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STIU Teaching & Learning Workshop, 1 December 2010

Overview

Today’s Social Media Landscape Characteristics of social media Social media statistics – Pearson

Survey Social media in education Brainstorming social media @

Stamford Share your ideas

Social Media Landscape“Social media is any form of online

publication or presence that allows end users to engage in multi-directional conversations in or around the content on the website.” --- onlinematters.com

So what? Size: 500M+ users on facebook; 80 M

Twitterers Visibility: Abhisit, Obama, Lady Gaga Reach: mobile phones, Internet devices

Social Media In Use Used for …

Communication, networking, collaboration, multimedia, entertainment, education, marketing, travel, shopping

Used with … Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Flickr, LinkedIn, Skype, blogspot,

YouTube … Gowalla, groupon, delicious, slideshare, flowtown

Stamford Quiz Pearson Education social media survey

March, 2010 10,000 teachers w/ 939 respondents Look @ results slideshare.net/PearsonLearningSolutions/pearson-socialmediasurvey2010

Twitter in the Uni Group discussion summary Class discussion participation Continue discussion outside of

class Sharing teaching tactics Send review questions

Blogs in the Uni Classroom management

(announcements, handouts, etc.) Collaboration Tech support Creative writing Student profiles Discussions

in the Uni

Animations & simulations Professional presentations Interviews with celebrities Video tutorials

Skype in the Uni

One-on-one Spanish tutoring Webcam chats in a foreign language Student advising for distance

education Office hours

Facebook in the Uni Blogs, writing Role playing, games Reading circle

It’s Your Turn

How would you/ do you use social media in your classes?

Brainstorm ideas Share with the rest of us

Thank you!