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Social Learning: how do you use social media & e-portfolios in the
classroom?with Sheny Gregory
Certified Career Counsellor, Social Media Enthusiast,
e-portfolio facilitator & SUP board paddler
qr codes: instant info using a smart phone
social learning: learning from one another in
a social context
e-learning: learning from virtual situations through
internet, video, collaboration in e-formats
StatsFacebook 800million users (july 2011)
Twitter 200million users (2011)
Linkedin 120million users (march 2011)
Google+ 25million users 10mill in 2 weeks of “limited phase” Tumbler 13 million users
google #1 search engineyoutube #2
Gen Y catching up to Gen X on
twitterBy 2013 mobile smart phones used most in
world (out# PC’s)
Social Media is not a fad.It is not a
Gen Y thang!
SM is the new telephone.
SM is a way to build relationships.
It does not replace f2f......
Social Media is the ideal precursor to
f2fThe purpose of social media is to meet f2f,
share ideas, solve problems
e.g. tweetups, Obama, Egypt
Old school social
New school social
So how do you start?
You need a Base: website, blog &
e-portfolio
Your website: it’s yours, you
own itFacebook,
Linkedin, Twitter could be gone
next year
Your school website• You own it
• You have control over all aspects of it
• You will have your website after all the “latest” social media tools have faded
• Look at myspace, yahoo that were once “all that” & are now crowded out by FB, Linkedin, Twitter, google
Link FB LN Twitter to your website & vice versa
Your e-portfolio
• an e-portfolio is the result of a reflective process and builds your career profile to increase your on-line presence for recruiting purposes
• All high school students in BC need an e-portfolio to graduate
• Universities use them to organize work, share progress, apply for internships
http:selenamartin.jigsy.com
http://shenygregory.weebly.com
Your blog• on-line journal used
to share your insights, thoughts, expertise that represent the brand of your school/approach to teaching
• Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega @hummingbird604
• Dr. Janni Aragon @janniaragon
twitter.com a microblog
• 140 characters to say your thing, use url’s, use 120 characters for RT
• Use to share expertise in your subject area; 1-9 rule
• Share local updates & lifestyle insights to your customer base
• @tourismcollege1
• @cdicollege
• @Miss604 Miss604 blog blog not twitter
Uses for Facebook
• Post notices, events & reminders to students
• Post community involvement like charity fundraising
• Keep in touch with alumni & sponsors
• Maintain open channel between you & students
LinkedinThink
Professional version of Facebook
Linkedin: alumni
rss feeds really simple syndication
rss feed page
Honorable Mentions
• Delicious
• Flikr
• stumbleupon
• digg
• foursquare
• yelp
• renren (FB of China)Qzone
Future Trends?• Google+ interesting
to see what happens with google circles etc
• ipad
• i tablets
• ?
PRIZES!
How to apply social media to....?
• Classroom
• Professionally with colleagues
• Within your community
• With sponsors
in the classroom
• reminders of assignments due
• Links to reading material
• correspondence asynchronous time
• @janniaragon
• @hummingbird604
• @
Top Tips from Raul@hummingbird604
• Social Media does not replace teaching
• Social Media does not replace lecture
• Offers an interactive style of teaching
• Forces all students to twitter
• it is about efficiency when u have 1200 emails per day!
Tips from @Janniaragon• Use twitter in more advanced
classes younger students not twitter saavy yet; use FB for them
• use youtube to break up lecture every 20 minutes
• send out user reminders every 2 weeks if don’t use it, lose it
• “twitter changed my life” student tweeted after following United Nations
• “
Professionals
• Get on LINKEDIN
• individually then your school & its employees
• Create your own e-portfolio
• teacher to teacher: create a blog to share stuff (non-public)
• keep principle/owner in the loop with updates via eportfolio and blogs eportfolios for managers
Community• teacher to
community
• student to community
• twitter, FB, blogs, google+
• share images, videos on community events
great example of promoting hands-on
curriculum & bras for a cause fundraiser
PRIZES!
Now what?
add cat picture here
Create a new habit
Make it part of your routineWho checks phone
messages & email while having morning coffee?
Add to that list, check linkedin, twitter feeds & Facebook comments &
RESPOND
Top Tips to start• Learn one tool well
then move onto the next one
• choose which social media tool is best for your goals
• use in conjunction with marketing plan/teaching plan
• Social Media needs to tie into your school’s strategic goals
Create an idea sandbox so never run out of ideasBlog 2-3x per week, daily idealUse the community you have & build around that using twitter, FB SM management software: tweetdeck, hootesuite, post latest blog post, drive traffic to blog; FB page bring traffic to bloguse youtube or video sharing ; 45 million Linkedin - promote status updates & LN groupsno spamming
provide value
Advanced Strategy
Advanced strategy
Your turn• As long as the web remains open to all, it provides access to all, without discrimination based on politics, economics, gender, race, or religion. It is open to all to share stories, passions, dreams, knowledge, prctical wisdom hopes and aspirations. It allows more voices than ever before to be heard
Get into Pairs• What is the most
innovative technology you are aware of today in any field - art, health, education, transportation, manufacturing?
• Describe in detail some of the innovative technologies you know about & what they do.
What are their benefits?What excites you about these
technologies?
What technologies do you use in your current job?
How is your work and the quality of your work and life
helped by these technologies?
part II: pair up w/ another group
• Introduce your partners and share highlights of their partners 2 stories
• 1. what is the best technology they are aware of?
• 2. how are they best using technology at work?
What common themes reveal the best & most successful experiences with
technology?
Select 1 story that illustrates impressive technology & share
with one other group.
Shout out the top technologies talked
about
• i-pads?
• i-tablets?
• -e-books?
• iphone 5?
• samsung android?
What if I learn twitter then it’s gone?
• “It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame”
• -marshall mcluhan 1911-1980McLuhan is known for coining the expressions "
the medium is the message" and "the global village" and predicted the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented
Social Revolution
• The Social revolution is here
• Social Media has changed the way we communicate & organize things & build relationships
• Join the conversation
• Be a fan
• Get linkedin