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Presentation for Didatec - http://elearning.upt.ro/proiecte/ro/didatec/126
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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
Thank you!to flicko all owners of photographs