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This video gallery includes interviews with project managers who have used social media in their LLP projects.

31 January 2013 Video Showcase of Viducate Armin Hottman Armin Hottmann (Kulturring in Berlin, Germany) talks about the wide array of social media used and about the social media competences developed in the context of the Viducate project, a network for people using video for media education. “You need a lot of time if you want to set up a certain group of followers on Twitter, for example: that doesn’t just happen overnight, you have to be active to find other people you want to connect with.” Go to showcase >	15 January 2013 Video showcase of REAL Wendy Newman Wendy Newman (Association for Language Learning, UK) talks about how social media were used in the REAL project aiming to build a European network of associations of language teachers. “[Speaking about social media] We’ve found that it’s an important way to get in touch with people […], a very useful way to reach a lot of people” Go to showcase >	10 January 2013 Video showcase of iTILT Shona Whyte Shona Whyte (University of Nice, France) presents the project iTILT describing the communication and dissemination strategy and how social media constituted a fundamental element for it. “It helped to have a strategy where everyone informally committed to certain things. […] We people felt that we were all moving forward as a project and that we had specific goals that we were trying to meet”. Go to showcase >
6 January 2013 Video showcase of eLene2learn Ildikó Mázár Ildikó Mázár (EDEN, UK) presents the eLene2Learn project and tells about how different social media tools have been used to build a European network of teachers, students and practitioners in the field of learning. “I think the communication strategy you are building can never be bulletproof: you will always learn as you go […] You will always have to adjust: to have a good strategy in place means that it is flexible enough to adopt the changes as you are going along”. Go to showcase >	20 December 2012 Video showcase of Teach.us Simon Heid Simon Heid (Coordinator of the project, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) talking about Te@ch.us, a project aimed at developing web community for teachers interested in integrating Web 2.0 in classes at school, highlight the use they made of planned social media as well as the emerging necessity to start using other social media during the project. “We added Facebook and Twitter to have more innovative dissemination activities”. Go to showcase >	10 December 2012 Video showcase of REC:all Sally Reynolds Sally Reynolds (Managing Director at ATiT, Belgium) presents the REC:all project, aimed at exploring new ways for lecture capture to be used for pedagogical enhancement, and speaks about the choice and use of certain social media tools above others. “Facebook and Linkedin are of course very useful […] but for the kind of work that we had in mind for REC:all we decided that NING offered the kind of functionality that we needed […] and I think that the way we are using that community at the moment bears out that it was a good decision”. Go to showcase >
10 December 2012 Video showcase of Language learning and social media: 6 key dialogues Katerina Zourou Katerina Zourou talks about the importance of the social media dimension for both engaging in collaborative activities through open structures and for interaction and dissemination of the project Language learning and social media: 6 key dialogues. “After 2 full years of use I can say that the five social media applications that we chose were fully successful and this because we associated a [precise] use to them” Go to showcase >	10 December 2012 Video showcase of G8WAY Graham Attwell Graham Attwell (Pontydysgu, UK) illustrates how in the context of G8WAY, a project that is developing web 2.0 enhanced learning environments, various social media tools have been used to disseminate the project, to capture different ideas from the participants, etc. “I think [using social media] has got to be embedded into your project, I think if you don’t use social media today in your projects, then you’re really missing some big opportunities”. Go to showcase >	10 December 2012 Video showcase of "aPLaNet" and "Languages from the Cradle" Joel Josephson Joel Josephson (Kindersite LTD, UK) describes the use he makes of a wide array of social media in the general context of LLP projects and in particular The aPLaNet project, aimed at helping educators to develop a social media awareness, and Languages from the Cradle, for informal family language learning. “We put up 7 of the lullabies, little videos, in youtube. That was 4 years ago and today they’ve been viewed 12 million times and every day those videos bring about a hundred people to the project website” Go to showcase >
10 December 2012 Video showcase of MEDEA2020 Eleonora Pantò Eleonora Pantò (CSP, Italy) explains how and why some social media have been chosen in time to be part of the set of dissemination tools for the MEDEA2020 project (), presenting the use that has been made of them. “I suggested to use Facebook, since the beginning, but at first there was some kind of resistance because it was not considered a serious tool”. Go to showcase >	10 December 2012 Video showcase of SVEA Petra Newrly Petra Newrly (MFG Baden-Württemberg, Germany) talks about SVEA, a project aiming to promoting the use of social media in the field of adult learning. She describes the use of social media for the project itself and tells about how social media tools were managed and the text production was shared collaboratively among the partners. “Within this project we especially used Twitter […] to promote our activities and also to link to other projects in the same field”. Go to showcase >	6 December 2012 Video showcase of VIPI Karel Van Isacker Karel Van Isacker (PhoenixKM, Belgium) talks about the advantages of integrating the platform of the project with the social networking environment. Social media in this project are being used with a diffused management and with the aim to reach out for the beneficiaries even more than of promoting it: “Contrary to what many people believe, social media have proven to be an excellent communication means for people with disabilities” Go to showcase >
3 December 2012 Video showcase of Europa2111 Erica Delucchi Erica Delucchi (SCIENTER-MENON, Italy) presents the project Europa 2111 describing how they have been using the chosen social tools to broaden the target audience and collaborate with it. “My recommendation is that it’s very important to be present in social media […], but even more important is the social reputation you have” Go to showcase >	3 December 2012 Video showcase of eScouts Alessia Rogai Alessia Rogai (Associazione Arci, Italy) talks about the characteristics and the benefits of the tools with which the project eScouts (Intergenerational Learning Circle for Community Service) is being promoted and disseminated, including the Facebook page. “Facebook was a great instrument to promote the project” Go to showcase >	22 November 2012 Video showcase of iTEC Christel Vacelet Christel Vacelet (European Schoolnet, Belgium) talks about how she is using European Schoolnet's wide array of social media tools to promote the project iTEC (Innovative Technologies for Engaging Classrooms), which is exploring how technology can be used effectively and successfully by both learners and teachers and is seeking to define the nature of the future classroom. Go to showcase >