Social Media In Education

Presenter: Andrea Vascellari

Social Media in Education

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what is it for teachers and people working in education?

sometu.ning.com

Sometu

•Is an open network for everyone interested in social media and learning (not only in the educational sector)

•Today it has over 1200 members with different backgrounds and professions

•It was founded in November of 2007

What is it for teachers?

•It is an open finnish network giving support for their own work and professional development

People in sometu...

•… experiment and develop new kinds of learning methods and combine them with current educational practices

Sometu offers...

•… a friendly, supporting and enlightening forum for different conversations for those teachers and developers of teaching methods, who are alone with their ideas in their own working community

In addition Sometu

participates...

•...in developing teaching methods nationally and hopefully globally in the future.

sometu.ning.com

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CHANGE

DEMAND MORE

CREATIVITY

TALENT

UNIQUENESS

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RSS feeds/readers

...are we cool?

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