In the Top Five!!! 

Thanks to all those who voted and put aPLaNet in the same big league as some well established Social Networking sites !!!!! 

The aPLaNet website in 11 languages includes all the information on the aPLaNet project. It has now been uploaded with all the project materials, including:

• The aPLaNet methodology guide
• Teacher guides
• Case studies
• Social Network communities for language educators
• aPLaNet mentor guide (how to be a mentor)
• aPLaNet mentee guide (how to work with a mentor)
• aPLanet ICT tool reviews and videos
• Glossary of terms

and much more.

Website : http://aplanet-project.eu  (languages Български, Ceština, Deutsch, English, Français, Ελληνικά, Italiano, Româna, Español, Русский, Türkçe)

aPLaNet resources : http://aplanet-project.eu/Resources.htm (also in the languages)

Thanks to all who attended the aPLaNet Project Launch Conference on Saturday 22nd September 2012, at Yeditepe University, Istanbul.The conference website is here: http://bit.ly/UkDdxt.
We were thrilled to have...

• Exciting plenary presentations by some of the leading figures in European language learning
• Stimulating concurrent keynotes by European projects
• Academic papers
• A wide-variety of interesting and stimulating workshops on the use of social networks and Web2.0 tools as tools of teacher professional development.

Plus sessions, workshops and a plenary about the aPLaNet project itself and how you can use its resources, presented by the aPLaNet partnership see more... About the aPLaNet Project

• Do you use social networks like Facebook, Twitter & Nings?

• Do you use them for personal reasons, to keep in touch with friends and family or for professional reasons?

• Do you think social networks such as these can contribute to your own professional development?

These are some of the questions we will be asking hundreds of foreign language educators - and we hope you will be one of them - to find out their attitudes to using Social Networking sites to create and build their PLN, in other words, their Personal Learning Network

During the two years of the aPLaNet project, we collaborating with our partner institutions to create support and resources which helped foreign
language teachers in Europe to understand and use social network in order to:

• Build and expand their PLN by connecting with educators on Facebook, Twitter & Nings
• Continue with their professional development in an autonomous way
• Acquire the skills and digital literacies required in order to use these mediums successfully and productively

 SELF ACCESS PILOTING WIKIS 

•  Nings
•  Twitter
•  Facebook

If you are unfamiliar with Nings, we suggest you start from this one as it is used as our main communication tool 

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