Social Media

Teaching and Learning with Social Media
Laurie Bridges
Business & Economics Librarian
Oregon State University

Online activity pyramid: by generation
The majority of teens and Gen Y use SNS, but fewer maintain blogs. Less than a fifth of online adults older than Gen X use SNS.
Pew Internet, slidshare.net/PewInternet
June 2, 2009
While there are always exceptions, older generations typically do not engage with the internet past e-commerce.
The vast majority of online adults from all generations uses email and search engines.

Generations (According to Pew Internet)
Teens (12-17)
Gen Y (18-32)
Gen X (33-44)
Younger Boomers (45-54)
Older Boomers (55-63)
Silent Generation (64-72)
GI Generation (73+)

Play Games Online (% of internet users)
Pew Internet
http://www.pewinternet.org/Infographics/Generational-differences-in-online-activities.aspx
Jan. 28, 2009

Watch Videos Online(% of internet users)
Pew Internet
Jan. 28, 2009

Send Instant Messages(% of internet users)
Pew Internet
Jan. 28, 2009

Read Blogs(% of internet users)
Pew Internet
Jan. 28, 2009

Get Health Info(% of internet users)
Pew Internet
Jan. 28, 2009

Buy Something Online(% of internet users)
Pew Internet
Jan. 28, 2009

Get Religious Info(% of internet users)
Pew Internet
Jan. 28, 2009

Get News(% of internet users)
Pew Internet
Jan. 28, 2009

Someone who is 18 today…
This is the mac laptop in 1991
This is Erin
Photos of “Erin” used with limited rights: Flickrerin MC hammer

1n 1995, when Erin was 4, the Playstation was introduced to the U.s. market

This was a cell phone when Erin was in kindergarten, 1996
Today, Erin has an iPod Touch

In 1997, when Erin was 6, Google.com was registered as a domain name.

Erin was 8 when blogger.com, now owned by Google, was launched.

Wikipedia went live in 2001, when Erin was 10.

Erin was 13 when Mark Zuckerberg and friends started Facebook in their college dorm room, this was the same year flickr launched.

“Adolescents have been called ‘digital natives,’ but data suggest that they are both comfortable with new technologies, and yet not always as technically savvy as we collectively believe them to be.”
Pew Internet & American Life Project

Tools for Teaching and Learning
Flickr
Delicious
Wikipedia
YouTube
iTunes U
Facebook
What is the tool?
How is it being used in education?
Questions?

Flickr

What pictures can you use?
Creative Commons
What is Creative Commons?
FlickrAdvanced Search

How I found Erin…
Advanced search for “self portrait” with Creative Commons license.
Flickr: erin MC hammer

“Flicktion” Story Starters
Flickr: moriza
Flickr: Thomas Hawk
Flickr: Bukutgirl
Flickr: kalidoskopika
Flickr: Simon Pais-Thomas

Geography & Science
http://flickr.com/map

Monarch Migration

Flickr: The Commons

Historic Photos from OSU Archives
Klamath Falls
Portland

Delicious

How to use Delicious
Sign up for an account
Add buttons to your browser
Bookmark/Tag a site

Advantages of Delicious
Favorite bookmarks are not tied to one computer
Your bookmarks are searchable
You can share bookmarks with others (students, colleagues, public, friends)
Everyone discovers new and relevant material

Wikipedia

Classroom Application
Create, edit, rewrite Wikipedia articles
Professor at UW found students’ online writing was better than the average undergraduate research paper.

YouTube

How can you use YouTube?
Marian C. Diamond UC Berkley gets fan mail and says, “I respond to every one of them.”
Openculture “Intelligent YouTube Video Collections”
Science Videos at ScienceHack
Universities online: youtube.com/education?b=1

iTunes U

Universities & Educators Sharing
Search, download, and play education content

Facebook

Create a Fan Page

Instructors & Students on Facebook
What do students think of instructors on Facebook?
Bridges, L.M. (2009). Face-to-face in Facebook: Students are there…should we be? In V. Bowman & J.L. Robert (Eds.), Teaching Generation M: A Handbook for Librarians and Educators. New York: Neal-Schuman.

Questions?