"Creative activities for blended learning."--cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Interaction Online is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to incorporate an aspect of online interaction in their language teaching. It is relevant for use with online, blended or face-to-face courses and appropriate for a wide range of teachers, learning situations and institutional settings.

This handbook contains over 75 tried and tested activities, suitable for a range of levels, which provide opportunities for strong online interaction. The introduction outlines the rationale and principles of interaction, as well as discussing tools for online interaction and the implications for teaching and learning. There are guidelines for setting up and managing online interaction and on using the learner-produced texts for feedback, error correction and assessment.
The book supports interaction between and among learners and instructors, rather than between learner and machine.
Interactions are purposeful and are divided into five categories of strong interaction: personal, critical, factual, fanciful and creative.
The majority of activities can be carried out either synchronously or asynchronously and contain additional suggestions for adaptation.
Activities make use of generic tools, such as discussion forums and instant message services, and can be used on platforms such as Blackboard or Moodle, or on readily available applications such as Facebook, Skype or chatrooms.

Tasks and supporting materials for selected activities are available on our website." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

Thanks

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Setting up and managing online interaction

2. Personal interaction
2.1 Welcome to the forum -- 2.2 A sense of adventure -- 2.3 A year in the life -- 2.4 Coat of arms -- 2.5 Don't you hate it when...? -- 2.6 Finish my sentence -- 2.7 Foodies --- 2.8 My angle on... -- 2.9 My place in the family -- 2.10 Post a present -- 2.11 Happy picture -- 2.12 This or that? -- 2.13 Yum or Yuck?

3. Factual interaction
3.1 Stats quiz -- 3.2 Records race -- 3.3 Word association chain -- 3.4 Find a festival -- 3.5 Country facts -- 3.6 Online drilling -- 3.7 Wit and wisdom -- 3.8 Where in the world am I? -- 3.9 Treasure hunt -- 3.10 This week's guest... -- 3.11 Tell me about... -- 3.12 Sports shorts -- 3.13 Connections -- 3.14 Post a recipe -- 3.15 International proverbs -- 3.16 Here's the answer -- 3.17 Check it out -- 3.18 Behind the headlines -- 3.19 All about rhubarb

4. Creative interaction 4.1 Art monologues -- 4.2 Bowl of cherries -- 4.3 The Royal Hotel story -- 4.4 Colours -- 4.5 Design a festival -- 4.6 Extreme ironing -- 4.7 Haiku summary -- 4.8 Madeleine moments -- 4.9 Number plate story -- 4.10 Dream on -- 4.11 Estate agents -- 4.12 Make a meme -- 4.13 One-way trip to Mars -- 4.14 Fairy tale agony -- 4.15 Our reporter on the spot -- 4.16 Sci-fi sequence -- 4.17 This will change your life -- 4.18 Thirteen ways of looking -- 4.19 Crazy machines

5. Critical interaction 5.1 Balloon debate -- 5.2 We see things differently -- 5.3 Virtual summit -- 5.4 Making improvements -- 5.5 Mystery puzzle -- 5.6 My take on... -- 5.7 Multiple devil's advocate -- 5.8 The lion's dilemma -- 5.9 The latest greatest thing -- 5.10 Debating a motion -- 5.11 Create a constitution -- 5.12 Complete the sentence -- 5.13 Cause and consequence -- 5.14 Yes, but... -- 5.15 Netiquette

6. Fanciful interaction 6.1 Almost superpower -- 6.2 Alphabet expedition -- 6.3 Build a bio -- 6.4 Fairy tale rewrite -- 6.5 Why? -- 6.6 Murder mystery -- 6.7 I wish I had a picture of... -- 6.8 Magic market -- 6.9 My cupcake! -- 6.10 Space tourists -- 6.11 Time travelers -- 6.12 Rumour mill -- 6.13 Disappearing act

7. Feedback and assessment

8. Task design

Index