Pedagogy & CyberClassrooms: Beyond Blackboard to Benefit from Twitter, WordPress, and MoreTexas Social Media Conference 6 November 2015

• Dr. Stacia Dunn Campbell, Writing Program Director & Associate Professor of English

• Dr. Carol Johnson-Gerendas, Director of Liberal Studies Program & Associate Professor of Communication

• Dr. Adeline Meira Tolliver, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Social Media Interfaces as meeting places!

The Interface as Interpersonal Invocation

a Hotspot? a Portal? a Hangout? a Showcase?

BEHAVIORS & PRACTICES HAPPENING THERELurking, liking, sharing, re-sharing, trending, following, periscoping, tweeting, tagging . . . ADJUDICATING!

Pedagogical Questions to Explore Today

What affordances become available depending on the privacy level of the interface? As faculty, as designers of learning experiences, do we show our own commitment to being learners, innovators? How can we model for our students a focus on engagement, meta-cognitive awareness, appropriateness, and transfer?How can students learn to apply the competencies they gain as social media managers and leverage them for future courses/careers?

COMPOSING A RELATIONAL SELF-IN-FLUX

How can student engagement with social media increase

1. Communication skills?2. Cultural sensitivity?3. Global awareness?4. A sense of immediacy? Activism? Influence?5. Marketing strategies? (driving traffic to site/blog)6. Private/public representations of self?7. Realization of “REACH”

Stacia Dunn CampbellPRIVACY LEVEL & STUDENT ENGAGEMENTe.g. Blackboard as a closed community Using pedagogical practices that allow students to practice socio-intellectual behaviors in the safety and privacy of a course management system.

3 examples: 1) generative themes, 2) “source-share” (organic research databases created by class members in online writing classes), 3) Wikis and blogs inside the CMS to develop writing and communication skills for transfer

OPEN ENGAGEMENT FOSTERS a constant “+”

INTERVENTIONSINVOCATIONSIDENTIFICATIONSINTERRUPTIONSINTERMITTENTINTENTIONSUNINTENDED INFLUENCES/AUDIENCESMIXUPS/CO-ADJUDICATIONSRHETORICAL RE-(EN)VISION(ING)

Carol Johnson-Gerendas

Modeling practices of innovation, experimentation, and reflection. 

Direct link:  http://cjgerendas.com/new-media-interfaces-affordances/    or   Website: http://cjgerendas.com

When students research, analyze, then produce, in . . . • Twitter• Wordpress• Blogging as reflection

Adeline Meira Tolliver

Strategies for Using social media for student

engagement

Thank you for joining us in exploring pedagogical opportunities for social media! Come see us at TxWesU!