Webinar 11 Let's Learn Socially! Webinar 11 Let's Learn Socially! Moderators: Silvina Orsatti – Project Leader Audrey Misiano – Guest Speaker

It’s not news that students use social media. It is where they all live. It is how they communicate.

Social media, in plain English media

Teachers and schools should take advantage of these “21 st century skills” and create safe social learning networks to engage students and get better results.

Partnership for 21 st Century Skills

P-21 Rationale

Understanding of 21 st Century Skills and Outcomes Mastery of core subjects and 21st century skills are essential for success in life and work.

Relevant and applied curriculum Curriculum must support active, authentic, and engaged learning, leveraging technology innovations that profoundly affect our daily lives.

Informative assessment Asessments must facilitate individual and group learning, and empower students to gauge their own progress.

Culture of Innovation Innovation is the fuel that drives the global economy, and it must be fostered in our nation’s schools.

Social and emotional connections Social and emotional connections are vital to keeping students engaged and in school.

Ubiquitous access to technology Technology can make possible new models of engaged and powerful learning.

The 21 st Century Learner

Social networking = “state of mind”

Social Learning Networks can help students enhance “21 st century skills”, while making learning more enjoyable and meaningful for them!

Connected Students need Connected Teachers Connected Students need Connected Teachers

The Connected Teacher The Connected Teacher

Online professional development and virtual educational communities can impact student achievement and teaching practices

AUGUST = CEM

Teachers should be able to easily access the tools, resources, experts and peers they need to be highly effective and supported

Collaborative teamwork is a key to 21 st century student achievement

“Closing the Technology Gap in World Language Teaching”

Project wiki

Project Blog

We won the “Collaborate for Good” contest!

Session 1 Learning the tools Session 2 Integrating the tools in the classroom Session 3 Becoming a life-long learner

Webinars Let's Communicate Let's Present Let's Quiz and Poll Let's Blog, Glog, and Phlog Let's Speak Let's Tell Stories Let's Brainstorm Let's Plan Let's Assess Let's Learn Socially Let's Connect Globally

Experts Becky Benner-Carr Pete Brooks Dick Detwiler Thekla Fall Laura Franklin Toni Johnson Sanaa Jouejati Dianne Krause Natalie Puhala Amanda Sewald Jan Stewart Deanne Cobb-Zygadlo

Creative Corner with Photopeach

ACTFL 21 st Century P-21 skills map

The 5 “C”s to building safe and effective social learning networks for teachers and students are: 1) Compare 2) Contribute 3) Communicate 4) Collaborate 5) Create

Many social learning networks are excellent places to: find and share collaborative solutions locate resources for the classroom get lesson plan ideas read the latest news in 21 st century education

Twitter Twitter offers a novel way to connect with colleagues across the globe and an effective means of engaging students with authentic material. Twitter is an online social media service that allows users to send and read messages of up to 140 characters using a computer, tablet, or mobile device. These posts are know as “tweets”.

Twitter Connect refers to organizations and people to follow, such # Discover refers to “hashtags” or topics identified with a hash symbol (#), such as #ACTFL

Twitter in Education

Twitter Lists A Twitter list is a Twitter group feature that lets you organize the people you're following on Twitter, or find new people.

TwitterFall TwitterFall can help track tweets from a specific hashtag in real time Hashtags = #ACTFL #langchat #edchat #teachchat

Paper.li PaperLi is a curation tool that lets you publish Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or any web content into an online newspaper.

Edmodo is a free and secure social learning network for teachers and students.

Go to and register as a teacher:

Join “Online PD Teachers” with group code grcrsa

Complete your profile and account settings:

Our guest speaker: AUDREY MISIANO Owner and Hostess of “Spanish Teacher Share”

Use Paper.li to create an “online newspaper” for a class activity, or for your FL department. Then, share it on Edmodo (Online PD Teachers and Spanish Teacher Share). Also, share on Twitter (hashtag #...). Creative Corner (for a webcam!)

Post the event you attend, and a commentary about it on Edmodo! Online PD Teachers Group Code grcrsa Act 48hs anyone?

Learning to Network, and Networking to Learn

Social Learning Networks +

Scuttlepad is a kids site for 6-11 year olds that teaches kids networking fundamentals in a safe and secure environment.

Everloop provides a unique, age-appropriate social media experience for children with customized micro-networks or “loops” that safely connect kid-relevant content, services, applications and experiences.

Twiducate is a great solution for elementary and secondary students. Rather than them sign up and enter an address, you sign up and create a class code. Using this code, they log in to your class network.

Internet safety

Questions? Help? Silvina or Audrey Online PD Teachers Spanish Teacher Edmodo!