Being Social With Media
Today I'm going to talk about some different social media platforms, their educational uses, and educators that already use it. Facebook I looked at school library pages for this section of my assignment. What I found is that school libraries posted about recent school events, what was happening in the library, promoted work of the students, and had funny library memes. An advantage to using Facebook is you get to promote your library and your school. Using a social media platform like Facebook gets the word out about what the library is doing. So many people have no idea what the library is all about, so this helps garner support for the library and its programs. A disadvantage would be that Facebook isn’t particularly popular with teens. They’ve moved on to other platforms, because now all of their parents are on Facebook (which could be a plus too). Twitter Here I will share some information about prominent edu-tech tweeters. I tried...