Readings week 10

Chapter 4 presented eight writing activities integrating CALL. I found new the idea of creating and using templates, as well as all the technical explanations about editing texts. I had used Manual Track before knowing the Track Changes feature from Microsoft Word, it took me for ever to work on each one of the documents from my students. When I switched to Track Changes it made grading easier but students didn't know how to modify the changes, so at the end I ended up teaching that feature in the language class. I'm not complaining, it simply took me by surprise.

Chaper 8, pp. 170-171 explained basic concepts related to concordance. I remembered we talked about this in Methods class, and my impression was, (and is) that they are kind of messy and overwhelming. I rather teach my students to use online dictionaries now, but I must confess I haven't even tried to use a concordance web site yet.

Copyright and fare use was the title for the online article of this week. The most interesting part was the quiz, most of the situations presented are likely to happen and were on the "fare use" side. But I didn't notice any situation including commercial songs as I think may be the most common source of piracy. Copyright is a delicate topic in the United States, in Colombia there are laws about it, but most of us don't respect them (yes I'm including myself here). I just have to say that respecting copyright, in my case, depends on my goal.