Teaching with Social Media Tools

Michael ReesSchool of Information Technology

Bond University@mrees

Slides available via http://smcgoldcoast.com

Topics

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Teaching with

Social Media

Blogging

Delicious

Wikis

Google Docs

Note Taking

Twitter

My Choice of Learning Tools1. Twitter

2. Google Reader http://google.com/reader

3. Gmail

4. Evernote

5. Live Mesh (Part of Windows Live Essentials 2010)

6. Delicious

7. Wordpress &Windows Live Writer (Part of Windows Live Essentials 2010)

8. Google Sites

9. Camtasia Studio

10. SlideShare http://slideshare.net

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My Blogging

Your social media mother ship

A father of the word ‘weblog’ in 1995

Started blogging in 2006 as a professional journal at Scholarcast

Volume 1 ‘published’ by Blurb.com in 2009

Volume 2 to be ebook in epub format – see BookBrewer.com and Zinepal.com

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Student Blogging

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Set student blogging assignments from 053

Now worth up to 15% of all marks

Encourage students to:• Record additional learning resources, own thoughts and ideas,

and achievements throughout the semester• Read other students blogs• Comment on other student blogs

Wordpress Blogs

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Teaching uses:• Develop an important life skill• Share thoughts with students/staff• 9 free choice posts for 9% of marks

Delicious Social Bookmarking

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Teaching uses:• Targeted lists of links (tagging) with

notes• Share with students/colleagues• Evolve over semester

Wikis for Assessment

Improve structured writing/documentation skills

Build body of knowledge that extends formal subject content

Encourage comments

Wiki topics used for (part of) assessment

Tried both group and individual wiki pages

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Student Wikis

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https://sites.google.com/site/webappdevmaster/

Future of Learning Institutions

innovative thinking creativity, connected collaboration, flexibility, play=learning?

with curiosity, exploration, transparency & openness

To prepare all of our students for a decidedly digital future

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Michael Stephens http://go.mrees.com/hypercampus

Open ScholarResearch funding

insists on open access

Funding requires +ve social impact

Public readers of open

access check on authors

Researchers need

searchable public

persona

Public persona

determines funding

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Blog post: http://bit.ly/public-persona

the Open Scholar is someone who makes their intellectual projects and processes digitally visiblehttp://bit.ly/osdefn