Leveraging social media to deepen engagement in a community of practice for science educators.

1. SCEWe s tN et
Overview of social media as a tool
for building and maintaining a
community of practice

2. Groups of people who share a concern
or a passion for something they do
Community of Practice and learn how to do it better as they
interact regularly.

3. T h ou gh t lead er s h i p
• Slideshare.net
• Voicethread.com
• Mind mapping
• Blogging

4. Sl ide sh are. n et

5. Voic e T h read
Interactive slideshow or video
Comment with audio, video or
drawing
Used in classroom
Public or private
Accessible

8. Mind ma p p in g
• Mindomo.com
• Collaborative mind mapping
• Visual thinking and problem solving
• Work out processes
• Create useable spidergraphs

9. Collaborative mind mapping
Mindomo.com

10. Bl o gging
• Easy way to disseminate information
• Public or closed system
• Invite discussion through comments and cross blogging
• Invite guest posts from outside the nodes

16. Word p res s mult i -u s e r
• One “mother ship”
• All maintenance in one place
• Easy to add new blogs with a click
• Consistent look and feel
• Create dynamic list of bloggers
• Easily shared

18. Cura tio n an d R e se a rc h
• Search.Twitter.com
• Socialmention.com
• Diigo http://www.diigo.com/
• Pinterest http://pinterest.com/source/physics.ucla.edu/
• Scoop.it http://www.scoop.it/t/ocean-acidification

21. So c ialMe n tion . c om
• Search in real time
• Search a number of platforms
• Search by author, geographic location, language
• Find topics for discussion

24. D i igo

26. Pi nte res t
• Curate images and video to share with your networks
• Charts
• Infographics
• Virtual storyboarding
• Copyright issues

29. Sc o op. i t
• Content curation
• Magazine style presentation
• Real-time search
• Suggested content for your “Scoops”
• Disseminate to social networks

33. Com mu n ity ex a mp l e s
• https://www.ionicviper.org (2009)
• http://www.nature.com/scitable (nature and scientific american
• Wordpress Multi-user blogs

39. Twitt e r
• Asynchronous communication
• Outreach to other educators
• Research
• Professional development
• Traffic to source content

44. G oog le P lu s
• Twitter on steroids
• Threaded conversations
• Exchange links and information
• Research
• Video conferencing (Hangouts)

51. D oc Shar in g
• Google Docs
• Drop box

52. G oog le Docs
• Collaborate on documents
• Integrated with Hangouts
• Simultaneous collaboration
• Publish to a web page for sharing
• Educator resources:.google.com/educators

53. D rop Box
• Cross platform sharing
• All docs stored in the cloud
• Can be download and edited on any device
• Tracks activity

54. Wra p U p
• Questions
• What are we going to talk about tomorrow?
• Email me Janet@janetfouts.com
• Twitter @Jfouts
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