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Webinar social media and e learning Sept 2012
Centre for Online Learning Excellence provides a plenary session on the impact of social media on eLearning and the challenges it presents for online facilitation. The document discusses how social media like wikis, blogs and Twitter can be implemented and facilitated as effective learning activities both synchronously and asynchronously. It also explores why people use social media and how learning technology connects learning. Global skills needed for students are outlined. Examples of using social media tools like wikis, blogs and Twitter for education are also provided.
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- 1. Centre for OnlineLearning Excellence Social Media and eLearning: New challenges for online learning facilitation Mandi Axmann Learning Design and Academic Development
- 2. Plenary Work Time Plenary session Discussion 3:30-4:20 Understand the impact of Synchronous and Asynchronous social media on eLearning discussions •Implement and facilitate wikis as effective learning activity •Implement and facilitate blogs as effective learning activity •Implement and facilitate twitter as effective learning activity 4:20-5:00 Challenges for online Question and Answer time facilitation
- 3. What is socialmedia? Source: Terry Anderson and Jon Dron presentation from Networked Learning 2012
- 4. Why do peopleuse social media?
- 5. Global Students Whatit means to be a global student? • Think outside the box – creative and innovative skills • Think across disciplines – design, technology, mathematics, art • Smart about new sources of information • Good people skills (Emotional intelligence) • Work in large teams and across various cultures
- 6. Asynchronous communication Anytime, anywhere,any device – different times • Open-ended review and discussion Discussion forums • Short papers and presentations • Reflective writing Blogs • Critical writing • Instant feedback on progress Quizzes • Self/peer assessment • Co-produce a piece of work Wikis • Teams and small groups • Submission of reports and essays eSubmissions • Exam papers • Collect and archive work ePortfolios • Measure and track student performance
- 7. Synchronous communication Anytime, anywhere,any device – same time Webinars • Skype for audio and video conferencing • Presentation, discussion and collaboration • Messenger or Google Apps for instant messaging and file transfer Chat • Discussion and collaboration of group projects Video • Camtasia for on-screen demonstrations • Live video streaming streaming
- 8. Learning technology =Connected learning Source: Terry Anderson and Jon Dron presentation from Networked Learning 2012
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- 10. Wiki What is aWiki? • A wiki is a collaborative web site that collects and organizes content, created and revised by its users. – The most well-known example is Wikipedia.
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- 12. Wiki Uses of awiki • Frequently Asked Questions • Knowledge base for a specific topic • Find group solutions to a problem • Develop standards or guidelines • Database of experiences with relevant stories • Gather requirements for a new product or design
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- 17. Edublogs Edublogs archive andsupport student and teacher learning •facilitating reflection •questioning by self and others •collaboration •providing contexts for engaging in higher-order thinking.
- 18. Blogging Uses of blogs •Share materials, news, downloads, links • Facilitate online discussions and collaboration • Replace your newsletter - create a class publication that students can easily publish • Get your students blogging so that they can share their work and thoughts • Integrate videos, podcasts, and other media • Create blogs for student groups, events, teams • Get feedback or gather information (opinion polls)
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- 24. Twitter Uses • Brainstorming • Publicityfor important events, blog posts, websites, podcasts, videos, live meetings/discussions, etc. • Twitter can serve as your support group when struggling with a difficult task. • Twitter provides a way to virtually attend confererences, workshops, conventions, etc. (via #hashtags). • Back channel during lecture (using event specfic hashtags ie. #newtonfirstlaw) -- students can go back to Twitter to review, reflect, study key points shared • Back channel during videos/slideshows • Back channel during student presentations
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- 36. Let your voicebe heard
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- 39. Evaluation Thanks for yourattendance and participation in this workshop.
Editor's Notes
- #5 What is of interest to Education not so much the platforms but WHY they are famous. Students need to be stimulated for idea generation, networking, building relationships, discussions, groups, more in-depth knowledge
- #14 RMIT – Drugs and Sport example
- #15 http://votw.wikispaces.com/
- #20 http://www.incomediary.com/30-great-examples-blog-post-styling
- #24 From 36 Ways to use Twitter in the Classroom
- #25 Example The Voice and X Factor backchannel
- #28 http://learni.st/learnings/39158-apple-itunes-u-learn-anything-anywhere-anytime
- #32 Integration is key
- #38 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55R8VSmuJLg