:) Social Media for Education :)

1. EDT 2604
SOCIAL MEDIA FOR EDUCATION

2. • Websites/Applications
• Allow users to create/share content and interact with one
another

3. Founded in 2008 by Nic Borg, Jeff O'Hara, Crystal Hutter

4. • An educational website that takes the ideas of a social network and
refines them and makes it appropriate for a classroom.
• Students and teachers can reach out to one another and connect by
sharing ideas, problems, and helpful tips.

6. • A free social network platform for teachers to create accounts to
post assignments or sending messages with other teachers either
in the same school or outside the school.

7. • Teachers can add names of their fellow teachers and students by
using +Teachers and +Students tab, after which the
platform generates a password for each of the newly added student
and teacher.
• Users can use ‘post to class’ where they can add images,
hyperlinks, bullet points, with formatted text.
• There’s also a chat room where everyone can chat online at a time.

8. DEVELOP
ED BY
BLACKBO
ARD INC.

9. • Blackboard is a tool that allows faculty or schools to add resources
for students to access online.
• Powerpoint, video, audio, animation, and other applications are
created outside of Blackboard and added into Blackboard courses
for students to enhance teaching and learning efforts.

11. • It provides users with a platform for communication and sharing content.
Communication
• Announcements
• Chat
• Discussions
• Mail
Content
• Course content
• Calendar
• Learning modules
• Assessments
• Assignments
• Grade Book
• Media Library

13.  A site that consists of fun & educational game for
kids parents and teachers.
 This site has ability to add friends to their accounts.
 Users can play games through multiplayer against
other players worldwide
 Sumdog's questions are drawn from hundreds
of fine-grained skills, covering ages 6-13

14. It has 3 different modes;
•The main mode is Mathematics
•Second mode is Reading: read the question and
find an answer.
•Third mode is Writing where you have three
options: Candy, Snake and ,Secret.
•On Mathematics, you can train on all your skills or
click on the other options like, addition,
multiplication, subtraction and division.