ENHANCING OUR TEACHING LEARNING THROUGH

SOCIAL MEDIA

A PLN

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Physical Location

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VERTICAL LEARNING

Traditionally we have learned vertically

us

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Is that all?

Whenever you want to learn is it always like this ?

Where?

When?

What ?

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HORIZONTAL LEARNING

Now we can learn horizontally

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HOW ABOUT THAT ?

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Social Networks

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To Tweet or Not To TweeT ?

https://twitter.com/

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some of them

FOLLOW the @Stars

Follow @Publishers :

Webinars ( live sessions on line )

Get your certificate (s)

• Authors ´ blogs

• Resources and articles

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Follow @ Organizations

•• Live Stream Conferences

• Webinars

• MOOCs Massive Open Online Courses

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# HAGHSTAGS

• a hashtag is simply a way for people to search for tweets that have a common topic and to begin or join a conversation

• #edchat, #IATFEL, #TESOL, #edtech, #delta ….

• You can start your own haghstag

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#ELTchat• A freely available social network for ELT professionals offering mutual support and

opportunities for Continuous Professional Development.

Every Wednesday at 12pm or 21.00pm GMT, ELT teachers from all over the world log into their Twitter account and for one hour hold an online discussion on a topic they have selected. Then , a volunteer participant collects a summary of the chat.

https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/#

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#ELTpics

A great place to find excellent FREE photos for your blogs is ELT Pics. This is a flickr collection made by English language teachers for English language teachers.

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TIPS1.- AVOID NOISE

APPS like Tweetdeck Nurph or Hootsuite FILTER information & make conversation smooth.

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2.- FAVOURITE INTERESTING TWEETS , to read later :Click on the star icon and it will turn gold, confirming that you've favourited the Tweet.

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3.- DIFFERENT AIMS?

KEEP DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS

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https://www.facebook.com/

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GROUPS

PAGES

Click on …

You are in !

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Join Suggestions

Most Personal Learning Network

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How come?... From Twitter!

STORAGE & SHARING

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• Curation :

• Visual :

• Blogging :

Pinterest

Start a free blog

Other Networks

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circles

debates

One at a time!hangouts

...It all started with

“ I use twitter to share. I use twitter to learn. I use twitter to see a window into other classrooms. I use twitter to generate ideas. I use twitter for feedback (…). I use twitter to capture student learning. I use twitter to share. I use twitter to learn…. ”

Brian Aspinall

Pictures by #eltpics

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