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 tool was used as an online learning community site was for the hybrid course "Business English 2". Like other online community sites, SocialGo includes the following functionalities: personal profiles, chat, forum, blog, comments, groups formation, uploading of images and video, and events management. Within the course "Business English 2" the teacher used the forum for the description of the task the students have to perform during the current week of teaching, and the students used their blogs to perform those weekly tasks.

In one activity the students had to use a the Web 2.0 tool named nimbb as a widget/API (link to features) that was incorporated into the SocialGo learning community network. This nimbb tool enables recording of video with a webcam and integration of video clips into user website. The students

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.

The example of the use of the nimbb API for the tasks that the students had to perform as a recording with a webcam.