1. Let's get social
9 September 2010 - May 2011

2. English course with social media
• Learning English
• Learning to use social media
• Social media as a tool for learning, especially for
collaborative learning
• Contact abroad
• Communication between students with different skills

3. Course Launch
• 13 student, one male, one under 40, others over 58,
• two given up
• So far five contact lessons with verbal exercise and four
online tasks
• Course blog (wordpress)
• Teamwork (google documents)

4. Observations
• using computer is fairly difficult for most (remedial
instruction)
• not too many social media tools (Skype voluntary)
o usernames and passwords
• students are enthusiastic