Komal Shandil
Multiply is an independent, integrated marketing communications agency, a website which anyone can join for free. Users can create, share and discuss blogs, photos, videos and music with others as well as post reviews of movies and books, or share a calendar of events. It has educational as well as social benefits. One can create their account and share photos, videos and blogs with family and friends. It enables sharing of art and stories easily. http://multiply.com/info/tos is the site that provides more information about multiply terms of service and use.
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Social Benefits
Through multiply you can invite and join people from all over the world. It enables chatting with friends from multiply, facebook and other social sites that one is member of. Teachers can also communicate with other teachers in other parts of the world and most importantly among themselves in Fiji to be updated with latest information. They can share their ideas with others about teaching and learning. The marketplace section is designed to be a way to showcase items that a person may want to pass on to contacts or to search for an item that a user's contacts may have
Educational benefits
One can have links from various sites pasted on their page and it will be helpful to the viewers of your site who need information on those topics. You can also join various educational groups and get updated information from all latest research going on in the scientific world.
Classroom implications
The teachers can paste links on their site for the research work that students are doing so that they know exactly where to go and find the right information instead of going over various sites to get the information on their research topics. They can also paste links that will give information and ideas to the students on the subject topics taught in the class so that students can broaden their knowledge and understanding on various concepts taught in the class.Teachers can also upload videos and animations on various topics taught in the classroom if they are not able to show them in their class due to resource inavailability or time factor example protein synthesis or various reaction mechanisms in order to enhance the students understanding. Moreover, the teachers can add remainders on their ′Events’ section such as assignment due dates, exam dates and all major events that are taking place. They can also blog important information. Students can go on their teachers site ask questions or clear their doudts by writing in the guestbook that is available on that page. Students can also write messages for the teachers if they find it difficult to approach the teachers and share their problems.
Multiply is a very good tool as it has lots of advantages that is social and educational contexts and classroom implications. It will be very beneficial for the students as well as the teachers. It is one of the best means of communication and sharing of ideas, information and knowledge between the teachers and the students and among the teachers as well.
Advantages
Since its inception the website has allowed users to upload music playlists to their profile page. Initially users could upload up to 10 songs at a time with an unlimited number of songs allowed on any given playlist (they could upload more songs after the first ten by starting a second upload and specifying that they should be added to a pre-existing playlist.)
Users can add reviews to their website, not only view on the product, but discussing it as well with friends and family. Reviews use a 5 star system so both those who post and those who reply can rate how well they liked a product
. Users can post calendar entries for themselves, for their contacts, their network or even for public access. Calendar entries, as with all entries on Multiply, can be discussed within the calendar entry post, enabling members to not only announce an event, but discuss it as well.
Users can easily upload videos directly to Multiply, or they can pull video in from YouTube, Photobucket, Google Video, Metacafe, or myspacetv.com.
Disadvantages
Theft of Personal Information
If you use the internet, there is a great risk of stealing your personal information such as name, address and photos.
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