What is social media?

What is social media? is a computer – mediated tool that allow allow people

to create, share or exchange information, career interests,ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities andnetworks.

What is social media? defined as "a group of Internet-based applications

that build on the ideological and technological foundationsof Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange ofuser-generated content."

What is social media? depends on mobile and web-based technologies to create

highly interactive platforms through which individuals andcommunities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generatedcontent.

Social Media in Education This workshop will introduce how to incorporate social media tools into learning

activities. When used properly, social media tools can boost student engagement, linkstudents to content experts, find online classroom lessons, and help them establish anonline body of work/establish their brand.

90% of college students visit social networking sites on a regular basis

Social learning is learners learning from each other

Today's students want to document their feelings and insights in a highly timely manner

Social learning can increase comprehension of material and create new channels for students to learn.

WHY IS SOCIAL LEARNING IMPORTANT?

Source: http://elearningindustry.com/social-media-in-education-%E2%80%93-the-bright-side

Many instructors are interested in learning how to add social media tools into their curriculum, but they aren’t sure how

Social media sites can be a huge distraction for students who aimlessly click through sites

It can be challenging to find ways to incorporate activities with social media that promote actual learning.

Do students want to keep their Books and Beers separate?

Facebook is the world's largest social network, with more than 900 million users. People mainly use it to connect with important people in their life.

Facebook is King

Good: students can use it to connect with each other outside of the classroom.

Good: students can create a Facebook Group to form online study groups

Bad: students may want to add you as a “Friend”

Facebook Pros & Cons

Build a Facebook application: Computer science students can learn valuable skills for the future bytaking on a project to create an app that can be used on Facebook.

Brainstorm: Ask students to collaborate and brainstorm on your classroom's Facebook page.

News gathering: Your classroom can follow media outlets or public figures relevant to your latestclassroom discussions.

Archived videos: Important lectures, slides, and more can be shared and saved on Facebook.

Familiarize yourself with students: In large classes, it can sometimes be hard to remember each andevery student. Facebook makes it a little easier to connect faces with names.

Flashcardlet: Using Flashcardlet, you can create your own flash cards that students can study onFacebook.

Ways to Use Facebook

http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/05/21/100-ways-you-should-be-using-facebook-in-your-classroom-updated/Source: 100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom

Twitter allows you to post your ideas in just 140 characters

Letters, numbers, symbols, punctuation and spaces all count ascharacters on Twitter.

What all of this means is, you have to be concise. You have toknow exactly what you want to say, and say it in as few words aspossible.

Twitter

Source: http://www.copyblogger.com/twitter-writing/

Connect students with content experts who have a Twitter profile

Ways to Use Twitter

Create fake pages: Askstudents to create fakeprofiles for historical figures,fictional characters, andmore.

Ways to Use Twitter

Allow students to tweet their own notes during lessons andshare with their peers

Have students follow you and ask them to tweet you about theirlearning process – including difficulties they face or resourcesthey want to share

Ways to Use Twitter

Source: http://www.teachhub.com/50-ways-use-twitter-classroom

Virtual guest speakers – start a lesson with a video that grabs students’attention. YouTube can be great for brining in different perspectives.Audio visual is higher up on Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Ways to use YouTube

Have students create a narrated presentation and upload it to YouTube

Record your lectures and post them on YouTube for students to view –students can rewatch!

Create an introduction video

Create a playlist of video related to a concept – this saves students from wasting their time searching for useless or unsuitable information. Check YouTube.com/Teachers for examples

Video Everywhere

Ways to use YouTube

SlideShare is a Web 2.0 based slide hosting service. SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations. With 60 million monthly visitors and 130 million page views

SlideShare was recently voted amongst the World's Top 10 tools for education & e-learning.

There’s a lot of professional content on ShareShare

SlideShare

Tumblr, Wordpress, or Blogger are popular options

Similar to LinkedIn, students or faculty can use these blogging sites to create their online brand.

Blogging is a mechanism for students to show off their creative writing skills.

An easy way to get a student into blogging it to suggest that they copy the text from their discussion board posts into their blog.

Blogging

1. Blogging

2. Collaborative calendaring

3. Podcasting

4. RSS Readers

5. Collaborative mind mapping

6. Micro-blogging / micro – sharing

7. Photo sharing

8. Screencast sharing

9. Presentation sharing

10. Video sharing

EXAMPLES OF USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR LEARNING

11. Social bookmarking

12. Collaborative editing

13. Collaborative working

14. Collaborative presentations

15. Social networking

16. Personalized start pages

17. Integrated social / collaboration environment

EXAMPLES OF USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR LEARNING

Do’s in using social media1.Do be selective2.Do model good behavior3.Do promote your work4.Do practice positivity5.Do move toward face – to – face interactions6.Use a strong password.

Do’s in using social media7. Use privacy settings. Insist your friends use theirs too.

8. Use HTTPS to connect to your social networking sites whenever possible, especially when connecting from a

public hotspot. Be wary if your social networking service only uses HTTP for login credentials only.

9. Verify friend/follower requests.

10. Verify links, attachments, downloads, emails, anything sent to you.

11. Investigate exactly what information any third-party add-ons, games, extensions, etc. will be privy to.

12. Read up on the security tips and instructions provided by the Social Network itself, as well as what trusted

security professionals and sources have to say.

Dont’s in using media1. Don’t be fake

2. Don’t share sadness

3. Don’t believe everything you read

4. Don’t avoid other task

5. Don’t be know – it – all

6. Give away your password or use the same password for any other services.

7. Put in any more information than you absolutely have to.

8. Upload anything you wouldn't want everyone to see.

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Prepared by:JARED RAM A. JUEZAN

Teacher IOctober 26, 2015

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