Social media is the future of communication. It includes an array of internet-based tools
and platforms that increase and enhance the experience of sharing information. The
platform is all about community-based input, contact, content-sharing etc.
Facebook :
Facebook is a social networking website where users can post comments, share
photographs and post links to news or other interesting content on the web, chat live,
and watch short-form video.
Shared content can be made publicly accessible, or it can be shared only among a select
group of stakeholders.
Educational implications:
Facebook allows to create and maintain educational community groups , educational
facebook pages.
Facebook as a Web 2.0 tool helps to maintain interactive online platform for sharing
valuable information
Whatsapp :
WhatsApp Messenger is a freeware and cross platform messaging and Voice over
IP (VoIP) service owned by Facebook. The application allows the sending of text
messages and voice calls, as well as video calls, images and other media, documents, and
user location.
Implications : Develop Whatsapp learning community groups with educational
objectives.
Youtube : An American video-sharing website. YouTube is owned by Google, YouTube
is a large-scale video sharing site on the Web, and it is available in nearly every country
and over fifty different languages.
Nowadays it has great implications in educational field. The educational stake holders
can upload educontent videos and share public across the globe.
Teachertube : A video sharing website similar to, and based on, YouTube. It is
designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share
educational resources such as video, audio, documents, photos, groups and blogs. The
site contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others designed to aid
teacher training. A number of students have also uploaded videos that they have made
as part of K-12 and college courses. It has found favor with educators for whom YouTube
content is blocked by content filtering systems
Instagram : A photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook.
The app allows users to upload photos and videos to the service, which can be edited
with various filters, and organized with tags and location information.
LinkedIn : LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates
via websites and mobile apps. It is mainly used for professional networking, including
employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs. LinkedIn allows members to
create profiles and "connections" to each other in an online social network which may
represent real-world professional relationships.
Educational implication includes linkedin learning - LinkedIn Learning is an
American massive open online course website offering video courses taught by industry
experts in software, creative, and business skills. It is a subsidiary of LinkedIn.
Twitter : An American online news and social networking service on which users post
and interact with messages known as "tweets".
Through short tweets, the microblogging portal twitter share informations ,
announcements among students, parents and colleauges. Tweet homework
and assignments. Learns through collaboration
Twitter provides opportunity to follow eminent personalities twitter account.
Easy access to Current affairs, politics , edutainment, live streaming videos of important
events.
ResearchGate : A social networking site for scientists and researchers[ to share
papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. it is the largest academic
social network in terms of active users. Members have a user profile and can upload
research output including papers, data, chapters, negative results, patents, research
proposals, methods, presentations, and software source code. Users may also follow the
activities of other users and engage in discussions with them.
Pinterest : A social media web and mobile application that operates a software system
designed to discover information on the World Wide Web, mainly using images and, on
a smaller scale, GIFs and video.
Pinterest is a social network that allows users to visually share, and discover new
interests by posting (pin it) images or videos to their own or others' boards (i.e. a
collection of 'pins,' usually with a common theme) and browsing what other users have
pinned.
Tumblr : A micro blogging and social networking website. The service allows users to
post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users'
tumblr account. Tumblr website's features are accessed from a "dashboard" interface.
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