Does bebo have the effect to enhance childrens design skills

In our group of four we choose to do the topic BEBO. We thought that this would be an exciting topic to research as it is getting more and more popular in society with children especially. We found that bebo has many components, theres were things such as communication, media skill, community of learners and design. I choose to look into the design components and how this could enhance students learning.

Through researching on the internet i came upon a question which was; What kinds of literacies does blogging enhance? This is a fantastic question as it enables pople to think that yes there are postive outcomes from creating a blog such as bebo. In answer to this question I found that by using blogging it can enhance stronger skills in visual literacy [and] media literacy, for starters. Changes in reading and writing—not just the texting phenomenon, but fluency rates, information sorting, and evaluating happen, too. This are many postive attibutes to blogging that can have a postive effect to students learning within their learning.

I looked further into the design concept and by having stduents learn how to build a blog it teaches them necessary design and conceptual abilities that can transfer to art, photography, graphic design, writing, and other contemporary information-manipulation strategies. Blog building also helps students understand how technology works from the ground up. This is important in todays society as we are becoming a more technology literate society. Students need to become aware of the new ways in which to share their creativity with using bebo students are able to use things such as choosing a colour scheme to display their blogs on, decide on the layout, learn how to drew by using paint brush. Within bebo students are able to choose their own skins, layout, able to drew and leave on other poeples whiteboard, which shows poeples design skills and once used more than once students "tacit" knowledge this also applys for the other design components.