Spice Up Your Teaching with Social Media

Spice Up Your Learning Online

On this tasty trip, we’ll discover how to give new flavour to studying. The trips have originally been planned for language teachers in collaboration with the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University. Gear up for an independent tour of social media!

Journey along the Spice Route and read six blog posts on the educational use of social media:

All Aboard!

We’ll get started by getting to know online communities and our own course platform in Ning.^›

Record Your Journey in a Blog

Blogging makes an easy and useful aid to teaching. Start one now!^›

Wiki Works Wonders

How do you organize group work online? By using wiki, of course!^›

Fun and Functional Facebook

We all have fun on Facebook, but is it really any good in teaching?^›

Tweet Your Thoughts on Twitter

Twitter – made for teaching.^›

Would You SlideShare Your Presentation?

It’s time to stop printing slides and share them online.^›

The Spice Route blogs have been published in the open community of the UMaMI project which offers new spices and methods to teaching. The project is realized by the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University. You’re free to read the articles, but you need to register in order to comment. Sound like a good idea?