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Using social media to good effect. Creating a PLN. Twitter Pinterest Dropbox eTwinning. Social networks’ checkpoint!. Twitter. www.twitter.com. Twitter is an on-line messaging service that allows you to send texts, pictures, & links to websites. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Dropbox
eTwinning
Using social media to good effect.
Creating a PLN
Social networks’ checkpoint!
TwitterTwitter is an on-line messaging service that allows you to send texts, pictures, & links to websites.
You can either Direct Message (DM) someone if you want to communicate privately or message including hashtags #, so that others can follow, and perhaps contribute.
www.twitter.com
TwitterYou can use special apps available for ios or android to manage your Twitter account.I use Tweetbot which lets me create lists that I follow.#MFLTwitterati#spanishteachers#langchat
You can follow other people as well as groups.
You can ‘favourite’ other people’s tweets, sharing them with your followers.
You can email/forward tweets to yourself too.
You could create a departmental twitter account or one for individual languages!
Twitter tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YGp4cWdndc
The MFL Twitterati & DropBox
DropBox allows you to access files on-line that you, or others you have shared folders with, have uploaded.
The MFL Twitterati Dropboxes are by invitation only – email me - [email protected] and I’ll invite you! There is a German equivalent.
Dropbox tutorial:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ZvB0GE5_A
www.dropbox.com
Pinterest is an on-line webpage which allows you to ‘pin’ onto boards your favourite websites.
You can have shared boards with other people.You can follow other people’s boards too.
www.pinterest.com
The more you use it the more it gets an idea of your interests and will feed you pins that you might want to see!
Pinterest tutorials:http://www.pinterest.com/pintalk/pinterest-tutorials/
A website to connect schools across Europe
Part of Comenius
www.etwinning.net
32 European Countries
25 languages
160,000+ teachers
5000+ active projects
Why use eTwinning?
To share and Showcase your work
It’s a safe virtual learning environment
Having a real audience is motivating
Public Pages: provide project ideas and resources
The Desktop: has your personal profile, a partner-finding tool, & project registration
The Twinspace: Is your project’s own virtual classroom with communication tools and a place to share your work for your project
What do you want to use eTwinning for?
Do you want:
Another teacher to talk to? A project to motivate a class?To add an international dimension to your lesson? Some free CPD?Free resources?A way to make you stand out in an interview as you
explain all about winning an international award for your innovative use of ICT
Levels 1-3
Levels 3-8!
This presentation and some additional tutorials/help sheets can be found @ http://mflteacher.com
