Our virtual community 

1. The name of our Virtual Learning Community:

INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION TEACHERS (@interculturaleducationteachers).

2. The link of our Virtual Learning Community:

INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION👩🏽‍🏫 (https://www.instagram.com/interculturaleducationteachers/) • Fotos y videos de Instagram

3. Instagram is an application and social network of American origin, owned by Facebook, whose main function is to be able to share photographs and videos with other users. Available for Android, iOS, and Windows 10 devices, this means that can be access through a smartphone or a computer. In Instagram you can share photos or videos on your feed (posts) or upload stories that erase within 24 hours.

We have choose Instagram because the kids can access it through their computers, so they don’t need to have a smartphone. Also you can create an Instagram account with a mail account, so you don’t need to have a phone number.

 We think that Instagram would be appealing for students to use, because is one of the most popular social media among the young people, and they can be already familiarized with it.

 Another positive aspect of Instagram is that is a really visual platform, you can combine your posts with music, stickers or gifs so the will be more dynamic. Instagram also has lots of useful tools that you can use in an educational way such us, the polls, the tags, the comments, the chats, the notes…

4.In my opinion I think that virtual learning communities seem useful in the theory but in the practice can be problematic. If you use social networks for your virtual learning communities there are many negative aspects such as: cyberbullying, the addition to social networks, the inappropriate use of  the latter... On the other hand if you use something similar to the virtual classroom, although children can not become addicted to the virtual classroom, they will have to access it through an electronic device and this presents new problems: not all children have electronic devices, children can start playing games on the tablet...