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OmaPaki Collaborative Class

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What is Telecollaboration

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Audience

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Objective

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Technologies

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Activities

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Pages

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Design FUN Issues

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In telecollaborative partnerships, internationally- dispersed learners in parallel language classes use Internet communication tools such as e- mail or synchronous chat in

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interaction, dialogue, debate, and intercultural exchange with expert speakers of the respective language under study (Belz, 2004, p. 1).

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This is a website that will be a tele-collaborative platform for Omani & Pakistani intermediate EFL students enrolled in a hybrid course.

O b j e c t i v e

v The website is meant to allow students

to practice, enhance, and polish their English writing and speaking skills.

v It highly relies on students' participation,

creativity and collaboration.

v The writing and speaking skills of the

students are meant to be practiced through knowledge, information and culture sharing that is very likely to happen while students are trying to explore the

• ther country's (Oman or Pakistan) cultural

and social characteristics and their differences along with other students' (Omani or Pakistani) interests, talents and aspirations. The course is highly dependent on technology.

v Students are expected to be collaborative,

and creative!

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The site is designed to be a supplementary source of activities that are designed to complement the text- book and classroom interactions.

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Students in both countries are assumed to have a 2- hour access to computer lab where their teacher is present and works as a facilitator.

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v The site activities encourage students to

incorporate different types of technological tools in distance

• communication. The activities are

designed to encourage pair and group work besides individual work.

v Here are some of the technological tools

students are going to be exposed to:

v Video recording v Video notes v Blogging v Google presentations v Web quest v Games v Forum discussions v Digital Story Telling v Wiki

A c t i v i t i e s

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Setting up Student Learning Outcomes for the class

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Self-introductions

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A place description

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Story-telling

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Working on a theme to make a presentation

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Opinion on natural disasters and ways to help

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How a game could help us learn

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Writing about a tradition/ cultural practice

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Exchanging information about learning progress

P a g e s

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Home

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Language Activities (main page)

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Blog

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Photo Gallery

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Members

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Calendar

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Videos

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Forums

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Useful Links

D e s i g n F U N I s s u e s

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