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In case you don’t know what Instagram is, its an online photo editing and sharing application (app) which is not anything new in the world of social media networking. It’s great for adding digital filters to photos and the tool become quite popular in the online learning world in recent times for obvious reasons. Students who pursue online degree programs use this tool quite often and the mentors encourage them for using it inside classroom extensively. At present, there are about 90 million users who use Instagram regularly. How Instagram helps online students with their coursework and other things? Here below is the answer.
Help in completing assignments
Instead of looking for stock photos on the web, students can now take their own snaps and upload them to make their assuignments more illustrative. Teachers, on the other hand, get the impression that their students are really spending time in research and are not just within the confines of the course materials. Instagram, as a matter of fact, help the students to complete and submit their assignments faster.
Help in creating infrographics
Students studying in online schools need to do a lot of projects. Using Instagram helps them in capturing and uploading photos instantly to demonstrate flowcharts and diagrams in a better manner. Images speak better than words and the students can use the photos they snap for making projects look livelier. Most importantly, students can make easily scannable infographics using photos captured on their cameras using Instagram and after necessary edits.
Help in peer-to-peer networking
As photo sharing comes easy with Instagram, the students can easily share and view each other’s photos on this photo-shatring network. This way, Instagram also serves as a intra-departmental communication and networking. Students can stay connected with each other through Instagram, can write/share photo essay with peers and endless.
Teachers, at the same time, have warmly welcomed Instagram, the ‘fast beautiful photo sharing’ tool. Flickr and Picasa were always there, but Instagram is a different and a better app in some respects. Learn the Insta way!
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2013-03-18 06:09:54
Source: http://blog.edegreeusa.com/2013/03/18/three-ways-instagram-is-now-being-used-in-online-schools/