{"id":144,"date":"2009-12-08T15:55:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T20:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/languages\/?p=144"},"modified":"2011-02-12T14:05:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T19:05:26","slug":"social-networks-and-language-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/2009\/12\/08\/social-networks-and-language-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Networks and Language Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akiko Meguro combined the social networking site Mixi (<a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.jp\">http:\/\/mixi.jp<\/a>) and the Mixxer (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-exchanges.org\">http:\/\/www.language-exchanges.org<\/a>) to make communication with native speakers an integral part of her course.\u00a0 She uses the Mixxer to organize bi-weekly language exchanges via Skype for her students, then she has her students reconnect with their partners using the journal function in Mixi, the Japanese version of Facebook.\u00a0 This encourages the students to continue to meet with their partner outside of class and introduces them to an entire social network within the target culture as well.\u00a0 Many of our students continue to use Mixi after the course and once they&#8217;ve graduated.\u00a0 We had one language partner visit the class from Japan this year and we regularly hear of our students reconnecting with their language partners once they study abroad their junior year.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/video.filestube.com\/video,324ebf731546664a03e9.html\">video<\/a> will give you an idea about the Skype portion.\u00a0 These are her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlham.edu\/~markp\/langs_web\/NITLE_presentation_Mixi_Akiko_Meguro.pdf\">slides<\/a> about Mixi.\u00a0 Obviously Mixi is only for Japanese, but we can set up a similar interaction using the Mixxer and\/or other localized social networks.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great way to introduce culture and prepare them for a study abroad experience.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re interested in doing something similar, please stop down and see me in Bosler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akiko Meguro combined the social networking site Mixi (http:\/\/mixi.jp) and the Mixxer (http:\/\/www.language-exchanges.org) to make communication with native speakers an integral part of her course.\u00a0 She uses the Mixxer to organize bi-weekly language exchanges via Skype for her students, then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/2009\/12\/08\/social-networks-and-language-learning\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}