The document discusses using social media for teaching and learning. It covers setting up accounts on Twitter and Facebook and provides best practices and potential uses for integrating social media into the classroom, including announcements, group discussions, connecting with experts, and more. The document also discusses tools for managing multiple social media accounts like TweetDeck and HootSuite and archiving social media content.

1. Social Media for Teaching & Learning Learning Technology Center [email_address] Sharon Stoerger [email_address]

2. Today’s Workshop Part 1: Getting Started with Social Media Setting up Twitter & Facebook Part 2: Social Media and Pedagogical Uses Hands-on practice & potential uses Part 3: More Social Media Creating links & managing your social network

3. PART 1: GETTING STARTED WITH SOCIAL MEDIA

4. Setting up your Twitter account!

5. http://twitter.com

10. And Now We Tweet!

11. MICRO & MACRO USES OF TWITTER

12. Micro = Follow “ Small,” defined group

13. Follow me! @csoleil

14. Follow UWM!

16. Twibes ( http://www.twibes.com )

18. Following Criteria (Chamberlin & Lehmann, 2011, p. 383) Do they have a profile? Is that profile more than a URL? Do I find their profile relevant in some way, shape, or form? Is their ratio of followers to following relatively less than 4:1? How often do they tweet? Too often = twitterstream clog

19. Macro = Hashtags Broadcast  broad audience Tweet using hashtag… #ltcsome

20. More Hashtags! #edtech #higheredtech #learnchat #edusocmedia #socmedia #socialmedia #sachat #iamuwm Mega Education Hashtag List: http://www.cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html

21. Retweeting & Replying

22. Twitter Notifications

23. LET’S SET UP A FACEBOOK FAN PAGE!

24. Creating a Facebook Fan Page http://www.facebook.com/

25. Create a Fan Page

27. Using Facebook in the Classroom Supplementary materials Videos Articles Websites Discussions Community building inside/outside classroom New student “recruitment”

28. WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA? What are you using? Why are you using it?

29. Social Media Revolution http://youtu.be/3SuNx0UrnEo

30. SOCIAL MEDIA AND PEDAGOGICAL USES

31. Why Social Media? Popular – students AND instructors are there Reach beyond the classroom Interact with “experts” Professional development Teacher-centered  student-centered

32. Students LOVE Technology http://www.onlineeducation.net/students-love-tech

33. Educational Uses of Social Media Announcements & supplemental information Live microblogging Connections/PLNs (e.g., Siemens, 2004) Collect real world data Polling Group activities/backchannel communication Other?

34. The Twitter Experiment http://youtu.be/6WPVWDkF7U8

35. UWM and Facebook http://youtu.be/ZFfJXexaW0U

36. MANAGING YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA

37. TO LINK OR NOT TO LINK…THAT IS THE QUESTION

38. Creating a link http://tinyurl.com/6g8evhl

39. Linking Alternatives Social Dashboards TweetDeck ( http://www.tweetdeck.com/ ) HootSuite ( http://hootsuite.com/ ) Social Browsers RockMelt ( http://www.rockmelt.com/ ) Fizzik ( http://www.fizzik.com/ ) Real Time News Twazzup.com ( http://www.twazzup.com/ )

40. Why Social Dashboards and Browsers? One post – multiple social media Hashtags (e.g., #edtech) Class discussions Conferences Webinars Real time Monitor multiple conversations at a glance

41. Social Dashboards - TweetDeck

42. Social Browsers – RockMelt

43. Archiving Social Media Content Twapper Keeper ( http://twapperkeeper.com ) The Archivist ( http://archivist.visitmix.com/ )

44. Other Things to Consider Costs Appropriate social media Privacy Best practices Evaluating impact

45. Departing Guidelines (Dunlap & Lowenthal, 2009) Establish relevance for students Recommend people to follow Model effective use Encourage students’ active/ongoing participation Integrate into assessments Continue to actively participate

46. Questions? [email_address] Sharon Stoerger [email_address]

47. Additional Resources UWM Social Media Grant project http://uwmsocialmedia.wikispaces.com Presentation and Data http://uwmsocialmedia.wikispaces.com/Presentations+by+Tanya Set-up Instructions http://uwmsocialmedia.wikispaces.com/Howtosocialmedia10 Creating a Twitter Account http://tinyurl.com/4lkdkj3 Creating a Facebook Fan Page http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php