social networking & language learning sep 2008

Connect! Communicate! Collaborate!

Social networking for language students and teachers

http://sociallearningspaces.wikispaces.com/

Popular Sites for

Social Networking

http://www.facebook.com/http://www.classmates.com/http://www.orkut.com/http://www.myspace.com/http://www.youtube.com/http://www.twitter.com

Specialist Sites for

Social Networking

http://www.bookcrossing.comhttp://www.kroonos.comhttp://www.teachertube.com/http://del.icio.us.comhttp://www.flickr.comhttp://www.communitywalk.com

Connecting! Communicating Collaborating! ...with other Teachers

Language Teachers &

Social Networking

http://www.webheadsinaction.orghttp://www.englisheducation.ning.comhttp://metamexico.ning.comhttp://teachingenglish.org.uk

This website brings together everything busy teachers need for the classroom and the staffroom:

Lesson plans

Worksheets

Teaching tips

Weblinks

Teaching articles

TeachingEnglishYour Global Home

Trythis collection of resources for the classroom.

A vast storehouse of lesson plans, worksheets and other teaching materials from the British Council, the BBC and other major UK publishers.

Thinkabout the way you teach and the principles which underpin your teaching.

Articles on methodology, teaching ideas and tips, an ELT glossary and much more.

The site is organised into four main areas: Try, Think, Talk, Transform

Talkabout your teaching and the issues that concern you.

Discuss areas of interest, get advice, keep you own blog and link up with groups of teachers around the globe.

Transformyour teaching career.

Access training materials, a range of personal development tools, information on UK ELT courses

and qualifications and get an in-depth look at

specialist teaching areas such as learning

technologies, CLIL and Young Learners.

Your Global Home

The TeachingEnglish – Your Global Home website is a central point of reference for information about English language teaching products and services from the UK.

www.teachingenglish.org.uk

Connecting! Communicating! Collaborating! ...with other Learners

73% of learners of English say they want to learn using a computer

69% say socialising is a main motivation in their learning and that they want to have fun

92% think it's important to develop their problem-solving skills

(British Council global research conducted by IPSOS MORI in 2007. The results were gathered from 4000 learners around the world)

Learning English &Social Networking

Language Learners &

Social Networking

http://www.ning.comhttp://bcmadridylning.comhttp://ritamz.ning.comhttp://maryglasgowmagazines.comhttp://www.wiziq.comhttp://secondlife4teens.pbwiki.com

The Future of social networking...now!

http://www.youtube.com/user/britishcouncil4teens

Connect! Communicate! Collaborate! Social networking for language students and teachers

http://sociallearningspaces.wikispaces.com/