Entry 8
28/11/2020
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What is this trendy thing that everyone been using it now that called Instagram? It seems like all Gen Z already dominated this social media apps. It's just been around for about few years ago, and it slowly picking up with other social media apps and now, it is the most famous mobile app around the world. Does anyone know what exactly Instagram is?
What is Instagram?
Instagram has become a wildly popular photo sharing app and social network. In general, Instagram is a social networking app for sharing photos and videos via its mobile app. It is created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and originally launched on iOS in October 2010. Instagram is owned by Facebook since 2012.
Similar to other social media, those who create their account has a profile and a news feed. So now, you can explore other people posting as well. With Instagram, you will be able to edit, tag people on your post and upload your photos or videos and publish your visual content for your follower to interact with you. They can like, share and comment on your post. You only can use the smartphone to upload your visual content, if you log in your Instagram account on your desktop, you just can browsing it. Instagram’s users follow each other in an asynchronous manner.
Instagram has announced a ton of new features for 2020. The features that Instagram has and what make it the best is location tagging, hashtags, filters, video editing tools, live video streaming, stories features, IGTV and more. the hashtag function is to allow users to search the topic they interested in and browse it without any problem. Instagram’s user also will be able to sync their photo sharing to other social media networks and directly posted to apps like Facebook, Twitter and more.
Did you know what make Instagram be the most well known app in the world? One of the reason is their widely active users across the globe. It is a huge favourite app among the younger generation like the millennials who love to take photo of everything. It is become a trend to post the creative photos and videos on the Instagram and gaining likes from their followers and to impress other with their skills. And because of that, even users from the older generation also joining in and using the app. People with the photographer skill also can make money using this apps. They can promote their work and other can easily access to their account.
What is the benefits of using Instagram?
Instagram is more than just a way to get jealous about your friend’s beautiful photos. Although it hurts to see those nice photos gaining attention from other, the benefits of Instagram is far reaching. Instagram has over 1 billion monthly active users and its belong to the most popular social networks worldwide. According to the statistic, As of October 2020, 33.1 percent of global Instagram audiences were aged between 25 and 34 years. In total, over two-thirds of the total Instagram audience was 34 years of age and younger, making the site especially appealing to advertisers.
Stories is one of the most popular Instagram features. Users can post photos and videos to their stories stream, and for 24 hours until it disappears, the material is live for anyone to view. The company announced that there were 500 million regular active users of Instagram Stories in January 2019. Instagram Stories directly competes with another app for photo sharing that was originally popular because of its "vanishing photos" feature.
Instagram will always give you the chance to learn more about your audience and make it easy for you to meet them. Visual content is more attractive than written words and catches people's imagination. Coupling that the post can be classified with the hashtags used in the description below and allows it to travel forward, not only followers but also other users looking for specific visual content. You can also see at a glance what attracts your audience through a fast search of their profiles using Instagram.
Extra Features For Business Profiles. If you’re doing some business or anything related to it, you can switch on your account into a business account. This will unlock a tons of business features to help you promote your business.
Some of these features include providing a call-to-action button for visitors to your website, the opportunity to encourage access to your content, and access to account insights. It also gives users of Instagram a strong understanding that a company owns the page they are on and is not just a personal Instagram page. Making this change helps you to set up a successful account to enjoy all of Instagram's benefits.
As a place for photo sharing, it may sound like I'm saying the obvious here. But Instagram is exclusively used for photo and video content, unlike most other social media sites, which focus on text and links.
Photos provide an opportunity for your post to highlight items, and videos are a perfect way to illustrate your services in action. And beyond that, the forum can also be used to show you the goal of doing something and other details of your tasks behind the scenes.
In a single smartphone app, the combination of photo sharing, video and social networking gives users the chance to portray scenes, sell goods and even attempt to capture an emotion in the photos they upload to the web. It forces the consumer, business or person to be more imaginative and innovative with the images they use to create a feeling important to themselves, their brand or their company, with the focus being so much more on the images.
Instagram for education.
Instagram is more useful for business, however, Instagram is a flexible application. therefore, all fields are available on this platform, and include education.
Many people are using social media for personal purpose only, like communication and entertainment, but not in terms of professional usage. Social media such as Instagram is more than that. It can be used as a strategic communication tool.
There are many benefits of using Instagram for educational purpose that many may be amazed with this app.
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You can uploading in a single post up to ten photos/videos, which can be viewed as a slideshow.
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Upload a video content from a minute up to 15 minutes on IGTV. IGTV videos can be up to 10 minutes long right now and bigger accounts can upload videos for up to 1 hour. In the future, Instagram said that there will soon be no time limits.
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You can used hashtags to increase your content’s engagement. By using hashtags, it will allow other users to easily found your post and encourage your followers to use them as well.
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Sharing what's happening via live video, storeys, and highlights in real time. There are major best practices to follow, like all social media sites, to create a large following, promote interaction, and lead to a successful strategy for social media. When using Instagram, here are some key best practices to follow.
Benefit for teacher.
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Fun learning.
Since social media has become one of the crucial components of daily life, and Instagram is undoubtedly one of the most successful social media sites, better results have been obtained by leveraging the benefits of Instagram for students. Turning the whole learning process into fun is one of the many ways to make the most of this unique social media site.
Of course, the exact method to use will depend greatly on the concept of studies, but either way, making the photo essays talk is often a great way to stimulate the imagination of the students and simply provide them with a fun and engaging learning opportunity.
Both the teachers and the students can do photo essays, which certainly has its potential to get the students more interested in the subject. Not to mention that, compared to conventional approaches, visual media can be a much better medium for explanation. Using Instagram for learning purposes often means pace and order, which is often important when it comes to audiovisual content.
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Distance Learning Opportunities
Distance learning opportunities are another great benefit of social media in education. There are many poor students who by taking normal classes in an educational institution, are not able to pursue formal education. Modern educators are able to draw students through distance learning programmers with the aid of diverse online platforms along with social media. This will soon be an inseparable part of our new system of education. By using Instagram, teachers can do IG live and their students can join he live to learn together. The IG live can be save on IGTV. If your students cannot be able to attend classes, they can look for the lecture on the IGTV on your account.
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Extending your learning through hashtags in education.
Teachers are lifelong learners, and hashtags are an easy way to expand your learning. Hashtags are a simple way of finding important education-related content. You will look for posts, persons, locations, and even tags (general or specific information). Images that have been branded with that particular subject will appear under your search bar when you search for a hashtag. A common hashtag among educators, for instance, is #education. You can create your very own hashtags to use with your student. If you're looking for ideas for classroom lesson plans or just want to see pictures of your classroom seating arrangements, you can find it easily by searching for the hashtag.
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Share Student Work.
Another efficient way Instagram can be used by teachers is to share their thoughts. You can share the awesome lesson plan that you made with the world with just a tap of your finger. You can post their work on Instagram with the appropriate hashtag if you require your students to create a creative and innovative video about your subject. Teachers from all over the world can now see and even use your brilliant ideas.
Benefits for students.
For students, Instagram is a valuable tool. It's a fun forum as well and you can do something that makes you feel relaxed.
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Instagram is a great way to connect with leaders in your field.
Moreover it allows you to keep up to date on resources and events. you can establish relationships with individuals in the industry and beyond easily. Notice that Instagram is useful in photography, blogging, travel or business for everyone with common interests. Instagram has a whole community for college learners out there.
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Make more friends.
In this process of social learning, staying linked to peers becomes very important for students. Students are able to make friends and create a strong network. They will get to know and start developing new relationships with several new individuals. It was really hard to get some information about famous people before. Everyone just had to watch them on TV and in the newspapers. It is very easy for anyone to follow famous celebrities and powerful people after social media has entered the public spotlight. Therefore, social media has played a very important role in linking students to the individuals with which they strive. With Instagram, you can find your idol and people you interested in. With Instagram, it will help students to get to know about the activities and events happening in and around them. They just need to follow the account, for example the Instagram account of their school. By participating in such activities students will get to do a lot of extracurricular activities.
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Share Knowledge.
On a variety of social media sites, students may use Instagram to exchange all types of multimedia content. This helps them to share information with peers and teachers. With the features of IG story, they can post anything on their story and it will disappear within 24 hours, or you can use DM (direct massage) to communicate with your peers. With Instagram, learners can maintain a network community that can exchange information on a variety of topics. Students may engage in two-way communication using this audio/visual medium, where they can discuss a subject.
Conclusion.
But it is undeniable that instagram has changes the way information is shared and has brought new developments to society. In a matter of seconds, students can get access to all kinds of multimedia elements with this method. Hopefully, these developments would further ease the lives of students, making them competitive both inside and outside the classroom.
