Social Media for Educators Follow me @tjoosten, twitter.com/tjoosten Preso at: http://www.slideshare.net/tjooste
Social Media for Educators
Follow me @tjoosten, twitter.com/tjoosten
Preso at: http://www.slideshare.net/tjoosten/
Overview
• Build your professional network on Twitter• Increase communication and feedback in the
classroom using Facebook and Twitter• Engage students with rich content on various
social media like YouTube• Develop strategies for managing your social
media
BUILD YOUR PROFESSIONAL NETWORK ON TWITTER
Getting started with Twitter
How to update your bio
Complete bio or profile
Tips for completing your bio
• Upload a picture of yourself, true representation
• Follow the social media culture
• Focus on potential common interests
• Identify your educational institution
• Be professional, yet personal
Tweeting: Introduce yourself
I’m Tanya Joosten from University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, teach communication, help other faculty use technology #edusocmedia
Build your network
Following
Hashtags
• #nusym13
• #edusocmedia
• #edtech
• #highered
• #socmedia
• #sachat
• #edchat
• #lrnchat
Google: education hashtags
Others ways to network
• Conference hashtags (#blend13, #nmc13, #dtl2013)
• Join live sessions (#edchat, #sachat)
• Review campus twitter accounts and hasthags (@uwm, #iamuwm)
INCREASE COMMUNICATION THROUGH A FACEBOOK FAN PAGE
Increasing communication and encouraging contact
Who are our students?
• I want to feel connected
• I don’t use email
• I use social media, a lot
Increase communication and contact
An example: Jewish studies
An example: Clinical lab sciences
Getting started with Facebook
Benefits• Increases interactions between instructors and students
• Enhances communication and builds feelings of connectedness
• Create a strong pedagogically sound sense of presence in your classroom
• Overcomes the challenges of students at a distance or in remote locations
• Facilitates providing timely student feedback
• Helps students stay organized
• Increases student performance
• Results in high levels of satisfaction of instructors and students
INCREASE FEEDBACK OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CLASSROOM USING TWITTER
Building cooperation and feedback
• CATs• Peer Instruction• Reflection
An example
Benefits
• Provides an opportunity for active learning in large lectures
• Enhances students participation and engagement in class
• Provides frequent, low stakes feedback on student learning
• Creates an opportunity for just in time teaching or to address weaknesses in student learning
• Provides a strategy for integrating blended courses, online and f2f
• Develops cooperation among students
• Increases students satisfaction
SHARE RICH MEDIA AND CONTENT ON VARIOUS SOCIAL MEDIA TO ENGAGE STUDENTS
Developing a richer learning experience
Creating a YouTube Account
Creating a YouTube Playlist
YouTube alternatives
Content & Publication• SchoolTube• TeacherTube• Vimeo
Educational Content• MIT World• PBS.org• TED • YouTube.EDU
And many more!
Benefits
• Improving student learning
• Helps instructors manage their workload
• Enhances 21st century literacy skills for instructors and students
• Facilitates the use of rich and current content
• Enhances student engagement
DEVELOP STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA
5 questions to consider
• What is the pedagogical need?
• How will the selected social media help meet that need?
• What aspects of the learning process should be improved?
• What learning outcomes can be better achieved through the use of the selected social media over other technologies?
• What is the expected behavior of students within the selected social media?
What is your pedagogical need?
• Increase communication and encourage contact
• Engage students through rich, current media
• Gather and provide feedback in the classroom
• Create a cooperative and collaborative learning opportunities
Social Dashboards - TweetDeck
Get it!
Connect w/me
• twitter.com/tjoosten
• linkedin.com/in/tjoosten
• facebook.com/tjoosten
• [email protected] | google+
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