Social Networking, Bookmarking & Tags

Understand Social Networking and Social Bookmarking

• Social networking-is the use of Internet-based social media sites to stay connected with friends, family, colleagues,customers or clients. social networking can have a social purpose, a business purpose or both through sites such as Facebook,Twitter,LinkedIn and instagram.
  
• Social bookmarking- is the process of tagging a website with a browser-based tool so that you can easily visit it again later.Social bookmarking sites began as simple resources for social media and content marketers.
  

Social networking and its impact on instruction

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What is a Tag cloud

• it is a novelty visual representation of text data,typically used to depict keyword metadata(tags) on websites,or to visualise free form text. Tags are usually single words,and the importance of each tag is shown with font size or color.
  

How to create a Tag Cloud

• join Infogram to make your own tag cloud design
• select a word cloud chart type
• upload or copy and paste your data
• customize colors,fonts,and text orientation
• download your word cloud or embed it on your website
  

Examples of uses for teachers and students

• it helps students , particularly visual learners engage with reading. word clouds can turn boring reading assignments or learning keywords into stimulating visuals to help increasestudent engegement.
• teachers can incorporate Word clouds into curriculum by putting the course outline into a Woed cloud and use it at the beginning of a course.
• place vocabulary words into a Word Cloud.
• have the entire class create a Word Cloud to review as an end-day activity
• Students can create their own personal Word Clouds in reflection from a discussion, an idea,a reading or video.