Presented at the eTc 2010 Conference "Advancing Learning: Let’s Get Creative!" May 26-28, 2010.

1. using
Social
Media
engage
to
your students

2. Agenda
Social Media and its Purpose
Examples of popular social media
Common concerns
Hands-on activities
Useful links/Q and A

3. Social Media
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng

4. Purpose
connect with connect with network between
each student many students students /
outside of the instructor
class

5. This is their
playground

6. Addresses different
learning styles

7. “ ”digital
citizenship

8. voice / feedback /
input  ownership
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakxy/

9. Creates a classroom
community

11. links related to
the topic
resources
supplementary
content

13. upload and share
instructional videos;
discussions;
interviews;
presentations…
supplementary
lecture material
student
presentations
humourous clips to
break up a long
lecture
can have subtitles
(different
languages) and
annotations

15. daily tweet – definitions, concepts, word of the
day, useful web resource or news article pertinent
to what was just covered or what will be covered
notify students of changes to course content,
schedules, rooms, due dates
reminders of due dates
direct tweet with students
(don’t have to share cell phone #’s)
serves as a review and study tool
instant feedback

16. Concerns...
Losing control over the No time to learn how
course to use social media
• This conversation is • Same thing was likely
already happening said when
(with or without you) Blackboard,
– consider ROI Networked
(Risk of Ignoring) computers and/or
• You can manage the voicemail was
conversation better if introduced
you’re a part of it

17. Useful links
Social Media in Plain English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIOClX1jPE
Twitter in Plain English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
A Vision of Students Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
The Twitter Experiment – UT Dallas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPVWDkF7U8
Classroom 2.0
http://www.classroom20.com/
Teaching the Teachers about Social Media
http://www.slideshare.net/KSLeBlanc/teaching-the-teachers-about-social-media
Facebook http://facebook.com
YouTube http://youtube.com
Twitter http://twitter.com
Flickr http://flickr.com

18. Use Twitter to get instant feedback (#etc2010conf)

19. Bhupesh Shah, B.Sc,. MBA
bhupesh.shah@senecac.on.ca
416.720.1205 | ethnicomm.com
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