social media: engaging students, suny

Tanya Joosten, @tjoosten, tanyajoosten.comAssociate Director, Interim, Learning Technology CenterLecturer, Department of CommunicationUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Part 1: Getting Started with Social Media Tweeting, hashtags, and more Strategies to building your network

Part 2: Engaging Students and Building Community

Part 3: Managing your social network

Send a text message to your 40404 with the word 'START'

Twitter will send you a reply and ask you to reply with the word 'SIGNUP' 

Reply with the username you want (under 15)

You will get a confirmation message.

Choose a password. You're all set! Send a

message and it will post as your first Tweet.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/63660-how-to-create-a-twitter-account-using-sms

https://support.twitter.com/groups/34-apps-sms-and-mobile/topics/123-mobile-basics/articles/110250-how-to-add-your-phone-via-web

Tweet using hashtag:

#slnsm

#slned #edtech #higheredtech #learnchat #edusocmedia

#socmedia #socialmedia #sachat #iamuwm

Mega Education Hashtag List:http://www.cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html

Conference/meeting Twitter hashtag

Campus Twitter accountCampus Twitter mentionsCampus Facebook pageConference/Campus Flickr tag

Conference/meeting Twitter hashtag

Announcements Supplemental information Live microblogging Connections/PLNs (e.g., Siemens, 2004) Collect real world data Twitter polls Backchannel communication Other?

Why social media?

@sholtutm social media is about the social not the media. People connecting to people.

#edusocmedia

@dolanatpsu #edusocmedia a channel that allows for instant, unfiltered conversation,

collaboration & community

@ericaabramson defining social media: collaborative, accessible, no boundaries #edusocmedia

@spennell98 Social media is about anybody, anywhere sharing information about anything on

an accessible space. #edusocmedia

@gjerdery #edusocmedia is a distributed comm. platform where you control the degree to

which you participate, tending to be more open than private.

@athlwulf Social media is technologies used to assist in facilitating connections and

interactions between people #edusocmedia

@sholtutm 'Media' will change... 'social' will not. #edusocmedia

@ifoundbob Our def of #edusocmedia is "Digital Socialization - a virtual sharing life, learning

and self."

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).

According to Bulik (July 8th, 2009) “…They

go to social networking sites 5 days per week and check in 4 times a day for a total of an hour per day” (para 7).

According to PEW Internet study, “…

Nearly three-quarters (72%) of online 18-29 year olds use these sites–similar to the rate among teens–with 45% doing so on a typical day” (http://tinyurl.com/33hynyx).

New survey results also show that among adults 18 and older, Facebook has taken over as the social network of choice

73% of adult profile owners use Facebook

According to Joosten (2009), 71% of students want to receive text messages about their class (http://tinyurl.com/yafu8qz).

According to PEW Interent, “the typical

American teen sends and receives 50 or more messages per day, or 1,500 per month.”

How is your campus implementing social media?

Facilitating interactivity and engagement

Expanding the classroom walls: Experiential learning

Professional development

Supplementary materials Videos Articles Websites

DiscussionsCommunity building inside/outside

classroomNew student “recruitment”

CONTENT & PUBLICATION

SchoolTube TeacherTube Vimeo

EDUCATIONAL CONTENT

MIT World PBS.org TED YouTube.EDU

And many more!

PresenceContent – no need to recreate the

wheelStudent-created contentActive learning

Interactivity Engagement

Creativity

Twazzup.com

Twapperkeeper.com

Thearchivist.com

Google.com

Social Dashboards TweetDeck (http://www.tweetdeck.com/) HootSuite (http://hootsuite.com/) Seesmic (http://seesmic.com/) Netvibes (http://netvibes.com/)

Social Browsers RockMelt (http://www.rockmelt.com/) Fizzik (http://www.fizzik.com/)

One post – multiple social mediaHashtags (e.g., #edtech)

Class discussions Conferences Webinars

Real timeMonitor multiple conversations at a

glance

Social media for educators

To be published by Jossey Bass

Spring 2012

twitter.com/tjoosten

facebook.com/tjoosten

juice gyoza | second life

professorjoosten.blogspot.com

tanyajoosten. com

UWM Social Media Grant project http://uwmsocialmedia.wikispaces.com

Presentation and Data http://uwmsocialmedia.wikispaces.com/

Presentations+by+Tanya

Set-up Instructions http://uwmsocialmedia.wikispaces.com/Howtosocialmedia10

Creating a Twitter Account http://tinyurl.com/4lkdkj3

Creating a Facebook Fan Page http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php

#edusocmedia on YouTube, Twitter, wikispaces

Heiberger, G., & Harper, R. (2008). Have you Facebooked Astin lately? Using technology to increase student involvement. New Directions for Student Services, 124. Retrieved http://tinyurl.com/4vygtde

Higher Education Research Institute (HERI). (2007). College freshman and online social networking sites. Retrieved from http://gseis.ucla.edu/heri/PDFs/pubs/briefs/brief-091107-SocialNetworking.pdf

Junco, R., Heibergert, G., & Loken, E. (2010). The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. http://blog.reyjunco.com/pdf/JuncoHeibergerLokenTwitterEngagementGrades.pdf

Kopytoff, V. G. (2011). Blogs wane as the young drift to sites like Twitter. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/technology/internet/21blog.html?_r=1

Zickuhr, K. (2010). Generations 2010. Washington DC: Pew Internet and American Life. Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Generations-2010.aspx