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In East Asia, the high penetration of student cell phones, with built-in features that include
bilingual dictionaries, SMS, Email, Internet access and videocams, already offers ubiquitous
computing facilities for pedagogical applications. This paper describes an EFL task that
required Korean freshmen of Hyejeon College in Chungnam to make L2 English video guides
to their campus. Videos were made on their built-in cell phone videocams, and then emailed
to their instructor. After file conversion, their videos were uploaded to the instructor’s vblog
on his homepage on the English language social networking site US.Cyworld.com (a sister
site to the Hangul social networking site Cyworld.com which most Korean students already
use). Students were instructed by email to view the videos there, and to then post responses in
his homepage guestbook. This required them to use English to set up a personal account and
to navigate the social networking site, as well as to compose and post responses. The task
illustrates the developing critical importance of L2 Digital Literacy within EFL pedagogy.