definition: are online communities of people who share interests and activities. They provide various ways for users to interact, such as messaging, email, video, file sharing, blogging, and discussion groups. This is the actual definition in the ‘’Rethinking Technology in Schools’’ book by Vanessa Elaine Domine (p.62). This is something that every school should processes into a well organized manner. It is a great tool to communicate with, to make sure information is transmitted no matter where we are on the planet. Also it brings a point where you can show your point of view, demonstrate your thoughts, and much more. Video, pictures, images are very popular because they can be interpret into several ways, can be linked to many thoughts, or can simply be an immortalization of a certain event. It is a great tool to provide information as teacher, as well as sharing ideas, creating organization like Amnesty International online, Club 2/3 and so on. Then comes the idea of myspace.com. This site is great because we can share etc… as well as creating, giving opinions to everybody who is interested to look at it. I went on myspace.com, and I read several good ideas, information. I went to my friend’s site and listen to her song, which is great. This is a great tool because it forces users to go beyond their knowledge, creativity, and skills. It can be used into different ways; as ‘’facebook tool’’ as dating site, and educative and beyond the limits. It is a place where information are, and where we can use it as an educative propose. It can also be a media provider: commercials are everywhere on myspace. They provide publicity. This is a great tool for sharing ideas and discussion group. There is a whole section about discussion, where you can find any topic you are interesting in. Also, youth love this tool because it is fashioned. There are so many music presentations, fashion topics or even, pictures, and so much more. This is a place where the freedom of speech takes his sense. They can share same ideals topic, or way to express themselves, or thoughts. They can do whatever they want with their myspace web page. They can change the background, adding pictures, adding photos, videos, music samples etc. They can play mini games like Karaoke, and the most important for most teenagers, is that they can have access to their page thru their cell phones. They can create their own study environment as well as fun place to procrastinate. I remember that, back in elementary school, we used to send letters to people into another country. We were so happy once we got the letters back. Now we can experience the very same exercise with youth. They can have friends throughout the world, without any obstacle holding them back. This is a great tool to make them realize that the world is not as big as it looks like. THey can share with people of their own school into a community group where they can, instead of homework and tests, can provide feedback from a lecture,and/or arguig about that. This is a useful tool
Links: http://www.myspace.com/herotiks
http://browseusers.myspace.com/Browse/Browse.aspx
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