{"id":354,"date":"2011-04-04T15:04:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T19:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/?p=354"},"modified":"2020-10-02T14:00:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T18:00:24","slug":"dont-fight-facebook-in-the-classroom-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2011\/04\/04\/dont-fight-facebook-in-the-classroom-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Fight Facebook in the Classroom: Use It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Transparent Language attended NECTFL&#8211;the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Baltimore.\u00a0 It was a great show, and we talked to hundreds of language instructors from across the country.\u00a0 One of the most commonly asked questions was &#8220;How can I get my students as jazzed about language learning as they are about Facebook?&#8221; or &#8220;How can I direct my students&#8217; attention away from Facebook so that they actually learn something?&#8221;\u00a0 Good questions!\u00a0 But we have a different question: How can we leverage this type of enthusiasm and direct it <em>towards<\/em> language learning?\u00a0 Transparent Language has some ideas: have your students explore Transparent Language&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/language-resources\/communities.html\">communities<\/a>, like this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?#%21\/learn.spanish.language\">Spanish group<\/a>.\u00a0 Or get them to sign up for our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/wotd\/\">Word of the Day<\/a>.\u00a0 The possibilities are endless.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t fight these new tools, but instead, use them to your (and your students&#8217;) advantage!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Transparent Language attended NECTFL&#8211;the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Baltimore.\u00a0 It was a great show, and we talked to hundreds of language instructors from across the country.\u00a0 One of the most commonly asked questions was &#8220;How can I get my students as jazzed about language learning as they are&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2011\/04\/04\/dont-fight-facebook-in-the-classroom-use-it\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[542801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-archived-posts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8288,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/8288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}