Blogs, Wikis, and Social Media: Multiliteracies in the Language Classroom

September 2, 2011

Blogs, Wikis, and Social Media: Multiliteracies in the language classroom Speaker: Nathan Hall

Introduction

✤ Definitions

✤ Survey

Theory

✤ Lowers the affective filter

✤ More cognitive

✤ Higher interest

✤ Peer support

✤ Documenting changes

✤ Bloom’s Taxonomy

Types: Blogs

✤ Wordpress

✤ Blogger

✤ Single user

✤ Allows for comments

Types: Wikis

✤ Wikispaces

✤ Collaborative writing

✤ Different pages

✤ Restrict certain items

✤ Revert to older edits

Types: Social Media

✤ Facebook

✤ Twitter

✤ Posterous

✤ Interactive

✤ Sharing

✤ Shorter messages

✤ Connected to mobility

Demonstration

✤ Wordpress.com

✤ Wikispaces.com

✤ Posterous.com

Application

✤ e-portfolio

✤ homework

✤ messages

✤ videos

✤ listening

✤ links

✤ presentations

✤ writing

✤ commenting

✤ peer-correction

✤ webquests

✤ reading

Challenge

✤ Try one

✤ Think of how you could use it

✤ Implement into a lesson

✤ Don’t think static

✤ multi-sensory

✤ multiliteracy

✤ Connect to other tools