How To Use The Internet to Communicate Effectively

We might assume most students use the internet regularly these days. For work as well as social activities it’s a tool that we rely on a lot. But how to use the internet to communicate effectively? Let’s look at the different tools we can use and especially how they can be used to communicate in an educational setting, and what are their advantages and disadvantages?

In the past we had few options if we wanted to communicate with people over a long distance. We had telephones and we had letters, that was basically it. Right, I’m forgetting about telegrams and faxes, but let’s focus on widely spread, mainstream tools everybody has access to. The phone was the way to communicate directly to a person and sending a letter was the indirect way.

Nowadays phone calls are still made, and the mobile phone allows us to talk with each other whenever we want. Letters are still sent too, though way less often. And if we look at how we use computers to communicate we can roughly make the same distinction between direct en indirect communication: Read more