Latest activities
The special issue “Social media and language learning: (r)evolution?/ Médias sociaux et apprentissage des langues : (r)évolution ?” is now available in AlSIC
As the rise of social media use in language learning and its impact become significant, the Alsic (Apprentissage des Langues et Systèmes d’Information et de Communication) special issue (Vol. 15, n°1) examines an underlying question “social media and language learning: (r)evolution?”
READ this special issue
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The website of the competition Social Media in Informal Language Learning and Use
Language learning and social media - 6 key dialogues (LS6) team is pleased to inform you about uploaded interviews on LS6 Vimeo channel. More than 15 interviews can already be watched on the channel.
The website of the competition Social Media in Informal Language Learning and Use is set up for further information about the competition, the panel of jury and useful links.
To learn more about this competition, go to the official web page on http://ls6videocompetition.elearningeuropa.info/
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Key points and Recommendations of the Key Dialogue 5(KD5)
Key points and Recommendations of the Key Dialogue 5(KD5) "Language learning through social media: evolution of teaching practices" are drawn at the end of the forum discussion, combing with the webinar "Teacher training in the age of Web 2.0: The current situation & future perspectives" on November 2011.
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LS6 network 4 days at Expolangues in Paris
On the second day of Expolangues, the EC invited Prof. Charles MAX (University of Luxembourg) to present the LS6 network for its innovative approach and its unique mix of activities in the area of language learning and social media. A workshop included the presentation of EACEA (The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency) for the future EC programme and the various initiatives of the Multilingualism unit, presentation of three selected European projects and a round table with a panel of experts. Despite the unexpected cold in Paris, the enthusiasm of expo-visiors towards LS6 live blog has gathered more than 10 videos, more than dozen tweets, several audios as well as few screencasts. All these contributions are disseminated instantly via our dica-lab LS6 Blog with the request/option for further commenting and extending the contributions on the site.
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Expolangues 2012
The project “Language Learnikng and Social Media”was offered the possibility of disseminating its innovative approach and ongoing work in the field of language learning at a workshop the Euproean Commission is organising at Expolangues 2012. On the 2nd of February, the European Commission is organising a full day of events about its ongoing work in language learning which will include presentations on the future programme, the various initiatives of the Multilingualism unit, a round table with a panel of experts and last but not least a workshop with projects. our dica-lab LS6 Blog will upload podcasting from public in the Expolangues 2012.
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The Competition
Social Media in Informal Language Learning and Use
Video project: interviewing adult learners
The videos for the competition "Social Media in Informal Language Learning and Use" are uploaded in the LS6 vimeo channel. Go and watch the videos. Support your favorite practice!!!
More interviews to come, Stay tuned!!!
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Expert interviews
The expert interview videos have recently been uploaded in LS6 Vimeo channel. Interviewd with three prominent experts,Christine Develotte,Melinda Dooly and Mirjam Hauck, the series of expert video explores poignant insights and thoughtful opinions, from three leading professionals, on social media in the field of language teaching and teacher training.
The Publication
“Teaching with social media in classroom settings: Top ten practices from teachers around Europe”
This brochure presents the 10 best practices from the “Teachers’ competition for social media use in formal language learning contexts”, run throughout 2011. The aim of the competition was to identify the role of Web 2.0 technology in classroom settings for language learning and teaching practices in Europe.
Now that we have highlighted current good practices through the competition, this special publication is about to share these deserving and admirable practices with a broader audience. We hope that this publication will be of interest to teachers, educators, parents and pupils sharing good practices in the use of social media in classroom settings.
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After having the heated discussion in the webinar “Teacher training in the age of Web 2.0: The current situation & future perspectives” on Wednesday November 30th, now the Forum space is open to everyone. Join us for a discussion and share with us your valuable opinion on the teacher training in the Web 2.0 era.
The second round of Teacher’s competition has been undertaken to identify the best practice among the selected ten practices. The winner of this competition has been announced. The winner is teacher Ceri Anwen James in a Welsh-medium school Ysgol Gyfun Bro Morgannwg from Vale of Glamorgan, Wales (UK). The more detailed winner announcement is here and if you want to know more about the best practice, visit here. The winner will be rewarded with a 1000€ prize, of technical equipment for her choice, plus all expenses covered to travel to Warsaw in october 2012 for the awarding ceremony.
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The experts video have recently been uploaded in LS6 Vimeo channel.Composed of three prominent experts, Marie-Noëlle Lamy, Regine Haschka-Helmer & Kirsten Winkler, the series of expert videos hope to explore truly interdisciplinary perspectives in the role of social media in the development of language learning and in the empowerment of language learning communities.
To meet Experts, Click directly http://vimeo.com/channels/249749
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The next webinar “Teacher training in the age of Web 2.0: The current situation & future perspectives” , organised by ENS de Lyon- Ifé, will take place on Wednesday November 30th, at 14:00 (CET).
The poster is here
For free registration email now ls6.teachertraining@gmail.com
Invited speakers are:
Christine Develotte, ENS de Lyon-Ifé (France),
Mirjam Hauck, Open University, UK,
Melinda Dooly, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain),
Stay tuned for upcoming news related to the new webinar.
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The teacher's competition aiming to gather practices of social media use in classroom settings is now over (deadline: July 30). The first round of selection will be communicated early September and the selection of the ten best practices will be made available on our website by mid-September. A second round of selection will be launched with the aim to define the top practice that will be awarded with a 1000€ prize.
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The webinar, held on June 29th, 2011, with the title "Give interculturality a chance - Can social media make a difference? and organised by Prof. Fred Dervin and Prof. Christine Develotte is now online.
Check the recording here. (please allow some minutes for video to load).
The poster of the webinar can be found here
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Our next webinar entitled “Give interculturality a chance - Can social media make a difference?" will take place on June 29, 2011, at 12h30 CET (Paris time).
Ask for login details now: interculturalwebinar@gmail.com
Speakers:
- Fred Dervin, University of Turku, FIN
- Christine Develotte, ENS-Ifé Lyon, FR
With special guests:
- Anne Fox (Djurslands Erhvervsskole, DEN, producer and co-host of Absolutely Intercultural)
- Robert O’Dowd (University of Léon, Spain)
- Liang Wang (SOAS, University of London, England, UK)
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Did you miss the webinar “Where languages collide: How multilingual literacies make social media real” held on June 14? Watch the recording here
Would like to join the discussion? See you at the forum (public discussion open from mid-June to mid-August) on the same topic.
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An interview with Dr. Laia Canals Formons, local coordinator of the Autonomous University of Barcelona team, is integrated to the podcast in Spanish language run by LdeLengua The interview is led by Victoria Castrillejo, one of the most active members of LdeLengua. Thank you for your interest to our project!
Listen to the podcast here
A set of training sessions for teachers with low ICT skills will take place in Latvia, Poland and Romania in April 2011.
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Award winning competition for language teachers “Social media in formal language learning contexts” has been launched!
Share your practices and compete for a 1000€ tech device here http://teaching-practices-contest.elearningeuropa.info/node/add/concurso are available in 4 languages: English, French, German and Spanish.
The aim of the competition that will run from March to end of July 2011 is to identify, valorize and make awards to language teaching initiatives with social networking technologies that take place in classroom settings.
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Webinar:”Where languages collide: How multilingual literacy makes social media real”
14 June 2011, University of Luxembourg and broadcast live
Part of the working group on Language learning, social media and multilingualism
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PAST ACTIVITIES
WEBINAR AND OPEN FORUM
Social media and language learning: What is happening in Latvia, Poland and Romania
“Language learners and social media: what is happening in Latvia, Poland and Romania?” is the title of the webinar to be held on February 11th 2011.
Recording of the webinar available here
More information is available here
An open forum discussion, open to the public for two months, has been launched to anticipate and to expand the real-time debate by giving more opportunities to exchange in asynchronous mode. Click here to participate!
PUBLICATION
Social media and language learning: beliefs, attitudes and uses in Latvia, Poland and Romania
Downloadable in English, French, Latvian, Polish and Romanian here
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A "meta-webinar" by Fred Dervin and Katerina Zourou
How to run successful webinars? Lessons learnt and challenges for learning and collaboration at a global level
Recording of the session available here: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/recording/playback/link/table/dropin?sid=gec2010&suid=D.477B3D8147B0C53A9B6FF75068BC5A
Contact us for collaboration ideas, further research, sharing of materials etc.: webinarls6@gmail.com
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Call for abstracts for the special issue social media and language learning: (r)evolution?
The ALSIC journal welcomes submission of abstracts for the special issue "social media and language learning: (r)evolution?"
See the full call for abstracts here: http://alsic.revues.org/index1695.html
Abstracts (as well as full papers) in English or French will be accepted.
The publication timeline is as follows:
- January, 15, 2011: Submission deadline for abstracts (4,000 characters without spaces, to be sent to soumissions_alsic@uni.lu )
- March, 15, 2011: Invitation to authors to submit a manuscript
- September, 1st, 2011: Submission deadline for manuscripts
- April, 15, 2012: Publication of the special issue
See the full call for abstracts here: http://alsic.revues.org/index1695.html
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Webinar: Language resources and Web 2.0 – the latest hype or new perspectives?
The video of the webinar is now online:
https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2010-10-01.0450.D.FD46A5B802A82FE...
(please wait a couple of minutes for the video to load)
Forum following the debate on Language resources and Web 2.0 - the last hype or new perspectives?A discussion forum, open to the public for two months is launched here
http://www.elearningeuropa.info/en/forums/language-learning-social-media-and-development-language-resources/forum-language-learning-soc
Join in to expand the discussion and interact with the experts and the community!
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WEBINAR (FACE-TO FACE DEBATE BROADCAST LIVE VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE)
Language resources and Web 2.0 – the latest hype or new perspectives?
01.10.2010, University of Luxembourg and broadcasted live via Elluminate videoconference system.
Invited speakers
Marie-Noëlle Lamy, Kirsten Winkler, Regine Regine Haschka-Helmer.
Click here for more details
PUBLICATION
Language learning: resources and networks.
- How does web 2.0 affect expectations and needs of language producers?
- How does social networking technology affect the development of language resources?
- Is the production of language learning resources evolving and, if so, in which direction?
- What does the “web 2.0. revolution” bring to the language production field?
A report co-elaborated by two media companies (Deutsche Welle, Radio France Internationale) and two research groups (University of Grenoble III, University of Luxembourg) is expected to shed some light on the changing landscape that web 2.0. and emerging technologies trigger on language resources, materials and methods.
10 good practices will be identified, demonstrating the way educational content in languages is influenced by emerging and social networking technologies in Europe.
PUBLICATION
Study on Social Web and language learning: new resources, new modes of communication?
To be released in July 30, 2010
- How does web 2.0 affect expectations and needs of language producers?
- How does social networking technology affect the development of language resources?
- Is the production of language learning resources evolving and, if so, in which direction?
- What does the “web 2.0. revolution” bring to the language production field?
PUBLICATION
A report co-elaborated by two media companies (Deutsche Welle, Radio France Internationale) and two research groups (University of Grenoble III, University of Luxembourg) is expected to shed some light on the changing landscape that web 2.0. and emerging technologies trigger on language resources, materials and methods.
10 good practices will be identified, demonstrating the way educational content in languages is influenced by emerging and social networking technologies in Europe. Languages EN and FR.
OPEN FORUM
An open forum discussion, open to the public for two months, will be launched just after the webinar.
WEBINAR (FACE-TO FACE DEBATE BROADCAST LIVE VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE)
Rethinking social inclusion through Web 2.0. What’s in hold for the future of language education?
28.04.2010, Turku (Finland) and broadcasted live via videoconferencing
The webinar can be viewed at: http://mediaserver.utu.fi/UTU/?luento=Debate (click on full screen to read the chats)
The ppt presentations and some discussion based on the webinar are available at: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2084
Invited speakers: Prof. Gráinne Conole (The Open University, UK) and Prof. Ruth Hillman (Åbo Akademi, Finland).
Moderators: Prof. Fred Dervin and Prof. Eija Suomela-Salmi.
In the framework of Key dialogue 1 - Language learning, social media and social inclusion.
Join the discussion and share ideas and comments about this topic
PUBLICATION
Technology Enhanced Learning against social exclusion
Special issue of the eLearning Papers e-journal
Released in April 2010
Guest editors: Christine Develotte and Fred Dervin
In the framework of Key dialogue 1 - Language learning, social media and social inclusion
PUBLICATION
Web 2.0 and how it affects development of language resources, materials and methods
To be released in July 15, 2010
A report co-elaborated by two media companies (Deutsche Welle, Radio France Internationale) and two research groups (University of Grenoble III, University of Luxembourg) is expected to shed some light on the changing landscape that web 2.0. and emerging technologies trigger on language resources, materials and methods.
10 good practices will be identified, demonstrating the way educational content in languages is influenced by emerging and social networking technologies in Europe. Languages EN, FR, DE
In the framework of Key dialogue 2 - Language learning, social media and development of language resources.
PAST EVENTS
KICK-OFF MEETING
The very first meeting of the LS6 Network was held in Luxembourg on 18–20 February 2010. Thanks a lot for all participants for their commitment and endurance with long-lasting meetings. Pictures available here!