Social+Networking



Social Networking

What is Social Networking? A website where one connects with those sharing personal and professional interests. Why use it? It is an easy tool to connect to anyone in the world to share words, pictures, and sound (for free). Can it be used as a tool for the classroom? Yes, social networking can be used as an educational tool. The table contains examples for Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter.

Most Popular Sites: adding pictures, and writing on friends' pages.
 * = ==Facebook == ||= ==Myspace == ||= ==Twitter == ||
 * = [[image:FACEBOOK.jpg width="290" height="114" caption="Facebook logo"]] ||= [[image:MYSPACE3.jpg width="317" height="112" caption="Myspace logo"]] ||= [[image:TWITTER.jpg width="335" height="124" caption="Twitter logo"]] ||
 * *Intended purposes are status updates,

-Good for connecting with family and friends. -Educational use is through adding a private "class" page that only the students can join to discuss classroom work. || *Intended purposes are status updates, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: auto auto 0pt;">adding pictures, listening to music, and writing <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: auto auto 0pt;">on friend's pages.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">-Good for connecting with family and friends. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">-Educational use is limited to posting comments or messages on students' page, but is not private. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">* Intended purpose is tweeting (updating status of what you are doing or how you feel)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">-Good for "following friends" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">-Educational use is limited to sending eachother messages through a "list", but a drawback is only being able to type 140 characters in each message. ||
 * = <span style="color: #124fca; display: block; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">Visit Facebook now! ||= Visit Myspace now! ||= Visit Twitter now! ||

<span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Lucida Console'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">More information on educational uses of each social network: <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Lucida Console'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Facebook: Facebook in the Classroom <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Lucida Console'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Myspace: Myspace in the Classroom Twitter:Twitter in the Classroom

<span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Lucida Console'; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Our opinion: <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Lucida Console'; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">~Creating a classroom page has the benefits of allowing others to watch what they post since everyone can see it, observe other students’ opinions on a certain subject, and offers a social network that students are on often so it is convenient to complete their school work. The availability of Facebook as a teaching tool is through the use of creating a page specific to just one class, in which it can be private so that only the teacher and students can use it. This is useful for reminders, but not big discussions because the page can only hold so many comments on it. Myspace is not a practical tool because writing appears on every page of each of the student’s friends. In other words it is not private and it does not offer any sort of organization for creating discussions or posting work. Twitter is a tool where students can form a private group similar to the use of a Facebook page. The drawback is that only a certain amount of characters can be typed in each of the messages. <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Lucida Console'; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">~Ratings: 1st Facebook (useful), 2nd Twitter (semi-useful), 3rd Myspace (not useful) <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Lucida Console'; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">~It is important to remember that there are other types of social networks out there to use, however we researched the three top sites in our page.