This document discusses various social media and online tools that can be used for educational purposes. It provides examples of how tools like Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, blogs, Flickr, LinkedIn, and RSS feeds can be used to collaborate, share resources and ideas, network, and inspire students. Statistics are given on the popularity and reach of some of these tools. The document encourages educators to embrace these tools rather than avoid them, and provides tips on how to use each tool to engage with students.

1. SOCIAL MEDIA & ONLINE TOOLS
FOR EDUCATORS
Valencia Community College
Learning Day 2010

2. “If we teach today as we taught yesterday
we rob our children of tomorrow.”
—John Dewey

3. “Your goal should not be to discard social media,
but to figure out how to make it a powerful tool,
rather than a useless distraction.”
—Ben Parr

4. From the outside twitter seems like
the dumbest idea ever.

5. Twouble with twitters: SuperNews!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w

6. Until April 2008 I thought twitter was
the dumbest idea ever too.
Yet, there are 3,000,000 tweets per a day
going on twitter.com daily.

7. I started using twitter as an experiment to see how useful it really was.
Many of my students agreed to give it a try.

8. A few
Reasons to use Twitter.
• Collaboration
• Reach a larger audience
• Share ideas
• Inspire
• Stay updated
• Communicate
• Networking
• Interact

9. “Twitter is to professional development as HD is to television.
You don’t know what you’re missing until you see it first hand.”
— John Mikulski

10. If you give it a little time, you’ll learn that
tweeting isn’t as geeky as some make it out to be.

11. Proof that
Great things can come out of twitter.

12. Most that were involved with Help-portrait were
Inspired & informed through twitter.

13. And of course in between taking photos
We were twittering to excite everyone about the good we were doing.

14. Using twitter as an educator has been a life changing experience
It allows me to connect in any many ways I couldn’t before.

15. Twitter can be an exciting way
To share your work

16. Sharing how hard you work on something
Can excite & inspire others.

17. Before long you begin to realize how much
Twitter helps you inspire others.

18. Before this presentation I decided to try another little experiment
To inspire students to try twitter. It didn’t take long to excite students.

19. Need to find a few other
Advantages to using twitter?

20. 5,000,000,000
The number of minutes spent on facebook every day.

21. If facebook were a country
It would be the world’s 4th largest country.

22. Instead of asking students to stop using it...
Embrace facebook as a learning & communication tool

23. Groups & fan pages are a great way to reach users.

24. Fan pages can be used to promote & share.

25. Event pages can also help share news & info about events.

26. DELICIOUS BOOKMARKS.
Become your own little resourceful search engine.

27. Using delicious to bookmark resources online is
One of the best moves I’ve made as an educator.

28. Sharing resources with my students has never been easier.
Many students, faculty, and professional use it.

29. Bookmarks can be organized and
They’re easy to share from any location.

30. Internet browsers like firefox have plugins
To help bookmarking resources a simple process.

31. 200,000,000
There are more than this many blogs.

32. There are many blog sites, but wordpress is best known.
It’s free to create a blog that could someday inspire others.

33. Blogs like wordpress
Allow you to create content easily.

34. Stats can be tracked to help you learn who’s reading your blog.
The Graphics blog has had nearly 250,000 visitors in about 3 years.

35. 3,600,000,000
The number of photos archived on flickr.com
since June 2009

36. Flickr has become a great way for us to share student work & photos.
For our graphics program it’s been an invaluable tool.

37. Flickr allows us to show the quality of our student work.
Our student’s work is becoming a source of inspiration for other designers.

38. Our flickr photos have been viewed
a total of 1,134,417 times as of February 2010.

39. After using flickr for our graphics program for over 3 years
Our student’s work has been viewed internationally
Turkey • Brazil •Chile •Colombia • Espana • Italy • Argentina • Vietnam
Mexico • England • UK • India • Norway • Portugal • France • Philippines
Canada • Indonesia • China • Kuwait • Malaysia • Finland • England
Netherlands • Taiwan • Greece • Germany • Japan • Lebanon • Ireland
Romania • Costa Rica

40. Linked in is
Used by over 60,000,000 users.

41. Linked in is a great way to publicly
Post your resume & recommendations.

42. Linked in is a great way
To stay networked.

43. You can set up your own
Network groups.

44. RSS
RSS has changed the way web sites communicate
RSS = Really Simple Syndication
RSS is a fancy way of saying “news”

45. Anytime you see this icon you can subscribe
to a web site’s “news” to stay up to date.
You can use an RSS reader to keep up with RSS
iGoogle offers a way to read RSS.

46. Instead of visiting separate web sites
Visit the sites only when there’s updated “news”

47. There are many ways you can spread the news you read or write.
Feedburner gives you the opportunity to republish RSS.

48. RSS feeds can be shared in many ways.
Adding RSS feeds to a web site can help them stay current.

49. RSS feeds can even be shared in online courses.
Adding an RSS feed can help share resources with students.

50. Google Buzz is a promising new
Social Media resource worth checking out.

51. At a first glance Google Buzz seems like
A convergence of current social media.

52. Google Buzz is
The latest “hype” in social media.

53. “What you leave behind is not
what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.”
—Percicles

54. CONNECT ONLINE
www.amandakern.com
www.facebook.com/amandakern
www.facebook.com/amandakernphotography
www.twitter.com/amandakern
www.delicious.com/amandakern
www.linkedin.com/in/amandakern
http://vccgraphics.wordpress.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vccgraphics
Questions? email: akern@valenciacc.edu