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Web That Can Be Use To teach Children

1. Facebook

· Early learning development -- Most often, teens and students will take advantage of the social network to talk about school’s work, projects, and activities. Sharing of thoughts and ideas that concerns homework is the biggest reason why they can allow their children to use Facebook.

· Ability to express what they know, feel, or understand -- A Facebook account contains a home page on the web—a page where children can communicate and express themselves independently. They can also discuss about their activities and sort of interests. They can freely form and join a group and give support to fan pages. They can find what other children of their age are interested in.

· Skills in social networking are developed -- Their Facebook account allows them to keep in touch with current, old, and new friends. This is one of the fastest ways to introduce themselves to others and find additional friends. Using it in the proper way, social networking experience will boost the child’s self-esteem and guide them not to experience loneliness.

· Enhanced digital capability -- Facebook pages will train up kids how to respond and give comments, upload images and videos, and navigate the website. Having a great experience on-line will increase their social media skills which are very important elements in life as they grow up and mature.

· As Facebook continues to influence children’s lives, parents can’t help but let their kids use it to their advantage. Preparing them for new technology era is paramount to educating them how to develop friendliness, social living and computer know-how.

2. Twitter

· Twitter is definitely a useful tool for communicating since you do not have to worry about what you write. As a student, you could use Twitter to your advantage by relating to others your views on a certain subject and you can even put some links in your posts so that you could share more about the topic. If you have followers who happen to be your classmates and maybe some of your professors too, then they might find what you have to say interesting—that would be a good way to start a productive discussion. Another thing that makes Twitter really cool is that once your cell phone is activated to work on Twitter, you can thumb on those keypads like your texting, but instead of usually sending it to one person, you are sharing your experience with all your followers! And if sending tweets through your cell phone is not only what you are after, you could of course receive tweets too. Now, you do not have to go home to log on to Twitter because you’ve got the power of SMS in your hands!

3. Prezi

· Prezi is zooming sketches on a digital napkin.
It's visualization and storytelling without slides. Your ideas live on stage and on the web.

a) Strengths

• allows you to create amazing online presentations.
• flash based application, which breaks away from "slideshows"
• entire slideshow is built on one page (you can easily map out presentation)
• you can alter your presentation on the fly by quickly seeing entire presentation map.
• zooming in an out of material adds an element of animation
• Free version has 100 megabytes of storage
• You can embed pictures, movies even PDF and powerpoint slides
• Creates a more fluid, more effective, and more attractive way to present desired ideas
• The ability to zoom out can give the student a view of the "whole picture" of the presentation.
• Movement can be utilized to create focus and retain student attention during presentations.
• Once created there is only one URL for a Prezi presentation, so even if there are further edits the link stays the same.
• Student groups could easily work together. For example, if a student is absent, the rest of his/her group could e-mail the link to the Prezi for the student to work on at home and then the following day students could finalize together.
• Ability to organize and reorganize information makes it possible to "get it right."
• Tutorials within the site offer help and tips which will benefit students using Prezi for the first time.
• Gives students the opportunity to select safe photos and images from creative commons.

b) Ideas for the classroom

• students can create more interactive slide-shows.
• Used to promote authentic assessment.
• Students can use this technology to create time lines with embedded images and interactivity. For example, imagine students using Prezi to "tell" the chronological events of a historic event.
• Use to create a visual for a piece of poetry
• Use to showcase "student of the month"
• Can use Prezi Meeting for students to collaborate on group projects.
• students could brainstorm writing content into a Prezi and then shift content around and use grouping tools to be able to organize for writing. Viewing their Prezi might help students see if their organization is ready for drafting or if they still need to work in the prewriting/organization phase of writing.
• After a lesson, have students work in groups to "reteach" the lesson using a Prezi. This would require them to recall, organize, and present information learned.
• Could be used as an icebreaker activity. All students, and the teacher, could create Prezis about themselves and then share them with the class.
• Teachers can create a Prezi with missing or incorrect information. The students then must edit the corrections into the Prezi and present the corrections to the class.