Presentation on using social media, free software and apps in Business teaching. Created for tutor2u conference 2011.

1. Virtual Learning in Business

2. Session objective To provide you ideas for using and integrating free software/apps, social media and VLEs into your business/economics teaching

3. Using technology If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. African proverb Use your VLE to take your department ‘with you’ and improve consistency for learners.

4. This presentation and all software and ideas will be available on my blog: http://steveclarkeictac.blogspot.com/

5. What do Ofsted want? Outstanding: Resources, including new technology, make a marked contribution to the quality of learning Good: Good and imaginative use is made of resources, including new technology to enhance learning. Satisfactory: Adequate use is made of a range of resources, including new technology, to support learning. Unsatisfactory: No mention of Technology

6. Teaching with Twitter

7. T Follow me @fhesbusiness Hashtag to discuss the conference (now and later) #busecit

8. Why use Twitter? Twitter can be used in education for: Business news Setting homework tasks Fun enrichment tasks e.g. #Tweets4Sweets Educating students to use social media sensibly Course reminders Discussion Voting/polling AFL Video streaming

9. Embed Twitter Feeds in your VLE

10. PowerPoint Twitter Feedback SlideUse Presentation Mode to view, Click this header to give mouse control back to PowerPoint, change slide, etc. Check the “alternate format” to see more tweets! © SAP 2009 / Page 10

11. Wiffiti Display screen

12. Twitpoll

13. Embed polls in your VLE or blog

14. QR Codes Download QR reader app such as i-nigma and scan the image

15. #7 - Adding QR codes to Word documents for students to check their answers. Laminate sheets and pin them up round the classroom (Mark Rollins @muppetmasteruk)

16. #14 - Easter Egg Scavenger Create an "easter egg/scavenger hunt". The students must seek out the QR codes that are posted in a given area. Use the codes to go to information to answer a question and/or find a clue. Then on to finding the code. Added by @hamtra

17. Engagement activities Activities to engage students as soon as they enter room whilst teacher takes care of admin etc. Require very little teacher input/set up time

18. Blog BIG questions

19. Twitter fountain

20. Cool Iris

21. Software to Transform dull activities Because sometimes business is boring...

22. Voki Avatars

23. Animated movies

24. Cartoons

25. Virtual Pop-up

26. Create a magazine

27. Generate Newspaper clippings

28. Podcasts using Audacity

29. Lessons that have worked well

30. Location: Google earth & Street view

31. Lesson plan

32. Competitors For example, Dorothy Perkins Retail Ltd will be a local competitor

33. ‘This is showing the University College for the Creative Arts (UCA). Students from this establishment would be perfect to work in the studio factory because they are trained specifically for this job.’

34. ‘This image shows ‘The Frock Exchange’ which is a small shop a little bit down the road from our chosen location. It is a shop that sells second hand clothes and is an example of competition’ ‘I also chose Farnham because it has a very good infrastructure. These screenshots show evidence of the railway station, bus stops and main roads in and surrounding Farnham.'

35. Stakeholders & Social costs/benefits using Facebook Create a group for stakeholders to have a debate Students can create a FB mock-up if you don’t want to use the real thing

36. ...Alternatively: Create Debate Online debate forum and social network community built around ideas, discussion and democracy

37. Business Cards using Sticky Bits

38. Revision & ‘Snow days’

39. Twitcam

40. Twitcam Embedded in VLE

41. Video tutorials Debut Video screen capture Free Studio – convert video files and get embed codes

42. Convert videos for mobile devices

43. Word clouds Wordle Tagxedo

45. Orbs: key vocabulary glossaries

46. Collate research

47. Collaboration & AFL

48. Wallwisher

49. Wallwisher embedded in VLE

50. Lino it

51. Edistorm

52. Online brainstorming

53. Socrative teacher

54. Socrative sign in If you didn’t download the app you can access via: m.socrative.com My classroom number is 19782011

55. Socrative Multiple Choice Which of the following best describes how this session has made you feel: Bored Confused Mild enthusiasm Inspired

56. Beware the learning illusion When using new software for the first time in class take time to reflect Did the technology aid student learning or distract? Was the buzz in the class active learning? Were the objectives achieved in a reasonable amount of time?

57. Tour of my VLE