Social Networking As An Educational Tool
Social Networking as an Educational Tool The popularity of social software led educators to think that this practice can be used for educational purposes. Social networks’ influence on transforming teaching methods remains to be seen. Instead of this all-or-nothing approach, it would be a good idea to think of social software as just another tool, use it creatively and keep an open mind that using social software could be beneficial in education. Social software is part of the technologies collectively referred to as Web 2.0 Web 2.0 represents the idea of users creating new content on the web, which is connected through hyperlinks to the existing content, Web 2.0 has three distinct characteristics which separate it from the social forms of interaction that existed prior. The first defining characteristic of web 2.0 is that users have profiles that can be used to identify them as a person or a persona. The second one is that participants can list others as friends or some equivalent w...