Teachers’ competition for Social Media use in Formal Language Learning Contexts
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Teachers’ competition for Social Media use in Formal Language Learning Contexts |
The "Social Media use in formal language teaching contexts" competition seeks to identify and award language teaching initiatives with social networking technologies that take place in classroom settings in Europe.The competition website is here.
The first round of selection is completed and below the ten best practices are displayed.
After having a difficult time selecting the best practice out of so many worty and wonderful practices, we are so pleased to announce the winner of the teacher's competition.
The winner is teacher Ceri Anwen James, practice 8, in a Welsh-medium school Ysgol Gyfun Bro Morgannwg from Vale of Glamorgan,Wales (UK). In her quest for combining language learning and social media use, she has created an integrated website for German learning students. Combined with a learning platform, online blogging and Podcasting, her practice has met particular linguistic, academic and practical demands. In the meantime, this practice was highly appreciated as it connects school, teacher, students as well as their families and friends.
SELECTED 10 BEST PRACTICES
of the 1st stage
Practice 1 - Tartu University Pärnu College
Description: Students use weblogs to write different texts - letters, messages, narratives, description, comparisons, analyzes etc as hometasks; they comment on each other's posts and peer review them.
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Practice 2 - Special School Caransebes Romania
Description: Web 2.0 and social media can bring a new dimension and can reform education around the word because electronic communication helps teachers and students to learn from each other.
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Practice 3 - Humboldt-Institut e.V.
Description: Stadtführung, Recherche, Schreibwerkstatt
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Practice 4 - 2. Peiramatiko Gymnasio Thessaloniki
Description: Schüler aus Griechenland stellen Schülern aus Polen sich selbst, ihr Land und Persönlichkeiten aus ihrem Land und umgekehrt in Form von Rätseln vor.
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Practice 5 - Università di Genova
Description: This research project focuses on learning and teaching Italian as a second Language using social networks.
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Practice 6 - Durham University Centre for Foreign Language Study
Description: Student are invited to work collaboratively to design topic-related vocabulary mind maps (using www.mind42.com).
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Description: Creative Writing, Essay Writing, Newspaper reporter role play, Media Skills, Blog Writing
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Practice 8 - Ysgol Gyfun Bro Morgannwg, Colcot Road, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan
Description: The Wetpaint Wiki outlined above is used heavily both in class on an interactive whiteboard, individually by pupils in the school's PC Suite and independently from home.
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Description: Über Träume und, Zukunftspläne, Vorbilder berichten, Berufswünsche von anderen raten..
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Practice 10 - Languages Out There Ltd
Description: The main goal was simply to improve the case study subjects English communication skills as quickly as possible using social media tools.
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Practice 11 - Instituto Cervantes de Berlín
Description: Búsqueda de información sobre el contexto sociocultural de un material cinematográfico.
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