This session will help instructors utilize social media to create a more inclusive and collaborative classroom through effective technology use. By showing instructors how to set up social media accounts for their classes and how to use key features, instructors will be able to spend less time reminding students about assignment due dates while being able to create and foster group work as well as building 21st Century skills.

1. SOCIAL MEDIA IN
THE CLASSROOM
How to use Social Media to
enhance learning and
communication?

2. SESSION DESCRIPTION
This session will help instructors utilize social
media to create a more inclusive and
collaborative classroom through effective
technology use. By showing instructors how to
set up social media accounts for their classes
and how to use key features, instructors will be
able to spend less time reminding students
about assignment due dates while being able
to create and foster group work as well as
building 21st Century skills.

3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 Will be able to name the most popular social media (SM)
websites
 Will know what the most popular SM websites do
 Will learn how to set up profiles for the most popular SM
websites
 Will learn how to use the SM websites to help create a
more inclusive classroom
 Will learn how to use SM websites’ features to lower the
burden on reminding students of assignment due dates
and more effective monitoring of group work and group
assignments

4. ABOUT ME
 Who am I?
Where I work?
 What I do?
Education
 Email: baboynton@waketech.edu;
baboynton@gmail.com
Twitter:@baboynton
 Facebook: BrieBoy; SMintheClassroom
Tumblr: SMintheClassroom
Wordpress: SMintheClassroom

5. ABOUT YOU
First Name
What subject you teach?
Do you currently use Social Media
personally/professionally/in classroom?
Are you a gamer?

6. DEFINITIONS
Social Media: websites and applications
that enable users to create and share
content or to participate in social
networking (Oxford Dictionary)
21st Century Skills: Are skills students
need to be successful in the 21st
century.
http://www.curriculum21.com/pd/curriculu
m-mapping/archives/glossary/

7. 21ST CENTURY SKILLS
 Critical Thinking and Problem
Solving
 Creativity and Innovation
 Communication and
Collaboration
 Visual Literacy
 Scientific and Numerical Literacy
 Cross-Disciplinary Thinking
 Basic Literacy
 Information Literacy
 Media Literacy
 Health Literacy
 Information, Communications and
Technology Literacy
 Global Awareness
 Financial, Economic, Business
and Entrepreneurial Literacy
 Civic Literacy
 Environmental Literacy
 Flexibility and Adaptability
 Initiative and Self-Direction
 Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
 Productivity and Accountability
 Leadership and Responsibility

8. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How many currently have a personal
social media account, i.e. Facebook,
Twitter, Pinterest?
What is the main use of your account?
How many currently ban outside
technology from the classroom, i.e.
cellphones, laptops?
What are your concerns with using SM?

9. POPULAR SOCIAL MEDIA
WEBSITES
Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest
LinkedIn
Tumblr
Flickr
Instagram
 LibraryThing
 Yelp
 YouTube
 Myspace
 LiveJournal
 Wordpress

10. FACEBOOK
What it Does?
Connects students
and professors in
and out of the
classroom
Faster response
time
Creates a more
social classroom
experience
Able to reach absent
students/online
students

Key Features
Create calendar and
events schedule
Receive Email from
Facebook
Download Facebook
data
Manage Privacy

11. TWITTER
What it Does?
Microblogging
Great for due date
reminders, test
reminders, ungraded
pop quizzes,
crowdsourcing,
increased
participation
Key Features
140-character limit
Download an
archive of every
tweet
Tweet via SMS

12. TUMBLR
What it Does?
Blogging for pictures.
Photo Journaling
Can send fun memes
to your class as
reminders that work is
due, no class being
held, have a great
weekend
Key Features
Allows you to send
still images, gifs, text
and short video, audio
and links
Can be accessed
anywhere
Password protection

13. YOUTUBE
What it Does?
Create video content
Great for taping
lectures, PowerPoint
presentations, etc.
Key Features
Content can be
made public or
private
Can be viewed on
device with access
to the internet

14. WORDPRESS
What it Does?
 Allows you to create a
custom blog for your
class.
 Online Journal
 Allows students to
respond to writing
assignments
 Allows you to respond
to their assignments
Key Features
Mobile Blogging
Create the blog page
you want for your
class
Do Not have to rely on
Blackboard to receive
writing assignments

15. QUESTIONS?

16. Break Time. YAY!!!!!!!!

17. HOW TO CREATE
 https://www.facebook.com/
 https://twitter.com/baboynton
 https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard
 https://www.youtube.com/
 https://smintheclassroom.wordpress.com/wp-admin/