Do You Speak Tech? The Pandemic Edition: Gettin’ With It (Social Media)

going to be talking about social media tonight um and wow how far things have come since the first time that i've presented on social media for the do you speak tech and so i hope that we can give you some new um new things to to think about tonight i'm just gonna move this down here so second last one in the session and then next week we're gonna be talking the new normal so a little bit about um sort of the the things that have become so much more important since the pandemic so online teaching the uh video uh teaching that kind of distance learning and all that kind of thing so tonight we're going to be exploring and reflecting on strategies for authentic engagement in the target language through the implementation of social media and we'll be looking at that uh by looking at what is social media and why should we implement it in the classroom at all and then looking at social media from kind of two different sides from both the teacher side and the classroom side so how you can use that with students so my name is stephanie i work at the institute for innovation and second language education at edmondson public schools and i volunteer first like the second language and intercultural council for the alberta teachers association and it's part of my role here tonight to with slick to come present on the do you teach spec tech series so first uh just a few questions to think about to get to know sort of your background about social media and don't prepare your answers but don't uh send anything in don't type anything out until we kind of get to those one by one this is another uh kind of number and short strategy you can use for communicating and checking in with students when you're doing distance learning so your first question is just going to be what is your favorite social media site or apps so just a one word answer if you'd like to share with us right now let's go ahead to share with uh your favorite social media site or app whichever one you prefer i'm going to say uh i guess my favorite is going to be uh facebook for the most part instagram it's free for personal use mostly right now on facebook it's one i use the most um i kind of have some emerging favorites but we'll see how is there a social media app that you would like to learn more about so maybe one that um you've heard about or you've heard your students talk about it but you don't know much about it or how to use it i'd like to share that with us now twitter oh good we'll be talking a little bit about tick-tock tonight i'm i'm just in the expiration stage as well with tick-tock but um seeing it the first few times i've definitely got some ideas and here we're going to play a little game let's see if you can recognize any of these apps so i'm going to name an app and just type in the number which one you think this is you can see the little app icons with the numbers underneath so let's start with an easy one which one's facebook okay your students might actually have a difficult time with that one because it apparently it's for old people so yeah i age myself there saying that's my favorite okay which one is tick tock yeah yeah it's number seven about that right um how about instagram at least one of you'll get this because it's your favorite um how about pinterest do you use pinterest if you don't you might be able to guess from the app icon here oh don't use it i've used it a few times to look for things but i'm not one of those curating boards and using my sister-in-law she's a kindergarten teacher she uses but what's that it's number one this is sort of a like a texting a texting app um that uses you know wi-fi and that so it's really popular with um people who have family or friends internationally uh last one we'll try here how about reddit this is one of my emerging favorites just reading the stories there yes it is number eight reddit sort of a micro blogging site where you can people share stories or memes or you know things like that and you can go and upload them and see how popular they are so social media the what and the why uh if you've been to some of the previous previous sessions in the series you've seen that we've talked about two canadian publications um this one from consult is the first one on facilitating language learning through technology so literature review on computer assisted language learning and we'll have a few quotes from this uh kind of spurs wrote the the evening tonight and the second one is from actually where i work at islay at edmonton public schools so literature literature review on the characteristics of successful language programming and we'll hopefully see some strategies for um how social media can help us successfully target some of these characteristics and you can click there this one is free the consult one um is for purchase but there's member pricing it's very reasonably priced and you'll also see some more on this resource hub if you don't work for edmonton public schools you would go there and you can see that there's a lot of other resources there for teachers of all different subjects and then a little more specific to our session tonight we're going to be um using some research and some figures from this uh research around understanding the functional building blocks of social media so the first link is for a science uh for business horizons and you can go to that link to purchase that that issue um and if not just the sort of the summary of the parts that we'll be using tonight you can see here at the bottom in this article what are the seven social media building blocks and so that's a little bit a little more condensed for you like a little more information about that um so before diving into the research and the implications in the language classroom let's just get an idea about what we're even talking about when we say social media so here's the definition that you get from oxford languages when you literally google what is social media so websites and apps that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking so already this very global definition this very general definition we can see connection with our language programs here uh you know that idea of creating and sharing content participating in social networking we've got that underlying idea of you know connection and communication right and so isn't that ultimately what we're trying to to do with our with our students but in the target language right we look at the types of social media here so some of these you may uh or may not have been aware of i know for myself i never um i thought about before as trip advisor or yelp as being social media but when we think back to this uh the general the general um definition about it um being that social networking and so that you know idea of people connecting and sharing their ideas and sharing content uh it makes sense right and so same with you know etsy airbnb so their social shopping or sharing economy and you know what are people doing with these types of social media and we're talking start with the first one here so social networks kind of that typical facebook and twitter it's for connecting with other people right we're gonna go and you know form these communities with other people uh media sharing we're looking at just sharing videos and photos so when we're thinking about like instagram or youtube uh social media sites for sharing we're looking at consumer reviews it's again about sharing but about sharing an experience right and giving your opinion about that experience so discussion forums we're talking about reddit quora so sharing news sharing ideas and opinions so we see this thread of connection and sharing coming up again right then for things like goodreads interest based like sharing and connecting with people who share share somewhat interest right so blogging we're looking at commenting on content or creating and sharing content right so sometimes if you're a blogger you're creating and sharing that content sometimes if you're a consumer of blogs you might be going there just to comment so the social shopping right is about just discovering buying and selling goods and services and then like pinterest and that this bookmark or content creation about discovering saving sharing content so we can see um already here some things like the types of things or that we would like our students to be able to do in the target language right to be able to create content share experiences connect with other people be able to discover um or to buy and sell goods and services write something super concrete in the target language that we would like our students to be able to do so going to the back to the sort of the research here about the functional building blocks of social media the research has kind of parsed out these kind of seven seven functional blocks right so that social media is about presence about knowing if other people are available and like where they are basically it's about relationships so relating with one another um which also kind of relates to groups right and forming communities it's about this reputation so knowing where other people stand socially and where the content stands socially and i think that we've seen this one you know especially in the last few years uh politically become very uh much ingrained in social media it's about conversation and communicating with other people and sharing or exchanging and receiving content right and then finally about identity so about revealing yourselves um you know who you are um and and what you're about and so this is kind of what social media like the function of social media and why um people are engaging in social media right and so again we can see these threads that connect to our language programs right our oldest language teachers is that students be able to relate to and function within those target cultures that they be able to build their own identities um about who they are and you know discover their community and you know form groups um find their place in the world right um and doing that you know through learning the target language and about the target cultures so looking at something like youtube where do you think the bulk of the function should be placed like which uh which one of these blocks you just enter that in the chat one word there if you'd like um where do you think the main function of youtube sits so presence identity relationships reputation groups conversation sharing it's got one vote for sharing here one vote for reputation i think on the the main level there's definitely some layers to what the function is right the main is about you know creating videos and sharing them with the world right and so that's going to definitely be sort of our main function but we can't discount the rest right there's so many different layers so this idea about um the reputation and the social standing of groups i mean it's even built right under the video you've got the likes and the dislikes right and so that's definitely you know a layer of youtube um so is the group so finding groups and um you know subscribing to channels that um have similar interests um as you write and then a little bit at that conversation piece where you've got kind of the the in the bottom with the comments right so there's some conversation going back and forth right so definitely um not to say that the other three aren't a part of youtube but i think that we've kind of got two main layers here now looking at facebook which one do you think would be sort of that main dark blue block of that first layer of what is the main function of facebook ultimately facebook was created for people to there's one vote for relationships yeah so yeah i think that we can easily see that the you know we can imagine that the main function of facebook is about cultivating relationships right but we've got um you know other honeycombs here and i would even argue so this figure was copied from that that research which is already a few years old and i think that the the the groups piece has become even more in the last few years even more um important and even more ingrained in in what we do with facebook right and so belonging to groups so that you can collaborate with others who share interests i know that in the last few years i've joined i know that i've had kids i've joined some mom groups um and joined some teachers sharing groups and those have become a lot more prevalent in the last few years i would almost color that one down as well um and then this piece about identity i mean with facebook they literally warn you when your friends birthdays are right and so you've got your birthday you have like your past and present workplaces and things like that and so um we can see that identity is really kind of deeply ingrained in what and what facebook is about this presence so like checking into things this reputation honeycomb i think has gotten more sophisticated in the past couple years with the addition of different reactions so you can not only just like something but you know laugh give an angry reaction and that kind of thing and so okay going back to a little bit of understanding about what is social media um i i have to put this in here because i know that when i'm talking with my mom she just can't comprehend what is a hashtag what is it for she doesn't understand it annoys her and so i hope that i can shine a little bit of light here on it so a hashtag is a user created meta tag meta tag is sort of like giving a search term for your social media posts saying like i want it under this conversation topic sometimes that's a lit sometimes it's a literal conversation um so for example with the hashtag langchat um that's a specific time weekly that language teachers throughout the world meet on twitter um and there's a moderator who has who gives questions and they have a topic and you can answer and they share back and forth and so it's a conversation via twitter and you access the conversation and are able to read them together by accessing the hashtag right but it's also um sort of just a way of of giving your giving your post a title or giving it a topic so that if people wanted to just go and kind of scroll through and see what is what are the mfl twitter body talking about then you can do that um by going to the hashtag okay so why social media we have a little bit of an understanding of what it is why are we bringing this into our classroom when we can't deny that screen addiction and more specifically social media addictions are are you know problems in our society and especially for young children and so we want to be cognizant of those downfalls and we want to be cognizant of not giving too much screen time and we also want to take advantage of the benefits that social media can bring into the classroom so while it's important to be mindful of the technologies you're bringing into the classroom it's also um important that when you are bringing them in you're being mindful of how they're being used to build language proficiency and so if we're not building language proficiency then maybe that screen time or maybe that technology isn't isn't needed right one of the benefits of using specifically mobile devices in the classroom is that it helps encourage both the learner autonomy and collaboration among learners so it's interesting that it can kind of get at both sides of that coin so social media by nature is collaborative experience and so by bringing it into your classroom you're not only bringing that outside world in but you're also providing opportunities for students to bring that learning home with them like literally in their pockets and that's encouraging more self-directed language learning right i mean we can't deny that technology has changed what literacy and communication means nowadays right we um communicate in different ways and what really resonates with me is this last part in bold about the online affinity spaces and when we're connecting students with these um these spaces these are where people from different cultures and different language backgrounds are going to come together and share it together and they might share interests right and isn't this really what we would hope to achieve with our language programs that our students can connect with people from different cultures and different languages and oops sorry i didn't mean for these all to be animated when we go back and think about uh the functions in the building blocks of social media we see these connections to our language curricula already so not only are these the types of things that students are doing in their own time in their real lives quote-unquote but it's and in their first language but these are the kinds of communicative functions and and tasks that we would want them to be able to do in the second language right if our goal is that students be able to use the language outside the classroom then we need to acknowledge that the world outside the classroom has changed very rapidly especially recently and you know out there we are engaging with written content in new and different ways every day so by integrating these these social medias and these new ways of integrating um or of engaging with language into our classroom it's going to motivate students right and when we're motivating them um we're going to be you know improving their language learning and we're not just increasing the motivation you know connecting them with social media is really connecting them with speakers with native speakers of the language right and this is going to you know give them more motivation again more confidence but we're really getting in that nuanced understanding of the target language and its culture and that can be difficult to achieve in a second language classroom especially if you're like me a second language learner so french for me is my second language and so i i come as a learner teaching the children about the language and the culture and so connecting them with people who live that first hand is really going to help give them that more nuanced understanding so while we can't discount the importance of increasing student motivation by incorporating their interests and connecting them with native speakers um i think it goes beyond that because we're breaking down the barriers between the classroom and the real world by bringing in these social medias we're connecting students with native speakers engaging them with authentic culture and content and asking them to produce the language in ways that mimic their real lives so you're bringing the outside world into your classroom and you're extending their learning beyond the classroom so for both students and teachers um you know engaging with social media can help with this this piece of fostering a community and also lifelong learning so not only you know as a language task for students but also you know as a teacher if you're um often as a second language teacher you may be the only you know french or you may be the only spanish teacher in your school and so reaching out via social media is going to really help with that you know finding a community and finding people that you can collaborate with and connect with i found this uh graphic quite interesting just it's the reach of social network sites so meaning like for example youtube is reaching 77 of the 15 to 25 year olds in the us so if you're 15 or 25 three quarters of them are using youtube right and so you can see here sort of some of the the popular social medias um from some anecdotal evidence just like from former students and that facebook twitter pinterest linkedin are apparently for old people um so i'm wondering if maybe it's because this um research is for the 25 group and maybe that kind of 20 to 25 group is you know a little more into facebook i do know what a lot of my students have but facebook but they say they don't use it but you can see here as well like something like tick tock is already reaching a quarter of the 15 to 25 year old age group and that's a fairly new app and so they are um you know our students are quite adept at just at jumping on something that they really like right so one way to kind of uh get around this whole um oh you pick the wrong app madam or miss you like you're not cool you you chose facebook and our class doesn't like that but maybe another classical who knows um is to sort of not pigeonhole yourself with one specific app so we're gonna talk about some strategies later on um but it's a great idea to give students a choice so instead of saying like make a facebook post or making instagram posts about this topic maybe try something like make a social media post and give them a few different templates that they can try okay let's look at social media for teachers so for teachers we're looking at social media using it in a different way than what we're going to be using it with students we're really looking at this idea about community connection and lifelong learning so a few ideas for for engaging with social media we'll look at specifically some ideas for facebook twitter and youtube in a couple minutes here um so when i think about social media for teachers i think about like lifelong learning or really like free pd that's what we're really talking about free professional development you can join a language chat on twitter um you could join a group for language teachers on facebook and share with them and get ideas or watch tutorials on youtube um and then follow language education or edtech leaders on these platforms and just kind of see what they're putting out there and you'll be surprised um at how much inspiration and how many ideas that you'll get even from an ed tech leader that i follow who teaches english language arts in grade two i was posting an idea that i thought right away oh my gosh that would be perfect for my french grade eights and so you just never know i've got a few communities here on facebook that i link to so if you're a teacher of french second language in alberta there's a great uh relatively new group that's been started um so people will post if there's a great free pd coming up or if they've got a project idea they'd like to share a lot of times there's a lot of questions so um does anybody have a project for you know the grade 8 clothing unit or things like that and so people will go on there and share ideas and share resources there's also kind of a similar one for spanish online collaboration and that's for teachers of spanish who are teaching distance learning or teaching online uh this new one that well not a new group but one new to me is this google classroom for modern foreign language teachers so it's based out of the uk but a great um great community for that melding of technology and languages and then if you're a french teacher this many musical is a great group as well so it's uh you know a task that that um they do every year so again crowdsource ideas from culture you simply ask them questions um get inspiration from them um you'll see that there's a lot of amazing things going on in some really cool classrooms around the world and you just might be able to not only get the inspiration but literally get the presentation or the website or the project outline or whatever it is that you need um so like really saving yourself some time so there's so many languages and ed tech leaders that you can follow on twitter i total you know plug here for my work isley um but the reason i put it is because when i was uh thinking about which uh people to suggest that you follow um if you go there you can look at our followers and there's quite a a lot of them are great people to follow so just you know read some bios and see um what might uh might interest you and go ahead and follow us we retweet sort of the best of the best of languages and educational technology you can scroll through a hashtag for inspiration so if you teach um fsl there's the hashtag fsl chat um mfl twitter roddy so um is one started by actually a participant in some of our sessions um and they have a podcast which is pretty cool so i link that in there and uh it's kind of one of the largest um hashtags for teachers of foreign languages throughout the world that's kind of the big ones oops sorry i didn't mean to scroll forward um the oops let's get back on here got a new person coming in and then some of those hashtags are on twitter are actually like the the weekly chat so the mfl chats uh which is kind of linked to the mfl twitter audi is mondays 8 30 to 9 uk time or language chat length chat thursdays at 8 pm and i just put a little video in there on the twitter chat basics once you can get an idea if you've never done a twitter chat how it works um i will warn you one they go super fast so the first couple um it took me maybe three or four um just a following to kind of understand how it really worked um so don't you know uh don't be upset if it takes you a little while to figure out how that works um but also i put that link in there as a reminder that if you'd like to learn more about twitter chats um then you can check on youtube search youtube for a tutorial so and we've talked about looking for tutorials on youtube before um we had some ideas on in session four which you can get from that uh the link to the to the document there of some people you can follow um and here's a new one because we've talked about edpuzzle a few times and there was a new uh one on joe dale's channel about um using edpuzzle but first specifically for language teachers so um yes the video is 44 minutes and i know that i've said before stay to 10 minutes or less but this is not a simple introduction video he does give the overview and do does a demo of how to use edpuzzle and shows you how to use it in the first 10 minutes and the rest is um some testimonials from language language teacher explaining how they use this in the language classroom and so some you know really um practical strategies so we're definitely worth the 45 minutes um in my opinion so we're gonna switch gears now and talk about social media uh for the classroom so now that you've got some strategies for how to get some free pd and collaboration and connecting with with others via uh social media for teachers we're gonna look a little bit more about how we can do this as a um you know using it in the classroom to get comfortable here so again uh always harking back uh on focusing on the communication and just sort of uh keeping these uh functions um in and the building blocks of social media in the back of our minds while we're designing tasks to use in the classroom so it's important that we're not using social media just for social media's sake right we want to improve language proficiency again i know i see it so many times but it's because it's so important the language learning has to come first secondly most important is preview everything closely every single second every frame every word um and just make sure that what you are bringing into your classroom is appropriate both for the age of your students um you just don't want to be that teacher that ended up in the news for showing something super inappropriate um i think that especially nowadays um our attention is being drawn to uh what we may have shared in the past that is not maybe wasn't uh super appropriate and so we just need to be very cognizant of that we want to make sure that we're not offending any of our students um that we're offending any of their families um or offending anybody that might happen to stumble across this task um you know that that's not in your class and so just you know keeping that in mind student privacy and information is a concern so you want to make sure that when you're using um apps and things that you're you're thinking about that and we're going to have uh we're going to talk about a strategy i call it the copycat strategy later on um that's going to kind of help with that making sure that you're not having students sign up for a tick tock and instagram and a twitter account and all these these kinds of things that are putting their information out into the world and then adapt what your adapt the social media posts for the classroom so you might add questions you might add some notes you might turn it into an exit slip turn it into a task you're going to extend the learning you're going to take a written post and give the students a reading task and then a writing task and then how do we turn this into a conversation right you're going to extract it onto a classroom friendly platform so it's not always appropriate to just bring up tik-tok in the class or to bring up you know instagram so maybe you're going to extract that onto a shared slideshow a classroom blog or website your learning management system whatever and then copycat it so we're going to talk about that in a few minutes here but it's the strategy for uh kind of having the upsides of social media without the downsides so using authentic um materials is going to motivate learners and also provide that linguistic and cultural content that's more rich than than the content that's made for second language learners right so we're talking about authentic content made for native speakers of that um of that thing so mother tongue speakers and by connecting our students with these authentic resources and these online social space space spaces we're not only making the learning more dynamic but we're also going to promote critical thinking we're going to give them more authentic learning and really encourage these sort of like deeper connections with the language and the culture so some examples of how we can connect students with online social spaces or how we can bring these social spaces into the classroom you could follow some celebrities in the target language uh maybe you're doing a lesson on a song or a film in class where you can go lurk um you know search out those um actors and singers and artists on instagram and youtube and see what content could be appropriate to bring into the classroom um for more and for extending that learning right um or for using those tasks uh using that language that authentic material for for more tasks in the classroom so maybe you find an instagram post from a um singer that you're following that you've you know done a song about maybe the students could write a comment for that post um maybe they could choose their favorite post from a series and then justify their choice so uh a series from one specific artist or a series from different artists or um maybe just you know uh series uh youtubers whatever that is they might respond to it in writing or speaking form based on a prompt that you've given them create their own posts with kind of a similar theme and so we'll talk about some of those a little bit later and one way to get them to so when we say for example get them to comment on this instagram post i don't mean get every kid to create an instagram account go log on to instagram and then go comment on metra games who is a very famous french singer french rapper go copy on you know comment on his post and then you've got to go sift through the million of public comments to find what your students have done we're not doing any of that we're going to copycat it so copy hat is a task that mimics this social media trend that might be popular at the moment but we're putting it in the student-friendly platform so we get all the engagement and that language language and authenticity but minus most of the hassle there's never no hassle in teaching right you're going to be protecting student privacy and minimizing all those student accounts so they're not creating instagram and tick tock and youtube accounts and everything else that they're then uh that you then have to keep track of so that you can go look in these public comments and track them down right we're going to facilitate student collaboration and so you know the students are are commenting but they're in their own class or in the groups that you've assigned them right and then again that finding the student works so finding their comment or finding their posts it's going to be much easier to have it organized for you to find it and then mark it once you have that you know in in some kind of student-friendly platform that's you know that we're going to talk about in a few minutes i've got some specifics and then save yourself some time you're going to create those templates once and then reuse them again again we're going to i have a star there because we're going to talk about templates later on as well so when we're talking about um learning content or learning grammar um the research is pretty clear that collaboration and context are key so in order for students to learn grammar it's much more effective if what they're learning is in context so it's in some kind of real um real life task that has them collaborating with each other and as well as has that sort of range of multimedia that's going to be the most effective when we're trying to get that you know get students to learn how to use the language effectively so one way that we can get at that is having students uh you know comment on on instagram posts or create an instagram post um or some of that media sharing uh where you not only have the image right but it's the description and then going to read someone else's post um post a comment and then maybe have that kind of back and forth written exchange right and then maybe later have a conversation about that so some ideas for copycatting instagram you could do a shared individual slideshow so for example google slides or powerpoint whatever um you give students the slideshow either individually so for example if they're doing um a series of posts on their own or um shared with the whole class if you for example have a writing prompt or an exit slip and you want them to be able to see each other's posts on on that topic they're going to put their image and text on the slide and then use the speaker notes to comment and like other posts and i'm actually going to show you an example here in a few minutes with that so i'll just kind of give you some more ideas for the instagram copycats and then we're going to go actually do a shared slideshow uh so individual doc you could uh make a like a word document or a google doc where you have your instructions or a screenshot of the post you want them to discuss at the top and you make a copy for each student so that's the template and then underneath they're gonna you know type their their written response to that so you can share that via google classroom to make a copy for each student or however you do that your your learning management system and then also flipgrid and canva are kind of great uh great for that as well so flipgrid is creating a post but it's with video and then they can add images onto the video and text as well um then they can like and comment on each other's posts and so that's a great app and we'll um do an example here soon and canva is great if the students um for doing all of these um when they're especially the slide show if they don't want to insert an image that they've taken themselves then you could use canva it's like a poster creating website and it's free for educators so you can create social media posts website banners and whatever you want so um here is a link for you and then i'm just gonna pop into the chat that's one i don't like that i guess um so this is a slideshow i'm gonna grab this one because that one looked weird and i'm just afraid it doesn't work so i made this uh last night i just grabbed the the background that's one of the backgrounds from google slides um and i went into the view master so i changed it to purple instead of brown just so that um it was more instagrammy and then i added these uh little kind of icons at the top and i made the first two hyperlinks so that if someone were to click on them they would uh when it's in present mode it kind of acts like a little more interactive light um so if we click on the home button it takes us to the first page the message one it opens an email to me um and then the circle was for if the kids wanted to add um like their own um if you wanted to add your own like image or profile pic or something so i added mine in there and so you'll see i also deleted all the rest of the slides so when you go to the little down arrow there's the title instructions and instagram post so i did that all in the view master and changed it and so this is a way of kind of getting students and you can see here um they would you know each student is going to add their own little slide and you're going to put in your name and then you're going to insert an image and again you could go to cadbury insert one from your phone or whatever it might be they can even just search the web right so um i'm going to search tomai and i'm going to say like this i you know if this was french class then i would say it in french of course but i would say like oops this is my favorite french singer artist and hashtag whatever right and then later on when everyone's kind of entered then they can go through this slideshow um and use the speaker notes to kind of like or add they can add little heart emojis to say like i've liked this one um and that kind of thing and so you've got them all together and the people can um you know collaborate on this each create their own post and if you want to copy this slideshow and use it like go for it it's all yours i put my little profile pic just want to use from the slideshow and then i just linked it to my instagram i was just kind of thinking of you know what else can we do to kind of make this fun and then if i was in class and i wanted to like search for specific hashtags so you go ctrl f and then i can just put the hashtag or i can start to actually type in a specific one um and then it'll take me to the the next slide that has a hashtag on it and then kind of one little thing i like to do whenever i would do a slide show with with the whole class is whenever you're done your post they can add one decoration to the title page so they can add another hashtag they can add an icon a bitmoji whatever right and so that's just one way of like copycatting a social media post but using the slideshow right so when we're talking about so-called computer assistant language learning uh talking about using it for speaking tasks um this is when we're using technology for speaking tests the research is showing that it's um really helping students with the confidence and willingness to communicate in real life as well as with their fluency in their target language so one way to get kids to use technology to do a speaking task is to have them do like a utah youtube or a tick tock video um so here's some ideas for some copycats so again this shared slideshow would work exactly the same except you know i would make it look different this looks like instagram i would open up youtube and you know uh choose the background that's red and make it just a little bit different look like youtube um we can even like do that here so i would go view master i'm gonna take one of these kind of blank slides and just copy it and then i'm actually going to go look at like what does youtube look like when i click on a video and it's kind of got like the video in the center and then it's got um hello there and so it's got the video and then it's got the name underneath so right it doesn't have the name at the top and then it's got the description underneath so maybe i would here um add i'm just going to take this out so the title is actually going to go under and i would maybe insert a little text thing here and i'm actually a text box saying like insert your video here right i would obviously make this look better and then i would insert a little i like sub title plate because i don't the body one is like annoying um and i would say and that's for them to enter their description so then when i close this i would rename that like youtube post or whatever um here so i can see insert your video here so they know to paste it in there this is their where they would put their title and then this is their description and then you know when we're commenting back and forth it's in the speaker notes right and so the same thing with the slideshow um the other thing you could use is flipgrid and this is a really cool new and it free for educators app oh uh yeah before uh sorry uh before we uh demo flipgrid just if you're not sure what tick tock is um i don't know why that came up so tick tock is a an app where you have these like short little form videos so they're like 15 seconds or like one minute um and they like sharing so kind of like instagram but for little videos so one example is this uh super popular hashtag it's called chaotic energy and the idea is that you would make a little video of something that would have you like uh something in your real life that would have you like getting really chaotic and getting crazy um so here's one example that's it that's all tick tock is so these little tiny short little videos so a little bit humorous um a little bit uh kind of like real life um and here's this other one now at first glance it doesn't seem like there's a lot of language here but i would really like you to when i'm playing this video really look for the language that's on here um and think about that for a second i'm just gonna get this right so we've got these few little uh kind of subtitles so me scrolling through tick tock and then like mom pulls up and then oh me you know cleaning house frantically or whatever then we've got her little like description or her little like kind of tag anyone else in chaotic energy and then plus whatever the people are commenting back and forth right so it's a little bit of language but in a 10 second video right and so because it's so small and because it's such a small amount of language but it's very very authentic for our students um it's gonna be something that you can do kind of over and over again right you give them a different topic or a different kind of hashtag that they have to act out or create um and you've got you've got these tasks that you can reuse over and over right so even though it is small it's authentic and engaging but they're also kind of revealing a part of their daily lives and that's bringing the language home with them right they're bringing that language learning home and i think that's really powerful for students to engage in creating the language when they're not in the classroom right okay so flipgrid here's the link and i will also uh copy it in for you oops oh it's gonna make me just a second it's giving me a bunch of garbage and i'm just gonna delete that out of here there you go so uh flipgrid is a free uh for educators app is a copycat for instagram youtube snapchat snapchat tick tock etc so you post a prompt which could be written and students are going to respond with a video then they can embellish that video with text emojis and things like that they can also like comment back and forth things like that and so i don't know what happened to all my texts here essentials wonky i'll fix it later um so i posted one here um just explore it so just have fun just open up flipgrid and say hi um you can record a response using your phone um using whatever you'd like i'll even go in there and put one in for you as well so i'm going to get out my phone and do a flip grid so for example we do these now when we have uh people in our office who retire and they'll do like you know stuff that so-and-so says and then everyone will go on and do like a little you know 10-second impersonation of the person then so that can be kind of fun and so you can just sign in with google which is nice so it's everything that's um you know in the google um kind of sphere and so you're not too i set this timeline up to three minutes but you can make whatever time limit you want you've got some effects the filters you can add gifts on there like it's pretty neat add a little rainbow filter hi thank you for connecting with us on do you speak tech and for trying out flipgrid i hope that you find it useful in your classroom have a good day some dinner welcome joe we're just trying out clifford here welcome joel we're just trying out flipgrid you missed us plugging your new youtube video about uh ed puzzle i watched that last night it was really good so i got my yeah it was amazing have you just started or am i late no we're just about done but that's okay because you can always watch it later right oh sorry okay sorry in my head it was always started at the same time because normally it starts at 11 doesn't it it where we had time change so i think you guys are only six hours ahead now right okay oh that's okay never mind okay it would have been nice to have seen it live but yeah okay we gave you a good plug though thank you i watched your ed puzzle video last night it was very good so i posted that up for them thank you yeah of course so yeah i just and now i can save that video so like with snapchat and that you can save the video um return to topic and there we go so i'll just take it a few seconds to to plug in there but yeah so it's kind of a neat way to to just fake any of that video sharing right i'll give you a couple more minutes to check it out and then i've just got a couple more copycats to show you here uh we're talking um next about copycatting blogging sites because those are um uh no i'm sorry uh pinterest and sort of those content curation websites and so we're looking at those we're really trying to promote collaboration and that interaction that's going to be authentic for students it's not only going to reduce their anxiety and motivate them more but it's actually going to help help them learn the language so a few things that you can do for pinterest so we've got flipgrid and padlet there again um for kind of sharing different content and things um when you're doing a flipgrid you can record a video that's the students could explain why they're sharing this content and then they've got a place where they can share the link uh to something so that's kind of neat um and then padlet we took a look at the last session but i'm going to bring it up again here and we've done gem word as well the limitation with jamboard is you can't share links or videos so it's just text or images and you can also uh make shapes but for pinterest we've got padlet this is also a really good um or also an option for if you have um or if you want a copycat youtube because if people put a youtube video or like copycatting a youtube playlist they could put a youtube video up on there and um be able to share it with everybody but you don't have to uh go into youtube to see it right so this is the dashboard you just make a new padlet this again is just with the free the free version share anything share a link to a website that you've got open a youtube video you've listened to and a tick tock video whatever you want um so when you click on the little settings here what's pretty cool so besides you know the title and description i can also change the icon so i just put a little video because i had shared a youtube video but whatever um you want your you know board to have um you can also customize the link which is neat so i customized the padlet.com and then the dyski for do you speak text so it makes it pretty cool i can even see here already that somebody's um adding in a note so that's awesome changing the color scheme now it's really cool that um mimics the social media is we can add comments and then you can add you can choose a reaction so you can only choose one which is too bad if you want to like actually grade the post but i would suggest keeping padlet not grading so not putting that number of you got this much uh one because it's in front of everybody um and then two because um you you know maybe keep this for more of that um engaging like star uploading liking that kind of thing um that mimics more of the social media and then if you've got kind of a naughty class you can require approval and moderate things before they go up so that's really important yay a whole thing about editing master slides and google slides that's awesome so yeah this is from many musical like i love him he's uh hilarious except he's the one um that taught me the lesson of previewing every second because there's a song from his aladdin musical um and i just thought that i mean it's a lot and it would be okay and the last few seconds of the song is a lot of swears so um surprise so next talking about blogging so uh why would you have students blog well when they creating when conversation partners or learners are creating a product like a blog or a video or something like that or a podcast it gives them a deeper understanding of the target cultures as well as their own culture which i just find super interesting so copycats for blogging you can use blogs just be careful which ones you're using so we're not necessarily using wordpress um but maybe kid blog or blogger so where it's a little simpler student friendly and can just be shared with the teacher lucidpress uh and i put the link there for lucidcrest for education which is free for educators so they've got templates there for any kind of written visual content you can think of so social media posts booklets flyers whatever and then you could have students do the slideshow idea so um if it's a shared slideshow or an individual one so each complete slideshow is like a blog and then each slide would be the different page and then when they share it with different classmates um they can comment back and forth and the speaker notes kind of like how we saw earlier and then just finally before we end here in the last few minutes um so using yeah my video now made it onto flipgrid so looking at the uh using technology to develop intercultural communicative uh competence we're talking about uh connecting students to other fellow you know other speakers of the language whether that be native speakers or not the native speakers are really and heritage speakers are really going to give that rich linguistic you know rich language i guess and so one of the ways of doing that is through social networking sites and the reason why that's part of the reason why we're trying to copycat all this while we're going through all of this work um so a few strategies for the process when you're doing these copycats templates um choose a couple formats like i'm going to do a flip grid for this i'm going to do the shared slideshow for instagram whatever create one or two templates not a whole lot right away and then assign the task to students um and then like we talked about in the very beginning maybe let students choose which social media template they use so instead of saying create a facebook post about abc it's to create a social media post and here's some templates that you can use so not only is that going to increase engagement and authenticity because the students are choosing what is more authentic to them it's also going to hit that differentiation piece it's really part of that one of the pillars of universal design for learning is that students get a choice in how they're demonstrating their learning so having those multiple formats is also going to enable you to maybe like gently suggest to students who are working above or below grade level a certain template which might have some you know different expectations so you're not sort of picking them out saying like oh you're the student that needs to do the different one because you know your your language proficiency is way above or below the rest of the class so once you have the kids do that task once or twice and you're going to tweak the template because you're going to find things that work and things that don't work and things that you want to add or change before you kind of you know settle on what that template looks like and then you know choose your next one so for example some templates you can make uh we did that instagram one was sort of like a series post this shared slideshow here so like if you want uh one person to do a series of posts or if you want the class to kind of add a bunch of posts together um you could also create a slideshow or uh whatever you know kind of template you decide on a doc for like an instagram profile so like where they would put you know a profile picture and their little bio and then they've got some posts with the descriptions and things like that so just some considerations again the language proficiency how is the task improving the language proficiency is going to be first and foremost in our mind and like what social media functions that we talked about from from the research in the beginning what functions of social media am i incorporating are the students um sharing content that they created are they giving their opinion or idea about a topic are they connecting with other people or discovering a new product right and what social features can of the app can you copy so that idea of like the sharing content with others the oral conversations and written exchanges the likes the upvotes the comments that whole networking connecting piece and interaction piece that comes from social media what can you build into your slideshow or into your flipgrid um and make sure that they're getting that experience right so that the copycat rings true and then how can you make it engaging so it might be the colors or the graphics animated images um the fact that flipgrid has filters your kids are gonna go nuts for that it's gonna make it 10 times more engaging than you know a slideshow or whatever um automatic video playback so in your slideshow so that when you go present as you click through the slide the video automatically plays and it's kind of like flipping through the tick tocks right so you know how can you how can you fake those engaging features just kind of think of that when you're when you're trying to build