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Social Media for Learning
1. Social Media for Learning
Kanda Runapongsa Saikaew
krunapon@kku.ac.th
http://twitter.com/krunapon
http://www.facebook.com/tom.kanda
(with Krit Kamtuo)
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2. 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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4. 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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5. 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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13. Searching in Tweets
• Keyword prefixed with # will go to
http://search.twitter.com
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14. 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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15. 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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20. 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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22. Delicious vs. Browser Bookmarks
del.icio.us Browserbased
Bookmarks
Use any computer Use own computer
Multiple tags for one One folder per
source bookmark
Share sources Email favorites
easily
Create networks Find sources
manually
Annotate
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23. 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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24. 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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28. 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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37. 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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39. 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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51. 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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53. 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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54. 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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61. 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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65. 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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66. How to Download Video
from 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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73. 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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74. 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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81. 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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84. 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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87. 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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99. 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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100. 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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