Moodle and Lang-8.com

Moodle and Lang-8.com

Mark Grace གིས-
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I have enjoyed learning how to use moodle and am currently slowly making an online course for my students... The Modules I've added have really enhanced many opportunities for learning and assessments.

Recently I've discovered Lang-8.com.. A site for language learners.. The great thing is that native speakers edit your work and give you corrections. The tool used to edit work is really good and I wish I could incorporate that type of tool into moodle....

Maybe one day soon དགའ་འཛུམ་


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Re: Moodle and Lang-8.com

Mary Cooch གིས-
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Hi Mark. I just took a look at Lang-8 although I haven't made an account, so I was wondering - how does the editing tool work? What exactly does it do that you can't do in Moodle when marking work with the online text assignment?
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Re: Moodle and Lang-8.com

Glenys Hanson གིས-
Hi Mark,

I went and had a look at Lang-8.com, and though it's a nice idea, I wonder how it can work for English when there are so many more people wanting to learn English than there are English speakers wanting to learn other languages.

I'm also a bit suspicious of sites which don't explain who they are, but you can read this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang-8 to find out this one.

Cheers,
Glenys


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Re: Moodle and Lang-8.com

Mark Grace གིས-
I think using an editing tool on Big essays would be very time consuming...
But for beginners especially ESL learners, the editing tool would be fantastic.
I teach japanese so to be able to make many corrections is necessary.. Hence Lang-8 editing tool is something I would love to use in moodle

When a native speaker of a language writes an essay.. they only need feed back but a beginner needs more than just feed back.
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Mary Cooch གིས-
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HI Mark. But you can do this by setting the online text assignment to "comment inline" and then using Moodle's editor to correct/add comments to the students' work. Then you can use all the features we have up here in the html editor(cross out/highlight/comment/change colour etc) directly onto students' work)



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