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S. SathishkumarMaster of Education (2015-17)Dept. of Educational TechnologyBharathidasan University
Social MediaInteracting with friends and family across long
distances has been a concern of humans for centuries. As social animals, people have always relied on communication to strengthen their relationships.
Social Media Types
Social networksFacebook
Bookmarking sites
StumbleUpon
Social newsReddit
Media sharingYouTube
Microblogging
Blog comments and forums
General social media
sites
Social Media beginning
• The telephone in 1890• The radio in 1891.• After the first super computers were created in the 1940s.• the 1970s, networking technology had improved, and 1979’s
Use Net allowed users to communicate through a virtual newsletter.
Contin,…. • The first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees (
www.sixdegrees.com), was created by Andrew Weinreich in 1997.• It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends
with other users.• In 1999, the first blogging sites became popular,
creating a social media sensation that’s still popular today.
Social Media
Today important social mediasFacebook
YouTube
Myspace
Skype
Telegram
Viber
Line
Snapchat
Tumblr
Qzone
Facebook Messanger
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800
313
500
555
652
806
899
1000
1000
1712
Most famous social network sites worldwide as of September 2016
313
Number of active users in millions
Soci
al m
edia
Invented in 2003, by Mark Zuckerberg “FaceMash”Three Harvard University classmatestheFacebook.com 2004Facebook.com 2005Myspace – musicians etc. Sometimes called “poor man’s Facebook”
FACEBOOK FEATURES
The Wall
Messages INBOX (and
threads)Pokes Groups Events
Photos & Videos (with
tagging)
Posted items
(text and URLs)
Shared items
Applications
FACEBOOK FEATURES
Facebook lunched
Facebook Messenger August 9,
2011
After introduced Audio ,vide
o, Group calling in Facebook
Audio calling – January
2013
Video calling - April 27,
2015
Group calling -
April 2016
India
Unaited State
Brazil
Indonesia
China
Mexico
Philippines
Germany
Unaited Kindom
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200
195.6
191.3
90.11
77.58
52.87
46.03
39.82
36.82
36.45
Leading countries based on number of Facebook users as of May 2016 (in millions)
Series 1 Column1 Column2
Number of users in millions
coun
trie
s
Facebook Users development
So why use Facebook for Teaching?
Personal and professional networking
only differ in the content, not the tool
Students today are “digitally native”
There is a divide
between the way they
learn and the way we teach
We are the digital
immigrants!
Teaching students the
way they prefer to
learn may improve
attainment
Improved Communication
• Discussions• Photos• Videos• Posted items (Web learn
URLs?)• Group events and invitations• Groups for tutorial groups?• Don’t have to be a friend to
be in a group with someone• Personal messages & threads
Groups
4 Reasons why Facebook is an Educational ToolLanguage Development
Interpersonal Communication
Group Collaboration
ICT Skills