Week#11 - Social Networking & Another Lap Around the Buffet

Social Networking

Take a look at the Social Networking Guide and watch the Social Networking Screencast.

Explore some of the ELT groups and communities on Google+, Facebook, Diigo, LinkedIn, and elsewhere .

Join ones of interest, bookmark them with Diigo, and/or create a blog post about any interesting discoveries.

If you're feeling ambitions, join twitter, find some people to follow and send out your first tweet.

...and a few more Odds & Ends

• Copyright & Fair Use
• Photo Editing (irfanview)
• Mobile Tools
• Reading Resources

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We will soon start focusing on applying CALL tools and resources to your teaching situations. Before tackling those challenges, let's take another look at what we've 'tasted' on the buffet so far. Take the next few hours to attempt tasks that interest you, keeping in mind how you might apply these to your teaching.

Things to Do

• Go to Feedly and check out recent blog posts from current TTP'ers and CALL alumni
• Brush up on your phrasal verb, tag questions, collocations, or other skills.  Activity Guide
• Check out more Google+ Communities, or Facebook Groups on the Social Networking Guide
• Create some funny images with sites like Photofunia and post on your blog Site Building Tools
  
• Create a Padlet, Wordle/Tagul, or Storyboardthat comic strip and post it on your blog  Site Building Tools
• Work on a Prezi, Google Presentation, or Powtoon and post it on your blog   Presentations Guide
• Create your own Quizlet or Memrise set and post on your blog or try to set the TTP Scatter Record with your Activity Guide
• Use Windows Movie Maker to edit a video. Video Guide  Overview Screencast
• Create YouTube playlists of your favorite videos.   Video Guide  How-to Screencast
• Create a screencast using Ocam or  Screencast-o-matic.com   How-to Screencast Screencast
• Download some audio books or podcasts that you can listen to on your way to BUFS.    Audio Guide
• Creating an audio recording using Audacity, Voki, or Clyp.it and post it on your blog.    Audio Guide
• Use Google Translate to practice pronunciation  
• Create a class survey using Google Forms - example  Google Form How-to Screencast
• Create a new blog for your classes or redesign your existing blog (new template) and add some gadgets    Blogger Guide
• Create Mindmaps or Graphic Organizers and post them on your blog.
• Upload photos (or organize your photos) at photos.google.com  or check out the TTP in Action photos  Class 1   Class 2
• Continue looking the megalist of CALL websites or the LearningCall Diigo group and add bookmark sites with Diigo.
  
  Check out the Dessert Table 
• Take a look around the TTP in Brisbane Guide and/or add a few spots to our TTP Down Under Map
• Play a few Word Games
• Take a few personality quizzes or consult the cyber-astrologers  Fun Stuff