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Articles about the use of Facebook for ELT



ginnilini
Germany

Articles about the use of Facebook for ELT
 

Hi everyone!
I am writing a paper about the potential of computer-mediated communication for English language teaching and I don �t want to write about the typical things like e-mail, chat, etc.
I would prefere to write about the potential of collaborative projects and use some Web2.0 applications as examples.
I am considering: Skype, Blogs, Facebook, Wikis

I would be eternally grateful if you could point me towards some scientific papers (or even blog entries for ideas) about those topics or if you have some better suggestions for collaboration tools!

Thank you in advance!


4 Mar 2012      





blunderbuster
Germany

Hi,

you could check out my blog (I haven �t used in in a while, though). Gooogle "reginchen" and you will find it. Then go to "�ber mich" and find the teacher blog in the list.

Also, I once used a video on youtube that shows how a guide horse gets trained and up front I asked a girl that I knew liked horses to draw a horse on the white board. I then asked the kids to find a name for the horse (which I wanted to look like a panda bear, just like the horse in the video). Then we watched and worked with the video. You will find a link to the video on my teacher blog as well.

Regards

4 Mar 2012     



ueslteacher
Ukraine

Have you tried googling "web2.0 for esl"?
Here are some resources I used for a workshop:
A year and a half ago I did a workshop on internet technologies in the English classroom and I focused on webquests, blogs and online exercises and quizzes. Here you can find nice images for your ppt http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/Internet_g170.html (the small ones are free as long as you credit the author)
BTW here�s a nice example of a platform for link-ups and international projects http://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/
Sophia

P. S. @ BB: Hi, dear:)


4 Mar 2012     



ginnilini
Germany

Thank you! Some very interesting ideas and links! :)
Now, I have lots of ideas!

Problem is, there �s so little actual citable research out there and my professor is a bit old fashioned (citing blogs won �t work for him, sadly).

4 Mar 2012     



ldthemagicman
United Kingdom

Dear Ginnilini,
 
Here are the REFERENCES for my submitted University Assignment, COLLABORATIVE LEARNING, as part of the Course "Learning in the Connected Economy".
The Assignment demonstrated that COLLABORATIVE LEARNING has increased enormously in recent years.
 

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I hope that this helps.
 
Viel Gl�ck.
 
Les 

4 Mar 2012     



cindyfreksen
Denmark

I have just (last summer) written my BA on the same topic! Unfortunately it is in Danish so it won �t help you much, but I did find some really interesting stuff on the whole web 2.0 stuff.

Have you read David Chrystal The gr8 db8 - well worth a read altho he is writing about using texts he cites some research that you may be able to use.

Les mentions CASTELLS M you can find his stuff on the net. He looks at the sociological side of things - I think that it was him that coined the phrase digital natives.

I wrote about webquests Bernie Dodge �s site will explain what they are.

I also read a lot of Danish books, but unless they are translated that won �t help you much.

Try googling web 2.0.

Good luck
Cindy

4 Mar 2012     



ginnilini
Germany

Thank you so much, Les, for all the titles! Some very good links and ideas there :)
And thanks Cindy for the tips! I wasn �t going to write about WebQuests, but David Crystal is already on my desk ;).

I did find a few research papers about Web2.0 and also two tentative papers about the use of facebook, but it seems that using facebook for ELT is still quite controversial and not partivularly well-studied yet. Oh well, I will have to come up with some original ideas and suggestions then...

Thanks again, everyone!

5 Mar 2012     



cindyfreksen
Denmark

Remember to share your ideas if they are good :-) And I am sure that they will be.

I have tried to think Facebook into teaching, but I have never come up with a good idea.

I have used Wikis in science teaching, and had an article about using them for collective writing I can �t remember what language it was in
... I will just look
...it wasn �t an article, but a mail from one of my former teachers and a link - check it out threadadventures

5 Mar 2012     



yingying
China

6 Mar 2012