How to use Social Media in Academia

How to use SOCIAL MEDIA in ACADEMIA

Social Media in universities• Social Media landscape in HE

• How faculty members and students

use Social Media?

• Which are the potential benefits, challenges

and disadvantages?• How the usage can be

extended?• Is there a need

for training the educational actors?

Publishing - blogging platformsSharing services for pictures, links, videos, music, productsDiscussing with knowledge platforms and mobile chat applicationsNetworking

Kaplan&Haenlein (2010): „social media is a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of User Generated Content (UGC)”. Jane Hart(2011): „Social technologies, aka social media, are a new breed of technologies that have emerged over the last few years and have changes the face of the Web.”

image: http://matetrack.webs.com/SOCIAL/SOCIAL.html

There are many definitions of Social Media, and they are evolving in timeBrian Solis (2010), “Defining Social Media: 2006 – 2010”

Key technologies: RSS/blog-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007, microblogging-2008-2013, augmented reality,location based applications - 2010-2013

Social Media is a generic term covering a large range of online platforms/applications which allow users to communicate, collaborate, interact and share data.

The latest facts and figures about Social Media - embedded in the note at http://www.cirip.ro/status/33351035

JESS3 Labs The Geosocial Universe 2.0Comparison between the total amount of

registered users with the percentage of people achttp://jess3.com/geosocial-universe-3

Amy Campbell (2010)3 characteristics of social media: the majority of content is user generated, a high degree of participation/interaction between users, and easily integrates with other sites.

Anthony J. Bradley (2010)6 core principles: participation, collective, transparency, independence, persistence and emergence.

A Vision of students today – clip embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/12590151

Enhancing teaching & learning using Social Media

from Handbook of Emerging Technologies in Education

George Siemens, Peter Tittenberg (pg.34) ltc.umanitoba.ca/wikis/etl

Social Media is about transforming monologue into dialogue, about free access to all types of information, about transforming internet users from mere readers to creators of content, about interacting in the online world so as to form new collaborative relationships.

Social Media platforms for content sharing

Groups (Groups.Google.com, Groups.Yahoo.com, Ning.com, Meetup.com)

Forums/Spaces for discussions (phpBB.net, Quora.com, Disqus.com)

Localization (Foursquare.com, Yelp.com, Zvents.com)

Augmented reality (Layar.com, Wikitude.com, Zooburst.com)

Virtual worlds/Social Games (Secondlife.com, Playdom.com, OpenSimulator.org)

IM (YM, GTalk, Jabber, Skype)

Platforms for Communication & Collaboration & Localization

Social Media in Romanian Academia - embedded in the note at http://www.cirip.ro/status/33351035

http://www.openeducationeuropa.eu, former http://elearningeuropa.info

http://chronicle.com/article/Major-Players-in-the-MOOC/138817/check also http://mooc-list.com, http://futurelearn.com

Major Players in the MOOC Universe

ADVANTAGES

• teaching / learning digital skills • easily-accessible creativity • „use of authentic study materials”• „easy socialization”• a modern approach of educational subjects• feedback • easy monitoring online presence and reputation• collaborative participation• using open education / open educational resources

DISADVANTAGES• content trivialisation • security of data and persons• online information / cognitive overload• equality or e-quality • difficult management of digital identity • anonymity• ethical concerns• institutional norms • time spent on social media sites• emotional barriers• a certain life style and/or an organisational culture • artificial communication• the noise• the activity with / within social media isn’t recognised as academic

Welcome to … your space

Which 5 Social Media applications do you appreciate and use the most?

Which 5 do you want to test/use?Find 2 MOOCs interesting for you and your students.

c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools

openeducationeuropa.eu mooc-list.com

futurelearn.com

Tune your communication!

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Carmen HOLOTESCUTimsoft / Politehnica University of TimisoaraRomania

blog: timsoft.ro/weblogtwitter: cami13 cirip: cami13

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