Social media in the classroom - reasearch paper

I was very interested in how social media could be used in the classroom for educational purposes, that is why I did my research paper on this topic. After looking long and hard, I found some great articles that talked about using social media in the classroom. In my paper I discussed how you can use twitter, Facebook, blogger, Wikis and Google doc. My top two were twitter and Facebook. Students use these social media's the most therefore I that the students would be most interested in using these in the classroom.

Twitter can be used in a few different ways. First, the teacher can create a classroom account where the students could communicate with professional people like authors or scientists. Another way would be to have students create their own accounts and use it to follow important people and the other students in the class.

Facebook can be also used a few different ways. First, the teacher could created a classroom fan page or group page where the teacher could post information about the class. Students could also have their own accounts on Facebook and post on the classroom page. Also a unique project that I found in my research that I thought was cool is to have the students create Facebook pages or accounts on famous people. They could include pictures, videos and important facts about the person. How much fun do you think your students would have doing this?

Overall,k social media can be used in a variety of ways. Teachers need to make sure they are using the correct social media for their lesson and that they are implementing it correctly. Lastly, teachers need to make sure that their students understand why they are using the social media and what will not be tolerated in the class like cyber bullying.