Slides for the event "Utilizing digital technology and social media in language classes" hosted by the Centre for Lifelong Learning at Cardiff University and funded by HEA Arts and Humanities. An image based presentation with activities focusses on principles of effective social media engagement which might be applied to language teaching. Materials developed with help from Esther Barrett.

1. Language learning and teaching through social media
Lis Parcell
Jisc RSC Wales
#sociaith
@lisparcell
Cardiff University 21 March 2014

8. “Following someone on Twitter you are really
interested in is good for improving your grasp
of contemporary idiom! I follow Pussy Riot
and it has improved my Russian no end. Only
140 characters to grapple with and I really
want to know what they are saying, which
always helps. Oh and the Russian for troll on
Twitter comes straight from the English.”

17. Staying in touch
Twitter: @lisparcell @rscwales @jisc
Today’s hashtag: #sociaith
Todaysmeet: https://todaysmeet.com/sociaith
Email: e.j.parcell@swansea.ac.uk
Diigo links: http://bit.ly/PVvdnJ
Slideshare: http://www/slideshare.net/lisparcell
Jisc www.jisc.ac.uk

20. Image sharing and social media
Some good sources of copyright-cleared images for sharing
Google https://www.google.co.uk/
- image search: click on search tools>usage rights>labelled for re-use)
Flickr Creative Commons http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Pixabay http://pixabay.com
Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org
Unsplash http://unsplash.com/
Advice on finding images
http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/finding