Session+4+–+Online+Networking+for+Educators

//**AIM OF THIS SESSION:**// to join and explore at least one social network that will be useful for your professional development

How do you network? How do your students network?

// **TASK 1:** // Explore the following site and then we will answer the following questions as a group:

Hanyu Laoshi


 * 1) What is a social network? Other than ning, what examples can you think of?
 * 2) What can you do on a social network?
 * 3) Describe 5 features of the Hanyu Laoshi network, commenting on why they are useful

//** TASK 2: **//
 * Join up to Hanyu Laoshi, add friends, then report back ways a ning network could be used with students.

IDEAS FOR USING A NING NETWORK WITH STUDENTS:

Networking project for students: technoChinese

Ning network used for trip to China Gariwerd Program

Some other networks that are worth joining and exploring: technoLanguages Me.edu.au Classroom 2.0 The Global Education Collaborative Teachers Connecting Smartboard Revolution