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- 1. Social Media in the Classroom January 12, 2015 Image: By John Atkinson @ http://wronghands1.wordpress.com/gallery-3/#jp-carousel-1103
- 2. Agenda • Definition • Examples • Recommendations & Resources • Discussion
- 3. What is Social Media? Websites and applications that enable users to consume, create and share content or to participate in social networking. – User Generated – Collaborative – Sharing – Web-Based/Mobile – Interactive – Free
- 4. 7 Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education 1. Encourage contact between students & faculty 2. Develop reciprocity & cooperation among students 3. Encourage active learning 7. Respect diverse talents and ways of learning
- 6. Pinterest Site for organizing information you find on the web. Pins are visual bookmarks for stuff you find anywhere around the web or on Pinterest. Boards are where you collect Pins by theme or topic. Example
- 7. 3 things you should know about Twitter
- 8. Twitter Twitter is a "Micro-blogging" service (140 characters max. per post) with an emphasis on mobile devices. Posts are usually referred to as "tweets". Tweets often include web links and "hash tags" (#worldcup) for grouping tweets by subject/keyword. Ideas for Using Twitter
- 9. YouTube/TED-Ed TED-Ed allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. You can find and use one of TED-Ed’s award-winning original lessons, which represent collaborations between expert educators, screenwriters and animators. http://ed.ted.com/tour
- 10. VoiceThread VoiceThread is a collaborative and multimedia tool that holds images, documents, and videos. VoiceThread can also be used as a communication or collaboration tool. It is a very popular and powerful tool for "visual" collaboration. VoiceThreads can be embedded within your Canvas course or you can simply post a link to your voicethread. The basic version is free. What’s a VoiceThread Anyway? Michelle Pacansky-Brock VT
- 11. Faculty Examples - Shimelis • Collaborative Learning – Co-creation of content – Learning with others – Collaborative learning – scaffolding, critical thinking • Real-Time Collaborative Editing, RTCE tools
- 12. Faculty Examples… • Advanced collaborative learning environments • Technologies that combine live video, synchronous and asynchronous chat and discussion, media creation tools, etc.
- 16. Best practices • The platform approach • It is not about learning the tools • Teachers are the most important factor in student learning & Social Media will not change that • Pedagogy and learning activities should drive the adoption of the tools • Pick and choose our platforms.
- 17. Recommendations • Familiarize yourself with tool before using it in your course • Select a tool that accommodates your objectives, solves a problem, and is appropriate for the tasks or skills to be learned • Limit yourself to one new tool at a time and keep it simple • Provide students with how-to instructions and privacy guidelines • Take advantage of DU resources available to you and your students
- 18. Resources Social Media Resource Page http://www.knappbiz.com/social-media.html Implementing the 7 Principles: Technology as a Lever http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/teachingLibrary /Technology/seven_principles.pdf Finding the Right Technology http://otl.du.edu/academic-technology/find-the- right-technology/ The DU Digital Media Center Library-av@du.edu http://portfolio.du.edu/media John Tiedemann’s SM Sites • FSEM Blog • Facebook Community Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies Companion Website http://teachingwithemergingtech.com
- 19. Questions Kathy Keairns, Director of Web-Based Learning Office of Teaching & Learning kkeairns@du.edu Shimelis Assefa, Associate Professor Morgridge College of Education Shimelis.Assefa@du.edu John Tiedemann, Lecturer, Writing Program and Director, Social Justice John.Tiedemann@du.edu
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- Can you pick out which each of these are? Which ones have you tried? Stumble Upon – Plug in Interests – must pick 5 categories and it will curate related sites – thumbs up/thumbs down Reddit – online community where users vote on content, comments can be posted on every story Tumbler – We made it really, really simple for people to make a blog and put whatever they want on it. Stories, photos, GIFs, TV shows, links, quips, dumb jokes, smart jokes, Spotify tracks, mp3s, videos, fashion, art, deep stuff.
- Millanials have been leveraging SM for informal education purposes for many years According to Rebecca Knapp, business professor at Saddleback college, arguments to use SM in teaching is Students communicate, research, collaborate, create and publish online with or without the help of educators. Students then use social media to promote, discuss and share their thoughts with the world. The quietest students in class speak the loudest on social media. The digital environment is offering us some of the greatest learning opportunities that young learners have ever had.
- Chickering & Gamson - These principles of good practice are based on 50 years of higher education research collected by Art Chickering and Zelda Gamson. First published in 1987 http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/teachingLibrary/Technology/seven_principles.pdf Mid 90’s – Implementing the 7 Principles – Technology as a Lever 4. Give prompt feedback, 5. Emphasize time on task 6. Communication high expectations Definition of SM: Websites and applications that enable users to consume, create and share content or to participate in social networking. Frequent student-faculty contact in and out of class is a most important factor in student motivation and involvement. (Social networking sites, chat, skype, adobe connect) Learning is enhanced when it is more like a team effort than a solo race. Good learning, like good work, is collaborative and social, not competitive and isolated. Working with others often increases involvement in learning. Study groups, collaborative learning, group problem solving, and discussion of assignments can all be dramatically strengthened through communication tools that facilitate such activity. 3. Encourage Active Learning - Learning is not a spectator sport. Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing prepack aged assignments, and spitting out answers. They must talk about what they are learning, write reflectively about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives. They must make what they learn part of themselves. The range of technologies and social media that encourage active learning is staggering. 7. Many roads lead to learning. Different students bring different talents and styles to college. Brilliant students in a seminar might be all thumbs in a lab or studio; students rich in hands-on experience may not do so well with theory. Students need opportunities to show their talents and learn in ways that work for them. Then they can be pushed to learn in new ways that do not come so easily. Technological resources can ask for different methods of learning through powerful visuals and well-organized print; through direct, vicarious, and virtual experiences; and through tasks requiring analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, with applications to real-life situations. They can encourage self-reflection and self-evaluation. They can drive collaboration and group problem solving. Technologies can help students learn in ways they find most effective and broaden their repertoires for learning.
- Bloom's taxonomy refers to a classification of the different objectives that educators set for students (learning objectives). Within the domains, learning at the higher levels is dependent on having attained prerequisite knowledge and skills at lower levels – Remember/Understand, Apply, Analyse, Evaluate, Create Instructor can use SM to support lower levels – and students use SM to create Pinterest, Twitter, TedEd, VoiceThread, Collaboration (google) Blogs Presentations Student, Group, Instructor Collaboration Group Work, Guest Speakers, Exam Reviews Activities Ice Breaker, Content Curation, Backchannel, Research, Writing Alternative Assignments Digital, Image, Interactive Essays, Infographs
- Instructors can use Pinterest to set-up Group Boards for students to curate sites related to a course topic or assign students the option to create boards for research projects, assignments, or presentations.
- ‘Micro Write’ Progressive collaborative writing on Twitter. Students agree to take it in turns to contribute to an account or ‘story’ over a period of time. ‘Lingua Tweeta’ Good for modern language learning. Send tweets in foreign languages and ask students to respond in the same language or to translate the tweet into their native language. Opinion sharing about events, ideas, information and commentary Classroom "backchannel" for large classes Connect with experts in field Infographic – forces students to analyze what is important – Evaluate, Analyze and Create – higher levels on blooms taxonmy
- Potential Educational Uses - Content Presentation Content Development Presentations/Assignments Canvas Integration Watch Think (multiple choice questions) Dig Deeper Discuss
- It allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). $99.00 per year. Free Version includes 5 free voicethreads with 50 slides per thread Encourage contact between students & faculty 2. Develop reciprocity & cooperation among students 3. Encourage active learning 7. Respect diverse talents and ways of learning Critiquing Reflection Project collaboration Presentation Discussion
- DU VideoManager, CourseMedia, Portfolio, Camtasia Relay, Adobe Connect, Canvas Apps Why use: 1. Encourage contact between students & faculty 2. Develop reciprocity & cooperation among students 3. Encourage active learning 7. Respect diverse talents and ways of learning
- Resources I used to develop this presentation OTL is always looking for faculty to partner with to try a new technology or teaching strategy and then share with others….