Posts tagged Social Media
4 Quick Ways To Use (Social) Media In Foreign Language Teaching
Sometimes, taking a class to learn a language isn’t quite enough. For people that are moving to a new country and want to learn the native tongue of the land, a class or textbook might leave you in the dark when it comes to slang, idioms or figures of speech. For instance, students learning English…
How To Stand Out to Capture & Hold Students’ Attention
Capturing a person’s attention is hard to do in this day and age. Between TV, the Internet, advertisements, politics, world hunger, animal rights, general plight and even what to have for dinner, our attention is in a constant state of flux. So, how do you go about capturing the attention of students? With everything going…
The New Facebook: Your Life Story in Likes Or: The Perfect Surveillance Machine
It was Jeremy Bentham who invented the Panopticon, a circular building with a tower in its center that allows “an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) inmates of an institution without them being able to tell whether or not they are being watched.” (wiki) Although no true Panopticon has ever been built, examples in the…
What Is StumbleUpon And How Can We Use It To Discover Stuff And Boost Traffic?
All the recent discussions about the alleged “epic battle” of the Social Networks Google+ and Facebook overshadow the fact that there’s a whole gamut of wildly useful tools, platforms and services besides them. StumbleUpon is one of these tools that may not get as much hyped attention and yet the total of traffic it generates…
How To Use Facebook Without Using Facebook In A Few Simple Steps
To Facebook or not to Facebook… that is the question. For some of us, at least… Many users have already given their answer, either by ditching it altogether and moving over to Twitter or G+, or whatever is considered hip at the time, or staying aboard and clicking like until the cows come home. But it’s…
If The World Wide Web Was A Person…
Yesterday, the World Wide Web celebrated its 20th birthday. It was born on August 6, 1991 when Sir Tim Berners-Lee launched the first webpage in history. Now it’s official: the Web is not a teenager anymore! But it will be one more year (at least in the U.S.) before it reaches the “legal drinking” age. So, technically,…