Online Social Media Applications for Language Teaching and Learning

Being generation in high technology era, people need to be more creative and innovative. As teachers for example, we need to think creatively to crate our teaching and learning process. In this moment, there are so many ways to do teaching and learning process using new high technology. As an example is doing teaching and learning process by using online social media application. As language teachers, we can utilize a kind of online social media applications to be implicated in our teaching. Social media is interactive form of media that allow the users to interact with each other’s. 

There are so many applications support in teaching and learning language process.

Edublogs (https://edublogs.org/). An Edublogs is a blog created for educational purposes. Edublog archive and support student and teacher learning by facilitating reflection, questioning by self and others, collaboration and by providing contexts for engaging in higher-order thinking.

Edmodo (https://www.edmodo.com/). Edmodo is a global education network that helps connect all learners with the people and resources needed to reach their full potential. The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content, distribute quizzes, assignments, and manage communication with student, colleagues, and parents.

Moodle (https://www.moodle.org/). Moodle is a learning platform designed. Moodle is used for blended learning, distance education, flipped classroom and other e-learning projects in schools, universities, workplaces and other sectors.

Google Forms (https://www.google.com/forms/about/). Google Apps on line services provide productivity and collaboration tools accessible from any Internet connection. It’s a great way to receive feedback from the whole class at the end of a semester.

Animoto (https://www.animoto.com/). Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows. Animoto is based in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

Those are some online social media application that the language teachers can be used. Moreover, there are still many or other application that can be used by the teacher. For teachers who teach how to present, create, and code, the application recommended, they are TED-Ed is to park student curiosity and explore presentation literacy skills. Haikudeck is to create interesting presentation. Draw and tell is to increase creative confidence in kids of all ages. iMovie is for student video creation. Instructables is to share ideas and intructions. Hopscotch is to learn computer science fundamentals.

For everyday classroom need, there are some application recommended as follows; Evernote is a modern workspace. Explain Everything is an interactive whiteboard. Educreations is to create new videos for learning. Oxford Dictionaries is an online English dictionary. For collaborating in school project, the online application recommended are Slack, Google Apps for Education include Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs and Sites, and a GAFE account. Mindmeister is a quickly visualize and create a project outline together, and Wikispaces.