The document summarizes a presentation about using curation and social networking to support the development of pre-service language teachers. It discusses the challenges of pre-service CALL (computer-assisted language learning) teacher education, and describes a course at Nice University where students created curation websites using Scoop.it and Google sites. The students curated resources on language teaching and learning topics. Their sites attracted other teachers and remained active after the course. Student feedback indicated the course helped them learn new tools and resources, but some had concerns about privacy, security and tool appropriateness for learners.

1. Curation and
social networking
for pre-service language
teacher development
Shona Whyte
University of Nice, France
EUROCALL Teacher Education SIG Symposium. Göteborg, Sweden. 23 August 2012

2. Shona WHYTE http://efl.unice.fr @whyshona whyte@unice.fr EUROCALL, 23/12/12
challenges of pre-
service CALL
teacher education
The Tower and the
Cloud (Katz, 2008)
curation
wiki

3. Shona WHYTE http://efl.unice.fr @whyshona whyte@unice.fr EUROCALL, 23/12/12
pre-service CALL teacher
education challenges
MA Languages, Nice
University; ICT for MFL
course
• literary background, no
pedagogy
• teachers of different
languages in same course
• limited secondary school
class contact

4. Shona WHYTE http://efl.unice.fr @whyshona whyte@unice.fr EUROCALL, 23/12/12
Participants & course overview

5. Shona WHYTE http://efl.unice.fr @whyshona whyte@unice.fr EUROCALL, 23/12/12
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