Social Networking for the Foreign Language Classroom

Barbara LindseyUniversity of ConnecticutFulbright FLTA Workshop

December 10, 2009

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

What is digitally-mediated social networking?

Poll Everywherehttp://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/

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•75% of teens have a cell phone•73% of online teens use social network sites•1,742 (avg.) text messages per month versus 231 mobile phone calls in Q2 2008 by U.S. teens (13-17)

• User-generated content

• Ubiquitous access

• Amplified impact

• Global participation

Why use these environments for language learning?

ACTFL Standards Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy

The Human Network

User-generated Content

Ubiquitous Access

Cornell

Columbia

Berkeley

Georgetown

Amplified Impact

Live-Tweeting The Revolution: Week 1

Global Participation

How can we use them to support our students as lifelong learners?

Describe using 5 keywords: one or two word phrases

Thanks to Lauren Rosen for this activity idea

Let’s do some good while practicing tagging!

Let’s move over to our wiki now!

http://socialnetworking4languagelearning.wikispaces.com

SourcesSlide 1: Earth from Space http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_from_Space.jpgSlide 2: Social Networking in Plain English by Commoncraft http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVcSlide 3: Poll Everywhere http://www.polleverywhere.com Networked Learners Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2009/52-Networked-Learners.aspx

Nielsen Company Survey http://bit.ly/vhK3U Slide 5: ACTFL Standards http://nflrc.iastate.edu/pubs/standards/ring.gif Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy by Dan Meyer http://www.flickr.com/photos/ddmeyer/2666448493/ Slide 6: The Human Network Anthem by Cisco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAdfYgEapT8&feature=relatedSlide 7: Google Maps http://maps.google.com/ Slide 8: europeana http://www.europeana.eu/portal/ Academic Earth http://academicearth.org/ Dash http://dash.harvard.edu/ MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm Creative Commons http://creativecommons.orgSlide 9: Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/ Open Source Teaching http://www.opensourceteaching.org/ Ustream is Duke’s Latest Venture in Online Communication http://news.duke.edu/2009/09/ustream.htmlSlide 10: Live-Tweeting the Revolution: Week 1 http://bit.ly/SMldqSlide 11: Global Voices Online http://globalvoicesonline.org/ Wednesday, December 9, 2009

SourcesSlide 12: Global Voices http://globalvoicesonline.org/Slide 13: newsmap http://newsmap.jp/ http://www.twibes.com/group/Afritweets Frontline SMS http://www.frontlinesms.com/Slide 14: 9 Miles Media http://9milesmedia.com/ Matthew Bischoff http://matthewbischoff.com/ Zoe’s Kid-Powered Revolution http://bit.ly/hCezh Slide 15: Virtual Student Foreign Service http://www.state.gov/vsfs/ Flat Classroom Project http://flatclassroomproject.ning.com The Extraordinaries on iTunes ACTFL Video Podcast Contest http://www.actflvideocontest.org/ Slide 16: CivWiki:Culturas de España http://civwiki.wetpaint.com/

The Mixxer | Language Exchange for Everyone http://www.language-exchanges.org Language Connects Us http://languageconnectsus.ning.com/

Corine’s Classroom http://www.flickr.com/photos/redjar/113137539/ by redjarSlide 18: The Extraordinaries http://app.beextra.org/

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