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Handbook of Research on E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition
A method for distributing news headlines, alerts, reminders, or other related Web content that are available for feeding from an online publisher to Web users.
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Portable Handheld Language Learning from CALL MALL to PALL
Chaka Chaka (Walter Sisulu University, South Africa)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-994-6.ch033
Abstract
This chapter explores aspects of portable handheld language learning that are likely to benefit many mobile assisted language learning (MALL) practitioners. Portable handheld language learning refers to mobile, virtual, and ubiquitous language learning mediated through mobile handheld devices. Currently, both computer assisted language learning (CALL) and MALL seem to dominate the act of language learning. Against this background the chapter first provides a brief review of CALL, highlighting CALL technologies helping mediate language learning. Second, it delineates features typifying e-Learning and contends that CALL is more closely linked to traditional e-Learning than MALL. Third, it provides empirical instances of MALL and argues that the future of language learning lies more with MALL and especially with pen assisted language learning (PALL) than with CALL. Finally, it maintains that an all-encompassing and multidimensional definition of mobile learning is necessary if MALL is to evolve into a mainstream virtual learning enterprise.
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Pedagogical Mashup: Gen Y, Social Media, and Learning in the Digital Age
Really Simple Syndication feeds provide Web content or summaries of Web content together with links to the full versions of the content. RSS is used by news Websites, Weblogs and podcasting to synch and deliver content.
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Social Networking for Businesses: Is it a Boon or Bane?
A web feed format for delivering the latest content from sites that interest people by not having to visit each site individually.
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Educational Podcasting: A Taxonomy of Pedagogical Applications
A technology originally designed to facilitate the publication of text summaries of additions to frequently updated websites, such as news sites and blogs. The user subscribes to the feed(s) of one or more RSS-enabled websites by configuring a news reader or aggregator program installed on his/her computer with the URL(s) of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) file(s) that comprise the feed. The program perodically checks the feed for new content and downloads it as it becomes available. RSS 2.0 feeds permit the inclusion of enclosures, which permit multimedia files (such as MP3 files in the case of podcasting) to be referenced in the feed.
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‘Stream of Training' Approach in Project Management Training
A relatively new format for distributing news headlines and other content on the Internet. Other names for RSS are RDF (resource description framework), site summary, or rich site summary, or really simple syndication. It is found on many Web sites, portals, e-zines, and electronic databases.
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Web X.0: A Road Map
It is a family of Web feed formats used for syndicating content from blogs or Web pages. RSS is an XML file that summarizes information items and links to the information sources. It informs users of updates to blogs or Web sites they're interested in. Web or blog RSS feeds are typically linked with the word “subscribe,” an orange rectangle, or with the letters XML or RSS in an orange box.
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Researching Community in Distributed Environments: Approaches for Studying Cross-Blog Interactions
A technology that allows individuals to be notified whenever a particular blog or other web site is updated.
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A CAD-Based Interface Management System using Building Information Modeling in Construction
RSS easily distributes headlines and updated information to a large number of computer users through software programs that organize promulgated information for easy reading.
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Web Logs
A family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds, or podcasts.
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The Impact of Web 2.0 in the Teaching and Learning Process
It is a Web 2.0 tool that allows delivering regular changing Web contents to the user.
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Teacher Training and Social Media: Using a Multi-Author Blog for Lifelong Learning
A tool generally utilized in blogs or news sites. It allows users, who subscribe to the feed, to retain updated information using either desktop software called “RSS readers” or web-based and mobile-device-based services.
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