Social media to enhance online learning

Tanya Joosten @tjoosten | Dylan Barth @djbarthUniversity of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Overview

• Expanding your professional network

• Encouraging connection Facebook and Twitter

• Engaging students with rich content with YouTube

Why use social media?

Social media, a definition

Getting started with Twitter

Twitter via SMS Text

To: 40404

Message: Start

Complete bio or profile

Tips for completing your bio

• Upload a picture of yourself, true representation

• Follow the social media culture

• Focus on potential common interests

• Identify your educational institution

• Be professional, yet personal

How to update your bio

Navigating the interface

Tweeting: Introduce yourself

I’m Tanya Joosten from University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, teach communication, help other faculty use technology #WLI12

Build your network

Following

Hashtags

• #aln12

• #edusocmedia

• #edtech

• #highered

• #socmedia

• #sachat

• #edchat

• #lrnchat

Google: education hashtags

Others ways to network

• Conference hashtags (#eli13, #edu12)

• Join live sessions (#edchat, #sachat)

• Review campus twitter accounts and hasthags (@uwm, #iamuwm)

Tips to developing a network

• Update social media profiles to include an image and a bio appropriate for the social media.

• Connect with colleagues through conference or professional group hashtags.

• Identify useful or influential colleagues and review to who they are connected.

• Participate in your educational institution’s social media accounts.

Who are our students?

I want to feel connected

• According to a survey by Joosten (2009), students reported that they need good (67%) and

frequent communication (90%) with their instructor and good communication with their classmates (75%). They also reported

that they need to feel connected to learn (80%) (http://tinyurl.com/yafu8qz).

I don’t use e-mail

• According to PEW Internet study, “Teens who participated in focus groups for this study said that

they view email as something you use to talk to ‘old people,’ institutions, or to send complex instructions to large groups “ (http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2005/Teens-and-Technology.aspx?r=1).

I *do* use social media – A LOT

• According to Bulik (July 8th, 2009) “…They go to social networking sites 5 days per week and check in 4 times a day for a total of an hour per day” (para 7).

• According to PEW Internet study, “…Nearly three-quarters (72%) of online 18-29 year olds use these sites–similar to the rate among teens–with 45% doing so on a typical day” (http://tinyurl.com/33hynyx).

I am mobile

• According to Joosten (2009), 71% of students want to receive text messages about their class (http://tinyurl.com/yafu8qz).

• According to PEW Interent, “the typical

American teen sends and receives 50 or more messages per day, or 1,500 per month.”

Solutions UWMSocialMedia.wikispaces.com

Complementing LMS, not replacing

An example: Jewish studies

An example: Clinical lab sciences

Twitter

Satisfaction

Engagement, Learning, Presence

Communication and Networks

Would you recommend the instructor continue using the social networking tools? Why/not?

If you could fix one thing about the use of the social networking tools, what would it be?

Getting started with Facebook

Create a fan page

Benefits• Increases interactions between instructors and students

• Enhances communication

• Builds feelings of connectedness

• Overcomes the challenges of students at a distance or in remote locations

• Facilitates providing timely student feedback

• Helps students stay organized

• Increases student performance

• Provides a medium for instructors enhance their identity and encourage students

• Results in high levels of satisfaction of instructors and students

ENGAGING STUDENTS WITH RICH MEDIA WHILE MANAGING YOUR WORKLOAD

Developing a richer learning experience

Creating a YouTube Account

Your YouTube Channel

Creating a YouTube Playlist

YouTube alternatives

Content & Publication• SchoolTube• TeacherTube• Vimeo

Educational Content• MIT World• PBS.org• TED • YouTube.EDU

And many more!

Benefits

• Improving student learning

• Helps instructors manage their workload

• Enhances 21st century literacy skills for instructors and students

• Facilitates the use of rich and current content

• Enhances student engagement

DEVELOP STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA

5 questions to consider

• What is the pedagogical need?

• How will the selected social media help meet that need?

• What aspects of the learning process should be improved?

• What learning outcomes can be better achieved through the use of the selected social media over other technologies?

• What is the expected behavior of students within the selected social media?

What is your pedagogical need?

• Increase communication and encourage contact

• Engage students through rich, current media

• Gather and provide feedback in the classroom

• Create a cooperative and collaborative learning opportunities

Social Dashboards - TweetDeck

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