Social Media in Language Education

Warning: Mind your head! This site is permanently   under construction.

Notes for the SMiLE Project

School of Language, Literature and Communication, University of Brighton

UoB Learning and Teaching Fellowship 2009

How can we make use of these social media platforms in our learning and teaching?

Blogs and wikis

Blogs and wikis: Blogs - Wikis - Using media - Sharing media -

Activities

SMiLEing: Using Social Media in Language Education

Speaking activities

Writing activities

Online meetings and classes

Online meetings: Wiziq - Skype - Elluminate

Virtual Learning Environments

VLEs: Blackboard - Moodle

Social networks

Networks: Facebook - Twitter - Ning

Online storage and sharing

Flickr - YouTube - Box.net - Scribd

Virtual Worlds: Second Life

How real is Second Life?

Second Life - why bother

Second Life in Action

La Veleta

What others are doing

New environments - new channels of communication

Events: Current, Forthcoming, Regular and Recent

Links

University of Brighton

Virtual Learning Environment: Studentcentral (Blackboard)

Social space: Community@Brighton (Elgg)

What next?

NB: if you'd like to contribute to this wiki, let me know.