[PD 4994] Why Use Social Networks?

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Susan Gaer sgaer at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 29 17:37:06 EDT 2010

Social Networks, Why
Today a student posted this on my wall at Facebook:
En este pais no hay escusa para seguir aprendiendo y con personas, guias,
maestras como tu menos. De nuevo muchas gracias Susan. I am afraid to wrote
dwun in English my thinking because i know I am going to made many mistakes.
But I try. So thank you againg Susan to continue be part of my life.

This encapsulates why I use "Facebook" and share it with my students. This
was in response to a "If you are learning English, you may find this site
useful."

Susan Gaer
Google Certified Teacher

Santa Ana College School of Continuing Education

Call or text me (530) 539-4237
http://www.susangaer.com/



On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Isserlis, Janet
<janet_isserlis at brown.edu>wrote:


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> interesting use of a guided tour of a website

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> http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/07/28/not-your-ordinary-website-demo?utm_source=email70&utm_medium=image&utm_campaign=healthcare

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> President Obama walks us through healthcare.gov

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> Jackie has suggested that I explicitly address my reasons for posting it

> here - thanks, Jackie.

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> One of the reasons I chose it is because it's a "real" (authentic materials

> sense of the word) site - it's not designed for adult learners, but it's

> clearly been designed to convey a message in very clear, plain language.

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> I've appreciated the online / social networking conversation; I do, I

> admit, sometimes lose patience with it because I wonder if we try to bend

> technology to purposes for which is isn't designed - but then I also

> appreciate the ways in which smart people are using it, so I try to listen

> and learn.

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> Anyway, posting this as a way of saying, hey, there's stuff in the world

> that could be useful for us (adults) to 'consume' as information. It may

> inspire you/your colleagues/learners to create comparable info videos, or

> might just be useful in addressing the content - health.gov

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> thanks

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