blogs, wikis, and social media: multiliteracies in the language classroom
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A PD workshop I gave on the use of blogs, wikis, and social media in the language classroom.TRANSCRIPT
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September 2, 2011
Blogs, Wikis, and Social Media: Multiliteracies in the language classroom Speaker: Nathan Hall
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Introduction
✤ Definitions
✤ Survey
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Theory
✤ Lowers the affective filter
✤ More cognitive
✤ Higher interest
✤ Peer support
✤ Documenting changes
✤ Bloom’s Taxonomy
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Types: Blogs
✤ Wordpress
✤ Blogger
✤ Single user
✤ Allows for comments
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Types: Wikis
✤ Wikispaces
✤ Collaborative writing
✤ Different pages
✤ Restrict certain items
✤ Revert to older edits
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Types: Social Media
✤ Posterous
✤ Interactive
✤ Sharing
✤ Shorter messages
✤ Connected to mobility
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Demonstration
✤ Wordpress.com
✤ Wikispaces.com
✤ Posterous.com
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Application
✤ e-portfolio
✤ homework
✤ messages
✤ videos
✤ listening
✤ links
✤ presentations
✤ writing
✤ commenting
✤ peer-correction
✤ webquests
✤ reading
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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