Taking advantage of social mediain your courses

Tanya Joosten, PhDDirector, eLearning Research and DevelopmentCo-Director and PI, National DETA Research CenterUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

@tjoosten, tjoosten@uwm.edu

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How do we effectively integrate social media into our courses?

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Societal trends

Assess your students’ needs

Let the data drive your decisions

According to a survey by Joosten (2009), students reported

that they need good (67%) and frequent communication (90%) with their instructor and good communication with their

classmates (75%). They also reported that they need to feel connected to learn (80%) (http://tinyurl.com/yafu8qz).

According to PEW Internet study, “Teens who participated

in focus groups for this study said that they view email as something you use to talk to ‘old people,’ institutions, or to send complex instructions to large groups “ (http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2005/Teens-and-Technology.aspx?r=1).

95.1% of 18- and 19-year-olds use social media, primarily Facebook on a daily basis (Salaway, et al., 2009)

96% of undergraduates reported using Facebook (Smith & Caruso, 2010)

43% of undergraduate use Twitter (Smith & Caruso, 2010)90% use mobile devices to receive and send text messages

(Smith, 2010), over 1600 a month (Neilson, 2010)92% of college-aged students watch YouTube (Moore, 2011)

I like social media for learning

Go to: http://wikispaces.com/Nebraska15

AND

Click on Learning Module Activity

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Pedagogical model

Content• Text• Images• Audio• Video

Interactivity• Discussions• Groups• Feedback

Assessment• Written and oral examination• Discursive• Portfolio

Backward design

What do you want your students to do?

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What evidence will you accept that they have accomplished that?

Individual Group

Projects

Discussions

Writing

Quizzes

Cognitive

AffectivePsychomotor or Behavioral

Open evidence

Open evidence

What learning activities will produce this evidence or documentation?

Planning a learning experience

Content •Student interaction with content

Interactivity

•Student interaction with student•Student interaction with instructor

Engaging content

Engaging content

Engaging content

Building cooperation

Open connections

Encourage contact

Frequent communication

In your teaching, research, and profession

Provide open and continuous access

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OER and open content

Open publishing

Open work

Open courses

Open data

Technology will save us!

Facebook is the answer!

Bwahahahaha!

It’s not about the

technology, it’s all social

Larry Johnson, NMC

global collaborative anytime anyplace mobility

access literacy informal learning

Connect

“A virtual place where people share; everybody and anybody can share anything anywhere anytime” (Joosten, 2012, p. 6).

Use

tech wisely

Warning!

Technology is only the medium

Medium | Message

By Wespeck

Words, Voice, Eye Contact, Hand Gestures, Body

Movements, Posture, Clothes

Eye Contact, Nodding, Hand

Gestures, Posture

? Words, Text or Voice, Emoticons, Eye Contact, Hand

Gestures, Body Movements,

Posture, Clothes

? Words, Text or Voice, Emoticons, Eye Contact, Hand

Gestures, Body Movements,

Posture, Clothes

You need

a strategy!

Get it!

Questions

Tanya Joosten, tjoosten@uwm.edu

Twitter | @tjoosten

http://www.slideshare.edu/tjoosten