Lesson 4 Creating a lesson

 


Week 1 Day 4 

28 January 2020


Uses of Flickr, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter in teaching and learning.

Introduction

Social media networks such as Flicker, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter provide an opportunity for instructors or teachers to utilize popular mobile technology to create a discussion with students. Social media portals dominating globally include Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and Telegram. Among the Internet users, the largest segment of the recipients of information services for social media portals is young people, many of whom are still students of primary and secondary schools as well as students studying at universities. As a result, social media portals used as a communication medium by students are increasingly becoming an instrument supporting the learning process.

Lesson

Today we are going to learn about Flicker, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter in teaching and learning.  

Objectives 

At the end of this unit the student should be able to:

  • Define Flickr, Students will be able to add, edit, or delete any photos to Flickr and create their page that can then be shared with other students and teachers. 

  • Understand and be able to explain the purpose of LinkedIn, be able to create an account, and fill out their profile information. Access information in all the basic tabs: Home, Profile, Contacts, Groups, Jobs, Inbox. Access and independently set LinkedIn Settings.  

  • Define Instagram, Use Instagram to compose a short narrative writing piece, and Take a picture of students re-creating a famous piece of art.

  • Define Twitter, to create social and professional learning networks.



Lesson 

Flickr 

Flickr is a photo-sharing platform and social network where users upload photos for others to see. Users create a free account and upload their photos (and videos) to share with friends and followers online. Click this link to create your own Flickr account and see steps of using Flickr  https://tinyurl.com/y4mxfos7. Click this link to watch a video on how to use Flickr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUrR6Dj1jwg.


LinkedIn 

LinkedIn is a social network that focuses on professional networking and career development. provides access to more high-quality on-demand courses. And you’ll get personalized course recommendations based on unique, data-driven insights from millions of professionals on the worldwide LinkedIn network. LinkedIn encourages learners to develop an online presence through LinkedIn. Create assignments that utilize LinkedIn as a research tool. Design activities around LinkedIn interviews. Share the networking benefits of LinkedIn with learners. Develop a LinkedIn group to keep learners up-to-date and connected. Click this link to learn about using LinkedIn in learning and teaching https://tinyurl.com/y3euxye6. Also, click this link to watch a video on how to use LinkedIn in learning https://tinyurl.com/ydaj5tkf 

Instagram 

Instagram is a social media platform that emphasizes photo and video sharing via its mobile app. You can take, edit, and publish visual content for your followers to interact with thorough likes, comments, and shares. Instagram's sole purpose is to enable users to share images or videos with their audience. Click this link to see how to use Instagram in teaching and learning https://diigo.com/0jktv4. And click this link to watch a video on how to use Instagram https://tinyurl.com/v6r4v6d. 

Twitter

Twitter is a social network portal that allows you to send and receive short posts called tweets. Tweets can be up to 140 characters long and can include links to relevant websites and resources. Twitter users follow other users. Twitter is useful across academic applications. Teachers, students, and parents can benefit greatly from the advantages offered by using Twitter in education. The short tweets can be used to inform students about any changes and to collaboratively work as a great team. Click this link to see how to use Twitter in learning https://diigo.com/0jku3o and visit https://twitter.com/?lang=en to create your account. 

Activity 

  • Download Flickr, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter then create your accounts. 

  • Use Flickr to upload images and videos and share it with your teacher and your colleagues.  









Now do the quiz below.

Quiz 

  1. What is the importance of Flickr?

  2. What is LinkedIn?

  3. How do you login to Instagram?

  4. What is the importance of using Twitter?

Summary

Social media portals dominating globally include Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, and Telegram. Flickr is a photo-sharing platform and social network where users upload photos for others to see. LinkedIn is a social network that focuses on professional networking and career development. Instagram is a social media platform that emphasizes photo and video sharing via its mobile app and Twitter is a social network portal that allows you to send and receive short posts. They all have a good impact on helping the teachers and students communicate easily. 

Feedback to the Quizz

Quiz  

  1. Flickr is a photo-archiving and sharing service – making it especially useful for photographers looking to store their work. Considering a free account gets a gigantic terabyte of storage space, there's no reason to limit the scope of your presence.

  2. LinkedIn is a social network that focuses on professional networking and career development

  3. Go to www.instagram.com 

Tap Sign up, enter your email address, create a username and password or tap Log in with Facebook to sign up with your Facebook account. If you register with an email, tap Sign up

  1. Twitter allows you to: easily promote your research, for example by providing links to your blog stories, journal articles, and news items. reach a large number of people quickly through tweets and retweets. follow the work of other experts in your field














Assignment 

Describe the impact of using Flickr, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter in learning and teaching assignments. 



Assignment rubric

Score

6

5

4 

3

2

1

Cover Page

Introduction

Table of Contents

Body

Summary

Conclusion

References 

The

writing perfectly accomplishes the objectives of the assignment

The writing effectively accomplishes the goals of the assignment

Accomplishes the goals of the assignment with

an overall effective approach.

Minimally accomplishes the goals of the assignment

Minimally accomplishes the majority of

the goals of the assignment

Fails to accomplish the goals of the assignment


Reflection 

  • Download and create an account using Flickr, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.

  • Are you now able to use Flickr, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter?

  • Reflect on what you have learned or not learned, difficulties you encountered, meaningfulness, or meaningless of the lesson to you. 

  • Reflect on the presentation of the lesson and on whether you enjoyed it or not and say why

Further reading

The links below are going to take you to more educational resources for further reading and understanding of this topic. Click the link.

  1. https://tinyurl.com/y4lw49vv

  2. https://diigo.com/0jkuss

  3. https://tinyurl.com/y2llq2uj

  4. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1053596.pdf 

  5. https://tinyurl.com/y7fqd56j 

  6. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1223776.pdf 







REFERENCES

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQvUbIV3sW8 

2. https://tinyurl.com/y3euxye

3. https://tinyurl.com/yysyxtfq 

4. https://www.flickr.com/about 

5. https://tinyurl.com/y4zt7krr 


TEST

The test will be in the next class after finishing this lesson. 

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