My Thought Of Online Social Media Applications for Language Teaching & Learning

I think teaching using the internet or computers is a great thing. It's about engaging with people using a medium or platform in which they relate with. I remember reading a while ago about a company that was creating a game modeled around historical events. Students would learn by playing a character in the story. They could be Napoleon, a British soldier or the Queen. This level of interaction is fantastic! I wish I had this type of learning when I was at school. I also think though that the internet is now much more than an information source, it is a vast social network of people communicating and collaborating, so what better place could there be to learn, practice and use language. There are even some dedicated networks set up so that language students can share and exchange both their culture and their language and enjoy communicating with each other.