Active voice versus Passive voice

Explore LiveMocha, Facebook and Ning

1. LiveMocha

i. What is possible
-offer online language program with foreign partners (or native speakers) over the world giving and taking exercise reviews (receiving feedback on submission)
-more than one language is possible
-be possible for learners to manage their own pace in practicing English.
-offer interactive English learning with people from all around the world
-offer self-study lessons
-answering learners’ questions through the LiveMocha chatting system
-offer award-winning English teaching method
-video conversations
-role play to focus on speaking and listening
-download audios and videos

ii. What is not possible
-not create group networks (like relationship between learners and partners)
-not offer customer’s own posting photos and videos
-not find friends who customer knows
-not provide social networks, only English practice programs
-not share customers’ experience with more of their friends

2. Facebook

i. What is possible
--find friends who coustomes knows
- share the Facebook experience with more of customers’ friends
- upload and tag videos of customers and their friends on Facebook
- use webcam to record customer themselves in a video message and send it to other friends
- send mobile videos via email or MMS to customers’ personal upload addresses
- create photo albums with comments and photo-tagging to share photos with friends and family — no matter where customers are
-create new group and join it depending on people’s own interests
-create events like friends’ events, past’s events and birthday

ii. What is not possible
-not provide well-organized English learning programs
-not provide chatting place

3. Ning

i. What is possible
-create customers’ own social network
-create My Page and visit friends’ Pages
-upload and tag photos and videos of customers and their friends giving rating and comments
-held discussion forum
-add events and blogs
-call chatting with invited members
-see others programs doing chatting
-send broadcast message
-manage gift store uploading custom gifts, and participating in revenue sharing
-see latest activities
-post music (Podcasts)

iii. What is not possible
-not offer organized language practice programs
-not offer find friends option
-not create groups with their interests

4. Suggestions for how I can use each of these sites with my students

i. with LiveMocha
-I will recommend LiveMocha program to my students suggesting that they log in and practice English with native or foreign speakers from over the world in this site. This site will be beneficial for them in terms of being familiar with foreign speakers in real life in a virtual world, building confidence in using and improving English
-I have them find and choose their partners by themselves for receiving feedback on submission (at their discretion-autonomous learning) – self-study and self-evaluation with their partner
-I collect some English activities for them to finish as for monitoring and checking them. (I will give awards as additional points; I will check and mark their works online)
-There is a requirement that all students should have their own foreign or native partners for them to check students’ English practice.

ii. with Facebook
-I can just introduce Facebook to my students to use it for fun and pleasure with their friends within a short time as I worry about their long spending times there like Cyworld in Korea considering Korean Educational environment. But I will not use Facebook for my class as an Educational purpose, especially for students under University because they should be under the control by teachers due to their lack of time management with it. (There is high possibility for them to surf it to be fun all the time with their peer groups.)

iii. with Ning
-I will use Ning as an educational course management sending out assignments (including texts, posting images or photos, and videos related to topic), receiving them and giving feedback.
-I will use Ning for students under University, but in case of university students or other same level of people I will prefer Moodle as it is rather closer to the classroom course management for higher level of students in education.