“Social media enables connectivity, interaction and collaboration.”

Social media enables connection beyond the ties of friendship, family, and acquaintences. As an English/HSIE Teacher and Teacher Librarian, I personally so far have found immense use for social media sites in my professional career. In fact, I frequently find them more useful than websites set up by the Department of Education. Well-managed social media platforms are a platform for professional questions, discussions, debates, collaboration, the sharing of resources and ideas, and more. They have become, over time, a kind of “digital faculty” or staffroom – an invaluable resource to connect and exchange resources and ideas with colleagues, particularly for those such as myself who live in rural and remote locations where one or two people make up a whole subject faculty. They do, therefore indeed, “enable connectivity, interaction and collaboration” (Giannikas, 2020) by individuals in the profession.

It is a resource that I, personally, would be professionally lost and disadvantaged without.

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Reference List 

Giannikas, C. (2020). Facebook in tertiary education: The impact of social media in e-Learning. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 17(1) https://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol17/iss1/3