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Agenda
Social Media and its Purpose
Examples of popular social media
Common concerns
Hands-on activities
Useful links/Q and A
Purpose
network between students / instructor
connect with many students outside of the
class
connect with each student
This is theirplayground
Addresses differentlearning styles
digital citizenship“ ”
voice / feedback / input ownership
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakxy/
Creates a classroom community
links related to the topic
resources
supplementary content
upload and shareinstructional videos; discussions; interviews; presentations…
supplementarylecture material
studentpresentations
humourous clips to break up a long lecture
can have subtitles(different languages) and annotations
daily tweet – definitions, concepts, word of the
day, useful web resource or news article pertinent
to what was just covered or what will be covered
notify students of changes to course content,
schedules, rooms, due dates
reminders of due dates
direct tweet with students
(don’t have to share cell phone #’s)
serves as a review and study tool
instant feedback
Concerns...
Losing control over the course
• This conversation is already happening (with or without you) – consider ROI (Risk of Ignoring)
• You can manage the conversation better if you’re a part of it
No time to learn how to use social media
• Same thing was likely said when Blackboard, Networked computers and/or voicemail was introduced
Useful linksSocial Media in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIOClX1jPE
Twitter in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
A Vision of Students Today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
The Twitter Experiment – UT Dallashttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPVWDkF7U8
Classroom 2.0 http://www.classroom20.com/
Teaching the Teachers about Social Mediahttp://www.slideshare.net/KSLeBlanc/teaching-the-teachers-about-social-media
Facebook http://facebook.com
YouTube http://youtube.com
Twitter http://twitter.com
Flickr http://flickr.com
Use Twitter to get instant feedback (#etc2010conf)
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