Online Social Communities in the Classroom

With all of the social communities that are online and in the daily lives of many people it seems very natural to integrate them in to the classroom seems like a logical step. I think to be truly successful in bringing in a outside source for education that the students need to like and know how to use it. With most of these communities most pre-teens and teens are using them on a daily basis. so they feel comfortable with them, and with them using them in their free time it is a perfect way to "trick" them into Learning.

Several of these networking sites bring a easy interface to the user allowing them to communicate; message, chat, interact with and share photos, blogs, stories, moods. This gives a new dimention to talk to your friends. In the past you might have to call your friends house to see if they want to go to the game this weekend, but now you can send them a message, and talk about it from your computer.

This gives a perfect place to upload assignments to each student is as easy as a touch of a button in most places. This would allow you to send out a homework assignment and all the students could refer to it for: due dates, subjects, topics. You, as a teacher, could also leave feedback on an assignment in their private message box.