1. Using Social Media in the Classroom
– Across Disciplines
Laura De La Cruz, MBA/MPA
Dona Ana Community College

2. Uses of Social Media
 Engagement – pull students into learning via a
variety of media
 Assessment – determine if students are really
―getting‖ it
 Retention – foster a sense of community and create
stronger learning communities

3. Twitter
 Have students tweet imagined conversations
between famous literary characters
 Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy
 Or between famous people in history
 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

4.  Practice a foreign language via Twitter
 Find native speakers on Twitter to follow
 Ask students to watch a file and ―live tweet‖ their
own viewing, posting to Twitter whatever came to
mind as they watch the film.
 Use as an assessment tool in the class

5. Two Ways to Use Twitter
This
depends
In-Class or Out on your
goal!
IN-CLASS OUTSIDE OF CLASS
 Used for engagement and  Used as an assessment
assessment of student of student learning as
learning while in the class applied outside of the
 Instructor-driven class
 Assures involvement  Student-driven
of students present in  Student involvement
class not assured since
students are doing
this on their own

6. Either Way You Create a Timeline
 In-class it creates a timeline of
information covered in lecture
or discussions
 Out of class it creates a
timeline of student activities on
the project

7. In-Class Tweeting
Approximately every 15-20 Minutes
 Read every tweet  Select 2-3 that
 Stop and ask best represent
everyone to out loud
what was learned
―tweet‖ on a slip
of paper  Feel free to jump
on any teaching  Post on Twitter
 Collect all slips – moments that
remind students present
the tweets are themselves
anonymous

8. In-Class Tweeting
Principles of Selling

9.  Watch citizen journalism in action in other countries
 http://mashable.com/2013/01/14/twitter-mexico-violence/
 Tweet news – have students tweet news reports to
practice communicating succinctly

10. Facebook
 Use Facebook to create a Fan Page for a character
from literature or history

12. Google+
 Google+ has a section specifically for
viewing, managing and editing multimedia
 Create lectures for flipped classes
 Go to the Hangout and create areas for group work

13. Pinterest
 Start Boards for
 Visual Merchandising and Design
 Marketing Concepts
 Photo Journalism
 Geography
 Politics
 Sociology
 Astronomy
 Group Boards

14. Visual Merchandising

15. Product Marketing

16. Google Moderator
 Create interactive lectures by typing in questions and
letting students vote
 Include students in your preparation for
lectures, interviews and hard decisions or work
together to organize feature requests and brainstorm
new ideas.

17. TodaysMeet
 A microblogging site that is free and no account
needed
 Create a room, set a time limit, go to work
 Great for group discussions
 Q&A in the classroom
 Role-playing

19. Skype
 Office hours
 Language practice with native speakers
 Skype lessons, eg:
 Join Mark Wood on his Everest adventure
 NASA & Humans in Space

20. Ning
 Create your own social network
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CWKADzvCpA

21. Storify
 Storify is a free tool that allows users to tell stories
using social media. Students can pull
tweets, videos, pictures and more into a story on a
subject of their choosing.
 Create a multi-media book report
 ―Reenact‖ a historical event or scene from a book or
movie
 Pull together media on a scientific concept

22.  Use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google search,
RSS feeds, or enter links directly.
 Storify will create icons or embed the media into your
timeline.
 You can move things around as you want, and add
intervening blocks of text—headlines, descriptions,
etc.

24. Delicious
 Create reading lists for your classes
 Useful for students doing research
 Save useful websites
 As a history teacher, you might have a tag called, CivilWar.
Each time you find a site about the Civil War that you want
to share with students, you simply tag it as, CivilWar. The
next time you're at school and you want to use a web site
you've located at home, but you don't remember the web
address, you simply go to Delicious.com and search for your
CivilWar tag.
 Embed into Ning!

27. Audacity
 Audacity allows you to make free and easy podcasts
and MP3s where students can hear, edit and publish
themselves.
 Make an audio/radio advertisement
 Practice second language proficiency
 Narrate history
 Explain math solutions

28. Jing
 A free tool for creating screencasts
 Save a single image or movie (add narration) and publish
 Great for tutorials
 Have students save presentations
 Students record themselves doing research
 Students record themselves solving problems

29. Use for introductions in online classes!

30. Slideshare
 No more failed flashdrives
 Share PowerPoint presentations
 Students can review and comment on other student
presentations

31. Wikispaces
 Creates an area for collaboration
 Create a math learning center that includes links to
relevant math sites on the web and links to downloadable
math worksheets
 Use as a blog, upload video, provide
announcements, give out homework

32. 50 Ways to Use Wikis
 http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/50-ways-
to-use-wikis-for-a-more-collaborative-and-interactive-
classroom/

33. Social Media in the Classroom
 Are websites and learning management systems
dead?
 Is it now about your Digital Presence?