Presented at the EduWiki conference in Leicester on September 5th, 2012 http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/EduWiki_Conference_2012

1. Language Teaching with Wikimedia
Alannah Fitzgerald
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveholmes/6718556763/

2. Overview
• Misconceptions of Wikipedia in EAP
• Demo of FLAX collections using Wikimedia
• Open channels for training and OER
collections building with Wikimedia resources

3. Misconceptions about Wikipedia in EAP
http://teachingeap.wordpress.com/2012/05/

4. Issues of lexical density
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

5. Lextutor Academic Word List analysis
http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/

6. From descriptive to discursive writing
in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution#cite_note-0

7. Discursive writing in Wikipedia

8. FLAX – Flexible Language Acquisition
Flexible Language Acquisition
library

9. BNC/BAWE

10. Learning Collocations collection in FLAX
FLAX team collections building:
Shaoqun Wu, Ian Witten, Margaret Franken, Xiaofeng Yu – Waikato University
http://tinyurl.com/73zcgac

11. Wikipedia mining tools
(1) extracting collocations from Wikipedia
articles for the "related collocations” section of
the Learning Collocations collection.
(2) using a Wikipedia server running at the
University of Waikato’s Computer Science
Department to retrieve definitions and related
topics for each query term.

12. When a user issues a query, e.g. “economic
bubble”, FLAX is doing the following:
(1) Grouping collocation types e.g. noun + noun
from the selected corpus (BNC, BAWE, Wikipedia)

13. (2) If the query term, e.g. “economic bubble" matches an article in Wikipedia,
collocations of that article are presented as related collocations, grouped by the
keywords of that article. The keywords are ranked using their term frequency–
inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) scores.

14. (3) Retrieves the definition of the query term (normally, the first sentence of the
matched article (e.g. the ”economic bubble" article) from the Wikipedia server.

15. (4) Retrieve related articles for the ”economic bubble” from the Wikipedia server
and present as ‘related topics’.

16. Oxford Text Archive
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oxford-Text-Archive/135824246448590

17. The BAWE text sub collections
http://tinyurl.com/cpwyefb

18. Wikify key words & phrases
http://tinyurl.com/cpwyefb

19. Open channels
Russell Stannard - Teacher Training Videos
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com

20. Thank you
Email: fitzgerald@education.concordia.ca;
Blog: Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-resources
www.alannahfitzgerald.org
Twitter: @AlannahFitz
Slideshare:http://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/