Open Learning Consortium Award - Connect Language Students with Native Speakers

The Mixxer is a social networking site for language learners. Learners find partners where each is helping the other practice their native language.

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1. WELCOME TO THE MIXXER Connect your language students with native speakers for a language exchange www.language-exchanges.org
2. WHAT’S A LANGUAGE EXCHANGE • A language exchange is two people who are each learning the other person’s native language helping each other. With the Mixxer, partners find each other then practice speaking via Skype. This is also often also called eTandem. There is also a writing section where users can correct each other.
3. PROFILE SEARCH
4. PRACTICE WRITING
5. I TEACH, WHAT CAN THE MIXXER DO? • Students can, or course, create their own profiles and find partners. Our students do so then send a summary of the exchange to their professor or post to the Mixxer blog. If you would like to connect students during class hours, contact me at bryantt@dickinson.edu, I will change the permissions on your account to provide two additional functions. • Teacher Search – for those looking for class-to-class exchanges. I also recommend www.uni- collaboration.eu • Event – If you have lab hour for your language class, you can ask individual users who match a specific profile to contact your students at a given day and time. For example, we may send an email to native Spanish speakers learning English asking if they’d be interested in an exchange at 9:30 AM New York time on Tuesday April 3rd. If interested, definitely email me first. I will help you with the first one.
6. QUESTIONS? BRYANTT@DICKINSON.EDU Twitter @bryantt @Mixxersite