This document discusses 18 different social media platforms that can be used as educational tools: Edmodo, TedEd, Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vimeo, WordPress, Blogger, Skype, Pinterest, YouTube, TeacherTube, Academia.edu, LinkedIn, LabRoots, and ResearchGate. For each platform, 1-3 sentences describe how teachers can use the platform to connect with students, share educational resources and lessons, or facilitate collaboration. The document provides examples of assignments and activities that integrate various social media into classroom instruction.

5. OBJECTIVES:1.Identify the different social media format as tool
for educational purposes;
2.Discuss the different social media as tool for
educational purposes;
3.Appreciate each social medias as tool for
educational purposes.

6. 1. The Connected Educator

7. •A great site for connecting with other
educators is edconnectr.
•It gives educators several avenues with
which to find other like-minded educators.
•A visual mapping engine narrows down
certain criteria allowing educators to save
valuable time and energy.

8. 2. Edmodo

9. •Edmodo acts as a playground for teaching and
learning with a place for posts, calendars, and
general communication for teachers and students.
•Linking to students becomes simpler and more
efficient as well as more effective when students
enjoy the presentation of it.
•It makes it easy to share valuable apps with
students

10. 3. TedEd

11. •TedEd offers a variation of TED talks with shorter,
often-animated clips of subjects such as science,
technology, social studies, literature, language, art,
health, psychology, and business and economics.
•With communities and clubs, the site also makes it
effortless for collaboration.

12. 4. Google+

13. •Besides great graphics and themes, Google+ takes
teachers to their students with circles that make
managing virtual communication an art.
•Students might need to know more about a particular
lesson because they didn’t quite get it the first time.
• Pull them into a circle of their own with just the right
tools to connect them to their path to understanding
and learning.

14. 5. Facebook

15. •The great part about facebook is that everyone is
on it.
•Students love connecting with their friends and
family with facebook so telling them to check out
the page where you post only makes sense.
•However, it’s very important to stay professional
and have a separate personal account

16. 6. Twitter

17. •6. Twitter
•The best way to use twitter for teaching is as a
reminder to students that they need to complete
an assignment for a particular due date or that
they have an exam coming up soon so study this
or that.
•Sometimes teachers even use it for inspiration by
sending a famous quote

18. 7. Instagram

19. •7. Instagram
•Students love instagram for so many reasons but
mainly for the photos and effects available to them.
•Teachers can create assignments that tap into the
need to instagram such as photo essays where
students take photos, upload, and add captions or
students can even create campaigns for certain
organizations or just for a lesson

20. 8. Vimeo

21. •8. Vimeo
•If you want to share videos on facebook or twitter, use
vimeo.
•But, there’s a whole lot more teachers can use it for such as
uploading and storing video then utilizing it as a tool to teach
students more about creating video.
•Vimeo teaches for you at vimeo video school with lessons
and tutorials.

22. 9. WordPress

23. •9. Wordpress
•With so many themes to choose from, wordpress has become
a popular way for teachers to set up a web of communication
and lessons with their students.
•Chalkboard is an educational theme that prepares students for
learning and helps teachers outline goals and objectives while
still providing great visuals.
•Teachers can also use it to inspire students to write more by
having them create their own blogs and meet the wordpress
challenges.

24. 10. Blogger

25. •10. Blogger
•Like wordpress, blogger connects teachers to
students using unique themes as well as diary-style
writing.
•With access to teachers’ posted links, lessons, and
thoughts students become more successful and
comfortable with the teacher when learning online.

26. 11. Skype

27. •11. Skype
•Using skype means connecting with anyone, anywhere, at any
time. This means students not only connect with teachers but
teachers encourage students to broaden their view of the
world.
•Set up virtual connections by contacting other teachers then
connect the students to each other.
•Also, skype has a whole portal dedicated to educators who
can use it to teach various lessons already set up by the skype
team.

28. 12. Pinterest

29. •12. Pinterest
•The celebrated platform for pinning favorite pix can be
a great teaching and learning tool.
•It also encourages quick collaboration between
teachers on all sorts of subjects and interests.
•Teachers can set up a pinterest page for one particular
class or a series of classes with pins that focus on
themes or subtopics important to the lesson at hand.

30. 13. YouTube

31. •13. Youtube
•Educators of any level can click on the education category
within youtube and find several subcategories such as
university, science, business, and engineering.
•Youtube even has a special section dedicated to teachers
and how to teach with it.
•But, even if teachers never visited that section, they could
teach using all the great videos available according to
subjects or searches

32. 14. TeacherTube

33. •14. Teachertube
•If youtube doesn’t make the cut, try teachertube.
•It’s dedicated to all sorts of education, from the basics to
more complicated work.
•Interestingly, the tabs for docs and audio are some of the
more useful resources within it.
•However, it’s the idea of teachertube and it’s tools that make
it so useful because teachers can use it to communicate with
students and there’s no question that this is within an
educational format.

34. 15. Academia.edu

35. •15. Academia.Edu
•For academics whose main goal is to share research
papers, academia.Edudraws a crowd of over five
million visitors.
•Academics can monitor the effect of their research
and keep tabs on the research of the other academics
that they follow.
•It’s a great tool for anyone needing data and
information on various subjects and interests.

36. 16.LinkedIn

37. •16. Linkedin
•While acting as a professional social forum for employers to
connect with applicants or search for potential
employees, linkedin is used for so much more than that.
•Having students post professional resumes there and then
contacting them about the job market and the business world
around them keeps them in touch with reality and the endless
possibilities through a targeted education.

38. 17.Labroots

39. •17. Labroots
•Access millions of documents and hundreds of
scientific news feeds by using labroots, a social
networking site catering to scientists, engineers and
technical professionals.
•Besides the plethora of information, it helps stay
connected with colleagues and peers. Pulling students
into the mix gives them a cutting edge feel and insight
into precious tools and information.

40. 18.ResearchGate

41. •18. Researchgate
•Ijad Madisch founded researchgate, which is similar to
labroots bringing scientists together for collaboration.
•The difference really lies with the mission and the
creators who are scientists working to give visibility to
the dedicated researchers all over the world.