Creating Wicked Good Educational Networking Sites

Presented on Nov. 2, 2010 at MCAE Network by Patty Ball

Using social media tools to enhance and intensify learning in the ABE/ESOL classroom

Creating a “Wicked Good” Educational Social Networking Site

YouTube Video:

  1. What is a Social Network
  2. What is a Classroom
  3. What Can You Do With These Tools?
  4. Why You Should Use Them
  5. Types of Networking Sites
  6. Create Your Own/ or join others
  7. Advantages of creating your own network
  8. Why Create a Teacher Network?
  9. Why Create an Online Classroom
  10. Features to Consider
  11. Classroom 2.0 -
  12. EFL Classroom -
  13. EFL Classroom -
  14. EFL Classroom Blog Posts -
  15. English Companion Ning -
  16. Tech Integration in Education -
  17. NESABES Online -

**Please Join the Northeast SABES Ning Site – After you join/sign up for the Ning, Pick a group or several groups to also join. If you don’t join groups, you will cannot participate in the site, comment, find out about updates, etc. Make sure you at least join the Educational Social Networks Group –

  1. Ning Apps
  2. Wiggio -
  3. Grou.ps -
  4. Grouply -
  5. NESABES Grouply site-
  6. Google Sites -
  7. The Unconventional
  8. Twitter – Follow me @poochiesan24
  9. What Can You Do
  10. Ways to use Twitter in the classroom
  11. Use Hashtags
  12. Twiducate
  13. Hootcourse
  14. Daily on Twitter – Create a Newspaper -
  15. Let’s Parade -
  16. Facebook

Social networking technologies can allow second language learners to negotiate meaning and shape their identity as English speakers as they connect with and participate in the real world communities that are important to their lives.

Kristi Newgarden is an ESL teacher and director of the University of Connecticut American English Language Institute (UCAELI) From Introduction: Twitter, Social Networking, and Communities of Practice

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