Korean Social Network(CYWORLD)

The President Obama said that the second important deal is the education, next to the health care. Concurrently, the Korean President Lee, Myung Bak also announced his desire to have to the Korean government focused more on developing and changing its education system. He obviously believe the power that education can exert in people's lives.

As a global era, my group members thought "Why don't we look up not only USA social networks, but also Korean social networks for teaching tools."

Now days, the most popular personal website in Korea is Cyworld. The prevalence of student subscribling to cyworld is over 90% in a given classroom. The way it is set up lets students use all of the functions that cyworld offers with ease. Surprisingly, Cyworld is very similar with FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE and TWITTWE. Ultimately, this novel means of connecting students with educators, even out of the classroom makes the delivering and sharing knowledge more dynamic and exciting. Here is some examples how they are using it.

EX1)One of my friends has Cyworld website. He is a teacher in a middle school. He created a few iconic folders and categorized them into a group and a year. He posted the video recording  of students performing. Another advantage of cyworld is that the subscriber has the control of disclosing his or her contents to only a certain group of visitors making privacy possible. The other friend who has Cyworld website posted the video recording of her students vocal ensemble competition.

EX2)There is a website board. Posting comment on the teacher's board is common for Korean students. Also, the teacher replies the comments. THe students can posted the message through the cll-phones. I think that some high-technically equipped cell-phones. which are also a form of social network medium, affect the quality of education.

EX3) There is published board. Some kindergarten teacher published the article about her life.

Let me translate little bit.

Some people are asking to her when they meet first time,

"What do you do?"

She answers, "I am a kindergarten teacher."

They say, "Wow, that would be great.  You would be fun with children. You need to just play with them."

And then, she just smiles.......

She published the article about what the educators are thinking and what they should be doing.

There is another page the same like that. It is about how we should start to teach children to play the piano. I think that it is really useful information for especially people who prepare to become one of the educators.

In brief, when I was young, i made the paperboard for a presentation and then hung it in front of the class. Now, using the computers and the Internet in the class are becoming more and more common in schools. It clearly shows that the advanced technology os such a convenient tool to educate students. Additionally, online social network website such as FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, TWITTER and CYWORlD is one of the most effective ways to connect between the educators and the students.