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Social Media in Education —
A Family Photo AlbumPF Anderson, Emerging Technologies
Librarian for the Health Sciences, University of Michigan
January 28, 2010
Who is this crazy lady?
Who is this crazy lady?
Who is this crazy lady?
Who is this crazy lady?
“The people who helped invent the platforms that make the digital world so useful are generally the last to use them.”
Fuller, Brian. Social media’s rising impact in the engineering world. Greeley’s Ghost July 16, 2009.
Why use SocMed in Ed?
Synchronous / Asynchronous
Distance Learning
Collaborative & Engaging
Critical Thinking & Communication Skills
Optional Larger Community
Crowdsourcing
Why use SocMed in Ed?
Connect
Think Global
Involve Everyone
Connect to Practice
Use Today’s Opportunities
Think Big
Social Media Types
Blogs (Wordpress, Blogger, Moveable Type, TypePad)
Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, Ning, Second Life)
Conversation Tools (“microblogging” - Twitter, Identi.ca / Status.Net, Plurk, Yammer)
Social Bookmarking (Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon)
Video Sharing (YouTube)
Image Sharing (Flickr)
Presentation & Document Sharing (Slideshare, Scribd)
Emerging Tech in Education
Emerging Tech in Education
“Whatever other creative approaches are taken in the four-year engineering curriculum, the essence of engineering — the iterative process of designing, predicting, performance, building, and testing — should be taught from the earliest stages of the curriculum, including the first year.”
Recommendations. Educating the Engineer of 2020. National Academy of Engineering. 2005, p. 53.
Once upon a time
.. there was a young couple ...
Once upon a time
... and their names were Mr. & Mrs. Web 2.0.
Blogs Wikis
Blogs
Wikis
Why collaboration?
Once upon a time
They had a few kids ...
Blogs
Wikis
Once upon a time
They had a few kids ...
Blogs
Wikis
Once upon a time
Delicious
Flickr
Youtube
Delicious
Flickr
Twitter for discovery
Youtube
Once upon a time
• ... and a few more ...
Blogs
Wikis
Once upon a time
• FriendFeed
• ManyEyes
• Momentile
• NetVibes
• Ning
• Slideshare
Friendfeed
• http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=plwwufp30hfqwGp0_E3iKNQ&single=true&gid=0&output=html
ManyEyes
Momentile
NetVibes
Ning
Slideshare
Once upon a time
• And then there was always weird Uncle Al .... Uh, SL?
Once upon a time
• ... and then their kids had kids ...
Crowdsourcing
ePortfolio
Graphics & Presentation
Timelines
Once upon a time
• ... until they had a HUGE family!