Social Media for Learning

@tompaisley

Digital Team CIPD

@perrytimmsCIPD Social Media & Engagement Advisor

#SoMe4L101

• Why• you would use Social Media for learning

• What – are the best platforms, apps and sites

• How– do you take advantage of them

• personally• for your organisation

• When– will I tweet you again?

Why?

• Part of the informal learning "ecosystem"

• Largely free

• Portable across multiple devices and synchronised through cloud-technology

• Fast and furious

• From people you know/like you and people you admire

• Searchable and ubiquitous

What?

• LinkedIn• Twitter• Google+• YouTube/Vimeo• Slideshare• Wordpress/Blogger• Storify• ITTT• Bookmarking tools

Connecting Technologies Social Learning

Person sat next to you

One thing you use to learn through your connecting technologies? - ie PC/Tablet/Smartphone

LinkedIn

• +– Threads, posts and discussions– Share links– Groups– Pulse news feed

• -– Interface/Flow?– Dominant commentators– Spam emails

YouTube

• +– The learning superstore

– Second biggest search engine in the world - not much you can't find on it

• -– bandwidth an issue at work?– appropriate content?– relevancy to learning agendas?

Slideshare

• +– Awesome amount of content– From many top speakers and presenter around the

world– And people like us who present– Downloadable and shareable

• -– Nice to flick through but can be difficult to

"experience" unless you "were there"– Lots of older content still pops up in searches– Ripe for rip-off and plagiarising of others' materials

Google+

• +– tiled posts (with links) like Facebook

– highly visual and include videos and images– +1 (like) and shareable– create private communities for sharing

• -– high volume of account but lower active users

than others social channels

Wordpress/Blogger/Tumblr

• +– blogging sites used to share thoughts,

research, links and commentary on popular issues

– threads for discussion follow ons– shareable

• -– personal opinions and validity of perspective?– motives for blogging clear?

Twitter

• + – fast paced sharing platform– connecting technology to other platforms

• blogs / videos / articles

– tweet chats and hashtags– lists to "curate" content from followers

• -– relentless– short number of characters - clarity?

Storify

• +– aggregate a series of connected posts using

tags from channels– create a story from disparate posts to show

the build of learning/discussion points

• -– reach and audience followers - little known

platform to many– could be a lot of chatter / posts in a story

If This Then That

• + – create recipes and formulas that take posts

and curate them into platforms and bookmarking apps

– use others recipes or make your own

• -– recipes need to be focused else it becomes

an overloaded storage facility

Bookmarking tools

• App based storage facilities– Evernote

– Pocket– Feed.ly– Stumble Upon

• aggregator tools– Flipboard– Paper.li

How do YOU make Social Media work for you as a learning tool?

• Social Media ITSELF has tools created by people to help you learn them

• Tools like Evernote build their own "how to" on their websites and within their apps

• Be part of a sharing economy– the more you share the more you get back

• Create your network built around people who help you learn

Be social: learn with each other

@tompaisley

@perrytimms