Social Media for Language Learners
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Part 1: What is social media?
Part 2: Language learning with Twitter & Facebook
Part 3: Other social media language learning tools
Part 4: Additional uses of social media in my language classes
Microblogging tool Discussion posts without titles 140 characters Passive or active Access
o Twitter.como Social dashboards (e.g., TweetDeck, HootSuite)o Social browsers (e.g., RockMelt, Fizzik)o Mobile
Following Twitterature
o Summarizing articles/literature into tweets Collaborative writing
o Mobile phone novels o Keitai shousetsu
Correcting tweets Twitter conversations
o Class, communityo Hashtags
Search Twitter
o http://search.twitter.com
Twitter Professors
o http://mashable.com/2009/02/16/twitter-professors/
@ikll (I Kinda Like Languages language courses)
@learnkanji (Japanese vocabulary)
@learnspanish
@frenchlanguage
@ChinesePod
News sources (e.g., @lemonde, @el_pais, @RusNews, @CNICJapan, @ChineseWSJ)
Retweet = Rt, RT or rtwt Read someone else’s tweet share it!
Replying = @username @username see tweet even if not
followingo Example: @csoleil y at-il un soft pour ça?
Wefollow
• http://wefollow.com/
Twibes
o http://www.twibes.com
Broadcast broad audience Keeps relevant tweets
together Synchronous chat sessions
(e.g., #realwplearn)
Tweet using hashtag…
#somelang
#flteach – Teaching foreign languages
#langchat – Learning and teaching languages
#mfl – Modern foreign languages #elt
, #eltchat, #ESL, #TESL, #TESOL, #EFL –Learning and teaching English as a second or foreign language
PRIVACY
“Like” vs. “friend”
What you write their news feed (i.e., wall)
What they write NOT on your wall
Find Pageso Coffee Break French
o Coffee Break Spanish
Language Learning Tools (apps)o Luingo - Language learning tools
Find Groups & Communitieso busuu.com (language learning community)
Synchronous Communicationo Skypeo Google Voice & Video
Collaborative writingo Wikis (e.g., Wikispaces, PBWorks)o Google Docs
Communitieso LiveMochao Busuu
Second Life Placeso EduNation Islando Babel Islando Sky Learning Center
Second Life Groupso Chinese Schoolo English as a Second
Language School
Announcements & supplemental information
Live microblogging Connections/PLNs (e.g., Siemens, 2004) Practice speaking & writing Polling Group activities/backchannel
communication Other?
Synchronous chat sessionso #learnchato Tweetchat (http://tweetchat.com/; monitor tweets)
Daily microlearningo Top tipso Articles to reado Vocabulary
Scavenger huntso Build information literacy, problem solvingo U of Idaho (http://www.today.uidaho.edu/Details.aspx?
ID=5018)
Tweetdoco http://www.tweetdoc.org/
Twapper Keepero http://twapperkeeper.com
The Archivisto http://
archivist.visitmix.com/
Keepstreamo http://keepstream.com
Establish relevance for students Recommend people to follow Model effective use Encourage students’ active/ongoing
participation Integrate into assessments Continue to actively participate
