ESL/EFL Projects

Project Ideas	Overview	Links
Student Treasure Hunt	Students compete to find a series of online resources such as the visual thesaurus and post their discoveries in real time on twitter.	www.visualthesaurus.com
Hash Tags	The most difficult critical thinking skill is inference. Students monitor Real Time Trends when they see a trend they look at about ten tweets on it and post to "What the Trend" API stating what they think the main idea of the hash tag is.	Real Time Trends What the Trend Develops connectivity and inference and main idea skills.
The Department of State recognizes that the early adopters of social media are "Global Digital Natives" but there are different sites for social media in every country.	Establishment and facilitate an international twitter that is based on language learning.	See @dipnote's http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/language_exchanges_connect/#
Context is very difficult too teach in ESL.	Social media can be exploited to develop two kinds of thinking- right brain and and Gardener's interpersonal thinking. Students (students as Thinkers) are given hashtags and try to determine meaning in dyad groups Students (students as Lookers) determine hashtag meanings via Twitter Discussion of results between Lookers and Thinkers	Gardener

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			Thread started: Mar 12 2009, 3:49 AM EDT Watch Could the translation feature on tweet deck be of help for students? Do you find this valuable? Keyword tags: translation tweet deck Post reply

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