Better Learning with ICT - Online Communities in the Classroom
Secondary French teacher Marie Guyomarc'h, investigates how to make use of online communities in her classes.
Online communities and social networks are often shunned by teachers because of negative publicity and online safety surrounding certain websites.
Marie meets with Lisa Stevens, a primary Spanish teacher, who relishes using social media websites for teaching purposes.
Lisa explains the benefits of using websites such as Twitter and Voicethread, and demonstrates how you can use them in the classroom.
Later, Marie faces her challenge of taking back what she's learned and using it in the classroom.
The support materials below, including advice from Becta, are designed to help you use ICT in your own classroom.
This is an enhanced video, giving you access to extra video and resources directly from the video player.
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Facebooklisibo on 21 September 2009
Just to clarify - eLanguages is a way of making links with classrooms across the world. In the sense that you are making ...
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- Duration: 15:00 minutes
- Published: 13 January 2010
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eTwinning21 September 2009 - 15:06Just to clarify - eLanguages is a way of making links with classrooms across the world. In the sense that you are making partnerships or 'twinnings' and using e-mail and online technology to communicate it is 'etwinning'
However, eTwinning is also a programme in its own right, linking school across Europe in collaborative projects- http://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/help/faq.htm
And October is a great time to get involved - eTwinning Weeks will be running all month. Find out more here.
http://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/news/news/etwinning_weeks_2009.htm
If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment here or contact the eTwinning team on www.etwinning.net
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Re : eTwinning22 October 2009 - 13:36Nice video. I am always on the lookout for practical examples of good practice. I am adding a link to this video in the section on social networking at the ICT4LT site, Module 1.5, Section 12.4: http://www.ict4lt.org
Professor Graham Davies, Editor-in-Chief, ICT4LT (ICT for Language Teachers).
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safe social networking29 September 2009 - 08:03Another safe social networking site which has global reach but a controlled userbase is the Learning Landscape for Schools (http://www.ll4schools.co.uk/). There is a free service with 20 accounts and a paid for service which allows schools to create named accounts for their pupils. Schools can register here: http://tinyurl.com/nbpwjy.
http://twitter.com/ll4schools
John Hackett
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contact eTwinning in the UK22 September 2009 - 14:10The best way to contact the eTwinning team in the UK is through
www.britishcouncil.org/etwinning
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