Languages and the Social

Meeting colleagues at Open University to frame our joint bid to run the Government online language support service Open School for Languages.

One tendency: build a specialised LMS system to handle this requirement.

Other tendency: simply show that lots of already widely used free applications even Twitter can be bent to use foreign language communication. And let them submit that for validation.

Exciting thing here is that if you can talk directly to the kids - and take the stuffy conservative learn - and - churn approach of the teachers out of the loop... why then you might actually harness kids' natural urge to communicate and to build bridges !

Languages whether foreign or native are just ways to make contact and communicate - and the web can make that possible better than language instructors... maybe...