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Using Social Networking Technology in the Classroom

Want to Create a Free Teacher Website... Use a Social Network

Why use a social network as an online classroom?


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Looking to Create a Free Teacher Website?

Try a social network for teachers.

Looking to create free teacher website? How about a website that combines blogging, forums, uploading files, and user interaction? In short - social networking for teachers.

The days of static websites, even free ones for teachers, are slowly (but surely) disappearing. As the world continues to embrace Web 2.0 technology, iat has made its way into various niches, including education. These social networks have become the new "free teacher website".

Consider what can be done with a social network and compare it to a standard website that a teacher might create. In both environments, homework, lesson plans, and events of all sorts can be posted online. Both can, usually, handle images and documents uploads.

The big difference, obviously, lies in the interaction. Whereas a standard teacher website has little in the way of features for interaction, a social network is based on that very premise. Because of that, the homework, lesson plans, and events that are posted are not simply read - but they are the see of communication between teachers, parents, ans students. Usually, the interaction can be contained within a private group, or broadcast so that the entire internet can participate.

It is this interaction that not only marks the difference between the common "free teacher website" and a social network, but also what makse the social network an unparalleled tool of technology (at least up until now) for the classroom.

So, if you're looking to create website for your classroom, consider the benefits of a social network.
 

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