Reading Prompt 4

CALL Design and RSS Feeds

Designing call products is very complicated and an arguable issue among designers Who are trying to achieve the desired integration in their CALL material successfully. Levy & Stockwell discussed this issue through understanding three core perspectives; teacher’s, learner’s and institutionwide perspective.

The teacher should consider the availability of combining computers in/outside classroom and the flexibility of the curriculum that based on long-term goals and expectations of teacher and learner. They suggested using managed and organized template that enables student to collaborate broadly, independently and effectively.
Language learner’s perspective is the horizontal integration. This dimension associates with achieving the continuity of using technology across courses. The designers have to be aware of the learner’s knowledge, experience and interests towards the technology to be able to use it desirably in learning process.
The third one is the vertical infrastructural institutionwide perspective. It refers to whole policies and continuous technical supports during inside and outside school use. Applications WebCT or Blackboard is widely used by most of the universities.
Narrow opportunities designers have towards these applications design choices. This is considered a limitation; however, it is the easy current accessible application used in universities. Any hardware or software applications/system should be carefully built for updates and reuse maintenance.

For RSS feeds, I never used them before and recently I realized the these feeds are
valuable for various updates upon any topic. That is very helpful for my prospective students and me. Now, I use the incredible Google RSS feeds and I am joining education subscription. I am planning to fill my packet with other useful ones