Social Networking as an Educational Tool

Social Networking as an Educational Tool

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Rennie & Mason (2008) mention web 2.0 tools in education field so affective as with these applications participation of students appears with cooperation. When it comes to the course design; working cooperately , creating, sharing, commenting, and interacting differentiate this new way of education tools from the traditional ones. These new tools create us an environment and access to use the facilitations in courses and achieve better learning. That is to say, tools play a part as a platform. These platforms let users to generate their own content which encourages creativity and flexibility for the learner and teacher in education field. Tools, also, provides the community work rather than individual work which means the outcomes reach to the large masses with the access of the tools. That's why social networking as an educational tool is very applicable in classroom environment as it facilitates learning with many beneficial characteristics and the requirement of our times, rather than the previous traditional educational tools, digital life has a place in educational field as well as other fields in our life and people are actively using it.

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WEEK 6: 4/6

JAMBOARD " Visualize your ideas in a new and collaborative way" (https://edu.google.com/intl/tr/products/jamboard/) Jamboard is developed by Google to be used as a whiteboard collaboratively. Jamboard is not only interactive but also creative platform which provides designing and sharing ideas. One of the benefits of Jamboard is its easiness: in education by using this digital whiteboard, learners facilitate from images, drawings, photos unlike traditional whiteboards. Accessibility as another benefit, helps both students and teachers to use it in distance education as well.

WEEK 6: 1/6

EDMODO " Edmodo is a global education network that helps connect all learners with the people and resources needed to reach their full potential." ( https://new.edmodo.com/) Edmodo is a tool that can be used during distance education by students and teachers as well as parents. Edmodo provides a classroom environment through Internet; sharing materials, commenting on posts, creating and submitting assignments, updating and informing are what Edmodo ensures. With the usage of technology in education, learning becomes more effective for students. Edmodo as a platform, is a well-known and a useful example on this.

WEEK 6: 5/6

VOKI " Voki is an educational tool for teachers and students, that can be used to enhance instruction, engagement, and lesson comprehension." (www.voki.com/) Voki as a tool, ensures students to create characters on their own and improve their speaking and listening skills in an enjoyable way. Students can custumize their character which is as if a game; thus, learning becomes entertaining for them. Teachers can give assignments to students through Voki and monitor students as well. Voki provides interaction, collaboration, empowerment, security and entertainment for students in classroom environment. In distance education, especially for juniors or younger students, Voki can be very necessary to keep their attention on lessons.

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