Role of Social Media in Education
- 4. Social Media is the use of electronic and
internet tools for the purpose of sharing and
discussing information and experiences with
an online community.
- 7. Establishing on-line profiles and setup their own
social networks
Most social networks provide users with
information sharing facilitates such as e-mail, chats,
instant messages, videos, blogging, file sharing and
photo sharing.
- 18. EDMODO is the largest social
networking website used mainly
for education purposes.
As per the survey, more than 13
million people are using this
website effectively.
- 20. INSTAGRAM
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing,
and social networking service that enables its users to take
pictures and videos, and share them either publicly or privately
on the app, as well as through a variety of other social
networking platforms.
- 21. Myspace.com (originally stylized
as MySpace) is a social networking
website offering an interactive,
user-submitted network of friends,
personal profiles, blogs, groups,
photos, music, and videos.
- 23. BLOG
A blog is a discussion or informational
website published on the World Wide Web
consisting of discrete, often informal diary-
style text entries.
Posts are typically displayed in reverse
chronological order, so that the most recent
post appears first, at the top of the web page.
- 25. Social media can be used as an effective tool
to help increase collaboration,
communication, and cooperation skills in
students.
Social media can provide a way for teachers
and students to become more interactive.
- 26. Teachers can utilize social media for class projects,
for enhancing communication, and for engaging
students in a manner that might not be entirely
possible in traditional classroom settings.
- 28. Provide direct communication with instructors
Allows introvert students a way to communicate
Create groups
Post class notes
Make announcements
Share information
- 33. • Increased Student Collaboration
• Increased Student Participation
• Team Projects are easier to review
• Rich eLearning Media available
• Video Conferencing abilities
- 34. Student distraction can become issue
Lack of control for inappropriate
content
Relying on Social Media for all contact
- 36. BLOG
A blog is a discussion or informational
website published on the World Wide Web
consisting of discrete, often informal diary-
style text entries.
Posts are typically displayed in reverse
chronological order, so that the most recent
post appears first, at the top of the web page.
- 41. EDUBLOG
• Educational Blogging is blogging by students,
teachers, administrators, industry experts, and
other involved entities that focus primarily on
the educational process and educational
interests.
- 42. Students can quickly catch up if they miss a
class
The teacher can use the blogs as a course plan
Blogs can be used to motivate students to do
more reading and encourage them to improve
their values.
- 43. • Potential for increased access and exposure to
quality information.
• Link your class with another class somewhere
else in the world.
- 46. Not all kids have access to
computer and internet.
Privacy
Time consuming
Uneconomical
- 48. A wiki is a website that provides
collaborative modification of its
content and structure directly from the
web browser.
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of Social Media: Implications for Educational
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