Table 2 Categorisation of posts about sharing information and resources (n = 246)
From: Examining a technology-focused language teacher community on Facebook during a crisis situation
Types of posts | Count | Examples |
|---|---|---|
Future events (e.g., conferences, seminars, lectures, social gatherings) | 74 | “Hi XXX here, apologies for posting. YYY is doing an online conference…” |
Websites and online applications | 32 | “Perhaps a good way to clean up your audio for online teaching…” |
Reading materials (e.g., Journals, books, blogs, listicles, newsletters, memes) | 31 | “We are delighted to announce our new journal entitled XXX.” |
Videos (e.g., How-to videos) | 28 | “I hope no one minds that I drop this here. A video I made just today that helps users go over the more complex settings in ZOOM” |
Personal remarks (e.g., advice, thoughts, rants) | 22 | “Teachers in Japan: read this before you start planning your online classes…” |
Call for papers/chapters/books | 22 | “The call for papers for XXXX is open! Details in the link. Please share widely and join us. https://conference2020….” |
News | 9 | “Looks like it is going to happen. Maybe Wednesday or Thursday. Supermarkets will be open, but since other shopping and public transportation will be limited or stopped, you might want to stock up for three weeks on what you need that you can't get locally…https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/….” |
Admin related | 9 | “Apologies if you were affected by the most subtle bug ever on the server…” |
Event related resources (e.g., photos, reflections) | 9 | “I hope you had a good experience. I enjoyed the sessions I attended and was really happy to reconnect with old friends and meet people in my field…” |
Courses | 4 | “Hey everyone, I am an English teacher in Kyushu and I run a free course on Ed Tech tips. Please join if you are interested.” |
Communities/online communities | 4 | “Hey, lots of us in Korea are having to teach online, as we hear are you all. Zoom seems to be what many are going to use. so, we’re teaching ourselves how to do that. We have an active Facebook self-help group. feel free to join…” |
Other (random online image) | 2 |