This document provides an overview of using social media and online resources in teaching and learning. It introduces tools like Twitter, YouTube, and open educational resources (OER). Twitter can be used to search for discipline-specific keywords, follow education accounts, and find guides for teachers. YouTube contains lectures, demonstrations and talks that can be used to create new lessons or supplement existing ones. OER are openly licensed educational materials like course notes, lectures, and entire online courses that can be reused and adapted for teaching. The document provides examples of OER repositories and encourages reusing and sharing one's own teaching materials as OER to open up education.

1. Socially Mediated
A Practical Guide:
Going Online in Teaching and Learning
Gino Fransman
Academic Development Professional
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
04 August 2015
Academic Development Day, Missionvale

2. DISCLAIMER
This session by no means suggests these are all,
or even the most popular, resources in use online.
They are some examples of frequently used
resources in higher education from one
perspective. The aim is for you to see what
works amongst these, and to start a journey with
support or on your own.
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3. Aims
1. Introduction to Opening Up
2. Twitter
Get the lingo - Glossary
Practical
3. YouTube
Academic Plagiarism
An educator’s experience of using YouTube in T&L
4. Open Educational Resources (OER)
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5. • Well rounded, capable of
success anywhere in the world
• Committed to:
• Social Justice
• Equality
• Civic Consciousness
• Adaptable
• Technology savvy
• Supportive of Green Initiatives
NMMU
student
graduates
will be
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6. Introduction
•Opening up
• Repurposing
Thoughts
Deeds
Action/ Practice
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7. Open
Share
Re-use
Revise
RemixRedistribute
No
Permission
Retain
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8. Twitter 8

9. 9
hashtag (n.)
A hashtag is any word or phrase immediately
preceded by the # symbol. When you click on a
hashtag, you'll see other Tweets containing the
same keyword or topic.
Phishing (v.)
Do you know what this is?

10. phishing
Tricking a user to give up their username and password.
This can happen by sending the user to fake sign-in page, a
page promising to get you more followers, or just simply
asking for the username and password via a DM or email.
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11. Tweet (n.), Tweetable (adj.)
A Tweet may contain photos, videos, links and up to 140
characters of text.
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12. Search for a few keywords in your discipline
Explore using twitter in more detail on your own
with this handy guide, containing several
education related links to add and follow
http://www.edudemic.com/twitter-101-a-7-step-guide-for-
teachers-newbies-and-everyone/
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13. See answers to your questions, some good, some bad…
www.youtube.com
Try seeing what’s out there for your class or students?
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14. Have you encountered academic plagiarism yet?
How do (or will) you address plagiarism with students?
Click here:
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-punishable-perils-of-plagiarism-
melissa-huseman-d-annunzio#watch
You can create a new lesson for students using this material!
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15. An educator’s experience with
According to Rob Weir (2012)
https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2012/03/21/essay-how-use-youtube-teaching-tool
“Suggested Sources: (This is a very, very small sample.)
1. YouTube: Just type what you’re looking to find. If that
doesn’t work, try permutations
2. TED: Some of the most incredible talks and demonstrations
imaginable in the fields of technology, entertainment, design,
global concerns, and science are available here.
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If the answer is 8, there are
many, many ways to get there!
Fully customisable
content in some cases

16. 3. Academic Earth: It offers amazing online videos in many
disciplines. The downside is that many of them are long.
You should preview them and use segments.
4. Make Use Of has a list of six sites with links to sample
classes.
5. So too does Online College Courses…”
16An educator’s experience with

17. Open Educational
Resources (OER)
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18. What are
Open Educational Resources
(OER)?
“... an OER is simply an educational resource that incorporates a
license that facilitates reuse, and potentially adaptation,
without first requesting permission from the copyright holder."
A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER). (2011) Prepared by Neil Butcher for the Commonwealth of Learning & UNESCO.
Edited by Asha Kanwar (COL) and Stamenka Uvalic´-Trumbic´ (UNESCO).
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19. What are some types of OER?
Stand-alone T&L objects
including but not limited to:
Lecture handouts
Class Notes
Revision/ Exam Prep Facilitation Materials
Test Scopes
Tutorial Guides – full term/semester, or simply per class/
session
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20. WHAT ELSE CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT
YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE AS
POTENTIAL OER ?
Your own support materials
Pictures of your white-board? Do you just write and erase?
Recordings (audio and/or visual – consider available TECH) of your
lectures or other teaching engagements, Cellphones?
Test or exam rubrics?
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21. Environmental Science in the 21st Century
http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/environment-
book/contents.html
Using the Web – Some help
http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/environment-
book/usingthewebE.html
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‘growth point at NMMU’ according to Prof Zinn (02 July 2015)

22. Full Course OER Materials
aka OpenCourseWare
Global Development Resource Center's Virtual Library Collection
of online resources for Environmental Studies.
MIT Open Courseware - Urban Studies and Planning MIT's
extensive list of open Urban Studies courses includes Environmental
Justice, Policy and Planning materials. Lectures, quizzes, exams,
problem sets and in some cases entire e-textbooks are available for use
in the classroom or as supporting materials.
MIT Open Courseware - Earth Atmospheric and Planetary
Sciences MIT also offers a wide variety of open courses on earth and
environmental sciences. Course component are available for reuse in the
classroom or by students to review concepts.
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23. Finding OER:
Your click takes you forward.
• www.oeconsortium.org
• http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/
• http://www.oerafrica.org/teachered
• www.oercommons.org
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24. P2PU
The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning
outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU
creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education.
Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables
high-quality low-cost education opportunities.
OER Africa: proudly African (look at)
http://www.oerafrica.org/resource/guidelines-teaching-numeracy-foundation-phase
Foundation phase education resources, Grades 1,2 & 3.
Share with local schools, teachers in primary school education.
Exploring OER in education:
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25. Some dates to diarise:
• 23 July 2015 – Senate Hall North Campus
• Introduction to Open Educational Resources
• Back to Basics: Writing for Postgrads
• Academic Development Days
• 4 August 2015 – Missionvale Conference Centre
• 11 August 2015 – Senate Hall North Campus
• Open Education Week
• 7 – 11 March 2015
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26. Thank You.
I hope we may follow up and collaborate via
direct consultation ahead
Questions?
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27. Email
gino.fransman@nmmu.ac.za
ginofransman@gmail.com
Twitter: @ginofransman
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