intro to social media for instructors: university of nebraska

Intro to social media for instruction

Follow me @tjoosten, twitter.com/tjoosten

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Overview

• Build your professional network on Twitter• Increase communication and feedback in the

classroom using Facebook and Twitter• Engage students with rich content on various

social media like YouTube• Develop strategies for managing your social

media

BUILD YOUR PROFESSIONAL NETWORK ON TWITTER

Getting started with Twitter.com

Download the Twitter App

OR

Send a text message

“Start”

to 40404

How to update your bio

Complete bio or profile

Tips for completing your bio

• Upload a picture of yourself, true representation

• Follow the social media culture

• Focus on potential common interests

• Identify your educational institution

• Be professional, yet personal

Tweeting: Introduce yourself

I’m Tanya Joosten from University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, teach communication, help other faculty use technology #NUSYM13

Build your network

Following

Hashtags

• #nusym13

• #edusocmedia

• #edtech

• #highered

• #socmedia

• #sachat

• #edchat

• #lrnchat

Google: education hashtags

Others ways to network

• Conference hashtags (#blend13, #nmc13, #dtl2013)

• Join live sessions (#edchat, #sachat)

• Review campus twitter accounts and hasthags (@uwm, #iamuwm)

Tips to developing a network

• Update social media profiles to include an image and a bio appropriate for the social media.

• Connect with colleagues through conference or professional group hashtags.

• Identify useful or influential colleagues and review to who they are connected.

• Participate in your educational institution’s social media accounts.

Technology will save us!

Facebook is the answer!

Bwahahahaha!

Why use social media?

It’s not about the technology, it’s all social

Larry Johnson, NMC

global collaborative anytime anyplace mobility access literacy

informal learning

Connect

Social media, a definition

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

What is the student voice?

Assess your students’ needs

I want to feel connected

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).

I don’t use email

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).

I use social media

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

Use

social media

Warning!

Technology is only the medium

You need

a pedagogical strategy

What is your pedagogical need?

Assess your needs

Increase communication and contact

INCREASE COMMUNICATION THROUGH A FACEBOOK FAN PAGE

Increasing communication and encouraging contact

Who are our students?

• I want to feel connected

• I don’t use email

• I use social media, a lot

An example: Jewish studies

An example: Clinical lab sciences

Getting started with Facebook

Benefits• Increases interactions between instructors and students

• Enhances communication and builds feelings of connectedness

• Create a strong pedagogically sound sense of presence in your classroom

• Overcomes the challenges of students at a distance or in remote locations

• Facilitates providing timely student feedback

• Helps students stay organized

• Increases student performance

• Results in high levels of satisfaction of instructors and students

INCREASE FEEDBACK OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CLASSROOM USING TWITTER

Building cooperation and feedback

• CATs• Peer Instruction• Reflection

An example

Benefits

• Provides an opportunity for active learning in large lectures

• Enhances students participation and engagement in class

• Provides frequent, low stakes feedback on student learning

• Creates an opportunity for just in time teaching or to address weaknesses in student learning

• Provides a strategy for integrating blended courses, online and f2f

• Develops cooperation among students

• Increases students satisfaction

SHARE RICH MEDIA AND CONTENT ON VARIOUS SOCIAL MEDIA TO ENGAGE STUDENTS

Developing a richer learning experience

Creating a YouTube Account

Creating a YouTube Playlist

YouTube alternatives

Content & Publication• SchoolTube• TeacherTube• Vimeo

Educational Content• MIT World• PBS.org• TED • YouTube.EDU

And many more!

Benefits

• Improving student learning

• Helps instructors manage their workload

• Enhances 21st century literacy skills for instructors and students

• Facilitates the use of rich and current content

• Enhances student engagement

DEVELOP STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA

5 questions to consider

• What is the pedagogical need?

• How will the selected social media help meet that need?

• What aspects of the learning process should be improved?

• What learning outcomes can be better achieved through the use of the selected social media over other technologies?

• What is the expected behavior of students within the selected social media?

What is your pedagogical need?

• Increase communication and encourage contact

• Engage students through rich, current media

• Gather and provide feedback in the classroom

• Create a cooperative and collaborative learning opportunities

Social Dashboards - TweetDeck

No matter the technology, how can you enhance your pedagogy?

Get it!

Connect w/me

• twitter.com/tjoosten

• linkedin.com/in/tjoosten

• facebook.com/tjoosten

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