Five Ways to Use Technology and Digital Media for Global Learning
Develop media literacy on a global scale
Discover personal opinions behind global issues
Tap into global knowledge networks
Engage a global audience through online publishing
Harness the power of virtual simulation
online platform which people use to build social networks or socialrelationships with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.
social networking site
is a social network that is private and internal to a company or organization; in order to participate on a closed social network, you must have an account that is associated with your organization – usually you use your work email address to sign in.
closed social network
open to the general public; you simply need to create an account. Most require only a valid email address for sign-up and there is generally a minimum age requirement (for example, you must be 13 or older to open a Facebook account).
open social network
Users of these sites don’t need to own or share web servers. They can publish their content on the freespace provided by these sites.
free web space
Members are allotted a unique web address that becomes the web identity of an individual or a business. It can be used to identify, connect and share content.
free web address
These sites require members to build their profiles.
users are able to build profiles
These sites allow members to upload text messages, photographs, audio and video files.
encourage users to upload content
Users can browse content and comment upon it. By doing so, social media sites allow members to engage in conversations that increase engagement.
allows users to build conversations
Several social media sites have chat clients that enable members to chat with each other in real time.
allow live chats
several social media sites provide direct messaging facility to their members.
direct messaging facility
Most social media sites alert members through e-mail or in site notifications whenever they are tagged in a message or in a photograph.
provide tagging alerts
On some social media sites, members can create theme-based pages.