Social+Media

Social media embraces web-based and mobile-based technologies to facilitate interactive communication between organizations, communities and individuals.
 * Only approved social media applications will be available to students at MSES. For academic purposes, students may use Edmodo and like classroom social media applications listed below.



**Edmodo:** Edmodo is a website that serves as a social learning platform for teachers, students, and parents. Current uses include posting and turning in assignments, creating polls for student responses, embedding video clips, creating learning groups, posting quizzes for students to take, and create a calendar of events and assignments.

**Wikispace (Wiki):** A wiki is a website which allows its users to add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser. Wiki is the Hawaiian word for "quick." Current uses include the wikispace as a learning mangagment system or web portal in which teachers communicate lessons and outside website links for students use. The wikispace platform may also serve as a student portfolio. Teachers with iPads may use a classroom wikispace.

**Blog:** A website on which an individual or group of users record opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis. Current uses include reflective summaries of learning targets by students, embedding video clips created by students and commenting on other student work thus increasing the authenticity of the assignment. The blogging platform in use by students at MSES is Edublogs.