This document discusses the use of social media and Web 2.0 technologies for teaching and learning. It begins by outlining characteristics of Generation X and Y students and how their tools and methods of learning have changed. It then provides an introduction to social media tools like blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, social networking and media sharing sites and their potential uses in education for communication, collaboration, and sharing content. Specific tools are highlighted and screenshots provided. The document stresses that these technologies can engage online learners and transform education by integrating the tools students already use.

1. WEB 2.0 (SOCIAL MEDIA) TECHNOLOGIES
FOR TEACHING & LEARNING
Jamalludin Harun
Department of Educational Multimedia, Faculty of Education
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

2. THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
We know
• People work with each other
• They learn from each other
• They are capable of determining what they want
to learn
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3. THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
Ask yourself...
• Where have all the students gone?
• Who are Generation X & Y?
• What are their characteristics?
• How were they brought up?
• Where have they come from?
• How might this affect their approach to learning?
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4. THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
Ask yourself...
• What are their tools?
• Where do they communicate?
• How do they network?
• Where do they network?
• How do they learn?
• Where do they research?
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5. Welcome to Facebook generation.
Education2.0 - social networking
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6. THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
Now....Ask yourself...
• How do you teach?
• How do you engage them?
• What tools do you use?
• What tools can you use?
• Do you encourage them to innovate and create?
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7. THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
The Future of Education...
• Information is changing.
• WHERE and HOW we learn is changing.
• If we don’t integrate the tools effectively…
Formal education will become increasingly
irrelevant
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9. INTRODUCTON TO SOCIAL MEDIA
• Technology web 2.0 (Social media) has the
power to transform teaching and learning
• You have the power to give them the skills and
tools to work in the 21st century.
• Teach them how to find, make sense of, and use
relevant information
• Give them the ability to find and use information
with critical discrimination in order to build
knowledge.
• learn together, network together, grow together
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10. INTRODUCTION
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11. INTRODUCTON TO SOCIAL MEDIA
What are they?
Potential Uses for Teaching
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12. WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• Defined as the “Read-Write” Web
– Provides all the services and applications to allow
individuals to co-create content, collaborate and share
it with others
• Supports user-generated content
– Content created by users rather than specialist
authors or publishing using a variety of affordable
technologies like blogs, podcasts and wikis
• Encourages the social aspect of the web
– Through the use of social media like blogs, wikis,
social bookmarking tools and social networks
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13. WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• What do these social technologies look like
• Social networking - establishing and building online
relationships with others, and a fundamental social
activity
• File-sharing - creating, storing and/or sharing files in
all formats: pictures, videos, presentations,
documents, screencasts, etc
• Social bookmarking - storing and sharing links to web
resources
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14. WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• Communication tools - communicating in real time
via instant messaging and chat, in web meetings, and
in live broadcasts, or asynchronously via email
• Collaboration tools - working synchronously or
asynchronously with other to co-create documents,
presentations, mindmaps, etc
• Blogging - reading, commenting or writing blog posts
• Micro-blogging - sending, receiving and replying to
short messages with others - for real-time
communications
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15. WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• Podcasting - creating or listening to audio (MP3) files
• RSS - Really Simple Syndication- subscribing to and
reading blog and web news feeds
• Social and collaboration platforms - providing
enterprise-wide, integrated suites of social media
tools in one platform
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16. WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• What impact are social (Web 2.0) technologies
having on working and learning?
Web 1.0 Web 2.0
Web technologies Social Technologies
publishing sharing information and
content/courses knowledge
reading content collaborative working and
some interaction with learning
content social learning
CONTENT PEOPLE
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17. WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES
• How can social media (SoMe) be used for learning
and working?
Social Media for Working & Learning aka Social Learning
Use of SoMe for: communicating - collaborating - sharing - networks and
communities
Informal Learning
Formal learning/ Working
learning as you work or
training/education improving performance
play
• Use SoMe to
• Use SoMe to engage • Use SoMe to find things rethink/improve work
online learners out by/for oneself processes
• to engage learners in • to learn with and from • to work
the classroom others collaboratively with
others
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18. TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY
TEACHING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA (TOOLS)
- WEB 2.0 -

19. WHAT TOOLS ARE AVAILABLE?
• Please browse 2011 Top 100 Tools for Learning :
• http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/2011.html
• then write the number (name) of tools in that list
that you are presently familiar with.
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/index.html
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20. SOCIAL BOOKMARKING
• A collection of bookmark (favourite)
• Access your bookmark links from anywhere
• Share with friends, coworkers and the community
• Discover new things
Examples
• Delicious, digg, connotea,citeulike
Application
• Lecturers and students can build a course library of
relevant course links based on shared bookmarks
using a course tag.
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21. Delicious.com
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22. digg.com
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23. SOCIAL NETWORKING
• Used for self-expression, personalization and the
building of communities
Examples
• Facebook, ning, elgg
Application
• Lecturers can set up a class “social network” or
learning community for students to meet and
communicate with one another – before, during and
after the course
• Students can have group discussions and group chat
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24. Facebook.com
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25. ning.com
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26. elgg.com
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27. schoology.com
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28. mahara.org
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29. MEDIA SHARING
• Sharing of slides, videos, pictures, audio…
• True user generated contents
• Some available for download
Examples
• Slideshare, Scribd, Youtube, TeacherTube, FlickR
Application
• Educators and students can share their own as well
as other user-generated podcasts, presentations,
screencast, videos, etc and embed them in blogs,
websites, etc, and comment on each other
resources.
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30. slideshare.net
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31. youtube.com
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32. teachertube.com
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33. WIKI
• A "wiki" is a collaborative website which can be
directly edited by anyone with access to it.
• “Wiki-wiki " is the Hawaiian for "quick.”
Examples
• Wikispaces, pbwiki, wikiversity
Applications
• A group of students can collaboratively create
documents related to class projects
• Lectures can use wikis to collaborate on projects,
whether editing a textbook, preparing a journal
article, or assembling a syllabus or reading list.
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34. Wikispaces.com
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35. pbworks.com
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36. wikiversity.org
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37. BLOG
• “…a web-based publication consisting primarily of
periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological
order.
Examples
• Blogspot, wordpress, edublogs
Applications
• Educators can write course blogs to host an entire
course, to provide a chronological focus for assignments,
a site for student interaction and discussion, where
students can contribute thought and experiences
• Students can write blog to reflect on their learning or to
post e-portfolios and to comment on the other student
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38. blogger.com
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39. wordpress.com
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40. OTHER WEB 2.0 TOOLS
• Prezi (Presentation)
http://www.prezi.com
• Glogster (Interactive Poster)
http://www.glogster.com
• VoiceThread (Collaborative slideshows)
http://www.voicethread.com
• Jing (Screen captures/ casting tool)
http://www.jingproject.com/
• Google Docs, Zoho (Online Productivity)
http://docs.google.com
http://www.zoho.com
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