Presentation at Language World 2010 in York

1. Social Media and Creativity in
The Language Classroom
Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages,
The Radclyffe School, Oldham
Lead Teacher Oldham SLN, North West RSA (ALL)
@icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones
My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
icpjones@yahoo.co.uk

2. What is creativity?

3. What is creativity?

4. What is Social Media?
“Social media” is media designed to be
disseminated through social interaction,
created using Internet and web-based
technologies to transform broadcast media
monologues (one to many) into social media
dialogues (many to many).
It supports the democratization of knowledge
and information, transforming people from
content consumers into content producers.
(Wikipedia)

5. What is Social Media?
Attractive way to present your own ideas and
resources integrating multimedia (pictures, audio,
video) and social interaction (sharing, getting
comments from other people).

6. How can Social Media help
creativity?
•By sharing ideas with teachers that may have
tried similar activities before: practicalities, pitfalls
•By providing a worldwide audience
•By providing examples of ready-made and tried-
and-tested resources
•By providing peer-to-peer training

7. Useful social networking tools for
Language Teachers
• Yahoo groups- mfl resources
http://www.mflresources.org.uk/
Join the yahoo group from this page
Best to set up a separate yahoo! Email as this group
is very busy-great to share ideas e.g. Cross-curricular.

8. Useful social networking tools for
Language Teachers
• Diigo (social bookmarking)
What is it?
Enables you to save your favourite websites on an
independent (free) account accessible from any
computer.
Enables you to share your bookmarks with other
people (of your own choice or the public).
Enables you to connect with people you have a
common area of interest with.

9. Diigo (social bookmarking)

10. Diigo Groups (social bookmarking)
http://groups.diigo.com/group/resources-for-languages
390 members

11. Diigo Groups (social bookmarking)
http://groups.diigo.com/group/resources-for-languages
390 members

12. Useful social networking tools for
Language Teachers
Ning (online group/ forum)
What is it?
•Enables you to share ideas and resources
•Makes it easy to contact all members of a group
(distribution list)
•Resources can be pictures, files, videos, links...
•Closed and/ or open
•Good for support groups/ exchanges/ teacher
linguistic upskilling
http://oldhamsln.ning.com

13. Ning (online group/ forum)
http://oldhamsln.ning.com
http://horslesmurs.ning.com/groups
http://apprendre2point0.ning.com/
http://worldlanguagesteachers.ning.com/
http://profesoresdespanol.ning.com/
Cross-curricular/ CLIL

14. Useful social networking tools for
Language Teachers
• Sharing videos and photos
http://www.flickr.com/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/ima
gestoteachlanguages/
set up by @aliceayel
http://www.youtube.com /

15. Useful social networking tools for
Language Teachers
• Blogging and micro-blogging
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com /

16. Useful social networking tools for
Language Teachers
• Blogging and micro-blogging
http://twitter.com/icpjones /

17. Useful social networking tools for
Language Teachers
• Blogging and micro-blogging
http://twitter.com/icpjones /

18. Wallwisher
• 2 stars and a wish (direct/ post-it notes/
wallwisher) http://www.wallwisher.com
http://www.diigo.com/user/isabellejones/wallwisher

19. Useful social networking tools for
Language Teachers
• Yahoo groups- mfl resources
• Diigo/ Diigo groups
• Ning groups
• Flickr/ Flickr groups
• You Tube
• Blogging Platform/ blogger
• Twitter

20. Are you being creative?
•Develop/ extend ideas
•Write about it: newspaper article/ letter/
presentation to penpal/ blog post/ short play/ poem/
story for young audience/ minibook.
•Talk about it: dialogue, news report, drama...
audio/ video (podcast/ video sharing)
•Apply imagination
Nightmare holiday/day, Famous for a day:
who/what/why,
Life Swap (dice), School of the future, My film
(dice)...

21. My Film dice game
A.Le role principal
1=une petite fille 2=un adolescent 3=une grand-mère
4=une tortue 5=une danseuse 6=un chanteur de rock
B. L’ événement principal
1=un spectacle 2=des vacances nulles 3=une course
4=un voyage 5=un concert 6=un cambriolage
C. Le lieu principal
1=l’ école 2=les Bahamas 3=un château hanté
4=un bateau de croisière 5=un stade 6=un musée
Raconte le film comme si tu étais dans le role
principal!

22. http://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/French+Storybirds
http://wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm

23. •Making links: Learners are given a selection
of familiar words and asked to make a concept
map by adding connecting words between the
words already on the list.
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1751079/Me_gusta

24. Analogies
•Create pairs of related words:
Père et
Chaussures et
Mère
Pieds
•Make/guess the analogy:
Manger + bois =
Maison + douche =
Table
Salle de bains
•Use unusual image/ sound associations:
Students’ own Equitación (galloping sound)
Je suis (I eat sweet)
Pink car (voiture is feminine)
Blue car(coche is masculine)

25. Creative Activities and social media
• Create your own sandwich, fruit drink, ice
cream... Share ingredients using wallwisher
http://www.wallwisher.com/
• Poems: recipes, acrostics, calligrams,
comparisons
• Raps & rhythms: record & share on class blog
• Songs
• Riddles
Display and invite comments by putting on a wiki
or a blog

26. Evaluation Skills
http://langwitch.wikispaces.com/8qF1
http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com/

27. Creative Activities helped by social media
• Poems: Recipes
• Pour faire un bon ami, il faut:
• Deux cuillères de générosité
• Beaucoup de sourires
• Ecouter pendant des heures
• Partager à la fin

28. Poems: calligrams (word mosaic)
Image Chef: http://www.imagechef.com
How would you use these symbols?
What other symbols might you find useful?

29. Songs/ Poems: Ne Me quitte pas (J. Brel)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfegOxTCuOQ

30. Rebus http://www.rebus-o-matic.com/index.php
Je m’appelle
Isabelle
C’est lundi
J’aime les chats blancs

31. How can Social Media help
creativity?
•By sharing ideas with teachers that may have
tried similar activities before: practicalities, pitfalls
•By providing a worldwide audience
•By providing examples of ready-made and tried-
and-tested resources
•By providing peer-to-peer training

32. Social Media and Creativity in
The Language Classroom
Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages,
The Radclyffe School, Oldham
Lead Teacher Oldham SLN, North West RSA (ALL)
@icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones
My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
icpjones@yahoo.co.uk