Blogs, Wikis, and Social Media: Multiliteracies in the Language Classroom
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The document discusses how blogs, wikis, and social media can be used to promote multiliteracies in the language classroom. It provides definitions of these tools and explains how they can lower students' anxiety, increase cognitive engagement, and support peer learning. Examples of specific tools are given for blogs, wikis, and social media, and potential classroom applications are outlined, along with encouragement to incorporate these dynamic technologies into lessons in a multi-sensory, connected way.
Blogs, Wikis, and Social Media: Multiliteracies in the Language Classroom
- 1. Blogs, Wikis, and Social Media: Multiliteracies in the language classroom Speaker: Nathan Hall September 2, 2011
- 2. Introduction ✤ Definitions ✤ Survey
- 3. Theory ✤ Lowers the affective filter ✤ More cognitive ✤ Higher interest ✤ Peer support ✤ Documenting changes ✤ Bloom’s Taxonomy
- 4. Types: Blogs ✤ Wordpress ✤ Blogger ✤ Single user ✤ Allows for comments
- 5. Types: Wikis ✤ Wikispaces ✤ Collaborative writing ✤ Different pages ✤ Restrict certain items ✤ Revert to older edits
- 6. Types: Social Media ✤ Facebook ✤ Twitter ✤ Posterous ✤ Interactive ✤ Sharing ✤ Shorter messages ✤ Connected to mobility
- 7. Demonstration ✤ Wordpress.com ✤ Wikispaces.com ✤ Posterous.com
- 8. Application ✤ e-portfolio ✤ presentations ✤ homework ✤ writing ✤ messages ✤ commenting ✤ videos ✤ peer-correction ✤ listening ✤ webquests ✤ links ✤ reading
- 9. 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