Online Social Media Applications for Teaching and Learning

One of positives impact of globalization era is that the technology of communication and information becomes very sophisticated. Internet is the example. Internet nowadays facilitates people with the ease of searching information and doing communication. In education field, the presence of Internet really helps both, the teacher and the students. For example, in the previous discussion we talked about the blended learning where the teacher combines the traditional classes with internet-based learning. Through blended learning, the students not only can get many more sources and knowledge about the lesson, but also they receive guidance from the teacher about the lesson.

          There are some online social media applications that

are very useful for helping the teaching and learning process. Some of them maybe have become very familiar but the others may not. Here are some lists of the online social media application that can be used by teachers to support the learning process of the student:

1.   For teaching students how to present, create and code

·         Haikudeck

·         Duolingo

·         Draw and Tell

·         Animoto

·         iMovie

·         Instructables

·         Hopscotch

·         Tinkercad

2.   For everyday classroom needs

·         Evernote

·         Explain Everything

·         Educreation

·         Oxford Dictionaries

3.   For collaborating on school projects

·         Slack

·         Google Apps for Education

·         Schoology

·         Mindmeister

·         Wikispaces

4.   For communicating with students (and their families)

·         Remind

·         Edublogs

·         ClassDojo

5.   For giving (and receiving) student feedback

·         Edmodo

·         Socrative

·         Moodle

·         Google Forms

Most of the students nowadays to be certain have experienced some of the online social media above. Google is may be the most used social media by the students to search the additional material for their lesson. Some of the students maybe also have used Edmodo in their learning process in the class to communicate with their teacher. See! There are so many tools to improve the teaching and learning process, so why don’t we use them wisely and improve our knowledge and skill to be a smarter and more skillful person in the future?