Advisor Development Institute, NC State University, 2011

1. TECHNOLOGY 101:
ONLINE TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY
FOR ADVISERS
September 28, 2011

2. 1993

3. WHAT ARE YOU?
●Digital Natives
(grew up with today’s technology)
●Digital Immigrants
(all the rest of us!)
Prensky, M. (2001) Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon, (9) 5.

4. WHAT ARE THEY?
The "iGeneration"

5. SOCIAL MEDIA

6. FACEBOOK
●Mark Zuckerberg
●Harvard Sophomore
●February 4, 2004:
“The Facebook”
launched

7. FACEBOOK
●Originally for Harvard
students only
●Then college students
only (.edu)
●Then anyone in 2006

8. If Facebook were a country, it would now have the 5th
largest population in the world.

9. THE GOOD
●Learn more about your students
●Connect with your students “outside” the
classroom
●Communicate with your students

10. THE BAD
●Learn more than you want!
(Now what do you do???)
●Students often don’t want to
“Friend” their instructors.
●Setting a bad example?
(Facebook and student
success)

11. THE UGLY
●Ooops! Your old
college roommate
posts some
incriminating photos!
●FERPA issues

12. RECOMMENDATIONS
●Never require students to Friend you or
join groups you’ve created
●Never post course materials on Facebook
●Consider multiple accounts – personal and
professional
●Always check your privacy settings!
●Take advantage of opportunities to
educate students about appropriate
Facebook usage.

13. Social Bookmarking
●Accessible anywhere (“The Cloud”)
●Share and collaborate
●Tag and Categorize
●Several services available
○ Delicious
○ Diigo
○ Dig
○ Reddit
○ Stumbleupon

14. Other Tech Tools
●Skype
○ Requires more focus than a phone call (can be a Good
Thing!)
○ Seeing is believing
○ Convience!

15. Other Tech Tools
●Blogs
○24/7
○Media rich
○Topic specific
○Allows for feedback
○Students can use for reflection journals

16. Other Tech Tools
●Twitter
○Concise
○Headlines
○Teasers
○Trailers

17. Other Tech Tools
●Photo Sharing
○ Rich media
○ Tag and categorize
○ Put a face to the name
○ Orientation: People, Places and Campus Resources
○ Connect students with other students
●Services
○ Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, PhotoBucket

18. Other Tech Tools
●Google Docs
○Collaboration with colleagues
○Brainstorming for projects
○Simple Forms
■Info Sheet
■Quick Quiz
■Attendance
○Students use for presentations, collaboration

19. Other Tech Tools
●Google Appointment Slots!
●SlideShare
●Podcasting
●Wikis
●YouTube
●And more, oh my!

20. Tech Principles
●It’s All About Balance
○Personal v. Professional
○In Person v. Online
●Tie Your Tech to Your Goals
●Work on Your Geek IQ
●Understand the Natives

21. Thank You!