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- 1. Self-Guided Social Media Training Manual Team B: Nicole Brainard, Jamaica Love, Tenaya Watson, and Lourdes Weaver AET/562 May 30, 2016 Dr. Kathryn Wyatt
- 2. Training Overview • Training Manual for Online Facilitators • Outline of Manual • Overview of Social Learning • Problem Solving Through Social Learning • Incorporating Social Media Tools for Online Classrooms
- 3. What is Social Learning? • According to authors Mark Reed, et. al. in the scholarly article What is Social Learning? (2010), social learning is referred to as the “process of which individuals can learn and grow from each other while incorporating social change in society” (pg. 2). Learning Photo retrieved from www.forbes.com
- 4. Problem Solving through Social Learning • Rodrigues, et al. in the article Enhancing E-learning Experience with Online Social Networks (2011), discusses the impact that social media has on problem solving and collaboration, stressing that the use of these types of applications drastically improves educators abilities to connect and work together in developing teaching strategies that will benefit both instructor and students.
- 5. Business Issues and Relationships • Social learning can help strengthen business relationships by encouraging people to share ideas with each other and collaborate together on projects • Social learning gets employees engaged, and makes them responsible for their own learning • Policies should be set up regarding social learning and the use of social media • Resources should be allocated for marketing and promoting social learning and social media tools
- 6. Social Media Tools: Facebook Google Docs YouTube Pinterest Facebook and Google Photo retrieved from www.co_magnet.net Pinterest and YouTube Image retrieved from www.mediabistr.com
- 7. Facebook • According to the Facebook website (2016), Facebook is referenced as a free communication tool that serves as a basic function for individuals needing to connect and/or link to people via social media (para. 1). • Communicate by forming chat groups, post comments, and link educational materials • Social communities/networks • Training tool Facebook Photo retrieved from www.fwallpapers.com
- 8. Google Docs According to the Google Docs website article What is Google Drive? (2015), Google Docs is referenced as having unlimited storage for users allowing people to email, upload documents, or connect in virtual groups to communicate (para. 3-5). Google Docs Photo retrieved from www.blueprince.nl
- 9. Pinterest • “The visual bookmarking tool that helps you discover and save creative ideas,” (Pinterest. 2016. para. 1). • Diversity of topics and information • Collaboration tool • Limitations • Outdated links • Keyword searches not always effective • Examples • Blogs specific to educational resources • Collaboration among various instructors • Content/Curriculum specific information Pinterest Photo retrieved from https://www.theodysseyonline.com/just-love-pinterest
- 10. YouTube • “YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe” (www.youtube.com, para. 1) • Can be used in the classroom to enhance the instructor’s lesson • YouTube users can access, watch, upload, and share videos on a variety of topics • Benefits • Variety of topics • Provides visual and auditory aides • Limitations • Reliability • Staying on task • Weeding through videos Youtube Photo retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/
- 11. Conclusion Social learning is done on a daily basis by observing and/or interacting with others. People are constantly learning through collaboration or utilizing social media tools. Facebook, Google Docs, Pinterest, and YouTube are just some of the social media tools that help people interact with one another and learn from. These tools change the way in which people learn, and allow people to research additional information. Social learning and social media could guide online facilitators and/or learners in the classroom.
- 12. References • Ellison, N. B., Steinfield, C., & Lampe, C. (2007). The benefits of Facebook “friends:” Social capital and college students’ use of online social network sites. Journal of Computer‐Mediated Communication, 12(4), 1143- 1168. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00367.x/full • Facebook. (2016). Retrieved on May 23, 2016 from https://www.facebook.com/ • Facebook Photo retrieved from www.fwallpapers.com • Facebook and Google Photo retrieved from www.co_magnet.net • Google Docs.(2015). What is google drive? Retrieved on April 30, 2016 from http://www.gcflearnfree.org/googledocuments • Google Docs Photo retrieved from www.blueprince.nl • Learning Photo retrieved from www.forbes.com • Pinterest and YouTube Image retrieved from www.mediabistr.com
- 13. References • Pinterest. (2016). Retrieved on May 29, 2016 from https://www.pinterest.com/ • Pinterest Photo retrieved from https://www.theodysseyonline.com/just-love-pinterest • Reed , M , Evely , A C , Cundill , G , Fazey , I R A , Glass , J , Laing , A , Newig , J , Parrish , B , Prell , C , Raymond , C & Stringer , L. (2010).What is social learning? Ecology and Society , 15(4) , pp. r1 . Retrieved from https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/1624 • Rodrigues, J. J. P. C., Sabino, F. M. R. & Zhou, L. (2011). Enhancing e-learning experience with online social networks. IET Communications, 5(8), 1147. Pages 1147-1154. doi:10.1049/iet-com.2010.0409. Retrieved from http://web.a.ebscohost.com.contentproxy.phoenix.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=e58dfd11-4f95-4c71-9474- 7811f58608a8%40sessionmgr4004&vid=1&hid=4106. • YouTube. (2016). Retrieved on May 30, 2016 from https://www.youtube.com/ • YouTube Photo retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/
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- Self-Guided Social Media Training Manual Team B: Nicole Brainard, Jamaica Love, Tenaya Watson, and Lourdes Weaver AET/562 May 30, 2016 Dr. Kathryn Wyatt
- Team B has outlines a training overview for online facilitators incorporating social learning and social media tools in the classroom.
- According to authors Mark Reed, et. al. in the scholarly article What is Social Learning? (2010), social learning is referred to as the “process of which individuals can learn and grow from each other while incorporating social change in society” (pg. 2).
- Problem solving through social learning can also allow online instructors to pose questions or examples of issues or concerns they have and get constructive feedback on the information. This can help to create a dialogue among various instructors and allow for a number of individuals to give advice or feedback that could be helpful not just to the instructor who initiated the dialogue, but to each individual who contributed to an effective outcome. Rodrigues, et al. in the article Enhancing E-learning Experience with Online Social Networks (2011), discusses the impact that social media has on problem solving and collaboration, stressing that the use of these types of applications drastically improves educators abilities to connect and work together in developing teaching strategies that will benefit both instructor and students.
- Social learning encourages people to collaborate with other employees and helps them build relationships with each other. Employees get to work together with other employees that have different skill sets and different background knowledge that they can learn from. Each person has a different perspective and different knowledge that they bring to the team. Students are responsible for finding the information they need so they are more actively engaged in their learning experience. They can get information from other employees, or from social media websites such as Facebook, Pinterest, Google Docs, and YouTube. Policies regarding these social media tools should be created in order to establish what employees should and shouldn’t be posting on these sites. Resources should be allocated to the promotion of social learning and social media sites so that employees are encouraged to engage in the learning process, and to collaborate with others.
- The following 4 social media tools will be introduced to online facilitators: Facebook, Google Docs, YouTube, and Pinterest.
- The first example of a social media tools online facilitators could utilize in the classroom is Facebook. According to the Facebook website (2016), Facebook is referenced as a free communication tool that serves as a basic function for individuals needing to connect and/or link to people via social media (para. 1). This particular communication tool may allow online facilitators and students the opportunity to communicate by forming chat groups, post comments, and link educational materials and/or information shared in the classroom. Besides a communication tool, Facebook could also be presented to students as training tools by online facilitators. Authors Nicole B. Ellison, Charles Steinfield, and Cliff Lampe in the peer-reviewed journal The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites (2007), Facebook studies on students utilizing the tool are referred to as “beneficial for learners, creating virtual support, and providing opportunities for online and offline connections (pgs. 1145-1146).” Facebook training sessions for students enables virtual support for online learners and could enhance online and/or offline social networks.
- The next example of a social media tool is Google Docs. According to the Google Docs website article What is Google Drive? (2015), Google Docs is referenced as having unlimited storage for users allowing people to email, upload documents, or connect in virtual groups to communicate (para. 3-5).
- Pinterest is also a creative social media tool that can be of use to any online instructor. The social media application allows individuals to create boards specific to topics of interest and save pins (or bookmarks) to those boards for later review. The pins are visual representations of links to sources outside of Pinterest, such as blogs, articles, videos, images, etc. An online instructor could use this tool to research information on differentiated instruction for online learning and instruction, collaboration, and also provide information to students on the benefits of utilizing social media applications in their educational pursuits. Boards can also be created to allow for collaboration among various individuals by utilizing email or Pinterest profile information that allows multiple users access to the information. Drawbacks and limitations include links that may no longer be valid, or search results not yielding results specific enough for what an individual might be searching for. Specific examples regarding how to utilized Pinterest as an online instructor could be following blogs specific to educational resources, and or content/curriculum specific information for an instructor. As mentioned above; another example would include having a group of online instructors participate in a particular board to save and share information specific to their area of instruction.
- Finally, YouTube is a free site that allows users to access, watch, upload, and share videos with people all over the world. The company started in May of 2005, and currently has over one billion users (www.youtube.com, para. 1). YouTube has videos on a variety of topics, and includes videos that can be used for training, instructional, personal, professional, educational, entertainment, and informational purposes. YouTube is a great tool to use in the classroom because it can enhance the instructor’s lesson by providing visual and auditory aides. It can also help students relate the information being taught to themselves, or to people in the past. YouTube provides videos on almost any topic, and is easy to use. Anybody can watch or post videos, and can find videos on any topic that interests them. YouTube also provides many training and instructional videos, some posted by experts in their fields. Because YouTube allows anyone to post videos, it is important to check the reliability of the source and to really weed through the videos that apply to their area of interest. It is also important to remember to stay on task and focus on the information. YouTube has so many videos so it is easy to get distracted and go off topic. YouTube is a great resource, and can really help enhance instruction, whether in a classroom or in a training.
- Social learning is done on a daily basis by observing and/or interacting with others. People are constantly learning through collaboration or utilizing social media tools. Facebook, Google Docs, Pinterest, and YouTube are just some of the social media tools that help people interact with one another and learn from. These tools change the way in which people learn, and allow people to research additional information. Social learning and social media could guide online facilitators and/or learners in the classroom.
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