Social Software for English Language Teaching

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DefinitionSocial Software is a computer tools which allow people to connect, to communicate and to collaborate online.

Social Software

Blogs

Wikis

Podcats

BlogsEssentially is a web page with regular diary or journal entries. Commonly is kept by one person.

People can regularly post comments, thought, analyses, experiences of daily life, interesting links, jokes, or any other form of content.

Blogs set up informal grassroots links between blogs and writers / readers of blog. Sometimes include a Blogroll, or list of link to other blogs which the blog writer admires.

Blogs

Edublogs

Tutor Blog

Student Blogs

Class blog

Edublogs

Blog that used in education. Edublogs cover a wide range of topic relate to education, from musings on educational policy and developments to learner compositions.

Tutor Blog

A blog that set up and maintained by a teacher. the teacher may decide to allow their learners to write comments in the blog.

Student Blogs

Blogs that set up and maintain by the learners. Learners can be asked to post to their blogs once or twice a week, or however often the teacher judges convenient, and content can range from comments on current affairs to descriptions of daily activities.

Class Blog

Blogs that used by an entire class. In a class blog earners all post to the same blog.

Steps in Using Blogs for ELT

Setting up a sample blog

Setting up student blog

Posting to and visiting blog

Follow-up

Free Blog Sites Available on the Internet

Blogger•http://www.blogger.com

WordPress•http://wordpress.org

Bahraich Blogs•http://www.bahraichblogs.com

EzBlogWorld•http://www.ezblogworld.com

Getablog•http://www.getablog.net/portal3.php

Advantages in Using Blogs for ELT

Blogs provide a ‘real-world tool for learners with which to practice their written English.

Give learners plenty of time for writing, reviewing, redrafting and checking postings before they are added to the blog.

Can be used for evaluation.

WikisA collaborative web space, consisting of a number of pages that can be edited by any user.

A public website, or public web page, started by one person, but which subsequent visitors can add to, delete or change as they wish.

More dynamic and have multiple authors.

Wiki is not linear; pages may link back and forwards to other pages.

Can be kept as an internal class project, and given the public nature of the Internet.

Steps in Using Wiki for ELT

Preparation before Lesson

Descriptions

Corrections

PodCats

A radio or TV show that you can listen to or watch on a topic that interest you whenever you want to.

Can be downloaded automatically to your computer using RSS (podcatching sotfware)

Consist of a ‘show’ which is release either sporadically or at regular intervals.

Steps in Using Podcast for ELT

Setting a podcast page

Creating learner podcats

Listening to learners podcats

Follow - up