Nowadays it is almost impossible to neglect the use of twitter as a communication resource. Today Twitter cannot be "avoided" in the ICT and ELT worlds. 
In the era of Social Media -Twitter, Facebook and alike it's hard to resist the temptation of publishing stuff like students' pics. They really are an interesting way to show what you do in your institution. Marketing strategies of this sort are so simple to use nowadays. However, this practice ought to be more careful.
Do you want to see how a classic activity can be done following brand new modes?
Interpreting C. Fisher Presentation for the K12Online 07- further to watching his presentation titled: Classroom 2.0 or You Live Where?
Integrating different skills with FCE Students - How to adapt material according to students' needs. They had to read about the topics, take notes, filter data and organise written and spoken presentations (the latter can be heard on vid)
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Un grupo importante de docentes y profesionales de la educación fueron investigando sobre estas aplicaciones y compartieron con nosotros sus experiencias , aprendizajes y descubrimientos.
Practice, practice and practice on paper is time consuming for students to copy from the board and, honestly, quite boring !
Boring activities, experience tells, are sometimes necessary in the English classroom. However just a simple idea may make the difference. A Synchronous online activity can be developed and the "practice atmosphere" is likely to change for the better. Using the messenger to replace paper and pen is something new for students and typing the same sentences they might have to copy on their notebooks in a boring way turns into a challenge that implies fun for them. 
General comments - Background to the incorporation of the tool as a common teaching - communication / learning practice - Intro to ICT
How do we start? What should be taken into account when planning such a project?
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