Social media club Gold Coast presentation for October 2010

1. Teaching with Social Media
Michael Rees
School of Information Technology
Bond University
@mrees
Slides available via http://smcgoldcoast.com

2. Topics
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Teaching
with
Social
Media
Blogging
Delicious
Wikis
Google
Docs
Note
Taking
Twitter

3. My Choice of Learning Tools
1. Twitter
2. Google Reader http://google.com/reader
3. Gmail
4. Evernote
5. Live Mesh (Part of Windows Live Essentials 2010)
6. Delicious
7. Wordpress &Windows Live Writer (Part of Windows Live Essentials
2010)
8. Google Sites
9. Camtasia Studio
10. SlideShare http://slideshare.net
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4. My Blogging
Your social media mother ship
A father of the word ‘weblog’ in 1995
Started blogging in 2006 as a professional journal
at Scholarcast
Volume 1 ‘published’ by Blurb.com in 2009
Volume 2 to be ebook in epub format – see
BookBrewer.com and Zinepal.com
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5. Student Blogging
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Set student blogging
assignments from 053
Now worth up to 15% of all
marks
Encourage students to:
• Record additional learning resources, own thoughts and
ideas, and achievements throughout the semester
• Read other students blogs
• Comment on other student blogs

6. Wordpress Blogs
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Teaching uses:
• Develop an important life skill
• Share thoughts with students/staff
• 9 free choice posts for 9% of marks

7. Delicious Social Bookmarking
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Teaching uses:
• Targeted lists of links (tagging) with
notes
• Share with students/colleagues
• Evolve over semester

8. Wikis for Assessment
Improve structured
writing/documentation skills
Build body of knowledge that
extends formal subject content
Encourage comments
Wiki topics used for (part of)
assessment
Tried both group and individual wiki
pages
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9. Student Wikis
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https://sites.google.com/site/webappdevmaster/

10. Future of Learning Institutions
innovative thinking creativity, connected collaboration,
flexibility, play=learning?
with curiosity, exploration, transparency & openness
To prepare all of our students for a decidedly digital
future
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Michael Stephens http://go.mrees.com/hypercampus

11. Open Scholar
Research
funding insists
on open access
Funding
requires +ve
social impact
Public readers
of open access
check on
authors
Researchers
need searchable
public persona
Public persona
determines
funding
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Blog post:
http://bit.ly/public-persona
the Open Scholar is
someone who makes their
intellectual projects and
processes digitally visible
http://bit.ly/osdefn