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Final week – Social media in ELT
Thanks to the organisers and other participants for a great course. I agreed with so much of what that Gabriela said in her post that I won’t repeat it here. Let the collaboration continue and looking forward to meeting up with many of the same people next year and, hopefully, on other occasions before.
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Week 5 – Social media in ELT
The best thing that’s happened to me this week has been being pointed in the direction of John Seely Brown. Read his Learning, Working & Playing in the Digital Age with great enjoyment and was amazed too see that it’s based on a presentation he made in 1999. He really had his finger on the [...]
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Tags: digital age, discussion, learning, social media, web 2.0
Week 4 – Social media in ELT
Done a lot of browsing and reading but not sure where it’s got me. Still not very motivated to set up a wiki for my students and Graham Wengner’s great post on the downside of collaborative projects didn’t help. However, Gabriela’s post on the forum made me move my butt, so I’ve set up a [...]
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Tags: ecology, education, green, technology, wikis
Week 3 – Social media in ELT
What are the new literacy skills that your students can acquire by using the tools (flickr, 43trio, del.icio.us, twitter) introduced in this week?
What are the collaborative potential of these tools for language learning? How would you use these tools to set up collaborative projects between classes from different schools or countries?
The tools introduced in this [...]
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Week 2 – Social media in ELT
Here are this week’s discussion points:
What are the benefits/constraints that these open environments may bring in your context?
What are the pedagogical implications of social media for ELT?
Are you promoting open participatory skills in ELT? How?
Can these social media help you? How?
I’ve no doubt about the value of using blogs with my students. I teach English [...]
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Tags: animoto, blogs, reponsible use of Internet, social media, voicethread, voki
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