User-Generated Language 

This workshop aims at showing participants part of the plethora of projects using web 2.0 tools, which focus on user-generated content, that can be incorporated into their regular language classes, motivating their students as well as bringing more authenticity to students’ production. Presenters will demonstrate how practical and engaging these projects can be by sharing some they have successfully carried out.

Mixbook

• Phantom of the Opera - book summary

VoiceThread

• An introduction to Brazil

Youtube

• Earth Day Project

Dfilm/Dvolver

• Comparatives and Superlatives
• Film Festival

Chinswing

• Stereotypes

Podomatic

• Pets

Blogs (blogger, edublogs, motime)

• Class blog - students as commentators
  • conditionals
  • modals verbs
• Class blog - students as authors
  • pre-writing
  • students' essays
• Students' blogs (21classes, pageflakes)
  • Harlen's blog
  • Cinthya's blog

• Blogs for cultural exchange
  • multicultural exchange
  • Brazil-Russia

Pixton

• Create your comics

But where to begin?

• Be bold, try things, don't be afraid, learn with your students (they are digital natives, after all...)
• Take an EVOnline course
• Join a community of practice, like Learning With Computers Computers