The document discusses several social media tools including Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, Slideshare, podcasts, and Bebo. It explains what each tool is used for and provides examples of potential uses in an educational or academic setting, such as disseminating course materials, facilitating discussion, and finding additional resources. Overall, the document advocates for the integration of social media in colleges and universities to engage students and enhance learning.

2.  Developed by a Vancouver-based company in
2006
 Photo/video sharing website
 Also allows users to blog
 www.flickr.com

3.  Created by Jack Dorsey in 2006
 Micro-blogging site
 Allows users to make posts up to 140 characters
long – location feature
 Comparable to text messaging but online
 www.twitter.com -- SenTomSeymour

9. Keep up with bands
Keep in touch with friends
Get information on business’
Instant messaging

10. What is “Delicious” ?
 Is a social media Bookmarking website. Its primary purpose is to
allow the users the capability to save and store bookmarks online.
Furthermore, it also gives the users the capability to organise their
bookmarks with tags or keywords making it a really useful tool
 The social aspect “kicks-in” when the user is given the ability to
follow other users bookmarks and also allow users to send or receive
links from other users
 http://www.delicious.com

11. Potential uses for
Delicious Provides you with the ability of keeping the same set of bookmarks
even though you maybe on a different computer
 The ability to access your bookmarks from anywhere around the
world so long as you have an internet connection
 The bookmark list becomes an organised collection of resources
 Its an excellent social bookmarking tool and enables you to develop
a network and share bookmarks and information
 It provides for an alternative search engine

12. What is “Slideshare” ?
 Slideshare is an online tool that allows a user to upload and share
your PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF
Portfolios on. The sharing can be done either publicly or privately
and an audio or mp3 soundtrack or narration can also be added to
make the page a webinar. These slides can also be further
complemented with YouTube feeds and community features such as
tags, commenting capability, favorites listing and slidecasts can also
be added.
 http://www.slideshare.net/

13. Academic uses for
SlideShare
 Disseminating lecture material for revision purposes
 Discuss lecture material using the comments feature to
aid understanding
 As a student assignment assessing virtual presentation
skills
 Find other presentations on your topic - save reinventing
the wheel
 Building up a body of resources over time on a particular
topic
 Drawing together conference / seminar materials using a
common tag or keyword

14. What is a “Podcast” ?
 A podcast is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that
are released episodically and downloaded through web syndication.
 The mode of delivery differentiates podcasting from other means of
accessing media files over the Internet, such as direct download, or
streamed webcasting

15. Podcasts – potential uses
 Podcasts are an excellent resource for distance learning or
self-paced learning
 They provide excellent supplementary material for a class
or topic
 Research material and articles could be shared
 Lecture material could be uploaded in updated posts
 Classroom lectures can be replaced with podcasts
 In acquiring student assessment and feedback
 Podcasts are excellent resource for collecting field data
 An excellent article covering
Podcasting for Learning in Universities

16. Bebo
 Bebo, an acronym for "Blog early, blog often”, is a social networking
website, founded in January 2005.
 A Polish version was launched recently, which uses a different user
database..
 Founded by husband and wife Michael and Xochi Birch, Bebo had a major
relaunch in July 2005.
 It was bought by AOL on March 13, 2008 for $850 m.
 Bebo is similar to other social networking sites.
 Each profile must include two specific modules, a comment section where
other users can leave a message, and a list of the user's friends.
 Users can select from many more modules to add.
 By default, when an account is created the profile is private, which limits
access to friends specifically added.
 The user may select the "Public Profile" option so as the profile will still be
visible to any other members of a school they may have joined.
 Profiles may be personalized by a design template that is the background of
the user's profile, known as a skin.

17. Classroom Uses
 File swapping
 Blogs, wikis and podcasts
 Early education to prevent social issues
 Enhance course content
 YouTube
 Twitter or Facebook lesson plans

18. •City University of New York offers a graduate level class on using
social media for news gathering Examples of social media uses
are Twitter, FriendFeed, Scoopler and SearchMerge
•Stanford University uses Facebook to showcase faculty and
student work University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill uses
YouTube to post helpful videos for students and faculty on its own
YouTube Channel
•http://thefuturebuzz.com/

19. •Georgia Southern University offers a course titled "Marketing
Connections: Facebook & Beyond"The class teaches
communication and networking skills.
• Class covers how to use social media and teaches the
value of communication with others by using online
assignments using Twitter and Facebook.
• Students are required to start a blog. The instructor
keeps a blog on the class assignments and answers
questions through her Twitter account.

20. Global Usage

21. Social Media Brings a
Different Category of
Computing Users:
 Creators --- make social content go.
 Critics --- respond to content from others.
 Collectors --- organize content for themselves or others
using RSS feeds, tags, and voting sites like Digg.com
 Joiners --- connect in social networks like Facebook,
MySpace and www.linkedin.com
 Spectators --- consume social content including blogs,
user-generated video, podcasts, forums, or reviews
 Inactives --- neither create or consume social content
www.alexa.com

22. Summary
Social Media is here to stay! As described in the preceding context the
younger generations have embraced Twitter, Facebook, blogging and
text messaging as norms within their communication expectation.
Colleges and Universities that choose not to recognize this trend will find
themselves further behind the recruiting and development curve. Those
who embrace social media and integrate its capabilities into their
everyday environment will realize significant benefits.