Social Media for Learning

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Social Media for Learning

Kanda Runapongsa [email protected]

http://twitter.com/krunaponhttp://www.facebook.com/tom.kanda

(with Krit Kamtuo)

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Agenda

• Twitter: Microblogging tool• Delicious: Social bookmarking tool• Google Docs: Office suite• YouTube: Video sharing site• Google Reader: RSS / Feed reader• Slideshare: Hosting presentations• Google Search: Web search tool

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Twitter

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Twitter for Learning

• Great communication tool, gets the word out to large groups of people easily

Corinne Burkhert• Best way to feed my appetite for realtime

updates Adam Schwartz

• Microblogs with good possibilities for conversations and knowledge gathering by friends and other professionals

Malinka Ivanova

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Applying Twitter for Learning

• Ask students to have Twitter accounts• Create/view a list of students on

Twitter• Use a hash tag to write/search for

related tweets about materials in the class

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Applying for Twitter Account• Go to http://twitter.com and click menu “Sign up Now”

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Fill the Sign Up Form

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How to Follow Someone

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Recommended Followers @vajiramedhi

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Recommended Followers @andrewbiggs

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How to Tweet from Web

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URL Shortner

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Searching in Tweets• Keyword prefixed with # will go to

http://search.twitter.com

http://search.twitter.com/

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Twitter Vocabularies

• RT @someone : Retweet (refers to the tweet by someone)

– Example: RT @krunapon Hello all

• @someone: Send a public tweet to someone. All your followers will see this tweet

– Example: @krunapon How are you?

• d someone: Send a private tweet to someone. Only you and someone know about this tweet

– Example: d krunapon Please tell me more

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How to Create a Twitter List• Go to the right column of http://twitter.com• Look for the Section List which is before Section Trending: Wordwide

• Click menu “New list”

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XML & Web Services Students

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Twitter Applications

• Browsers extensions– Echofon for Firefox– Chromebird for Google Chrome

• Top 5 Twitter client applications– Twitpic– Tweetdeck– Digsby– Twitterfeed– Twitterholic

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Echofon for Firefox

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Chromebird for Chrome

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Agenda


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Delicious

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Delicious vs. Browser Bookmarksdel.icio.us Browserbased

BookmarksUse any computer Use own computer

Multiple tags for one source

One folder per bookmark

Share sources easily

Email favorites

Create networks Find sources manually

Annotate

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Delicious for Learning

• Simple tool to bookmark sites your interested in but can’t read immediately, sharing made easy

Corinne Burkhert• Every new site or tool that I find I tag through

del.icio.us. I use it to catalog resources and to help me keep track of things that I have found

Mary Howard• To tag all, and share. Source of great learning

resources too Maria de los Angeles Castro

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Applying Delicious for Learning

• Creating one's own collection• Saving a bookmark• Searching from one's own bookmarks,

one's network bookmarks, and everybody's bookmarks

– Getting web recommendations by people not by an algorithm

• Collaborating/communicating with other users

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One's Own Collection

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Join Delicious

• Go to http://delicious.com• If you have Yahoo account, click Sign in• If you don't have Yahoo account, click

Join now

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Import Your Browser Bookmarks into Delicious

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Firefox Delicious Addon • If you use Firefox, install Firefox addon

– Go to http://delicious.com/help/installff – Click “Add Buttons”

• After installation, restart Firefox• Now you find the Delicious buttons

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Install Bookmarklets on Browsers

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Use Bookmarklets

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Save a bookmark

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Pages Organized Using Tags

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Pages in Given Tags

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Search on Delicious

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Search Results

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Networking on Delicious

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Google Docs

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Google Docs vs. Office Suite

• Share folders of documents and each individual document with others

– No need to email with attachments

• Translate documents from one language to another automatically

• Support uploading files of any type up to 1 GB for free

• Create a Google Docs form as a survey

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A Doc with Menu “Share”

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Sharing Levels:View and Edit

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Invite People for Sharing

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Give the Link to Share

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Translate a Document

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Support Loading of Any File

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Create a Google Docs Fill each question

Finished question

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Add a New Question

• Click Add a Item to – add a new question– a section header– a page break

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A Finished Form (1/2)

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A Finished Form (2/2)

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The Result of Fillled Forms

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Youtube

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Youtube for Learning• "Yes, there are a lot of annoying videos, but there are also

some excellent educational resources."

Heather Ross• "there are so many treasures waiting to be found "

Jochen Robes• "YouTube does for video what SlideShare does for

presentations. There are excellent video clips online with enhance classes and training, and I love the ability to embed videos into blogs, wikis, or learning management systems”

• Britt Wattwood

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Applying Youtube in Classrom

• Search videos using keywords and categories

• Upload related video• Download for smooth playback before

using with students• Organize your videos as favorites and

playlists

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Searching video by keywords

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Searching in YouTube Tips• Limit to words in the title. Putting "allintitle:" in front of your search to limit those videos with the matching words in the title (not in descriptions or tags) Example: “allintitle:Social media”

• Exclude a term. Add a "" then the word you want to exclude will keep it out of the results. Example: "Google youtube docs"

• Play the wildcard. If you're too lazy to type a word, you can just put in an asterisk in place of that word. Example: “Khon * University” will include “Khon Kaen University”

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Sign up YouTube (1/2)

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Sign up YouTube (2/2)

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Upload Video (1/2)

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Upload Video (2/2)

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Best Video Format

• Resolution: Recommended: Original resolution of your video for HD it is 1920x1080 (1080p) or 1280 x 720.

• Preferred containers: FLV, MPEG2, and MPEG4

• Size : Up to 2 GB.• Length : Up to 10 minutes

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Embedding a YouTube Video in your Blog (1/2)

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Embedding a YouTube Video in your Blog (2/2)

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Embedding a YouTube Video in Twitter

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The Need to Download Video from YouTube

• You cannot always rely on a video on the Internet to play perfectly and fluidly when you want to use in the classroom

A great option is to avoid this, and also allow you to keep the video on your computer is to download it!

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How to Download Videofrom Youtube

There are two main choices for this:1)Download the video in YouTube format

(FLV Flash Video) and then play it in a player that can handle FLV files, such as VLC media player

2)Use an online video conversion and download service

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Online Video Conversion (1/2)

Keepvid http://keepvid.com/

Vixy http://vixy.net/

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Online Video Conversion (2/2)

Zamzarhttp://www.zamzar.com/url/

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YouTube Favorites

Your personal favorites videos

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YouTube Playlists

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Favorite YouTube Video

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Add Video in Playlists

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Google Reader vs. Other Feed Readers

• Let you subscribe any web site, not just feeds

– You then know the latest updates of that web site without going to that site

• Allow you to share items that you subscribe with whoever that follow you

• Allow you to read at most 2000 items while you are offline

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Google Reader

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Add a Subscription

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Subscribe via Firefox (1/3)

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Sharing with Others

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What do all these buttons do?

• Google Reader has tons of options for things you can do to organize, sort and share the information coming in. Here's a bit of info to help you find out what you can do.

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Synchronize to Read While Offline

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Read Feeds While Offline

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Slideshare (1/2)

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Slideshare (2/2)

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Apply Slideshare for Learning

• Search for relevant slides for teaching and learning

• Upload your slides to share with others• Share slides with others• Save your favorite slides• Download other slides• Follow other members who usually upload

slides in which you are interested

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Search on Slideshare

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Upload Your Slide

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Supported Files

• Supported Formats– Presentations: pdf, ppt, pps, pptx, ppsx,

pot, potx (Powerpoint); odp (OpenOffice); key, zip (Apple Keynote).

– Documents: pdf, doc, docx, rtf, xls (MSOffice); odt, ods(OpenOffice); Apple iWork Pages.

• Max file size: 100MB for presentations & documents.

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Posting this Slide to Other Channels

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Tweet Written by Slideshare

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Sharing with Others via Email (1/2)

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Sharing with Others via Email (2/2)

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Save Your Favorite Slides

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Download Slide

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Follow Other Users (1/2)

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Follow Other Users (2/2)

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5 Expert Google Search Tips

1. Explicit Phase: Request a search that has all keywords arranged in the way you specify

– Simply enclose the search phrase within double quotes.

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2. Site specific search– Simply use the "site:somesite.com"

modifier

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3. Specific Document Types– Simply use the "filetype:sometype”

modifier

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4. Calculator– Just type your expression in to Google

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5. Currency Conversion

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• http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/• http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/19/thetop

20twitterapplications/• http://www.interactiveinsightsgroup.com/blog1/ulti

mateguidetodelicioussocialbookmarking/• http://nelsoncentral.wikispaces.com/youtube• http://www.google.com/reader/• http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/1264/

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• http://www.google.com/landing/searchtips/

References

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