This document lists and briefly describes several popular social media and online networking platforms for learning, including Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, Blogger, PBworks, Second Life, WordPress, Picasa, YouTube, Google, and Google+. Facebook is described as a site to talk with people you meet and find others, share interests, and play games. Wikipedia is a free, collaborative online encyclopedia project. Twitter allows people to follow interests and others through short tweets of up to 140 characters.
2. SUMMARY
Facebook
Wikipedia
Twitter
Bolgger
Pb.works
Wordpress
Second life
Picasa
Youtube
Google
Google+
3. FACEBOOK
Facebook is a social networking site that you can talk with the people
that you meet and you can meet other people. You can publish things
that you like in your walk, and you have a chat that you can talk with
people that you meet. And you have games that you can play with it.
You have a lot of privacy and you can have photos that you like it.
4. WIKIPEDIA
Wikipedia is a
free, web-
base, collaborative
multilingual project
supported by the non-
profit Wikimedia
Foundation.
In Wikipedia write all
the people in the
world.
5. Twitter is a social
networking site when the
people follow her
interests and other
people follow you.
You write a tweet that
the maxim characters is
140.
TWITTER
6. BLOGGER
This is a blog that you can publish something. And you have
a lot of applications that you ca put it in your blog and the
people can play with it. It’s really good because you can put
information that the people don’t know and they can learn it.
7. PBWORKS
PB. WORKS is a service founded by David Weekly on Monday in 2005.
Pbworks is a commercial real-time collaborative editing (RTCE)
system created by David Weekly, with Ramit Sethiand Nathan Schmidt
joining shortly thereafter as co-founders. Based in San
Mateo, California, the company's original name stems from their belief
that "making a wiki is as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich".
The company operates on a freemium basis, with basic features being
offered for free and more advanced features for a fee.
8. SECOND LIFE
Second Life is an online
virtualworld developed by Linden Lab. It’s
similar than SIMS. Second Life is invented
for people aged 16.
9. WORDPRESS
WordPress is an open source blogging tool and publishing
platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often
customized into a content management system. WordPress
has a web template system web using a template
processors. Users can re-arrange widgets without
editing PHP or HTML code; they can also install and switch
between themes.
10. Picasa is an image
organizer and image
viewer for organizing and
editing digital photos, plus
an integrated photo-
sharing website.
PICASA
11. YouTube is
a video-
sharing website
, created by
three
former PayPal e
mployees in
February
2005, on which
users can
upload, share
and view
videos.
YOUTUBE
12. GOOGLE +
Google+ is the last
social networking site
created for Google Inc.
It’s similar too
Facebook but the
difference is in the
appearance.