enq@springstep.co.ukIts About Sharing
Social Media is your noticeboard where you can share your ideas and thoughts, post up pictures, videos and links you have found online. Your friends, family and other group members can see these things and make comments about them – you can also make comments about their things too. This way conversations spring up and you discover common interests.
For the purpose of this exercise we will look at Twitter & YouTube
- Its simple to use
- You can read it without being a member
– without registering – they will encourage you to though!
– Facebook requires you to register before you can do anything - Many newspapers, clubs and public personalities use it to promote themselves
- Content is kept light, no heavy reading
Activity: TwitterActivity: YouTube
Our Twitter
- Look over to the right hand side of this page (maybe scroll up or down)
- This is our mini Twitter feed
- You can scroll the box to see our recent ‘tweets’ (get it?)
- See a bigger version here
- Clicking on things posted there will take you either to Twitter or the link in the tweet
- Head over to our own Twitter home page at www.twitter.com
- Look at the difference
Twitter Feeds
(Sadly, at the moment, Twitter is restricting access to just the first few tweets, unless you have registered)
- Start again with Google search
- Think of a club, charity, newspaper, celebrity etc you like
- Type in to the search box: Twitter xxxx (ie the name of)
- You should see the first result is their Twitter page (feed) (eg twitter.com/xxxx)
- Go have a look
- Go back, think of another, repeat
YouTube Videos
(If you are signed in to Gmail, you are automatically signed in to YouTube)
- go to youtube.com
- use the top search box to search for:
- sports events
- music events
- recipes
- languages
- how to fix it
- hobbies
- If you are signed in, you can leave comments beneath the video
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