Social Networking Sites ,Blogs,
Wikipedia &Education
A creative effort by:
Prerna Tandon
Poorti Sajwan
Niharika Agrawal
Samarth Sinha
Nikhil Srivastava
About Social Networking Sites
an online service, platform, or site that focuses on
building and reflecting of social networks or social
relations among people, e.g., who share interests
and/or activities.
Allows users to share ideas, activities, events, and
interests within their individual networks.
The main types of social networking services are
those which contain category places (such as former
school-year or classmates), means to connect with
friends (usually with self-description pages) means
to connect for professional purposes.
Some commonly used Networking
Sites
Facebook
Orkut
Myspace
Twitter
LinkdIn
Fropper
Friendster
Bebo
and the list is endless..
Emerging Trends
concept of "real time" and "location based
social networking between businesses.
Social Networks in the Science communities.
used by teachers and students as a
communication tool
use of online social networks by libraries.
by college students using the services to network
with professionals for internship and job
opportunities.
Some Educational Applications
Available in Networking Sites
Quizzes
Personality analysis
Causes
Word cube
Daily quotes
Twibbon
I.Q tests
My HTML
Books
Koofers
Quizlet
Typing test
Networking Sites & Education
Awareness
60
50
40
30
20
10
Social Networking Wikipedia Blog
Usage
60
50
40
30
20
10
Social Networking Wikipedia Blog
Time spent on Internet
4%
18%
2 TO 4
4 TO 8
8 TO 10
78%
Social networking used
LinkedIn
12%
Orkut
Twitter 31%
16% Orkut
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Facebook
41%
Purpose of Networking
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
0
Networking Gamming Chatting Professional Entertainment
Networking Purpose
Benifited from Social Networking
28%
yes
no
72%
Extent of being benifited
14
13
12
12
11 11
10
4
3
1 2 3 4 not benifited at all
About Blogs
Usually maintained by an individual
with regular entries of commentary,
descriptions of events, or other
material such as graphics or video
Most blogs are interactive, allowing
visitors to leave comments and even
message each other via widgets on the
blogs and it is this interactivity that
distinguishes them from other static
websites.
Most blogs are primarily textual,
although some focus on art (Art blog),
photographs (photoblog), videos
(video blogging), music (MP3 blog),
and audio (podcasting)and audio
(podcasting).
Types of Blogs
Personal blogs
Corporate and
organizational
blogs
By genre
By media type
By device
Blogging & Education
Maintain their blogs
70%
YES
NO
30%
Does blogging help in improving
communication skills?
36%
44% yes
no
can`t say
20%
How blogging can help
important tools for sharing useful
information and tips among co-workers,
dispersing information to students, or
keeping in contact with parents
There are many teacher related blogs
on the internet where teachers can
share information with one another.
Students can use blogs to communicate
with other students for group projects
as well.
gives students a global perspective.
About Wikipedia
a free, webbased, collaborative, multilingual
encyclopedia project supported by the non-
profit Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia & Education
Access Wikipedia
93% YES
NO
7%
Does wikipedia provides sufficient information?
20%
yes
no
80%
Added DATA ever on
wikipedia
29%
yes
no
71%
Reasons for popularity
up to date nature.
world's largest
encyclopedia ever
compiled.
includes articles on many
technical, specialized, or
fluid topics other
encyclopedias do not
cover
the most common source
for students to gather
any and every
information.
Certain other applications by
Wikipedia
Answers.com WikiIndex.org
Britannica.com WikiMedia.org
Citizendium.com WikiMediaFoundation.
Conservipedia.com org
MediaWiki.org WikiNews.org
MediaWikiFr.org Wikinfo.org
PediaPress.com Wikipedia.com
TravellersPoint.com WikiQuote.org
Wiki.Name.com WikiSource.org
WikiAsianTravel.org WikiTravel.com
WikiBooks.org Wikiweise.de
World66.com Wiktionary.org
Queries
