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SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE CLASSROOM How to use Social Media to enhance learning and communication?
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SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE CLASSROOMHow to use Social Media to enhance learning and communication?
SESSION DESCRIPTION
This session will help instructors utilize social media to create a more inclusive and collaborative classroom through effective technology use. By showing instructors how to set up social media accounts for their classes and how to use key features, instructors will be able to spend less time reminding students about assignment due dates while being able to create and foster group work as well as building 21st Century skills.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES Will be able to name the most popular social media
(SM) websites Will know what the most popular SM websites do Will learn how to set up profiles for the most
popular SM websites Will learn how to use the SM websites to help
create a more inclusive classroom Will learn how to use SM websites’ features to
lower the burden on reminding students of assignment due dates and more effective monitoring of group work and group assignments
ABOUT ME Who am I? Where I work? What I do? Education Email: [email protected];
[email protected] Twitter:@baboynton Facebook: BrieBoy; SMintheClassroom Tumblr: SMintheClassroom Wordpress: SMintheClassroom
ABOUT YOU
First Name What subject you teach? Do you currently use Social Media
personally/professionally/in classroom?
Are you a gamer?
DEFINITIONS
Social Media: websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking (Oxford Dictionary)
21st Century Skills: Are skills students need to be successful in the 21st century. http://www.curriculum21.com/pd/curriculum-mapping/archives/glossary/
21ST CENTURY SKILLS Critical Thinking and Problem
Solving Creativity and Innovation Communication and
Collaboration Visual Literacy Scientific and Numerical
Literacy Cross-Disciplinary Thinking Basic Literacy Information Literacy Media Literacy Health Literacy
Information, Communications and Technology Literacy
Global Awareness Financial, Economic, Business
and Entrepreneurial Literacy Civic Literacy Environmental Literacy Flexibility and Adaptability Initiative and Self-Direction Social and Cross-Cultural Skills Productivity and Accountability Leadership and Responsibility
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How many currently have a personal social media account, i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest?
What is the main use of your account?
How many currently ban outside technology from the classroom, i.e. cellphones, laptops?
What are your concerns with using SM?
POPULAR SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Flickr Instagram
LibraryThing Yelp YouTube Myspace LiveJournal Wordpress
FACEBOOKWhat it Does?
Connects students and professors in and out of the classroom
Faster response time Creates a more social
classroom experience Able to reach absent
students/online students
Key Features
Create calendar and events schedule
Receive Email from Facebook
Download Facebook data
Manage Privacy
What it Does? Microblogging Great for due date
reminders, test reminders, ungraded pop quizzes, crowdsourcing, increased participation
Key Features
140-character limit
Download an archive of every tweet
Tweet via SMS
TUMBLR
What it Does?
Blogging for pictures. Photo Journaling Can send fun memes
to your class as reminders that work is due, no class being held, have a great weekend
Key Features
Allows you to send still images, gifs, text and short video, audio and links
Can be accessed anywhere
Password protection
YOUTUBE
What it Does?
Create video content
Great for taping lectures, PowerPoint presentations, etc.
Key Features
Content can be made public or private
Can be viewed on device with access to the internet
WORDPRESSWhat it Does? Allows you to create
a custom blog for your class.
Online Journal Allows students to
respond to writing assignments
Allows you to respond to their assignments
Key Features
Mobile Blogging Create the blog page
you want for your class
Do Not have to rely on Blackboard to receive writing assignments
QUESTIONS?
Break Time. YAY!!!!!!!!
HOW TO CREATE
https://www.facebook.com/ https://twitter.com/baboynton https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard https://www.youtube.com/ https://smintheclassroom.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
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