Technological tools like e-learning, social media, and online collaboration platforms can enhance and facilitate learning. These tools allow for independent and assisted learning through web resources. Popular social media tools include Facebook, Google, blogs, and Twitter, which enable learning anywhere and sharing of educational resources. Communication apps like WhatsApp and Skype help connect people and allow for shared activities remotely. Other online tools mentioned are YouTube for sharing videos, SlideShare for presentations, Dropbox for file sharing, Weebly for web pages, and Photoshop and Sony Vegas for multimedia editing.
2. A way to facilitate and enhance learning is through the use of computing
and communications technology. Internet and Web encourage
implementation of another type of "education " than traditional education,
namely e-Learning, i.e., a virtual process used to obtain data, information,
knowledge or skills.
Independent, assisted learning is based on Web tools that develop creativity,
skills of working with the computer, the student benefits by teaching
materials and the tutor’s support, who has the role of a mentor.
3. Speaking about Social Media, we take into consideration programs such as:
Facebook, Google, Blogger, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and other forms of
Social Media that students use .
The advantages of using Social Media are:
Learning is discreet;
The students can learn every time they access the social network;
Students can be encouraged to contribute themselves with educational
resources;
Teachers can transmit educational contents through Social Media.
4. TehnologY Exemple
Media sharing Youtube, Slideshare, Sketchfu,Flckr
Handling media and mash ups Googlemaps, Voicethread
Instant messaging, chat, forums web 2.0 MSN, Paltalk, Arguementum
Online games and virtual places wordofWarcraft, SecondLife
Social Networks Facebook,Linkedin, Elgg, Ning
Blogging Wordpress, Blogger, Edublog, Twitter
Social Bookmarketing Dekicious, Citeilike, Zotero
Recommendation systems Digg, LastFm, Stumbleupon
Wikis and collaborative editing tools Wikipedia, GoogleDocs,Dropbox
Syndication/ RSS feeds Bloglines, Podcast, Reader
5. When we talk about social media tools which comes first in our minds is Facebook, then Twitter, Hi5, LinkedIn
as well as blogs, forums, etc.
A way to promote;
A way to relax;
It shapes communication;
Connects friendships;
Keeps yourself informed;
Shyness enemy;
Maintains connections.
6. Simple and reliable
Send messages to friends and family for free *.
Keep in touch
Keep in touch with people who matter most to you, such as family and work
colleagues.
Share moments that matter
Send your photos and videos into WhatsApp instantly. You can capture the
most precious moments with a built-in camera.
Share documents easily
Send PDF files, documents,
spreadsheets, presentations, and more
without using email or other file sharing
applications.
Tell us what you are thinking.
With just one touch you can record a
voice message, perfect for a quick
greeting or a longer story.
7. Skype lets you having activities together with other
people when you are away, regardless of where
they are located.
You can even try and group video calls.
It opens wide opportunities, through the ability of the
teacher to share students ' materials in electronic
form quickly and with no additional cost.
8. Twitter is a social network through which you send updates
and quick messages about activities you have to your
aquaintances(or to strangers), having the possibility of quick
feedback from them.
9. YouTube is a website that allows
uploading and viewing of videos
distributed by its users.
Also, users have the ability to leave
comments to the videos and create
playlists with their favorite videos.
10. Sildeshare is a site dedicated to
presentations. And it contains a lot of
presentations. On Slideshare you can
upload a presentation that you delivered
at an event.
11. Dropbox is an online service that lets you store your free data (pictures,
music, videos, documents, etc.).
I can access my data stored there, both on the home laptop and tablet,
phone, or even form another computer.
12. Weebly is a framework designed for the creation and maintenance of web pages.
It also provides services for "hosting" free of charge, without imposing the limitation of
tread, or access to a certain number of pages. The user can add a number of elements and
applications from a predefined list (video players, audio players) or
customised items.
14. Adobe Photoshop is the software for editing
digital images, photographs, graphics for
print, video and Web.
Photoshop is a program with an intuitive
interface, allowing a multitude of
extraordinary routinely changes needed by
professionals and not only: brightness and
contrast edits, colour, focus, applying
effects on the image or the areas (
selections), image retouching degraded,
arbitrary number of colour channels.
15. Sony Vegas features enable real-time editing type audio multitracking, editing on an unlimited number of
audio tracks, any resolution and video format.
Sony Vegas has complex effects and powerful tools for video effects and composition.
Sony Vegas is used in televisions and creative studios throughout the world, being preferred by professionals
for its simplicity and power.
16. iSondaje.ro is a service of online surveys for students and companies. It is
very simple and easy to create your own maquette. The results are
automatically centralized in Excel and they are available for detailed
analysis.