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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

Social Media

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng

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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