2. We need community
We want to connect and
reconnect WHY
We strive to be part of
something bigger do we like
We crave
communication
social
We desire to make our
networks?
voices heard
3. What do our students do in social networks (VK)?
o listen to music
o watch videos, series, films
o share photos, pictures, documents
o read news related to their studies and interests
o communicate and chat
o collaborate in study groups (school and university)
4. Wall shares: polls, maps,
Credit file points
graffiti, videos, links to
web 2.0 tasks
INFORM
Links
Grammar MANAGE
ENGAGE IN DISCUSSION Discussion topics
Comment on … ASSIGN TASKS
Photo albums
KEEP TRACK
Documents Video & audio
5. •…understand all the things teachers tell me…it’d be very useful for me.
(A.M.)
•…sing as well as Freddy Mercury because I wanna rock! (A.Z.)
Sample task •…swim faster because I like shark fishing. (S.B.)
#1
•…be with my relatives and Orenburg friends….I miss them. (A.T.)
•…I could fly because it would be easier to move between different
locations in Moscow. (K.K.)
Complete a sentence •…get from home to the university faster because I spend 3 hours
commuting every day. (I.G.)
7. • Write a story in a corresponding discussion
topic
• Upload a photo and write a description (thematic)
• Record and share an audio
• Share a link to… (a word cloud, a mind map, a glog, a
prezi, etc)
• Create a photo album devoted to…
• Follow a link and do interactive exercises
Other tasks
… and many more!
9. quick, easy, accessible 24/7, mobile, free
raises responsibility
promotes learner autonomy
personalises learning process
fosters engagement (T-S, S-S, S-T)
learning tasks blend into students’ daily routine
convenient for both students and a teacher
ready-made resources of public groups
10. Students’ feedback
Hi-tech involvement in
I like our group. Because if a teaching is a brilliant way to
home task is to add a comment or take down the wall that
borders "studying" and
something like this, it is hard to "living". As for me I used to
forget - I enter vk, see our group We get news from the group, there consider homework to be
and remember it. And I can also is a list of tasks for the credit file, something compulsory and
read my group mates' comments, so if I don't remember if I have boring but now social
networks are used in
and answer them - so we chat as done some of them or not I can
studying a lot, so the
always, but in English. It's check it in the group. Also you comfortable environment of
interesting and helpful. post interesting links with working improves the
news, videos and some other process.
interesting things, which help us
to learn English and make
learning fun, not job.
