Mark Fox's List: Social Media-General

Collaborize Classroom™ is a free online learning platform that allows your students to engage and discuss topics and ideas, by adding structure to their conversations that drives to better participation and engagement inside and outside the classroom.

This app gives teachers four discussion format choices. Students can either agree or disagree with a statement, answer a multiple choice question, post responses, or have the choice between adding a new response or voting for someone else’s response. Teachers can add photos or videos to their prompts and all of the discussions take place on one class page.

In this video presented by Mobile Learning Institute, Alan tours his hometown of Marblehead, MA and comments on the historical global vision of his community. Alan challenges us to think about the emerging role of “student as contributor” and to globalize our curriculum by linking students with authentic audiences from around the world. (For more, read Alan’s article, Students as Contributors: The Digital Learning Farm.

The following tips, tools, and resources can assist any teacher with the basics about social media and ways to share that information with students.