Welcome to the Web 2.0. English course at the EOI Santander.

This will be the syllabus we’ll try to cover over the next weeks:

What is web 2.0.

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CDex (http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/)

CDex is a freeware software (under a GPLv3 licence) which allows you to convert music CD formats and other sound formats into .mp3.

For more information about GPLv3, please visit: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Pollialyda is a Librarian and tech advisor who has written a wonderful presentation about how to slidecast using SlideShare and PodcastPeoplecom (have alook at her blog http://blog.pafa.net)

Apart from this last file hosting service, you can also use other podcasting host services to upload your mp3 file like BlipTV, or The Internet Archive. It is also possible to upload your podcast to PBwiki or wiki spaces and from the link get the URL with an mp3 extension. We tell you how you can get the URL with the mp3 extension in another post. Now have a look at this presentation to see how you can prepare a slidecast in SlideShare:

Blogger is one of the blogging services which are easier to use in class.

There are a few advantages to this blogging service.

See this video tutorial to quickly start your own blog in Blogger:

People like you and me who spend hours doing some work don’t like that other people pass by and copy the work they have done without proper attribution.

There is one way to make it clear that we don’t want to be snatched from our intelectual property and it is to mark  our work with a Creative Commons licence.

There are a couple of places where you can get information about how to make and get “CC” (Creative Commons) attribution.

Read the post “Marking: Best Practices for Marking Content with CC Licensing” on the Creative Commons blog to learn about marking your work and the post How to attribute a Creative Commons work by Molly Kleimann available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, © 2008.

More than 400 vocabulary videos with voice explanations and pictures. It’s good for self study or using in class with Internediate to Advanced students

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There are a few tools which help you create surveys and quizzes easily. Some of them are free, some others are not.

If you are interested in practising your English through quizzes, or you are even thinking of creating your own ones, check the following tools and consider their multiple possibilities:

http://a4esl.org/c/qw.html

http://a4esl.org/c/bilingual.html

http://www.sameshow.com/download/quiz-creator-download.html

http://www.funtrivia.com/ql.cfm?cat=3533

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/cloud.php

 http://www.quizmoz.com/

And also see if you can answer the following quizzes:

http://breadandrosesquiz.wordpress.com/page/2/

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/cloud.php

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