Dr. Vanessa Dennen gave a presentation on social media for lifelong learning. She discussed how social media can support learning and presented current research being done by her graduate students at Florida State University on topics related to social media and learning, including lifelong learning for teachers using social media, online communities and networks, and massive open online courses. She then demonstrated several hands-on learning activities using social media tools.

1. SOCIAL MEDIA FOR
LIFELONG LEARNING
Dr. Vanessa Dennen
Professor of
Instructional Systems & Learning
Technologies
vdennen@fsu.edu, @vdennen
President’s Club College
September 2016
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Tweet to #FSUPCC

2. Agenda
• Brief Overview of Social Media
• Presentation of Social Media Scholarship
• FSU ISLT Graduate Students
• Social Media Learning
• Knowledge Activities & PLNs
• Hands On Practice Activities & Demonstrations
• Debrief
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3. BRIEF OVERVIEW OF
SOCIAL MEDIA
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4. Social media: It’s not just for teens!
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5. What happens on social media:
Twitter
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6. What happens on social media:
Youtube & Instagram
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7. What happens on social media:
Snapchat
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8. President's Club College 2016 • Dr. Vanessa Dennen 8
What happens on social media:
memes

9. Our BIG ISSUES
• How can we use social media to support learning?
• How do formal learning experiences with social media
influence informal learning experiences and lifelong
learning?
• How do people use their social networks to support
learning?
• What do people learn via their informal social media
interactions?
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10. SOCIAL MEDIA &
LEARNING SCHOLARSHIP
Current work done in ISLT @ FSU
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11. MS. MICHELLE CATES
PhD Student, ISLT
Topic: Lifelong learning for teachers
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12. Life-Long Learning
HannahEducational Technology
English Teacher
Peers Experts
Work
Colleagues
Trends
Fellow
Educators

13. Share & Follow Ideas
Reflections
Professionals
Assignments

14. Collect & Annotate Sites

15. Our Research
• How do we most effectively
teach Life-Long Learning skills?
• What value do students ascribe
to professional social media?

16. MR. YASIN YALCIN
PhD Candidate, ISLT
Topic: Online Communities & Networks
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17. Online Communi+es
• Community:
group
of
people
sharing
a
common
characteris5c,
e.g.
interest,
goal,
profession,
loca5on
• Online
community:
interac5ons
made
possible
by
Web
2.0
tools,
eliminates
5me
and
loca5on
limita5ons
• Importance:
We
can
learn
from
each
other
• Common
research
areas:
• Forma5on
and
maintenance
processes
• What
tools?
Advantages
vs.
drawbacks?
• Feeling
of
belongingness
(i.e.
sense
of
community)
• Social
networks
within
online
communi5es

18. Social Networks
• Belonging
to
a
community
vs.
belonging
to
a
network
• System
illustra5ng
the
personal
interac5ons
among
the
network
actors
• Research
areas:
• Loca5on
in
the
network
• Interac5on
density
• Mo5va5ons/barriers
for
interac5on:
why
do
people
choose
to
behave
that
way?

19. Privacy concern, trust, and self-­‐
disclosure
Privacy
concern
Self-­‐
disclosure
Trust
?

20. Privacy concern, trust, and self-­‐disclosure
on Facebook: American vs. Turkish
Students
745
students
T
PC
PC
SD
T
SD
PRIVACY
CONCERNS:
TRUST:
SELF-­‐DISCLOSURE:
PC
T
SD
5%

21. MS. JIYAE BONG
PhD Candidate, ISLT
Topic: Massive Open Online Courses
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22. MASSIVE
Source:
Linkedin
-­‐
Sokolova,
S.
ONLINE
COURSE
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23. SMOOC
Project
Spring,
2014
• Team:
Dr.
Dennen
&
16
ISLT
Students
• Length:
4
weeks
• Focus:
Professional
Development
• PlaOorm:
Blackboard
CourseSites
• Format:
• Weekly
modules,
complementary
but
not
cumula5ve
• Video
lectures
,
webinars,
discussions,
quizzes,
assignments
Cura5on
Social
Media
Lessons
Personal
Learning
Networks
Privacy
&
Ethics
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24. Social
Media
Tools
for
SMOOC
Blog
Storify
Facebook
YouTube
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25. MOOC
Research
• Approximately
750
people
• 24
CerVficates
&
148
badges
PublicaVons
• Dennen,
P.
V.,
&
Bong,
J.
(in
press).
“Reframing
MOOCs
in
higher
educaVon:
Exploring
professional
development
opVons”.
In
R.
Benne^,
&
M.
Kent
(Eds.),
Massive
Open
Online
Courses
and
Higher
Educa5on:
Where
to
Next?
Burlington,
Vermont:
Ashgate.
• Dennen,
P.
V.,
&
Bong,
J.
(2015).
Behind
the
scenes
of
an
independent
MOOC:
InstrucVonal
design
problems
and
soluVons.
Interna'onal
Journal
for
Educa'onal
Media
and
Technology,
9(1),
25-­‐31
• Dennen,
V.
P.,
&
Chauhan,
A.
(2013).
Shall
we
MOOC?
A
SWOT
analysis
at
the
program
level.
MOOCS
Forum,
1(1),
17-­‐21.
doi:10.1089/mooc.2013.0008
Conference
PresentaVons
• Bong,
J.,
&
Dennen,
V.
(2016,
October).
Digital
badges
and
learning
analy/cs
to
explore
the
learner
par/cipa/on
in
a
MOOC.
Paper
accepted
at
the
annual
conference
of
the
Associa5on
for
Educa5onal
Communica5ons
and
Technology
(AECT),
Las
Vegas,
Nevada
• Bong,
J.
&
Dennen,
V.
(2015,
November).
Interac/on
pa9erns
and
knowledge
construc/on
behaviors
in
discussion
forums
of
a
professional
development
MOOC.
Paper
presented
at
the
annual
conference
of
the
Associa5on
for
Educa5onal
Communica5ons
and
Technology
(AECT),
Indianapolis,
Indiana
• Yao,
Z.,
&
Dennen,
V.
P.
(presented
2015,
November).
Interna/onal
learners'
expecta/ons,
sa/sfac/on,
and
agency:
A
case
study
of
Chinese
learners
in
a
US-­‐based
MOOC.
Paper
presented
at
the
mee5ng
of
Associa5on
for
Educa5onal
Communica5ons
and
Technology
• Bong,
J.,
&
Dennen,
V.
(2015,
April).
Learning
analy/cs
to
explore
the
learner
par/cipa/on
in
discussion
of
a
Massive
Open
Online
Course.
Paper
presented
at
the
annual
mee5ng
of
the
American
Educa5onal
Research
Associa5on
(AERA),
Chicago,
IL.
• Dennen,
V.,
&
Bong,
J.
(2014,
November).
The
MOOC-­‐within-­‐a-­‐course:
Designing
a
professional
development
MOOC
as
part
of
a
graduate
level
course
experience.
Paper
presented
at
the
annual
conference
of
the
Associa5on
for
Educa5onal
Communica5ons
and
Technology
(AECT),
Jacksonville,
FL.
• Dennen,
V.,
&
Bong,
J.
(2014,
August).
Behind
the
Scenes:
Designing
and
implemen/ng
an
independent
MOOC.
Paper
presented
at
the
Interna5onal
Conference
for
Media
in
Educa5on
(ICoME),
Seoul,
South
Korea
LKAOE
in
China,
2015
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26. MR. TAEHYEONG LIM
PhD Candidate, ISLT
Topic: Mobile Augmented Reality
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27. Mobile Augmented Reality
Scanning a
Physical
Object
Get a Virtual
Information
Easily
Using a Mobile
Device
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28. Why It Is Important for FSU Students?
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29. Practice: Student Orientation Activity
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30. MR. FABRIZIO FORNARA
PhD Candidate, ISLT
Topic: Social Media & Language Learning
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32. (Barrett,
2009)
Why Twitter?
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33. 1
5 12
Twitter for Language
Learning
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34. Twitter for Language Learning
(cont.)
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35. Research
Fornara, F. (forthcoming). Micro-input: Effects of an instructor model on L2
student practice on Twitter. NeMLA Italian Studies, 39.
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36. SOCIAL MEDIA FOR
LEARNING
Knowledge Activities and Personal Learning Networks
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37. Web Activities: 1996
Create
Web
Pages
Producer
View
Web
Pages
Consumer
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38. Continuum of Web Activities: 2016
Consumer
Producer
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39. Producers and Consumers Interact
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40. Networked Knowledge Activities
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Knowledge
Collect
• From network
• From
resources
Curate
• From network
• From
collection
Share
• With network
Negotiate
• With network
Construct
• With network
Broker
• Between
networks

41. PERSONAL LEARNING
NETWORKS
Everyone has one.
Can be purposefully cultivated online.
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42. Vanessa’s PLN
• Context
• University professor, research university
• Content area: Instructional Systems & Learning Technologies
• Needs
• Connections with colleagues
• Keep current with journals
• Keep current with technology trends
• Keep current with profession
• Time
• Varies widely
• Have the most time when teaching a class on Web 2.0 & Learning/
Performance each summer
• Can struggle to keep up mid-semester or when traveling
• May procrastinate by checking out certain parts of PLN
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43. Key Tools and Interactions
Follow
journals,
organization,
events,
leaders,
knowledge
sharers
Tweet with
classes, at
conferences
Follow
practitioners,
former
students,
former
employers
Follow group
discussions
Follow
leaders,
knowledge
sharers,
colleagues
Comment
Share via my
own blogs
Collect items
of personal
interest
Collect topic-
focused
items with
collaborators
Share slides,
documents,
videos
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44. Cultivating your PLN
• There’s so much out there … how do you begin?
• Consider the following dimensions:
NEED TOOL TIME / LEVEL OF
INVESTMENT
• Knowledge
• Resources
• Community
• Advice
• Attention
Is it interactive?
Can you
archive?
How much time
and energy do
you have to
cultivate the
network? To
build trust?
Engage in
reciprocity?
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45. Cultivating your PLN
• Find people/feeds to follow
• Professional organizations
• Publications
• Local colleagues
• Leaders (of various kinds)
• Follow the paths before you
• Once you find a good person to follow, see who they follow
• Check recommendations from tools
• Participate with others
• Event-based social media platforms
• Twitter chats / hashtags
• Share / comment / like
• Produce content
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46. DEMOS/ACTIVITIES
We will rotate around in groups of 4-5
You may choose whatever interests you most
If you have a device with you, feel free to join in!
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47. Demos / Activities
• From chronic bookmarker to organized curator: Explore Diigo
with Michelle
• Assemble an online story about FSU: Explore Storify with Jiyae
• Mobile Augmented Reality: Test Layar with Taehyeong
• Broadcast your FSU experience: Try Periscope with Yasin
• Parli italiano? Experience a social media language lesson on
Instagram with Fabrizio
• Do you tweet? If so, share your experience to our hashtag:
#FSUPCC
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48. DEBRIEF
What did you learn?
What do you want to try on your own?
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49. Blog: http://fsupcc16.blogspot.com
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