Email Is So Old School!WCET, October 2009

PresentersDonna HallInstructional Design Team CoordinatorCCCOnlinedonna.hall@cccs.eduDebra Warren Instructional DesignerCCCOnline debra.warren@cccs.edu2

Ways to Communicate3Blogs Chat rooms Email FacebookGoogle docsHand signals/gestures IMs ListservsNewsletters Pen and paper Person-to-personPodcasts Radio Seminars SkypeSmoke signalsSocial Networks Telephone Television Text messages Twitter Web sites WikisYouTube

How do you communicate with students?4

How do colleges communicate with students?5

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Is e-mail the best way to communicate with your students?

Email is for Old People8According to teens, it’s [email] for talking to old people and for use by old people Lenhart, A. (2007) Email is for old people. APA 2007 Annual Convention

Grand Rapids Community College SurveyAsked students about preferred electronic communication for: Timely school closingsEmergenciesCourse related information from instructor9

Timely school closings

Emergencies

Course related information from instructor

Grand Rapids Community College Survey (con’t)10Mobile Text Messages 1361 53.12%Email 564 22.01%Web Site Popup 424 16.55%RSS Feed 15 0.59%None of the Above 198 7.73%78% of students surveyed did not want communication via email!Source: http://www.maxxomedia.com/blog/2008/12/18/how-students-communicate-online/

eROI Study1174% of students surveyed did not want communication via email!Source: http://www.eroi.com/student-email-marketing-social-networking-survey-results/?source=homepage

Pew Survey12Email continues to lose its luster among teens as texting, instant messaging, and social networking sites facilitate more frequent contact with friends.Source: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2007/Teens-and-Social-Media/1-Summary-of-Findings.aspx?r=1

How Do They Communicate?13

14My Experience with a StudentEmailMessageOne week later

What Does Your Syllabus Say?What You Can Expect of MeQuick response to your email inquiries …Communications About Difficulties/Absences:It is your responsibility to contact me in a timely manner if you become ill …15

MicroBlogging16

Using MicroBlogs17Backchannel during live coursesEncourage concisenessNotificationDirected tasks: share a link, etc“Time Tweet”

Backchannel during live courses

Encourage conciseness

Notification

Directed tasks: share a link, etc

“Time Tweet”

Social Networking Sites18Ning

Using Social Networks19Get information to studentsStart discussion forumsPost helpful websitesEasy way to post videos, picturesAdvertise your courseHomework help

Video Sharing Sites20iTunes U

Using Video Sharing21GroupsUpload videos for classStudents to upload videosPost links to videos Scavenger hunts for helpful videos

Questions or Comments?22