This document discusses using social media for learning. It outlines various social media platforms that can be used for learning like LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and SlideShare. It provides pros and cons of each platform for learning. Some key benefits highlighted are the portability of content across devices, ability to learn from people you follow, and searchability of vast amounts of content online. The document encourages using connecting technologies like smartphones and tablets to learn from people nearby. It emphasizes building a learning network and participating in a sharing economy of information on social media.

1. Social Media for Learning
@tompaisley
Digital Team CIPD
@perrytimms
CIPD Social Media & Engagement Advisor

2. #SoMe4L101
• Why
• you would use Social Media for learning
• What
– are the best platforms, apps and sites
• How
– do you take advantage of them
• personally
• for your organisation
• When
– will I tweet you again?

4. Why?
• Part of the informal learning "ecosystem"
• Largely free
• Portable across multiple devices and
synchronised through cloud-technology
• Fast and furious
• From people you know/like you and
people you admire
• Searchable and ubiquitous

6. What?
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Google+
• YouTube/Vimeo
• Slideshare
• Wordpress/Blogger
• Storify
• ITTT
• Bookmarking tools

7. Connecting Technologies
Social Learning
Person sat next to you
One thing you use to learn through your
connecting technologies? - ie PC/Tablet/Smartphone

9. LinkedIn
• +
– Threads, posts and discussions
– Share links
– Groups
– Pulse news feed
• -
– Interface/Flow?
– Dominant commentators
– Spam emails

10. YouTube
• +
– The learning superstore
– Second biggest search engine in the world -
not much you can't find on it
• -
– bandwidth an issue at work?
– appropriate content?
– relevancy to learning agendas?

11. Slideshare
• +
– Awesome amount of content
– From many top speakers and presenter around the
world
– And people like us who present
– Downloadable and shareable
• -
– Nice to flick through but can be difficult to
"experience" unless you "were there"
– Lots of older content still pops up in searches
– Ripe for rip-off and plagiarising of others' materials

12. Google+
• +
– tiled posts (with links) like Facebook
– highly visual and include videos and images
– +1 (like) and shareable
– create private communities for sharing
• -
– high volume of account but lower active users
than others social channels

13. Wordpress/Blogger/Tumblr
• +
– blogging sites used to share thoughts,
research, links and commentary on popular
issues
– threads for discussion follow ons
– shareable
• -
– personal opinions and validity of perspective?
– motives for blogging clear?

14. Twitter
• +
– fast paced sharing platform
– connecting technology to other platforms
• blogs / videos / articles
– tweet chats and hashtags
– lists to "curate" content from followers
• -
– relentless
– short number of characters - clarity?

15. Storify
• +
– aggregate a series of connected posts using
tags from channels
– create a story from disparate posts to show
the build of learning/discussion points
• -
– reach and audience followers - little known
platform to many
– could be a lot of chatter / posts in a story

16. If This Then That
• +
– create recipes and formulas that take posts
and curate them into platforms and
bookmarking apps
– use others recipes or make your own
• -
– recipes need to be focused else it becomes
an overloaded storage facility

17. Bookmarking tools
• App based storage facilities
– Evernote
– Pocket
– Feed.ly
– Stumble Upon
• aggregator tools
– Flipboard
– Paper.li

18. How do YOU make Social Media
work for you as a learning tool?
• Social Media ITSELF has tools created by
people to help you learn them
• Tools like Evernote build their own "how
to" on their websites and within their apps
• Be part of a sharing economy
– the more you share the more you get back
• Create your network built around people
who help you learn

19. Be social: learn with each other
@tompaisley
@perrytimms