Online Social Media Applications for Language Teaching and Learning

Technology will help teachers execute collaborative teaching strategies combined with professional learning that better prepare and enhance educators' competencies and expertise over the course of their careers. Goals addressed include competency of online tools for teaching, creating ways to collaborate, curate, present and implement online resources into a curriculum, and knowledge of online safety procedures and conduct codes for students and teachers. It also will allow the students to interact with material on the computer. For example, it shows the 3D virtual explanation given by the teachers, audio and also tactile. Moreover, students may have more chance to explore numerous resources from all around the globe. By serving the instruction in multimedia, digital art, music, and online discourse for middle school classroom, it can increase the students’ enthusiasm for learning with technology and can stimulate student’s strategic thinking process because they can use a variety of communication media to express their ideas.

There are so many applications support in teaching and learning language process.

Edublogs (https://edublogs.org/). An Edublogs is a blog created for educational purposes. Edublog archive and support student and teacher learning by facilitating reflection, questioning by self and others, collaboration and by providing contexts for engaging in higher-order thinking.

Edmodo (https://www.edmodo.com/). Edmodo is a global education network that helps connect all learners with the people and resources needed to reach their full potential. The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content, distribute quizzes, assignments, and manage communication with student, colleagues, and parents.

Moodle (https://www.moodle.org/). Moodle is a learning platform designed. Moodle is used for blended learning, distance education, flipped classroom and other e-learning projects in schools, universities, workplaces and other sectors.

Google Forms (https://www.google.com/forms/about/). Google Apps on line services provide productivity and collaboration tools accessible from any Internet connection. It’s a great way to receive feedback from the whole class at the end of a semester.

Animoto (https://www.animoto.com/). Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows. Animoto is based in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

Those are some online social media application that the language teachers can be used. Moreover, there are still many or other application that can be used by the teacher. For teachers who teach how to present, create, and code, the application recommended, they are TED-Ed is to park student curiosity and explore presentation literacy skills. Haikudeck is to create interesting presentation. Draw and tell is to increase creative confidence in kids of all ages. iMovie is for student video creation. Instructables is to share ideas and intructions. Hopscotch is to learn computer science fundamentals.