1. Enhance, Engage, and S-T-R-E-T-C-H with Social Media Tools
Dr. Julie Giuliani
Dean of External Affairs, Technology Strategies and Innovation

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3. What will I learn today that I dont know already?
Where do you begin when in the clouds?
How do I know what social media tools work best in an online environment?
What are some best practices and guidelines fostering digital literacy?

4. Research
Horizon Report 2011
New Media Consortium
Examines emerging technologies for their impact on teaching, learning and creative inquiry
Critical challenges a pervasive sense that individual organizational constraints are likely the most important factor in any decision to adopt or not adopt any given technology
Digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession but concept ill defined

5. On the Horizon- Technologies to Watch
Six emerging technologies
likely to enter mainstream adoption within the next one to five years
Electronic books
Integration of multimedia and collaborative elements
Mobiles
Allow very simple tools to be easily integrated into classroom activities; Twitter, a micro blog good example
Augmented Reality
Blending of information and the real world; augmented books

6. Augmented Reality

7. So What?
We want a higher education system that provides learners with the workplace skills and competencies they need to adapt in a rapidly changing economy.
We want education to adapt to a world altered by technology advances, changing demographics and economies.
We want our students to be prepared for uncertainty, complexity and undetermined life and world challenges.

8. Blooms Taxonomy RevisitedAndrew Churches

9. Digital Literacy Competency
Remembering
Understanding
Bookmarking
Social Networking
Searching or Googling
Manipulating web 2.0 and software/ hardware tools
Uploading and sharing materials via sites like Flickr, Google docs, etc.
Simple collaboration

10. Digital Literacy Competency
Applying
Creating
Linking inside documents
Mashing integration of several data sources
Validating the accuracy and credibility of information
Vodcasting, podcasting, vodblogging, mixing and remixing
Publishing in text, media or digital formats

11. Most Popular Tools

12. 1. Risk
Easy to Embed
Extensive Planning
2. Time
Free or Inexpensive
Enterprise Licenses
3. Cost
4. Student
Centered
High
Low
Things to Consider
(Curtis Bonk - 100+ Innovative, Interactive and Easy to Implement Instructional Ideas)
Low Risk
High Risk
Instructor
Focus
Student
Focus

13. Student Survey
If I set up a Facebook Study Club for this class, would you actively participate? 2) Would you prefer discussing chapter topics using a blog? 3) How many of you have Twitter accounts?
Yes, would use, I am a visual learner.
Would use a Study Club if an assignment for class. Too busy.
Would love to see the class in Facebook.
You are more vulnerable in Facebook.
None of these students have a Twitter account.

14. Where to Begin?????

15. Path of Least Resistance: Interactive Videos via Discussions = Simple Collaboration
Understanding: Videos promote new learning concepts and ideas connected to what learners already know and understand
Videos act as Advance Organizers: Provide a context, richer learning, can be replayed for key concepts, bring students to the real world, discussion, reflection, common experience, and the potential for higher order thinking skills.
Videos provide verbal and visual information that is more richly stored and recalled.

16. Digital Competency: Understanding & Simple Collaboration
Students view video and summarize key concepts.
Students design a quiz based on their summary ideas. Upload, Accuracy
Students create a Delicious account, add bookmarks, and share relevant and related information. Simple collaboration.

17. Digital Competency: Remembering & Understanding
Delicious: Students access your bookmarks

18. Blogs: Student & Community = Understanding and Simple Collaboration

19. Facebook = Understanding

20. Elluminate & Skype = Understanding, Applying
Use for Virtual Office Hours, Student Orientation, 1 to 1 Discussions (scheduled times)

21. Connectivism = Remembering, Understanding, Applying & Creating
Ask students to maintain a blog.
Students follow an experts blog; write reflection summaries about weekly postings.

22. Learner Blogs

23. Jing = Applying and Creating
Using Jing for Team Project

24. Live Binders = Remembering, Understanding, Applying & Creating
3-Ring Binder for the Web
Can collect resources, organize them, present them

25. Live Binders = Networking

26. QR Codes = Applying & Creating

• 2 Dimensional bar code
• 27. Scan using smart phones, barcode readers, iPod touch
• 28. Connects to images, website links and & text messages