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Chapter 8 discussed the different strategies of communicating and collaborating with social media. This chapter focused on many helpful electronic communication tips, creating blogs for students and teachers, and even twitter for teachers!
Social media allows students and teachers to easily communicate with one another after school hours. Some key ways of communication are email, teacher or classroom websites, blogs, online discussions, and wikis. Teachers are able to create websites that their students can view daily to check information about a certain class. I think that's a great idea because teachers can make it easy for students to remember what the given assignments were for each day of the week. Another great way to communicate is by blog. I think it's a great idea for teachers to assign students these "online journals" to reflect their learning in the classroom.
Blogging is a fun and easy way to help get students interested in their learning. It's a free and inexpensive way to get students communicating through technology. One way of blogging can be considered creating a class website. This type of website is devoted to the educational activities of teacher and a classroom. Class websites focus on students and their work. Students are able to publish their work and become interested in certain subjects and topics being taught in class. I think this is a very great way to get students thinking and to help them begin to create more of a creative and proactive mindset. These websites are very helpful when it comes to homework assignments, dates for exams, schedules, and school events being posted for students to view! More teachers should allow their students to get creative and be apart of online blogging in and out of the classroom!
A cool topic discussed in Chapter 8 was Twitter for Teachers. Some may not know, but Twitter is a microblogging site where individuals share information with friends and colleagues also known as their followers. Each post made it only allowed 140 characters, this is why it's considered microblogging. Twitter allows teachers from all over to follow one another and share their classroom information using hashtags. These hashtags organize information around similar topics being discussed by each post. Hashtags such as #engchat and #engtalk for language arts or english classes were discussed. These hashtags allow students from all over to actively post about different topics regarding their english or language art classes. I think Twitter may be a little bit too advanced for the classroom right about now. I think there should definitely be an age requirement for the use of Twitter so that teachers won't have to be so worried about their students using it as much. Other than the safety factors of Twitter, I think it's a great way to get interactive feedback about different subjects in the classroom!
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Very nice - love your Canva and agree with you about age limits for some social media. I believe they already exist for the usual sites (age 13 is typical) but there are some specific sites that replicate those 'usual' sites that students younger than 13 are encouraged to use - there's a benefit in teaching them to use them responsibly in that safe environment.
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