Social Media tools and How to Intergrate Them with Websites

In chapter 4 of Untangling The Web, authors focus on a variety of social networking tools. These tools are explained as great ways to supplement face-to-face interactions and provide more opportunities to extend those relationships. Social networking will also enhance your ability to collaborate online. TodaysMeet.com is a virtual room that educators can use to enhance their students learning process through web-based communication. You can also connect your students to the world by using Skype in the classroom. Creating an account on education.skype.com provides you with the opportunity to video chat with experts, as well as connect with professionals to make a great introduction to your research. If you want to provide learners with a platform for self-expression in their academic life introduce them to a great blogging tool designed for the classroom, Kidblog.org. Blogging may serve as a means for sharing personal interests, documenting classroom experiences, or even as a place for reflecting upon their own efforts, success, and failures. Also, if you have not already, consider using the microblogging social media site and mobile app Twitter. This provides an avenue for people to share and be discovered in a less obtrusive way. Being social online is an important part of providing the best educations for students today.      


       I have just recently learned some great ways to integrate websites with social media using paper.li publisher and IFTTT (If This Than That). The big list of IFTTT Recipes show the different options for powering up your social media marketing. IFTTT connects two services together so that an action on one service triggers an action on another. It works with the major social media services such as Facebook, twitter, instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. All of these sites can connect with noteable channels such as:

Pocket

Jawbone Up

Soundcloud

Gmail

Google Calendar

Evernote

How to become a paper.li publisher shows you step by step how to create an online paper using paper.li. The service lets you aggregate news from several sources using keywords and hashtags to find content matching your theme.


You can find some of the many perks of paper.li on the article Follow 5 People Smart Ways with Paper.li. These include being able to keep up with tweets and articles when away from twitter, learning more about a particular topic, sharing your paper.li summary with individuals who do not have twitter, get information from those you do not wish to follow, and follow a topic or event by hashtag.  See how easy it is to run your very own online newspaper using Paper.li, your Twitter account, and feeds?