What are the pedagogical implications of social media for ELT?

I think that social media is brilliant for languages, it has some useful elements for other educational uses, but language learning is about communication and that certainly happens a lot with social media.

Are you promoting open participatory skills in ELT? How?

Well, I’m doing my best. I have set up a moodle platform for a part-time CELTA course, they’re using that enthusiastically, networking and collaborating well online as well as offline. The Sessums article is interesting and the New Media Literacies site looks worth keeping tabs on.  I’ll have to use that list as something to aim for in my teaching.

Can these social media help you? How?

Yes, they’re fun, hip, and in the meantime there is a tool for every need (or if not there will be one next week). At my institution there is no staffroom or regular time to meet other teachers, the teachers tend to get very isolated so this could help them to connect and share ideas. It might also be appropriate for some of the normal courses once the teachers find out how easy it is to use.