Tom Paisley and Perry Timms guide to using Social Media tools for learning

1. Social Media for Learning
@tompaisley
Digital Team CIPD
@perrytimms
CIPD Social Media & Engagement Advisor

2. #SoMe4L101
• Why
• you would use Social Media for learning
• What
– are the best platforms, apps and sites
• How
– do you take advantage of them
• personally
• for your organisation
• When
– will I tweet you again?

4. Why?
• Part of the informal learning "ecosystem"
• Largely free
• Portable across multiple devices and
synchronised through cloud-technology
• Fast and furious
• From people you know/like you and
people you admire
• Searchable and ubiquitous

6. What?
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Google+
• YouTube/Vimeo
• Slideshare
• Wordpress/Blogger
• Storify
• ITTT
• Bookmarking tools

7. Connecting Technologies
Social Learning
Person sat next to you
One thing you use to learn through your
connecting technologies? - ie PC/Tablet/Smartphone

9. LinkedIn
• +
– Threads, posts and discussions
– Share links
– Groups
– Pulse news feed
• -
– Interface/Flow?
– Dominant commentators
– Spam emails

10. YouTube
• +
– The learning superstore
– Second biggest search engine in the world -
not much you can't find on it
• -
– bandwidth an issue at work?
– appropriate content?
– relevancy to learning agendas?

11. Slideshare
• +
– Awesome amount of content
– From many top speakers and presenter around the
world
– And people like us who present
– Downloadable and shareable
• -
– Nice to flick through but can be difficult to
"experience" unless you "were there"
– Lots of older content still pops up in searches
– Ripe for rip-off and plagiarising of others' materials

12. Google+
• +
– tiled posts (with links) like Facebook
– highly visual and include videos and images
– +1 (like) and shareable
– create private communities for sharing
• -
– high volume of account but lower active users
than others social channels

13. Wordpress/Blogger/Tumblr
• +
– blogging sites used to share thoughts,
research, links and commentary on popular
issues
– threads for discussion follow ons
– shareable
• -
– personal opinions and validity of perspective?
– motives for blogging clear?

14. Twitter
• +
– fast paced sharing platform
– connecting technology to other platforms
• blogs / videos / articles
– tweet chats and hashtags
– lists to "curate" content from followers
• -
– relentless
– short number of characters - clarity?

15. Storify
• +
– aggregate a series of connected posts using
tags from channels
– create a story from disparate posts to show
the build of learning/discussion points
• -
– reach and audience followers - little known
platform to many
– could be a lot of chatter / posts in a story

16. If This Then That
• +
– create recipes and formulas that take posts
and curate them into platforms and
bookmarking apps
– use others recipes or make your own
• -
– recipes need to be focused else it becomes
an overloaded storage facility

17. Bookmarking tools
• App based storage facilities
– Evernote
– Pocket
– Feed.ly
– Stumble Upon
• aggregator tools
– Flipboard
– Paper.li

18. How do YOU make Social Media
work for you as a learning tool?
• Social Media ITSELF has tools created by
people to help you learn them
• Tools like Evernote build their own "how
to" on their websites and within their apps
• Be part of a sharing economy
– the more you share the more you get back
• Create your network built around people
who help you learn

19. Be social: learn with each other
@tompaisley
@perrytimms