Talk:Web 2.0 and Emerging Learning Technologies

This looks like a great effort and I look forward to digging in...but please, drop the use of "WELT." First, a "welt" is acutally a painful thing and second, this is hard enough topic to explain to people without having another acronym in the way. I mean I am not being dismissive of your efforts, far from it, but if you create and try to propagate another acronym - that just puts another layer in between us and the people we want to understand this stuff. What happens when it becomes Web 3.0? Wilii it still be WELT? What if its not Web-based...is it just ELT?

Possible. This is a class project. It is ongoing. You can write to me. Curt Bonk, Indiana University.

Dear Curt Bonk, Thanks for your comment. ELT stands for English Language Teaching... we could use Emerging Learning Technologies anyway. I guess they could be used to teach different languages. It is a class project, it will always be updated on the second term every year. I am a teacher trainer and my students from three collaboratively to publish here. Let me know is we can join some other ongoing project. I think it would be very enriching for all of us. This is Susana Trabaldo, National Technological University, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dear Ms. Trabaldo, I'm a high school social studies teacher and graduate student at Teachers College in New York who found this Wikibook while researching the potential uses of Web 2.0 in my classroom. Thank you for the collective perspective.

Responding to your reply to Mr. Bonk, it appears that you define the abbreviation ELT on the first page of this Wikibook as "Emerging Learning Technologies," not "English Language Teaching". This discussion page is associated with Web 2.0 and Emerging Learning Technologies. The Wikibook that I believe should be merged with this one, Web 2.0 Resources for ELT, does, of course, use the acronym ELT for "English Language Teaching." Which Wikibook are you affiliated with? As you probably know, the latter is the most common usage of the initials "E" and "L,"also used in ESL and ELL in American schools to signify "English as a Second Language" or English Language Learners. I thus recommend you stick with the definition you offered, however. Despite my desire for clarification, as a next step, I would eliminate the reference on on page 1 of this Wikibook to "WELT," an acronym I find more confusing than objectionable (cf. Bonk). As a second step, please merge the two Wikibooks on ELT for ELT!

```` The acronym was created for my class to rally around. I am not wedded to it. My other wikibook project is the POLT (Practice of Learning Theories). I find that an acronym creates identity and something of meaning. I suggest we not get too hung up on that. What is more important is quality conent. The other wikibook project that they want to combine with this book seems to be a list of technology. It seems to be more of an appendix.

curt bonk, indiana university, October 8, 2010