International+Guests

=Nicky Hockly=

Nicky is the Director of Pedagogy of The Consultants-E ( __www.theconsultants-e.com __ ), and has been involved in EFL teaching and training since 1987. She is co-author of //How to Teach English with Technology// ,//Teaching English as a Foreign Language for Dummies// (both with Gavin Dudeney), and //Teaching Online// (with Lindsay Clandfield). She is currently co-writing book on digital literacies, and recently produced her first ebook: //Webinars: A Cookbook for Educators// ( the-round.com ). She specialises in online teaching and training via virtual learning environments such as Moodle, and is interested in the use of technology in the language classroom. She is a technophobe turned technophile.

Social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ are big news as well as big business. Clearly they are an integral part of the daily life of millions of people all over the world. But what does this mean for English language teachers? Even if our students are glued to Facebook on a daily basis, should we bring sites like these into our teaching? How exactly does today's English language teacher position him or herself in the face of Facebook and the like? Should social networks be kept out of ELT? Or is there a place for these sites in our teaching? And if so, where and how?
 * Facebook Nation: Social networks & ELT **