConc video tutorials

http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html

OERu college composition course

http://www.baleap.org.uk/homehttp://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html

Scaling up online

http://www.baleap.org.uk/home

OER in f2f teaching

http://www.baleap.org.uk/home

Streamlining layers

http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/crunch/

Missing layers

Project outputs

• Truckloads of workshops• Continuing collections building• Widening the stakeholder vision• Papers, blog posts, slideshares