Social media
Social media enables you to communicate, exchange messages, share knowledge and interact with people across the globe. Regardless of differences and geographical boundaries you can create links to other cultures to experience their individual traditions, beliefs, and norms that make them unique. Social media platfrorms you might like to explore include:
An extensive list of social networking websites can be found on Wikipedia.
If you are new to using social media, here's a guide to setting up your profile on the major social media platforms.
Online news sources
Accessing, regularly, resources from varied perspectives help you to stay informed on local and global issues. They also help you to think criticaly about the potential impact of current events on future conditions, both localy and globally.
- Comprehensive list of world newspapers and magazines
- BBC news
- CNN
- ABC News - World News
- Reuters World News
- Al Jazeera
Curating online sources
There are a number of online curating tools that you use to create a feed based on key words that you determine. Have a look at "Intercultural Competence News Feed", this is an example of using paper.li to curate content on the topic of intercultural competence. Online curating tools that you might like to explore include:
- Twitter lists - A list is a curated group of Twitter users that you can follow.
- Scoop.it - Create a topic of interest and Scoop.it will not only generate the most relevant articles to view and share, but it will also include complementary topics and other Scoop.it users to follow.
- Feedly - Use the news aggregation option to curate content into one place.
- Curata - You can fine-tune, customise and categorise content sources for review and then diseeminate in one place.