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1. Determine the purpose of game-based learning
2. Play the game yourself, making sure it is aligned with learning goals
3. Ensure it meets expectations from parents
4. Dedicate time to consistent in-class play
5. Assess progress throughout play, informing instruction

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5 Steps to Implementing Game-Based Learning in the Classroom [+ Game Examples]

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All Posts Many teachers struggle to smoothly incorporate games into lessons due to time and logistical issues, yet see game-based learning (GBL) as a way to engage students and appeal to diverse learning styles. Research has continuously shown such advantages.

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How to Implement Social Media in the Classroom

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How to Implement Social Media in the Classroom

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1. Track student work over the course of the year.
2. Use it to post homework
3. Share classroom news with parents and faculty
4. Remind students of upcoming class events
5. Create out of class study groups using specific hashtags
6. Flip the classroom by posing questions and asking the students to contribute
7.Create a tweet as a literary/history character

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I found most of these ideas can be used with either Snapchat, Instagram, or Twitter unless otherwise noted.

Track student work over the course of the year. Take pictures of the progression of a student project or track their learning.

Use it to post homework. Ask them to write about the significance of a posted photo - perhaps a map, person, or document.

Share classroom news with parents and faculty. Showcase student work.

Remind students of upcoming class events.

Create out of class study groups using specific hashtags. Give the group a question and ask each member to contribute to the hashtag.

Flip the classroom by posing questions and asking the students to contribute. Students will be ready to discuss the questions in class.

Send out an occasional extra credit question.

Share field trips or extracurricular activities.

Create a tweet as a literary character. Give the students a topic and asks them to tweet as the character would.

Create a tweet as a historical character. Give the students a current event and ask them to tweet as a historical figure would have.

Use Instagram to feature a student of the week.

In language class, use Snapchat to take a picture of an item and label it in the appropriate language.

Take videos of real life examples of the content as a study guide or ask students to identify the video based on the content.

Ask students to annotate an image provided by you, identifying key elements on a map or a picture.

Use Twitter for extended office hours. Advise students that they can tweet you at certain times of the day.

Use Twitter to take a poll using a certain hashtag.

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16 Ways Teachers Can Use Social Media in the Classroom

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I found most of these ideas can be used with either Snapchat, Instagram, or Twitter unless otherwise noted. Track student work over the course of the year. Take pictures of the progression of a student project or track their learning. Use it to post homework.

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1. Students learn through the process of playing the game
2. Games provide a context for engaging practice
3. Students can learn a variety of important skills
4. Students develop a variety of connections with the content and can be form positive memories of learning
5. Games grab students' attention and actively engage them

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I have always enjoyed playing games. My family regularly plays board games when we get together, I play games with my own children almost every day, and (not surprisingly) I have used a wide variety of games* as instructional tools in my classroom. I have never had a student ask "Why are we playing games?" Instead, students usually ask, "Can we play this again soon?"

Some people may wonder, "Why play games in a class?" I think it is important to articulate the value of game playing for myself, my students, colleagues, parents and others. Over the years, I have come up with my own list of the top five reasons I believe game playing is a powerful instructional tool.
*(By "game," I am referring to learning through play, active engagement and fun).

1. Students learn through the process of playing the game. By playing a game, students may be able to understand a new concept or idea, take on a different perspective, or experiment with different options or variables. For example, in my beginning Spanish classes, I often played a card game the first week of school. The students were in groups of 4-5. Each person read through the directions to the card game; then, the game was played in complete silence. After the first round, one student from each group (typically the "winner") moved to a different group. We typically played three or four rounds.

What my students did not initially know is that each group had received a different set of rules. When a student moved to a new group, he often felt confused and was unsure as to why the other people were playing differently (students usually say "they were playing wrong"). We used this as a starting point to discuss the experience of moving to a new country. Having moved from Spain to Venezuela to the United States, I shared my own experiences of learning new cultural rules and, at times, feeling like others were "playing wrong."

Then, we played the game again, but I allowed all the students to talk. Through discussions, students explained the rules to "newcomers," and the game ran more smoothly (and students reported feeling much more satisfied). At this point, at least someone said, "I get it. You are trying to show us this is why we need to learn another language. So we can all explain the rules to each other."

2. Games provide a context for engaging practice. As a world languages teacher, I know students need a lot of practice to internalize important vocabulary and structures. However, for the practice to be meaningful, students must be engaged (and let's be honest, countless workbook pages or textbook exercises are not always highly engaging!). Through lively games of charades, $25,000 pyramid, or others, my students willingly use the vocabulary and structures, repeatedly gaining much-needed practice.

3. Through games, students can learn a variety of important skills. There are countless skills that students can develop through game playing such as critical thinking skills, creativity, teamwork, and good sportsmanship. For example, with my Spanish students, circumlocution is a very important skill. By playing word guessing games, I have seen my students' ability to use circumlocution improve dramatically. I love to watch my students' creativity during game sessions (we have used Play-doh, drawing, acting and many other activities in our games).

One of my first years as a teacher, a student commented that he loved the verb game we were playing (a variation of "Yahtzee"). I told him I was glad he liked it, but that it wasn't my invention-it was based on a game he might have played at home. He then told me that he had never played games at home and I was the only adult who had ever sat down to play a game with him. At times, I am surprised that students don't logically think through how to play "Guess Who?" Then, I remind myself that this 14-year-old had never played a game with an adult before he came to my class! I see this as an opportunity to teach a wide range of life skills that don't necessarily show up in my curriculum's scope and sequence.

4. While playing games, students develop a variety of connections with the content and can form positive memories of learning. Some of my favorite classroom memories are from game times. I will never forget watching Miguel jump around the classroom to help his peers guess the word "Mono" (monkey). Fortunately, the students won't forget it either (and they all got "mono" right on their assessments). The fun, silly or interesting moments tend to stand out in students' memories, and they latch on to the vocabulary/structures we are studying. A positive emotional connection can facilitate learning. Furthermore, many games feature a variety of different stimuli; some students might remember the vocabulary words from acting them out, others remember reading the clues, and other students remember hearing classmates call out answers. Games can provide a variety of sensory experiences for students.

5. Games grab students' attention and actively engage them. I find that because students really enjoy playing games, it is a good way tofocus their attention and actively immerse them in Spanish. This can be especially useful in a wide variety of ways. For example, after a fire drill students sometimes have trouble settling down and returning to class. A game allows students to quickly engage and transition back to the content we were working on. After hours of state-mandated standardized tests, I find my students are often tired of sitting and full of energy; an energetic game with lots of movement may be just what they need.

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Advantages:
1. Cause learners to engage in their classroom more while creating environment of learning with experience.
2. fun and motivate or encourage the learners
3. Interaction involved in games helps learners understand better
4. Improve critical thinking skills as well as reading comprehension
5. source of stress relief

Disadvantages:
1. Distraction
2. Addiction
3. If the games are not designed correctly, it could be disadvantage to the learner's thinking

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1. Charades
2. Hangman
3. Scatter-gories
4. Bingo
5. Puzzles
6. Draw swords
7. Hot potato
8. Pictionary
9. Quizalize
10. Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

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Engage your students with fun quizzes while instantly obtaining valuable mastery data. Automatically differentiate learning based on student performance.

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a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other

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1. Connecting with experts on topics via social media
2. Institutions communicate with students via YouTube and Facebook
3. It helps in Research process
4. Enhanced Learning management systems
5. Learners can build social credibility

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Advantages & Disadvantages of Social Media

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Advantages & Disadvantages of Social Media

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Advantages:
1. Increased Student Collaboration
2. Increased Student Participation
3. Team Projects are easier to review
4. Rich eLearning Media available
5. Video Conferencing abilities

Disadvantages:
1. Student distraction can become issue
2. Lack of control for inappropriate content
3. Relying on Social Media for all contact

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1. Social Networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn)
2. Media Sharing Networks (Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube)
3. Discussion Forums (Reddit, Quora, Digg)
4. Bookmarking & Content Curation Networks (Pinterest, Flipboard)
5. Consumer Review Networks (Yelp, Zomato, TripAdvisor)
6. Blogging & Publishing Networks (WordPress, Tumblr, Medium)
7. Social Shopping Networks (Polyvore, Etsy, Fancy)
8. Interest-Based Networks (Goodreads, Houzz, Last.fm)

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Seeing the popularity and power of Social Media Channels, businesses and marketers look for different types of Social Media networks that they can use to target and convert their audiences.

General people are only aware of Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram sorts of social channels.

Social media will help you build up loyalty of your current customers to the point that they will willingly, and for free, tell others about you.

Over 88% of the companies are now marketing on Social Media.
But for a marketer or any brand, many other types of Social Media channels are there to explore, as they play a significant role in targeting and converting prospects.
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In this post, we shall deep dive into all the different types of Social Media Marketing networks that can optimize your reach and brand awareness on the web.

Different Types of Social Media Networks

1. Social Networks: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

Such types of Social Media are used to associate with individuals (and brands) on the web. They help your business via branding, social awareness, relationship building, customer service, lead generation, and conversion.

You can channelize different types of Social Media campaigns on these networks that will help you widen your reach. Some of the benefits of these Social Marketing Networks are-

(i) They encourage individuals and businesses to interact online and share data and thoughts for ensuring mutually productive relationships

(ii) In case you are searching for the best ways to optimize current marketing campaigns then you will discover a variety of organic and paid ways to do this on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn sorts of social networks.

2. Media Sharing Networks: Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube

Media sharing types of Social Media are used to find and share photographs, live video, video and other kinds of media on the web.

They are also going to help you in brand building, lead generation, targeting and so on. They give individuals and brands a place to discover and share media so the target audiences can be targeted and converted into a convincing and result-driven way possible.

Social networks nowadays also offer these features, however, for Media Sharing Networks, sharing of media is their basic role.

(i) Starting with image or video on Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat types of media sharing networks would be more beneficial for you.

(ii) To decide whether you should use these networks for your business or not, you should consider your resources and target audiences. These channels will help you run well-planned campaigns to generate leads and widen your audience base.

3. Discussion Forums: Reddit, Quora, Digg

Such types of Social Media channels are used for finding, sharing and discussing different kinds of information, opinions, and news.

They help businesses by being a top-notch resource for doing immaculate market research. These forums are the oldest ways of running Social Media Marketing campaigns.

Before the entry of popular Social Media players like Facebook, these forums were the places where professionals, experts and enthusiasts used to do different kinds of discussions concerning a variety of fields.

(i) These discussion forums have a massive number of users and it ensures unprecedented reach for your business. These are the places that provide the answers to different queries of any domain.

(ii) In case your business needs deep customer research then these places would the most befitting one for your business.

(iii) Along with sharing information and knowing answers, these places are very impactful in advertising as well.

4. Bookmarking & Content Curation Networks: Pinterest, Flipboard

Opting for such types of Social Media will help you find out, share, discuss and save a variety of latest content and media that are trending as well.

They are very helpful in channelizing brand awareness for your business, plus, choosing this one to run different types of Social Media Marketing campaigns will help you generate website traffic and customer engagement.

In case you want to run some out of the box highly creative campaigns that can not only inform your audience and but also attract them then this one is the best fit.

(i) To run a Social Media campaign on Pinterest, you need to have a site that is bookmark-friendly. You should optimize headlines and images for the feeds that Bookmarking and Content Curation Networks use for accessing and sharing your content.

(ii) Flipboard lets you create your own Flipboard magazine by using most engaging content and then you can showcase that to your audiences.

5. Consumer Review Networks: Yelp, Zomato, TripAdvisor

Using Customer Review networks will help you find out, share and review different information about a variety of products, services or brands.

When a business has positive reviews on these networks, their claims turn more credible because reviews on these networks act as Social Proof.

For running a successful Social Media Marketing Campaigns, it is very important for today's businesses to have positive reviews on these sites.

In addition, resolving all the issues that your customers are posting on these Review platforms is another thing that is going to be very important for the positive and productive outcomes for your business.

(i) These networks offer a place to users for reviewing different kinds of products and services that they have used.

(ii) Review content adds great value to any brand because it will influence more and the number of new buyers to attempt your services.

(iii) Yelp and Zomato are the types of social media platforms that offer location-based review services that will help you run location-based social campaigns.

6. Blogging & Publishing Networks: WordPress, Tumblr, Medium

You should choose these types of Social Media networks for publishing, discovering and commenting on articles, social media blogs and other content on the web.

Content marketing is one of the most powerful ways to target, attract, engage and convert a target audience. It is going to be the base of successful online marketing campaigns that play the most important role in conversion funnels of Digital Marketing campaigns.

WordPress and Blogger are the traditional blogging platforms while Tumblr (micro-blogging service) and Medium (Social Publishing Platform) is the latest blogging and publishing networks.

(i) These networks are must for the businesses that want to effectively use Content Marketing, plus, you can share this content on a variety of Social Networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

(ii) Content that you use on these networks will also help you create a niche for your business and audiences who are in search of information concerning that niche will for sure visit your blog or site.

7. Social Shopping Networks: Polyvore, Etsy, Fancy

Want to find out all the latest trends in the marketing or crave to know the shopping tips then such types of Social Media channels are for you.

In addition, they help you follow different brands, share interesting things and make a purchase on these Social Shopping networks.

Businesses can use such types of Social Media Platforms for creating brand awareness, boosting engagement and selling products on some new and effective platforms. These channels transform e-commerce by making them more engaging via some interesting social elements.

(i) To use these networks effectively you should create a site that integrates shopping experience with social experience.

(ii) These networks are very result-driven for small businesses and startups as they can sell their products without any land-based office or store.

8. Interest-Based Networks: Goodreads, Houzz, Last.fm

You can use such types of Social Media networks for connecting with other people who have the same sorts of hobbies or interests.

You can easily find the audiences who are interested in knowing more and more about the kinds of products and services that you offer.

This makes it one of the best networks for engaging with your audience and creating exclusive brand awareness online. Compared to big social networks, using Interest-based networks would help you run a more targeted campaign.

(i) Choosing these networks will help you focus solely on a single product or service related to any particular subject, for instance, home décor, Digital Marketing Training, Music, Books, etc.

(ii) These networks are the best places to engage with the audiences of a particular niche.

Summing Up!

While summing up this post, let us talk about some other social networks that are not as prominent as the aforestated ones but they can also create an impact if your business suits their working.

In the list, first one is Sharing Economy Networks such as Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit that let you advertise, buy, find, sell, share and do a trade of a variety of products and services amongst the peers.

Then comes some anonymous social networks such as Whisper, After School and Ask.fm that are generally used for venting, gossiping, snooping sorts of activity.

They are not going to be very beneficial for your business but in case you want to post something anonymously, you can choose these types of social media platforms.

These anonymous networks are actually a fun place where confessions get converted into content- After doing lots of serious work, such fun will for sure act as the impetus needed to recharge you.

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What are the different types of Social Media?

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Seeing the popularity and power of Social Media Channels, businesses and marketers look for different types of Social Media networks that they can use to target and convert their audiences. General people are only aware of Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram sorts of social channels.

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forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)

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The meaning of SOCIAL MEDIA is forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos).