1. How can we be
using technology to
better engage the
ummah?
Is it time to re-invent the wheel?

2. Social Media
• The world has been gripped by social media
and the youth have taken communication to a
new level.
FACEBOOK = TWITTER = What does this mean???
750 million 175 Million
members members
1/6 people in the world has a 75m New users in the year
Facebook account A versatile and widely accessed
2010-2011. platform to reach people.
2010-2011 Facebook saw 62% Increase in mobile users in The platform of media chosen by
over 60% increase in users youth today.
2010
accesing via mobile devices.
PLEASE READ ON!
Indonesia 2nd largest 230m Tweets processed each
population on FB. India 3rd, Turkey 5th. day.

3. Internet & Mobile Learning
• We have already seen the percentages of
people using social networks.
• 77% of the worlds population use a mobile
phone. 91% of Americans use a mobile
phone to access social media. Remember
what the 2nd,3rd and 5th countries to use
social media were? UK is the 2nd.

4. So what can we do?
• The following ideas are not a one size fits all.
• It may work for some and it may inspire you
to do something different.
• These are a list of ideas put together by
great and innovative teachers that have
shared their ideas using social media.
• As a teacher, I have found many useful and
developed many ideas to engage students
using these examples.
• These ideas can be adapted and used to
develop our method of dawah and teaching.

5. Giving a lecture?
• Use Twitter/FB/G+ to get opinions of listeners:
a. Use http://twtpoll.com/ to create a poll that can be
answered using mobile phones.
b. Q&A at the end? ask members to tweet questions straight
to a twitter account (Easier for sisters in some mosques)
c. Use Twitter/FB to ask questions related to the next lecture.
d. Set HW tasks and asks members to tweet findings/links of
a topic before/after a lecture.
e. Use Paper.li to create an online newspaper that members
can contribute to using hashtags or RSS feeds

6. Giving a lecture?
f. Create a Google form using Google Docs to produce
a scavanger hunt. (in other words create an online
quiz and asks members to research and fill in the
answers.
•UseQR codes - See the slide about QR
Codes!

7. Want to know community
issues?
•Use Twitter to get opinions of community on
issues:
1. Again you could use twtpoll.com/
2. You could create a hashtag (#) about a topic
and ask people to respond to your twitter
account
3. Use the community to find out current news
locally (twt/FB/G+)

8. Want to share with the
community?
• Use twitvid.com to send out videos that can be
viewed on mobile phones
• Use Twitter/Facebook/Google+ to send out a
daily hadith/ayah/historical event or short
biography or information on a historical figure.
• Link lectures, recitation, ebooks and other
documents to online file sharing services such as
dropbox or HiDrive.

9. QR Codes
• You would have seen these around. Advertisers are
using them to share information of products and
services everywhere from bus stops to shops.
1. Use QR codes on posters around the masjid
2. Have a projector in your lectures? You could add a
QR code on slides that listeners could follow up on by
doing extra research.
3. QR codes can link to a website
4. Link QR Codes directly to online shared files on
services like Dropbox or HiDrive.

10. QR Codes
4. QR codes can also be used to show text not linked to
the web. You could ask a question in your
slide/lecture and reveal the answer using QR code.
5. Add QR code to your monthy masjid newsletter to link
to a website expanding on information and events.
6. Link to a sound clip or other type of file. (see sound
slide)
7. QR can be used for much more check out this link to
create them

11. Using Audio
1. Upload ayah, lectures and audiobooks for
others to listen to using podcasting websites
such as Podbean, Dropbox, HiDrive etc.
2. These websites have brilliant ways to help
share your uploaded files to social networks,
email or to embed into web pages.
3. You could also create QR code linking
directly to your files/sounds.

12. Online tools are free to
use
• Google Docs - Office applications with online
collaboration
• Working on creating something like a
publication, a presentation or a book? Use
good docs to create it online.
• You can use the collaborative tools to work
on the document with several people at the
same time.
• Create a Google Docs Form to get feedback
from your online community on Twt/FB/G+

13. Thanks
• I honestly hope that you have found this useful. If so
please share it with members of your community, your
imam or sheikh.
• If you feel this needs improving or you have some ideas
that you could add to it please email me or drop me a
tweet @ either:
• @abou_ilyas or @ali_mulla
• Again! Most of these ideas are not my own. But I know
they are ideas that can be adapted and used to develop
methods of dawah and teaching the deen.
• Jazak Allah khair