• Social Networking can be summed up by the people you know, who they know, and who they know. It is a never-ending group of people that can use each other for personal gain or gains for the entire group. Pooling their ideas, resources and connections are great ways this can be accomplished.
• Thinking of this from a personal level…How can these sites, or others, assist me in teaching? My first reference source is a FREE website that is dedicated to assisting the teaching community. It seems like a wonderful social networking site to join if you are educator. Their site state, “The Schools United website is the first networking site dedicated solely to the education community worldwide. It provides schools and staff with the free facility to share educational resources and experiences. Share anything from teaching aids to multimedia files (video, audio and photos). Or download new sheet music for the school band, get school trips ideas, or share artistic works…the list is endless!!! Schools United will open to its users the wide world of education – from the four corners of the globe. The Schools United is truly a global experience.”
• If this site can truly created a global experience for its members, possibilities seem endless when it comes to the learning participants can experience. Until I use this site fully it is hard to say if the goal can be fully met.
• What does the research say? Can it work better for students? Does it work? How does it matter? My second reference source is a study that was conducted to access how much “social networking” students participated in. The study surveyed 1,277 students aged from 9 to 17 years old. The study concluded that 41% of the surveyed students participated in posting messages to social sites, 32% downloaded music, 30% downloaded videos, 25% updated profiles, and much more. This survey, for me, validated that social networking is a part of many students’ live and using it classroom, under the appropriate circumstances, can be benefit the learner.
Reference Source #1 - http://www.theschoolsunited.com/community/about.php
Reference Source #2 - www.nsba.org/SecondaryMenu/TLN/CreatingandConnecting.aspx
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