This document discusses the use of social media and technology in education. It begins by defining social media as a shift to more dialogic sharing of information. It then notes that students are becoming more visual learners due to multitasking. Examples of using social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, and wikis in the classroom are provided, along with expectations for setting up collaborative activities and ensuring clear instructions and guidelines. Potential classroom uses of iPads are explored, including consuming, creating and sharing content as well as participating and interacting. Suggestions are made for teacher-created materials and student projects that can be done on the iPads.

1. Social Media
By Laura Wilson, Lecturer II
Anne Arundel Community College
AFACCT Conference 2012
Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland
Session 7.8. January 6, 2012

2. Visual Learning

3. Social Media
“Social media is, at its most basic
sense, a shift in how people
discover, read, and share news and
information and content. It’s a fusion
of sociology and technology,
transforming monologue into dialog.
- Solis, 2007

4. Visual Learning
“Due to multitasking, kids are becoming very
visual learners, and are straining away from
auditory and kinesthetic learning.”
- Claudia Wallis
"The Multitasking Generation"
Changing Society
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M35von4vH8
http://www.facebook.com/#!/CrowHillConversations

5. Example:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/technology/technology-in-
schools-faces-questions-on-value.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

6. http://blog.wind-lock.com/index.php/2010/09/02/a-year-in-the-making/
Privacy Issues
• Sexual predators
• Data theft
• Viruses

7. Facebook
• 50% of active users log on daily
• 6th most trafficked site in the U.S.
• Over 500 million users
• More than 8 billion minutes are spent on Facebook
each day (worldwide).
• Fastest growing demographic is 35 years and older.

8. Facebook
• Average user has 130 friends
• Over 240,000 applications
http://blogbymikeberry.blogspot.com/2011/08/facebook-
addresses-privacy.html
• More than 6 million active groups on site
• 140 new applications added each day
• More than 95% of users have at least 1 application
Examples:
http://www.facebook.com/wikiHow?ref=ts&sk=app_4949752878#!/wikiHow?sk=wall

9. Twitter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpoQP9DbtkM

10. @betajames
James Schirmer
RT@DelaneyKirk:
“Tweeting, blogging or posting online could soon
become part of your job.”
http://bit.ly/dmovsw #eng111#345tw
10 March 2010
http://twitter.com/betajames/statuses/1028.3042638

11. Privacy Issues
 "This Twitter is somethin' else. You know, in the old
days, a congressman had to chisel images of his penis on
limestone."
- Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
.. The Daily Show

12. Twitter
• Around 5 million users
• 1 million tweets posted daily
• 140 character limit on tweets
• #hash tag tweets for
categories and trends http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=play
er_embedded&v=6WPVWDkF7U8

13. Twitter Benefits
• Increased participation
• Overcome shyness
• Classroom unity

14. Success Stories
Paul R. Allison, a teacher at
the East Bronx Academy in
NY, built a site called Youth
Twitter. This site allows
teachers to edit students'
tweets by granting them
"administrator" status. This
came out of a concern with
the lack of control teachers
had with Twitter.

15. Success Stories
George Mayo, an eighth grade
English teacher at Silver
Spring International Middle
School in Montgomery
County, Md., used Twitter to
collaboratively write a story by
his students.
Mayo invited his students and
students around the world to
add to an ongoing story with
individual tweets.
After six weeks, more than 100
students and six different  http://www.lulu.com/product/pape
countries rback/%40manyvoices/2579032

16. Wikis in Education
Wikis are great resources for teachers. They can help by:
1. Creating an online discussion environment for students.
2. Serve as an extra source for information.
3. Allow for creative projects.
Example of my Wiki:
http://criticalthinkingwebactivities.wetpaint.com
Examples of others:
• Vicki Davis, Westwood High
http://westwood.wikispaces.com/
•http://murcha.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/the-
flat-classroom-projects-from-a-paricipants-point-
of-view/#comment-1018
• Jason Welker, Zurich International School
http://welkerswikinomics.wetpaint.com/
•Mercy Vocational High School students in
Philadelphia
http://operationkatrina2009.wikispaces.com/

17. Wiki Ideas
Create an online text for your curriculum that you and
your students can contribute to.
Consider adding other students or teachers.
Students could create their own class Wikipedia. For
example, if it’s a physics class, post & edit entries that
deal with the structure of the atom or ionization.
Students could add graphics and links, annotations
and reflections. Just like blogs, they could post
PowerPoint presentations, video and audio files and
spreadsheets.

18. Expectations
 Provide clear and explicit course expectations
 Assign meaningful, authentic activities
 Include a common goal for
collaborative activities
 Define and identify student roles,
activities, and assessments
 Remind students of course deadlines
and schedules
 Model examples of collaborative activities

20. Instructions
 Include detailed wiki instructions or a link on
the home page and provide time for practice
 Provide a sandbox or a practice wiki.
 Create individual student pages and ask them to answer 5
questions about themselves and insert a picture.
 Post wiki conventions
 Example of what you might post for Wiki Etiquette.
 Be patient with students and realize they may
require technical assistance as they learn how to
participate in a wiki environment
 Create a culture of trust
 Include some icebreaker activities.
 Monitor activity at first to engage shy students.
 View examples on http://wikipatterns.com

21. Socratic Teaching
1. Keep the discussion
focused
2. Keep the discussion
responsible
3. Stimulate the discussion
with probing questions
4. Periodically summarize
5. Draw students into the
discussion

22. iPads
• Mobile learning
• 3D learning (mirror image lecturing)
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFnWoEGWCVY
 http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2010/02/01/funny-ipad-pictures/
 http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-ipad-pictures/

24. iPads in the Classroom

25. Media Consumption
Videos
Music
Podcasts
Books

26. Create & Produce
Content

27. Participation/Interaction
Partner Activities
Entire class interaction
During class
Outside of class

28. Participation/Interaction
Groupboard
Edmodo
Polling
Twitter
Facebook
Blackboard
Skype
e-mail

29. TEACHER-CREATED LESSONS &
TUTORIALS
AUDIO PODCASTS
SCREEN PODCASTS
PRESENTATIONS (Skitch, Keynote, Educreations)
TUTORIALS (grammar) Showme

30. Tutorials
Showme
Explain Everything
Educreations
Skitch

31. STUDENT PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
SPEAKING ACTIVITIES
READING
ACTIVITIES

32. Speaking Activities
Fotobabble
Audioboo
Voicethread
Showme
Explain everything
Screen Chomp
Doodlecast
Puppet Pals/ Sock Puppets

33. Writing Activities
Digital Story Books (Storykit, Scribble Press)
Postcards
Comic Strips
Popplets
Mind Maps

34. Video Projects
iMovie
Storyrobe
Videolicious
Animoto
SonicPics