Intercultural Communication

I think intercultural communication is a great tool to use in the classroom. It allows students to be exposed to another culture first hand. I think that e-mail exchanges are wonderful to use in the foreign language classroom. They show the students that they are not wasting their time learning another language, that there are people in the world that really use it. Whether using e-mail, AOL, or live chat, I think it is important to give the students very clear instructions and guidelines when they are doing any sort of project using technology. A drawback to using technology is that it is sometimes unreliable, you do not know if it is always going to work properly.

Video Cameras in the FL classroom

Just want to let everyone know that I am posting this on FRIDAY! So, I think that using a video camera in the foreign language classroom would be a fun. The students would have a lot of freedom to be creative with the language. And as we have learned in class last week, it is really not too hard to upload a video and edit it with transitions and what not.
I have had friends who have had to film themselves for their classes with video cameras. They had to come up with a creative skit about anything, it just had to be five minutes long. Some other ideas for activities could be that when learning about weather, the students could film their own weather forecast like they see on the news. Or when learning about clothing, they could film thier own fashion show. They could do documentary videos about a certain cultural topic. Another idea is to work with a native speaker and do a recorded interview. I think there are numerous avenues you could take with a video assignment.
A few drawbacks I can think of would be that not every student has a video camera they could use to film with. And if the school provides them they could have a limited number or not be able to take them off campus which could limit what they could do with it. And it may be possible that they school doesn't even have video cameras.

Social Bookmarking websites

Well I have been looking around on both sites, citeulike and del.icio.us and am a little confused. It just seems overwhelming for me too look at all the different sites people have posted. I gather that citeulike is a website that is for more academic tags and links and the other site you can tag whatever you want. I understand that these sites provide ways to access information on the same topic easily, which would be an advantage, but that is about all I get. I don't understand how this is any better than using the favorites button when you are at a website you like, it seems like that- but more complicated. It all just seems confusing...

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CMC in the classroom

I think CMC is a great tool to use in the classroom. I would love to be able to use email and live chat and possibly blogs when I state teaching. I think they provide students will the ability to practice communicating in the target language as well as being exposed to another culture.