Social Media Workshop

Date: July 29 – August 2, 2013
Time: 9:oo am – 4:00 pm (Pacific Time Zone)
Cost: FREE
Location: Workshop can be attended at LARC @ SDSU (map) or online (via Blackboard Collaborate)
* Online participants must have access to high speed Internet and a head set with microphone. A web cam is optional.
* Snacks and refreshments will be provided to on-site participants

View the 2012 workshop wiki, participant blogs, and view the recorded presentations

Description:

Online social media tools inherently mediate communication, community building, publishing, and sharing in a plethora of languages and medias, which makes social media well-suited for second language learning and instruction. Despite their inherent functionality and intended user friendliness, social media tools don’t come with a guide book for best classroom practices, teacher technology training, or proper integration into standards based language instruction. This is where principled, standards-driven intervention is needed.

From July 30th to August 3rd, 2012, the Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC) at San Diego State University will host its annual free week-long Social Media Workshop in a blended live and online format and continue the exploration and instruction of social media for the language classroom. The workshop will provide real classroom examples and hands-on practice, through a series of language educators demonstrating their classroom uses of social media, the language learning objectives, instruction on how to use the tool, and finally an activity that allows participants to sign up and experiment with the new tool.

Keynote Presentation: Learn and Teach in Global Communities of Practice

Barbara Lindsey – Director of the Multimedia Language Center at the University of Connecticut
Melina Masterson, Ph.D. Candidate in Italian Literary and Cultural Studies
Claudio Pinna, Masters in Italian Literary and Cultural Studies, 2012
Carsten Witt, Ph.D. Candidate in German Literature and Culture

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2011 AGENDA and ARCHIVES

Date	Time Pacific Time	Presentation	Presenter	Archives
Day 1 August 8th	9:00 - 10:30 am (PST)	Workshop Introduction & Overview	Evan Rubin and Kyle Murley	Day 1 Intro PPT Elluminate Recording
	10:30 - 12:00 pm (PST)	Keynote Presentation	Toni Theisen	Toni Theisen Keynote PPT LARCSM11 Wiki Elluminate Recording
	12:00 - 1:00 pm (PST)	Lunch
	1:00 - 2:00 pm (PST)	Wikis, Blogs, Website Showdown	Toni Theisen, Evan Rubin, Kyle Murley, Joe Dale	Elluminate Recording
	2:00 - 4:00 pm (PST)	Build your E-Portfolio
Day 2 August 9th	9:00 am - 12:00 pm (PST)	Easy Classroom Blogging with Posterous	Joe Dale	Elluminate Recording
	12:00 - 1:00 pm (PST)	Lunch
	1:00 - 3:00 pm (PST)	Storybird and VoiceThread	Catalina Bohorquez and Michelle Olah	Elluminate Recording Project Sheet Storybird St. Instructions Storybird Tutorial VT Educators Guide
	3:00 - 4:00 pm (PST)	Free Work - Office Hours
Day 3 August 10th	9:00 am - 12:00 pm (PST)	Livin' on the Edge: Online world language teaching	Glenn Cake	Elluminate Recording
	12:00 - 1:00 pm (PST)	Lunch
	1:00 - 3:00 pm (PST)	Implementing Tandem Learning Using Skype and Social Networking Tools	Claire Bartlett	Elluminate Recording Videoconference Guide PDF
	3:00 - 4:00 pm (PST)	Free Work - Office Hours
Day 4 August 11th	9:00 - 9:45 am (PST)	LARC's Computer Assisted Screening Tool (CAST)	Dr. Trevor Shanklin	Elluminate Recording
	10:00 am - 12:00 pm (PST)	Google Forms	Dr. Sarah Eaton	Elluminate Recording Google Forms Step-by-Step PDF
	12:00 - 1:00 pm (PST)	Lunch
	1:00 - 3:00 pm (PST)	Digital Story Telling for Practice and Assessment	Dr. Felix Kronenberg	Elluminate Recording
	3:00 - 4:00 pm (PST)	Free Work - Office Hours
Day 5 August 12th	9:00 am - 12:00 pm (PST)	Wings & Webs: Transforming Teaching Through Social Networks	Shelly Terrell Follow up by Joe Dale	Elluminate Recording
	12:00 - 1:00 pm (PST)	Lunch
	1:00 - 3:00 pm (PST)	Participant presentations: Share a lesson plan, activity, and/or syllabus with new tools.	Workshop Participants
	3:00 - 4:00 pm (PST)	Virtual and Live Graduation