This is the powerpoint presentation given at a Workshop called "Using Social Software for Language Learning" at Eurocall 2007 in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. The presentation will soon be integrated with screenshots from the actual presentation.

1. Sarah Guth , English Language Teacher Lisa Griggio , Language Assistant Using Social Software for Language Learning Università degli studi di Padova

10. Why blogs? Most popular Web 2.0 tool with over 70 million blogs and about 120,000 new blogs being created worldwide each day

12. Educational uses of blogs in SLA Example Activity Sts create their own personal blogs Teacher creates a course blog that serves as a virtual meeting place for assigning and completing tasks Sts access blogs of interest to them, read and comment

13. Educational uses of image blogs Example Activity choosing photos from covered by Creative Commons Sts access shared contents to enrich their blogs posting one’s own photos Sts create contents to share and provide peer feedback on discussion groups in Teacher produces contents for sts to interact with

14. Educational uses of audio & video blogs Teacher or sts find interesting videos and discuss them in groups content-based language learning: Teacher and sts produce podcasts Teacher or sts find podcasts; sts listen Podcatchers Example Activity

16. Educational uses of collaborative online editing tools Sts develop a presentation and offer it to peers at a distance using Skype for audio Sts develop a concept map Sts develop a text-based project Document exchange for peer review edutechwiki Sts contribute to an existing wiki Through collective authoring sts create a never-ending shared repository of knowledge in a wiki Example Activity

17. Educational uses of tools for managing/filtering information on the Web playlists in sts keep an eye on each other’s blogs and relevant sites by using feed aggregators diigo sts provide peer feedback on each other’s blogs using social annotation Del.icio.us in bloggingenglish sts use social bookmarking to create a distributed research network Example Activity

18. What do students think? Which of the following tools do you think were the most useful and you will continue to use after graduation?

22. Quick definitions Rather than having to regularly check websites for updated info, through the use of feeds (RSS, XML, ATOM), updated information is sent to a feed aggregator so you access one source for all updates. Social Annotation is software that allows users to “leave” comments on webpages they visit, so that others visiting the page, and using the same software, can see their comments. Social bookmarking allows users to store, classify, share and search their Internet bookmarks. These websites allow users to classify and search using tags chosen by users.