How to Teach Using Social Media

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Familiarize yourself with the range of possible social media sites for use in teaching.

   There are several popular online websites and forums that can be used for educational purposes.
   
   Some educators have incorporated several popular websites like Facebook and Twitter in their teaching styles.
   
   They have created online communities and virtual classrooms to interact with their students and fellow teachers.
   
   Similarly, there are other websites which are designed in a manner that supports educational activities, for example, SlideShare, WordPress, Wikipedia, LifeGuide Hub (and other wikis), and many more. ,
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   Step 2: Share ideas and collaborate with teachers and students from other classes and school.

   ,, Later, have the students set up specific boards to promote their finalized projects. , These multi-user boards allow multiple users to save their resources in one place. , Add in a good mix of visuals and text. ,, This will help give your students additional insight into the subject. ,,,,,,,, This might include links to articles and videos so that students can carry on learning even when class is over. ,,, This will help you to keep up with the latest education trends, get ideas and support one another. ,, Use it to keep students up-to-date on upcoming projects, due dates, events and other reminders. , Or, have students set up their own blog as online journals. ,, Give your students a few days to study the topic and ask them to comment. ,,,,,,
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   Step 3: Share Pinterest for inspiring tips on a range of useful topics

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   Step 4: such as: How to organize and prioritize work Revision self-care Grammar and spelling tricks Visual learning prompts Project research gathering point

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   Step 5: and so on.

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   Step 6: Search

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   Step 7: pin and organize images

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   Step 8: videos and stories for future lesson plans and assignments.

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   Step 9: Allow students to use Pinterest for presentations and projects.

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    Step 10: Use community boards for group assignments.

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    Step 11: Summarize your lecture in an easy-to-comprehend presentation.

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    Step 12: Follow other teachers and educational institutions in order to create a circle of resourceful links.

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    Step 13: Upload reference material and practice exercises on your account.

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    Step 14: Keep sharing slides containing information from your files on a regular basis.

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    Step 15: Ask your students and fellow teachers to comment or leave feedback on the threads you generate.

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    Step 16: Use Facebook applications like Flashcards and We Read to make learning and studying easier and more pleasurable.

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    Step 17: Become a news resource by posting updates on your feed to increase your followers.

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    Step 18: Make a Facebook page for your class where you can list events

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    Step 19: post observations and remind students of assignments and due dates.

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    Step 20: Improve communication by allowing students to easily message teachers and other students with questions.

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    Step 21: Link class projects with Facebook by sharing book reviews

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    Step 22: polling to your class and promoting student work.

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    Step 23: Post additional materials.

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    Step 24: Follow hash tags and other trends by setting up precise information which the entire class can monitor.

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    Step 25: Connect with other classroom teachers to increase communication and build community.

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    Step 26: Follow other educators tweets.

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    Step 27: Create a feed for your classroom so you can tweet about upcoming coursework

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    Step 28: events and class related news.

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    Step 29: Create a class blog.

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    Step 30: Recognize and publish exemplary work done by students to the blog.

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    Step 31: Motivate students to post on a class blog weekly to develop their own voice and work on their writing skills.

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    Step 32: Publish discussion topics on the blog.

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    Step 33: Post daily or weekly homework assignments on the blog so students who were absent can know what they missed.

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    Step 34: Search for relevant and informative videos that you can use in the classroom to bring lessons to life

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    Step 35: making them more memorable.

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    Step 36: Record your lessons and upload them on YouTube so that students can view them whenever they want and wherever they want.

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    Step 37: Take your videos to next level by adding quizzes

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    Step 38: remarks and more.

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    Step 39: Teach students how to produce

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    Step 40: edit and direct videos by having them film and upload videos to YouTube channels.

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    Step 41: Curate organized playlist so that your students can easily find and watch all related and approved videos on a topic.

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