Social Media and Creativity in The Language

ClassroomIsabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School, OldhamLead Teacher Oldham SLN, North West RSA (ALL) @icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com

icpjones@yahoo.co.uk

What is creativity?

What is creativity?

What is Social Media?

“Social media” is media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many).

It supports the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. (Wikipedia)

What is Social Media?

Attractive way to present your own ideas and resources integrating multimedia (pictures, audio, video) and social interaction (sharing, getting comments from other people).

How can Social Media help creativity?

• By sharing ideas with teachers that may have tried similar activities before: practicalities, pitfalls

• By providing a worldwide audience

• By providing examples of ready-made and tried-and-tested resources

• By providing peer-to-peer training

Useful social networking tools for Language

Teachers• Yahoo groups- mfl resourceshttp://www.mflresources.org.uk/

Join the yahoo group from this page

Best to set up a separate yahoo! Email as this groupis very busy-great to share ideas e.g. Cross-curricular.

Useful social networking tools for Language

Teachers• Diigo (social bookmarking)

What is it?Enables you to save your favourite websites on an independent (free) account accessible from any computer.

Enables you to share your bookmarks with other people (of your own choice or the public).

Enables you to connect with people you have a common area of interest with.

Diigo (social bookmarking)

Diigo Groups (social bookmarking)

http://groups.diigo.com/group/resources-for-languages

390 members

Diigo Groups (social bookmarking)

http://groups.diigo.com/group/resources-for-languages

390 members

Useful social networking tools for Language

Teachers

Ning (online group/ forum)

What is it?• Enables you to share ideas and resources• Makes it easy to contact all members of a group

(distribution list)

• Resources can be pictures, files, videos, links...• Closed and/ or open• Good for support groups/ exchanges/ teacher

linguistic upskilling

http://oldhamsln.ning.com

Ning (online group/ forum)

http://oldhamsln.ning.com

http://horslesmurs.ning.com/groups

http://apprendre2point0.ning.com/

http://worldlanguagesteachers.ning.com/

http://profesoresdespanol.ning.com/

Cross-curricular/ CLIL

Useful social networking tools for Language

Teachers• Sharing videos and photoshttp://www.flickr.com/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/imagestoteachlanguages/ set up by @aliceayel

http://www.youtube.com /

Useful social networking tools for Language

Teachers• Blogging and micro-blogging

http://isabellejones.blogspot.com /

Useful social networking tools for Language

Teachers• Blogging and micro-blogginghttp://twitter.com/icpjones /

Useful social networking tools for Language

Teachers• Blogging and micro-blogginghttp://twitter.com/icpjones /

Wallwisher• 2 stars and a wish (direct/ post-it notes/

wallwisher) http://www.wallwisher.com

http://www.diigo.com/user/isabellejones/wallwisher

Useful social networking tools for Language Teachers

• Yahoo groups- mfl resources

• Diigo/ Diigo groups

• Ning groups

• Flickr/ Flickr groups

• You Tube

• Blogging Platform/ blogger

• Twitter

Are you being creative?

• Develop/ extend ideas• Write about it: newspaper article/ letter/

presentation to penpal/ blog post/ short play/ poem/ story for young audience/ minibook.

• Talk about it: dialogue, news report, drama... audio/ video (podcast/ video sharing)

• Apply imaginationNightmare holiday/day, Famous for a day: who/what/why,Life Swap (dice), School of the future, My film (dice)...

My Film dice game

A.Le role principal1=une petite fille 2=un adolescent 3=une grand-mère4=une tortue 5=une danseuse 6=un chanteur de rock

B. L’ événement principal 1=un spectacle 2=des vacances nulles 3=une course 4=un voyage 5=un concert 6=un cambriolage

C. Le lieu principal1=l’ école 2=les Bahamas 3=un château hanté4=un bateau de croisière 5=un stade 6=un musée

Raconte le film comme si tu étais dans le role principal!

http://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/French+Storybirdshttp://wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm

• Making links: Learners are given a selection of familiar words and asked to make a concept map by adding connecting words between the words already on the list.

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1751079/Me_gusta

Analogies

• Create pairs of related words:Père etChaussures et

MèrePieds

• Make/guess the analogy:Manger + bois =Maison + douche =

TableSalle de bains

• Use unusual image/ sound associations: Students’ own Equitación (galloping sound)

Je suis (I eat sweet)Pink car (voiture is feminine)Blue car(coche is masculine)

Creative Activities and social media • Create your own sandwich, fruit drink, ice

cream... Share ingredients using wallwisher

http://www.wallwisher.com/

• Poems: recipes, acrostics, calligrams, comparisons

• Raps & rhythms: record & share on class blog

• Songs

• Riddles

Display and invite comments by putting on a wiki or a blog

Evaluation Skills

http://langwitch.wikispaces.com/8qF1

http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com/

Creative Activities helped by social media

• Poems: Recipes

• Pour faire un bon ami, il faut:

• Deux cuillères de générosité

• Beaucoup de sourires

• Ecouter pendant des heures

• Partager à la fin

Poems: calligrams (word mosaic)

Image Chef: http://www.imagechef.com

How would you use these symbols?What other symbols might you find useful?

Songs/ Poems: Ne Me quitte pas (J. Brel)• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfegOxTCuOQ

Rebus http://www.rebus-o-matic.com/index.php

Je m’appelle Isabelle

C’est lundi

J’aime les chats blancs

How can Social Media help creativity?

• By sharing ideas with teachers that may have tried similar activities before: practicalities, pitfalls

• By providing a worldwide audience

• By providing examples of ready-made and tried-and-tested resources

• By providing peer-to-peer training

Social Media and Creativity in The Language

ClassroomIsabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School, OldhamLead Teacher Oldham SLN, North West RSA (ALL) @icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com

icpjones@yahoo.co.uk