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My Students’ Space

My Students’ Space. Academic uses of social networking sites Presented by Katie Mitchell. What are social networking sites?. They are forums to: Share opinions and experiences Through notes, blogs, pictures, videos, links Interact with others. Three Interesting Social Networking Sites.

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My Students’ Space

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  1. My Students’ Space Academic uses of social networking sites Presented by Katie Mitchell

  2. What are social networking sites? They are forums to: • Share opinions and experiences • Through notes, blogs, pictures, videos, links • Interact with others

  3. Three Interesting Social Networking Sites • Del.icio.us • Share links • Facebook • 85% of college students use facebook (Arrington, 2005) • Ning • Create your own Social Networking Site • Private, customizable SNS

  4. Del.icio.us • Social bookmaking • What is it? • Your “favorite” bookmarks online and organized by tag. • Each bookmark has a title, note, and tags. Image from: https://secure.del.icio.us/register?step2 My del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/mitchelk

  5. Del.icio.us Class • Research Projects • Create a network and share materials. • ESL Reading Assignments • Identify a webpage’s topic and subtopics. Use topic and subtopic as tags. • Summarize webpage. Write the summary in the del.icio.us note section. • Put a “Link roll” on your website.

  6. Similarities between Social Networking Sites (Lui, 2007) Profiles: • General interest • Music • Movies • Television • Books

  7. Facebook Stats • 85% of college students are on facebook! (Arrington, 2005) • More than half of the users visit the site daily spending an average of twenty minutes on the site each day. (comScore, 2007) • 6th most-trafficked website in the world. (comScore, 2007) • No. 1 photo sharing application on the Web. (comScore, 2007)

  8. How do most people use Facebook? • To communicate with people they met off-line • In standard English-except capitalization(McGinnis et al., 2007) • Some new acronyms and word-shortening(Rusiene, 2006) • To share photos

  9. Facebook in the Classroom • ESL Culture Class • Use facebook to select materials (music, movies). • ESL Reading Class • Teach inference. Ss read profiles and make inferences. • Read about three groups and join one. • ESL Writing Class • Comment on someone’s profile or picture. • Respond to someone’s “News Feed.” • View someone’s pictures and write a descriptive paragraph about one. www.facebook.com

  10. Ning • Totally customizable social networking site • You can edit: • Profile questions • Site’s language • Privacy Settings • Colors • Features

  11. Ning in the Classroom • Create an online community. • Practice writing (profile questions, blogs, forums). • Post pictures and links. • Create forums for each assignment. Attach the directions and let students ask questions. • Use Ning instead of blackboard. http://learningpartners.ning.com/

  12. References Arrington, M. (2005, September 7). 85% of college students use Facebook. Techcrunch.com. Retrieved June 4, 2008, from http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/09/07/85-of-college-students-use-facebook/ comScore. (2007, April 10). comScore releases worldwide rankings of top Web properties. Retrieved June 4, 2008, from http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1370 Lam, W. S. E. (2000). L2 literacy and the design of the self: A case study of a teenager writing on the Internet. TESOL Quarterly, 34, 457-482. Liu, H. (2007). Social network profiles as taste performances. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13. Retrieved February 28, 2008, from http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/liu.html McGinnis, T., Goodstein-Stolzenberg, A., & Saliani, E. C. (2007). “indnpride”: Online spaces of transnational youth as sites of creative and sophisticated literacy and identity work. Lingusitics and Education, 18, 283-304. Rusiene, G. (2006). Internet English: A technically based mode of language? Studies About Language, 9, 56-63.

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