Social Media
Social Media resources are great for promoting students learning and improving their writing skills. It is also a great way of getting students attention and interest into school. It offers a great space to allow students to show their creativity and have a space to ask their classmates questions about what they are learning that maybe confusing. Certain Social Media sites can be public and privates, so depending on your students you always choose the one that best works with them and their age group. It also allows students the chance to feel they are using the current social media sites everyone else uses but in a safe and educational manner.
- Social Media For Teachers from Edutopia - This resources offers the information you want to know if your interested in introducing the popular social media sites within your classroom. Discussing the different ways to use social media can be used within the classroom, through offering guides for teachers to use to assist in implementing it within lessons.
- 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom - This resource is great to use if you plan to use twitter in your classroom and with your class. There are 50 ways to use twitter in the classroom listed on this resource. All are great to use, and many of them promote students to write tweets that help develop writing skills, such as write a poem, write a review on a movie, or even
- 100 Ways to Use Social Media in the Classroom - This resource offers 100 inspiring ways to use social media in the classroom. Many of them are very interesting and fun ideas to use in the classroom and even outside of the classroom to allow students the chance to build their writing and communication skills. Many of the ideas are to promote weak students learning and getting them interested in an activity while also developing stronger skills.
- Edmodo - This is a great site to use with students that maybe younger and you wish not to introduce them to public social media sites. Although works well with older students as well. This resource is set up similar to Facebook, and you can set up a closed space where you can set it up for your class to use without interference from the public. It offers students a space where they can discuss and share their thoughts and ideas about what they are learning. But also a space where you can announce and remind students of important items.
- Kidblog.org - Blogs can be a great way of promoting students to write their thoughts and ideas and develop their writing skills. But the issue with blogs they usually are public and this can be a issue at times. This resource allows for blogging in the classroom to occur but privately. It also allows for a safe environment for students to write and without advertising within the blog allows for no consumerism to occur through using it.
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