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Social media is an important communications channel for libraries. Experts discuss how to do it right Social media has become a ubiquitous means of communication. In the second quarter of 2017, Facebook grew to more than two billion monthly active users, including 236 million in the United States and Canada—two-thirds of the combined population of those countries. According to a recent report in Forbes, Twitter’s growth has been slowing somewhat, but the number of average monthly active users on the platform grew five percent year-over-year to 328 million worldwide in Q217.
Pros and Cons of Social Media in the Classroom
Social Media | Feature Pros and Cons of Social Media in the Classroom By Karen Lederer01/19/12 There’s an ongoing debate about the role social media should play in education. Advocates point out the benefits that social media provides for today's digital learners while critics call for regulation and for removing social media from classrooms.
How to Create a Physical Instagram Display
I love the power of social media in libraries. It’s an amazing way to share what you’re doing, promote your programs, and reach out to students and community members. Being a visual learner, Instagram is definitely one of my favorite platforms.
5 Ways Social Media Is Impacting eLearning - Vector Solutions
Listen: We don’t need to tell you the impact social media has made on how we, as human beings, interact and engage with one another. But it really can’t be overstated, either. It has completely reshaped how we establish, define and maintain our interpersonal relationships and connect with the world. Anchored by the concepts of sharing and community, we happily and readily share status updates, photos, and videos about nearly every nuanced area of our lives, often in 140 characters or less.
Your Free Guide to Every Ideal Image Size on Social Media
This post was originally published in 2016 and has been updated with the latest ideal image sizes for the various social media platforms, as of August 2017. You’ve got all the great tools to create engaging images for social media. You know what the brain loves about visuals and how to build something beautiful to drive engagement. You’re all set to make something great! One last thing: How exactly should your image look so it fits in the News Feed, timeline, or stream? There’s so much to consider in creating great images for social media—for me, the size and shape tend to get locked in before I even realize what’s happened.
How Social Media is Effective for E-Learning
We cannot deny how social media has become a part of our daily lives, how it has influenced us and how it has connected us to the rest of the world. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Google Plus are among the social media platforms that almost everyone accesses today. Aside from providing a means to peek into other people’s lives, communicate without borders, and serve as entertainment, we cannot take away the value social media provides in e-Learning. Educators, companies, and organizations rely on social media to assist in providing learning, share best practices, promote educational materials together or within the training modules and individual programs. Acquiring knowledge has now become learner-centric which should have always been the case. Social media platforms provide informal learning.
Getting social, media
As I was preparing for a presentation on Social Media in school libraries, I wanted to see if the results would be the same for the school libraries specifically. I first had to read the white paper carefully and read into the results and figure out the questions required to procure similar information - reverse engineering of sorts. The survey I conducted was only over about 24 hours with 78 responses from a number of different schools internationally.
Using Social Media in eLearning
Most of us have social media accounts. We post 140-character tweets about our favorite brands. We tag our family and friends in photos on Facebook. We talk about our food and show off that amazing sunset photo from the other night on Instagram.
Why social media are more like chocolate than cigarettes
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took to the social platform last week to announce a call-out for ideas about how to measure the health of online conversations. The initiative follows recent demands for government to regulate the negative consequences of social media. Discussing the possibility of such regulations in January, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff compared social media with the tobacco industry, saying:
Teach, Learn, Share: the Role of Social Media in eLearning
In today’s fast-changing environment and fast-paced lifestyle, technology has continually enabled us to keep up. It made our daily activities faster and more efficient; trade and commerce more fluid; and communication easier despite distance, among other things. However, technology’s greatest impact is on knowledge and information sharing, that with just a single click, the Internet can provide you with the data you are looking for. You need to share important documents to someone a hundred miles away in an instant? There’s e-mail.
