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The Great Beyond with Open English Language Resources Alannah Fitzgerald

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The Great Beyond with Open English Language Resources

Alannah Fitzgerald

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The Great Beyond• Prising open research corpora with OER for ELT

– FLAX collections with the BNC, BAWE, Wikimedia, Google N-grams – SPINDLE podcast corpora (OER audio/video + transcripts)

• More language samples than the textbook and the dictionary– More powerful = more examples of language in use across a range of

linked authentic language contexts– More user-friendly than the standard concordancer interface– More OER for learners and teachers

• Independent study resources• Pathways for crowd-sourcing the development of OER collections

• New audiences – linking formal and informal learning– TTV, BALEAP, IATEFL, OCWC, OERu

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TOETOE Technology for Open English Toying with Open E-resources (ˈtɔɪtɔɪ)

Alannah Fitzgerald's blog

http://www.alannahfitzgerald.org/394/

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BNC/BAWE

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The BAWE text sub collections

http://tinyurl.com/cpwyefb

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Wikify key words & phrases

http://tinyurl.com/cpwyefb

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Training Videos for FLAX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyDG29aQo8Y

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Beyond audience boundariesRussell Stannard - Teacher Training Videos

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com

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http://www.slideshare.net/tbirdcymru/itunes-u-corporate-channel-of-free-educational-resources

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Creative commons podcast content

10What can you do with this?

http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/resources/index.html#posters

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SPINDLE at OUCS

blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/openspires/2012/09/12/spindle-automatic-keyword-generation-step-by-step/comment-page-1/#comment-28452

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OERu – open and distance education

http://wikieducator.org/OER_university/Planning/OERu_2012_Prototype

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Widening audience participation

http://en.crtvu.edu.cn/

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Global Local Computer Assisted Language Learning

http://glocall.org/

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Materials Development with OER

16Arguably, competencies with resources cut across the whole of the TEAP framework.

http://www.baleap.org.uk/baleap/parties-projects/eap-teacher-competencies/

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Open Content, Practices, Communities

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edibleoffice/5391049006/

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Thank you

Email: [email protected]; Blog: Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-resources

www.alannahfitzgerald.org Twitter: @AlannahFitz

Slideshare:http://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/