The document discusses the integration of social media tools in foreign language education, emphasizing their potential to enhance communication, collaboration, and digital literacy among students. It outlines various platforms like blogging, glogging, microblogging, and Google Voice as resources for creating engaging learning environments. The text stresses the importance of using these tools effectively to meet educational objectives and facilitate interactive and authentic language learning experiences.

1. Let ThemBlog,Glog,Microblog& More!!Enza Antenos-Conforti, PhDMontclair State University

2. Revolución de lasRedesSociales

3. Educational ChallengeDo students use technology in class?A recent study by Professor Reynol Junco of Lock Haven University states that 29% use Facebook while 66% sends or receives a text messageStudents use the Internet to communicateAuthentic and transparent in their use (perhaps too transparent!) They aren’t knowledgeable users

4. Do social media resisteducational purposes?Students spontaneously use social media to comunicate aboutschool, even to talk abouthomework!

5. Do weevenspeak the samelanguage?We cannot deny the existence of social media. Rather we must accept their dynamic nature, understand how they work, and how our students use them.Our question is how to use them to improve our teaching and learning of foreign languages?

6. WhyBring SM to the FL Classroom?Share (knowledge, materials, opinions & reflections)Collaborate (students & teachers, students & students, groups of students)Integrate & alternate (from typical traditional lessons)Participate (in CMC, computer mediated communication)

7. Why would you use social media in your Spanish/Portuguese class?

8. Does the ToolMake or Break the Lesson?The technological tool must be selected to reach learning objectives and outcomesWhat is the objective of the lesson/unit? What tools can we integrate to reach the objective?Immagine di: http://ilforumdellemuse.forumfree.it/?t=44736544

9. Social & RelationalSocial media are always social and relational…for this reason, even when using these tools in the classroom, it is necessary to:Create a profileArticulate a list of users for networking Use these networks to create communities of acquaintances, interests, resources and groups

10. Let’sNavigate ThroughSoMehttp://tiny.cc/enzaac

11. BlogginngIn the blogsphere, there is(Inter)cultural CompetenceIn-depth analysis in reading comprehension and lexical developmentParticipation of both author and reader in a more formal platform

12. LetThem Blog!Develop the presentational mode of written communication (ACTFL)Allow for all students to provide feedback on an argument/topicHow toCreate a blog for the course/classThe teacher starts with a post and asks for feedback/commentsEach student is responsible for a future post and then to comment on posts of other classmates

13. GloggingPromotes creative thinkingCreatesconditionsfavorable to learningthroughinterest and funDevelopdigitalcomptencies/literacies: supportsintegration of multi-mediaIt’sfunctional to cooperative learning: students can work in pairs/grouphttp://lcstudentwiki.wikispaces.com/Spanish+Glogster

14. LetThemGlog!The poster board of our day gets a facelift!Presenting onself or a topic more creatively (using texts, audio, video, images, links to sites, etc.)How toAllregisteron Glogster.comThe teachercreates a class with the names and email adresses of classmatesStudents share and collaborate on these e-postershttp://ivenus.edu.glogster.com/tuttosudime/

15. Microblogging

16. LetThemMicroblog!Allow students to communicate in writing via brief messages (only 140 characters!) in the target language, with more frequencyCommunicate with classmates, me and native language speakers in a relaxed atmosphereYou can read my complete study on Twitter in Italian III (intermediate level) http://chss.montclair.edu/~antenose/mytwitter.pdfHow toEvery opens a Twitter account – new one that is TL specific!Prompt students to share Twitter/Edmodo using questions or tasksAs they become more familiar with Twitter (it’s self-perpuating, organic),many will share without being prompted, and create their own network for learning

17. A Twitter Success StoryIntroduced to Twitter in FA08Tweeted in Italian for 7 months, after course endedNow a bilingual twitterer, and she’s not an Italian major or minor!

18. Youtube-ingContent and InformationCultural and languagevideos(One semester of Spanish)CollaborationMashups on certaintopicsPartecipationComments/reviewsVideo uploadingtoohttp://bit.ly/dHq8cp [pdf]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk5fp6MMFNQ

19. VoiceThread-ingOnline media album (pictures, text, video)Commentspossible via voice, text, videoSimilar to discussionboardbut with superlative supplementsPartecipation (opinions and feedback)http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/

20. Google Voice-ingA free audio product by Google (needonlyhave a Google account)Can be shared with teachers and classmatesLeavephonemessages to developspeakingskillsRecord conversations with speakers to developspeaking, listening and negotionskillsSome Spanish examples:http://span2313.wikispaces.com/GoogleVoice

21. Regular Use of Social Media!?!BenefitsStudents are alreadyfamiliar with many of the toolsTheyalready use thesecommunicationtoolsContinualinteraction of students face-to-face and onlineMinor resistanceDrawbacksTeachers need to knowthesetoolswellStudents mightnotappreciate the educational use of thesetoolsCommunicationis24/7 Muchnoise in SMIttakes timehttp://www.slideshare.net/catepol/social-network-nella-didattica

22. Appendix: Technology in MFL“Originally published as a series of blog posts titled Technology in Modern Foreign Languages, this collection of articles explores how teachers are successfully incorporating the use of new technologies into their classroom practice with a focus on enhancing teaching and learning.Technologies such as blogging, microblogging, web 2.0, wikis, sound recording and videoconferencing have all found their way into our classrooms and harnessing them effectively is at the heart of 21st century pedagogy.The original articles can be read at Boxoftricks.net”José Picardo

23. Muchasgraciasfor sharingideas with me:Julia Cozzarelli (Voicethread)Reynol Junco (Students & SM)José Picardo (Technology in MFL)CaterinaPolincaro (Italian e-learning)Esperanza Roman (YouTube) Donna Shelton (Google Voice)