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These are online communities that have members of their particular site. These members usually have a Web Page or a Blog where that they personalize (photos, text, etc.) the content of their page and prepare to share this information with others. The Web Page can be public (anyone can see your information) or private (this is where you invite someone to join your group of friends).
Relative Advantage
The sky is really the limit as to what we can do with social networks. These social networks are not just for shallow chat sessions, posting vain pictures, or deciding which party everyone will meet up at on Friday night. If used properly, social networks can be a great learning tool in which students, teachers, and others in the network can benefit from greatly.
You can share lesson plans, images, helpful hints, class blogs, discussion boards, class calendars, web casts, etc. This basically could be labelled the 21st century version of class pen pals, but instead of communicating with other students via snail mail and waiting for weeks or months for replys to show up, we have instant access to each other.
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