Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Spiky]

Hello,

I'm wondering whether anyone has done any projects using facebook, or even cyworld with their students and what the effect was? Have you ever encouraged ss to sign up to facebook to improve their written skills, cretivity, etc?? I'm interested if anyone has tried this and if it was successful.

Thanks!

[EvanD85]

I've talked on www.omegle.com late at night to find many Koreans on there. A couple of them were at school and using Omegle as part of their English curriculum. Seems kind of dangerous, but they seemed to enjoy it.

[Spiky]

Thanks,

i'll check that site out!

[ahsieee]

one of the branches of my hagwon uses cafe.daum for projects and homework... i think pretty much everything is done on it for their branch.
they find it really efficient- students post questions and they can answer each other or have a teacher answer it for them.
if your foreigner registration # doesn't work, you can ask one of your korean coworkers to set it up for you.

[Fishead soup]

You will want to create a separate account to one you would usually use. I sometimes get vulgar or inappriopriate comments from people I knew in high school.

[AgDragon01]

or you could just create your own social network via ning.

I set it up, but I personally wanted to be able to monitor their private messages to each other, just to make sure they were being polite, but also so I could correct their language.

another teacher suggested wikispaces.com and animoto.com, but i haven't checked these out yet.

[Adjumas Cheekbones]