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There's more to the Internet than Facebook. Indeed, there is more to the Internet than Social media. But, there is a lot of social media out there. As a teacher, I see it through my students but also through the push to use technology in my classroom. Here is a list of possible Social Media I could utilise (Mental note: Write a blog post on the letter 'S' instead of 'Z' in 'ise' words.) in and out of the classroom. It is by no means extensive:
Facebook
Google+ (and other Google creations)
Twitter
Pinterest
Tumblr
Kik
Ask.fm (never in my life)
Instagram
Vine
Flickr
Now, I have explained why I use Facebook in my previous post. I have a Google+ account through my school, we use Google for email and all the rest of it. We are also beginning to use it as a teaching tool to communicate with students. I have tried blogging through Google before with the plan to have that as a school related blog. For different reasons it didn't get off the ground. I am hopeful I can do it after I come back from maternity leave.
Twitter is another account I made through school. It was to use with an app called Flipboard but that is also something I haven't really been using it for. I have made 3 posts on Twitter. Now I just clicked a button which will make this my 4th post. One was to say "look at me, I'm on Twitter". The other two were because Erik was not on Steam so I couldn't link him something I thought was cool there and he is always on Twitter.
I use Pinterest for random things that I find interesting and to get some ideas for teaching.
I recently discovered Tumblr which seems to be a great place for me to see quick blog posts especially about crochet.
I don't use kik. I would never use ask.fm. I don't use Vine and I don't know what Flickr is.
I use Instagram to easily post nice things on Facebook but that doesn't seem to work so well right now so I might stop with Instagram.
My question
Now, after all that, here is my question: How should social media be used? Should I separate all my different accounts so I have some things that are only for work and some things that are only for personal things? Would it matter? It wouldn't be difficult to connect the dots, nothing is sacred on The Internet. Sometimes I see great things on Facebook I want to share with my students but of course, I do not have students on Facebook. I have tried to make a separate Facebook account for students but managing two accounts just becomes confusing. If I write personal things here about my life on here, will my students see that? Am I OK with that? Should I include in my routine regular visits to the other social media sites like I do with Facebook? Right now I just randomly and occasionally look at everything else, even if when I go to Facebook there is literally nothing interesting to see since I was there 30 minutes before. Surely it would be smarter to use my time doing more productive things like looking at all the professional development you can find on Google+.
What do you think?
Thank you for coming to The State of the Internet. I hope you enjoyed your stay.
There's more to the Internet than Facebook. Indeed, there is more to the Internet than Social media. But, there is a lot of social media out there. As a teacher, I see it through my students but also through the push to use technology in my classroom. Here is a list of possible Social Media I could utilise (Mental note: Write a blog post on the letter 'S' instead of 'Z' in 'ise' words.) in and out of the classroom. It is by no means extensive:
Google+ (and other Google creations)
Tumblr
Kik
Ask.fm (never in my life)
Vine
Flickr
Now, I have explained why I use Facebook in my previous post. I have a Google+ account through my school, we use Google for email and all the rest of it. We are also beginning to use it as a teaching tool to communicate with students. I have tried blogging through Google before with the plan to have that as a school related blog. For different reasons it didn't get off the ground. I am hopeful I can do it after I come back from maternity leave.
Twitter is another account I made through school. It was to use with an app called Flipboard but that is also something I haven't really been using it for. I have made 3 posts on Twitter. Now I just clicked a button which will make this my 4th post. One was to say "look at me, I'm on Twitter". The other two were because Erik was not on Steam so I couldn't link him something I thought was cool there and he is always on Twitter.
I use Pinterest for random things that I find interesting and to get some ideas for teaching.
I recently discovered Tumblr which seems to be a great place for me to see quick blog posts especially about crochet.
I don't use kik. I would never use ask.fm. I don't use Vine and I don't know what Flickr is.
I use Instagram to easily post nice things on Facebook but that doesn't seem to work so well right now so I might stop with Instagram.
My question
Now, after all that, here is my question: How should social media be used? Should I separate all my different accounts so I have some things that are only for work and some things that are only for personal things? Would it matter? It wouldn't be difficult to connect the dots, nothing is sacred on The Internet. Sometimes I see great things on Facebook I want to share with my students but of course, I do not have students on Facebook. I have tried to make a separate Facebook account for students but managing two accounts just becomes confusing. If I write personal things here about my life on here, will my students see that? Am I OK with that? Should I include in my routine regular visits to the other social media sites like I do with Facebook? Right now I just randomly and occasionally look at everything else, even if when I go to Facebook there is literally nothing interesting to see since I was there 30 minutes before. Surely it would be smarter to use my time doing more productive things like looking at all the professional development you can find on Google+.
What do you think?
Thank you for coming to The State of the Internet. I hope you enjoyed your stay.