Educational Social Networking for
Professional Development June 13, 2012
The
main topic covered during class room 2.0 Live, guest speaking Steve Hargadon
was Educational social networking, and the benefits of social networking for
educators. Social networking is the aggregation of web tools for building
community and content. It is unique ability to use a variety of tools to make
social networking easier. Another topic covered was the difference between Web
1.0 and Web 2.0. Web 1.0 means someone
else make content and we receive, read, and research it, but Web 2.0 is a
framework of user participation and we contribute to it, collaborate, and
create much more instead. . Behind all social networking are building materials
or tools, instead of looking at the actual tools that make up the social
networking we look at the end results, and that is what scares us often.
Educational Networking: The benefits
of social networking for educators.
·
Invention
of the Printing Press, a huge difference since in society.
·
Blogs-
content could be up on the web for everyone to see.
·
Wikis-
People writing over other peoples writing makes it intimidating and
complicated, but also very useful.
·
Social
Networking- Ability to be creative, but do not have full control over the page.
It is easy and it has immediate feedback which makes it very popular. There are
more members on Social networking than bloggers in a day. If Facebook is a
country then its members would be the fourth largest country in the world.
What is social
networking? The aggregation
of web tools for building community and content. The Building materials make the social networking
(Facebook and MySpace). Educators are not looking at the tools that were used
to build social networking, but they look at the end result of what the
materials have created. If the social
networking materials are used in the right way, it would become an educational
network.
Social
networking, Web 1.0 and 2.0 impact teaching and learning if they are used in an
educational setting with materials that benefit students. Learners can enjoy using educational networks
more than face to face teaching that can make them more active in speaking and
participating during the session.
All
five domains totally fit into social networking and web learning’s. Educators
and professionals use design domain to design social networking or web
learning. They use the development domain to translate the design
specifications into physical form. Then they use utilization domain to address
the interface between the learner and the instructional materials or system by
using right resources, policies, and regulations. The management domain also
fits into social networking and web learning’s by administrations that planning,
monitoring, and controlling. Also, the evaluation domain that analysis problems
and quality improvement is a part of their work.
The
future teaching will concentrate on using technology as educational tools;
social networking will be a very important part of people’s lives. I will use
all these technology tools in my teaching career.
