using social media to help learning scale new heights
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Using Social Media to Help Learners Scale New Heights & Reach New Peaks
Kathy KeairnsDirector of Web-Based Learning
2015 eLCC Conference
April 15-17, 2015
Agenda
•How Social Media can be used to support the 7 Principles of Good Practice & Bloom’s Domains of Learning
• Examples from two popular Social Media applications
•Benefits, Challenges & Considerations
•Resources & Evidence of Success
What is Social Media?
Image: By John Atkinson @https://wronghands1.wordpress.com/gallery-june-2011/
•Collaborative• Sharing•Web-Based/Mobile• Interactive• Free•User Generated
Image: By John Atkinson @ http://wronghands1.wordpress.com/gallery-3/#jp-carousel-1103
Implementing the 7 Principles of Good Practice: Social Media as a Lever1. Encourage contact between students &
faculty
2. Develop reciprocity & cooperation among students
3. Encourage active learning
4. Provides Prompt Feedback
5. Emphasizes Time on Task
6. Communicates High Expectations
7. Respect diverse talents and ways of learning
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Learning & Teaching with PinterestAssignment 1. Create a Pinterest account
2. Start your mood board by listing 5 words that relate to your stakeholder’s brand. These words can be anything from similar designs to feelings that the idea evokes.
3. Now the fun part! Create a Pinterest board for the discussion and start “pinning” or re-pin. Find at least 2 pins for each mood board component. In Pin’s textbox give a brief (1-2 sentences) and insightful explanation of why you chose it, why did it inspire you?
Learning & Teaching with Twitter
Twitter is a "Micro-blogging" service (140 characters max. per post) with an emphasis on mobile devices. Posts are usually referred to as "tweets.” Tweets often include web links and "hash tags" (#eLCC2015) for grouping tweets by subject/keyword/course#.
Source: Image by Brunsell on Flickr
Getting Started with Twitter
• Create a twitter account (consider starting with a test account including a test email)
• Follow leaders in your discipline
• Follow @LangonCourses, @TEDED, @InsideHigerEd,, @brocansky, @OLC
• Search and participate in event hashtags
Blooms Taxonomy & Twitter
Recommendations for incorporating SM into your class• Familiarize yourself with tool
before using it in your course• Select a tool that accommodates
your objectives, solves a problem, and is appropriate for the tasks or skills to be learned
• Limit yourself to one new tool at a time and keep it simple
• Take advantage of campus resources available to you and your students
• Include an evaluation plan Source: Image By John Atkinson @ http://wronghands1.wordpress.com/gallery-3/#jp-carousel-1103
Student Considerations
• Provide students with how-to instructions and privacy guidelines
• Demonstrate the learning benefits
• Do not share grades
• Offer options to students about how to represent themselves online
• Inform students who will have access to their contributions
• Develop community ground rules
• Source: Michelle Pacansky-Brock http://teachingwithoutwalls.com
Evidence of Success?
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)
SEI Case Studies and Study Guide &
Template
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Resources & ReferencesBest Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies Companion Website
http://teachingwithemergingtech.com
Implementing the 7 Principles: Technology as a Lever
http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/teachingLibrary/Technology/seven_principles.pdf
Book – Minds Online, Teaching Effectively with Technology
Quality Matters
https://www.qualitymatters.org/
EDUCAUSE
http://www.educause.edu/eli
http://www.educause.edu/eli/programs/seeking-evidence-impact
ELI Case Study Guide & Template
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15ohcXddxoBRCKLzkwTfYJhTWR5tPXWuT2VKslDCSlrU/edit?pli=1
Thank You!Kathy Keairns
[email protected]://kathykeairns.com