Browsing Posts published on January 18, 2011

Presented by Michelle Olah & Catalina Bohorquez

LARC Social Media Workshop 2010

During this session the presenters demonstrate how social media tools like PrimaryPad and Voicethread can be used to encourage World Language students to collaborate in the target language with others beyond the walls of their classroom. Collaboration may be within a school, within the United States or around the world.

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Social media, persistent virtualities, and plurilingual competence:
An agenda for research and praxis

Presented at the LARC 2010 Social Media Workshop by Steven L. Thorne, Portland State University and University of Groningen

This presentation describes a broad range of new media technologies and cultural-linguistic practices and discusses their relevance to foreign language education. In particular, I outline uses of social media, remix semiotic practices, new media literacies, and multiplayer gaming as settings for second and foreign language (L2) use and development.

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