USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

TOOLS in STUDENT

ENGAGEMENT

dave warlick –“our classrooms are the only places where our students live in the 20th

century”

Professor Chiso Okafor

Definition

• Social Media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism, one-to-many, to a many-to-many model, rooted in conversations between authors, people, and peers (Solis, B., 2010)

• "Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

Components

• Six core principles underlie the value of social-media solutions, and, in combination, serve as the defining characteristics that set social media apart from other forms of communication and collaboration.

• Participation

• Collective

• Transparency

• Independence

• Persistence

• Emergence (Bradley, A., 2010)

A Vision of Students Today

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=relmfu

A short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University (2007)

Social Media: Tracking Its Exponential

Growth• http://smartdatacollective.com/pamdyer/23030/social-media-tracking-its-exponential-growth-stats-video

Social Media and Educational Links

Tools• http://mashable.com/2010/10/16/free-social-media-tools-for-teachers/

• Integrating Web 2.0 into the Classroom Part Twohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7X5_BS0ceU

• How teachers can use Glogster (no more poster boards or tri-folds!)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Go-piDcRg

• Google Docs for Teachers Introduction in 5 Minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXQmbj3EpCg&NR=1

• Twitter: Top Twitter Tools Exposed & Explained at Lightning Speed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvVg8PtaGWs

• 35 best Web 2.0 classroom tools http://edudemic.com/2010/07/the-35-best-web-2-0-classroom-tools-chosen-by-you/

• Wordle –Create mishmash words - http://www.wordle.net/• Google apps• Tweetdeck - https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23biology

• Linkdin - http://www.linkedin.com/• Igoogle - http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en&source=mpes# t_2• Jing – video capture - http://www.techsmith.com/Jing/?gclid=CIOM6-Wjg6kCFUZn5QodViHX3w

• Dropbox –for all your files, pictures online - http://www.dropbox.com /• bighuge labs – flickr images formats• ag galaxy-search images using keywords

More Tools

• Course Siteshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTIaBTl1Apc

• Khan Academy  http://www.khanacademy.org/

• youtube tutorial http://youtu.be/n7Go-piDcRg

• Second Life avatar for business/social science http://secondlife.com/whatis/?lang=en-US

• LMS to create case studies http://www.udutu.com/about.html

• Animoto to create slide shows http://animoto.com/

• Gonimate – to create your own cartoon http://goanimate4schools.com/public_index

• Voice thread – used to engage, collaborate and connect http://ed.voicethread.com/#

• Tag Galaxy –photo veiwing site

FYI

• Better Googling

• The trick is to add site:*.sc.gov to the query where site: specifies which Web site (or sites) you want to search. In this case, I also used the wild card * before sc.gov so that any site run by the state government will be included.

• voicethread- presentation

• ProfHacker – Chronicle of higher ed

• Wired campus

So what’s Out There?