SocialGo in teaching English as a second language

From iProjekt

[[SocialGo]] is a community tool like Ning and Elgg that can be effectively used for education purpose. It stimulates student engagement, collaboration between the students and with the teacher, as well as peer-to-peer learning (by sharing of ideas and content).

In the academic year 2009/2010 the SocialGo online community site was used for the hybrid course "Business English 2". Like many other social networking sites, SocialGo includes the following functionalities: personal profiles, chat, forum, blog, comments, uploading of images and video, and events management. Within the course "Business English 2" the teacher used the forum for the descrition of the task for the week, and the students used blogs to perform their weekly tasks.

Below is an example of the use of the functionality "event manager" to define dates for students' presentations.

An example of how the students performed activities in their blog is presented below.