Share your knowledge with Teach the People Facebook app
December 1, 2008
Everyone knows a lot about something that someone else wishes they knew more about. If you are an expert in nonprofit management or java programming, or experienced in flamenco dancing or good at “going green,” what you know is in demand… somewhere. If only we knew a way to find and connect with that person that wants to know what we know!
You’re already on Facebook, connected to people you didn’t talk to in high school and joining groups like “When I was your age, Pluto was a planet,” so you may as well see if there is any real conversation going on out there. Expand your influence and share what you know. Make Teach the People, an educational platform built on top of Facebook, your classroom.
Like the best educational settings, this one takes a collaborative community approach to learning, providing a structure conducive to member participation. Teach the People provides the tools to share your skills and knowledge using video, text, audio and images; you will teach and learn, whether you are the “owner” of the site or a participant. There are lots of other modes of communication built in, including discussions, messaging, commenting, and more.
If you are a fan of directions, you might choose to visit Getting Started with Teach the People community and watch some of the instructional videos to learn more about launching your own Teach the People community. I am more of a figure-it-out-as-you-go sort of person, and that strategy works just fine with this intuitive application. Adding media is as easy as adding an attachment to an email, and pulling the media together into modules is simply a matter of selecting the media type, image, audio, embedded video, documents, etc. then clicking on “add to module.” You can easily edit or update these digital assets, keeping the content current centrally even as you use a single media learning object in more than one learning module.
If you are interested in sharing what you know about Web 2.0, information literacy, and teaching with technology, I invite you to join my Teach the People community, LEARNlearns.
Teach the People says, “For the curious, we hope to provide you with learning communities led by passionate instructors and a growing group of friends to learn along with.” I think they have created the learning environment that will do just that. -MELISSA THIBAULT
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