Presentation from the "Using Social Software Tools for Learning & Teaching" webinar delivered on 22nd January 2013/

1. Using Social Media for Learning &
Teaching
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2. Celeste McLaughlin & Joan Walker
Jisc RSC Scotland
Overview of Social Media
Using WIKIs
Using Blogs
Media Sharing
Curating Web Resources
Social Networking

3. ...........Web 2.0 sees a shift from the
Internet being a medium in which
information is transmitted and
consumed, into being a platform in
which content is created, shared,
remixed, repurposed and passed
along .....
Downes 2005

4. Constructivism Connectivism
“Know-how and
know-what is
being
supplemented
with know-
where”
Siemens (2005)

5. “The pipe is
more
important than
the content of
the pipe”
George Siemens
Image via Stephen Downes, UNESCO conference, Barcelona, 2009

6. The way people learn is
changing
Institutional Tools V Personal Tools
Individual V Social
Information V Communication
Passive V Interactive
Knowledge V Reflection
Dis-engaged? V Engaged?

7. Social Media
Using WIKIs
Using Blogs
Media Sharing
Curating Web Resources
Social Networking

10. Jisc RSC Scotland Case Study - http://www.rsc-scotland.org/?p=1426

11. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Music Matters Blog
music-matters.wikispaces.com (login required)

12. Music Matters: Using Social Media to Develop Collaborative Documentation
of Community Music Practice,
Jisc RSC Scotland Case Study - http://www.rsc-scotland.org/?p=930

14. http://blog.dundee.ac.uk/tqfe/

15. Jisc RSC Scotland Case Study - http://www.rsc-scotland.org/?p=1104

16. Supporting Learning with Facebook, Google &
Wordpress
• Introduced by
MediaSpace Team at
Carnegie College, Fife
• The Wordpress blog
was one of several tools
introduced to support
students on Creative
Industries courses
Jisc RSC Scotland Case Study: http://www.rsc-scotland.org/?p=493

18. http://www.rsc-scotland.ac.uk/Dragons/tweetsNpics.htm

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Jisc RSC Scotland Case Study - http://www.rsc-scotland.org/?p=232

21. Digital Curation
• Select & organise topic based, searchable
collections using online tools

27. Pinterest

29. Online Magazines

30. Digital Curation
/ Social Bookmarking
• Enables storing, organising & sharing favourite
websites
• Meaningful keywords added so collections are
searchable
• Bookmarks can be shared with students or
colleagues
• Sets of resources can be presented in visually
stimulating formats

31. Social Networking
• LinkedIn
• Google+
• FaceBook
Image from Flickr by HikingArtsit licensed through CC

32. Linkedin
• a social networking website for people in
professional occupations
• reports more than 200 million registered users
in more than 200 countries
• users to maintain a list of contact details of
people with whom they have some level of
relationship, called Connections
• Mobile Version available
Image from Flickr by clasesdeperdisom licensed through CC

33. Google+
• Combines social networking with other
services and connected through a Google
Profile e.g. Google Hangout, Google Circles,
Google Sparks ……….
Image from Wikimedia Commons

34. Facebook
Image form Wikimedia Commons
• Register and create a personal profile
• Find friends from other users
• Exchange messages / links
• Communicate through likes / comments /
suggestions
• Join / create groups
• Organise friends into lists
• Integrate third party apps

35. Using Facebook with learners
• Group Features
– Notifications
– Number of views
– File sharing
– Polling
– Add Events
– Add Images

36. Why Facebook? – what staff think
No special software required
I had a girl in my class who had Asperger's
Syndrome and one day she came to me to
ask how she could make friends. She didn't FB provides a great way to
know how to read faces and couldn't tell if get immediate feedback on
people wanted to talk to her or not. I any work submitted and
suggested she join the group on Facebook also an opportunity for
and start talking to her classmates, which peer support when tutors
she did, and found that she was able to chat aren't available.
really well. This gave her confidence the
boost she needed. Readable with any platform i.e. Smartphone,
We have a staff group just Android, iPad, Mac, Windows …..
for our subject and now post You do not need to have students as FB
info re our curriculum area. Friends. You can create class or level
This can be e.g. sharing groups and relate information to these
good practice, sharing future particular levels
digital technologies,
Students are frequently posting useful
discussion of students who
information, web links or examples of their
we might feel are in jeopardy
work to share with each other.
of FAILING.

37. Why Facebook? – what staff think
Facebook keeps the learner I find using the private messaging part of Facebook
community together once with students really useful when it comes to nipping
behaviour problems in the bud. There is just the right
college closes for the day. level of intimacy to make the student feel special when
you write to them privately. There were two students in
Students instantly see my level 5 class who were misbehaving in class. I
contributions have been made. messaged them and asked if there was something we
You can see who has looked at could do to make the class more enjoyable for them.
They both responded and started conversations about
your entries or any other how they found it difficult to concentrate in class and
comments, likes, etc - This can we then worked on strategies for dealing with this. A
sometimes set competitive edge to good result
submissions Groups develop their
It is the first time I have seen learners truly taking own AUP and learn to
responsibility for their learning, it was good to see
communicate with FB in
learning flourish among class members for a
particularly technical subject (Cisco routing), that a business like manner
historically always caused problems with learners.
The group have progressed to university and still I can give public praise or
actively use the group. This year’s learners are also private
part of this group, and also have their own FB
group.

40. Contact details
http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/scotland
support@rsc-scotland.ac.uk
Twitter: @RSCScotland
joan.walker@rsc-scotland.ac.uk celeste.mclaughlin@rsc-scotland.ac.uk
@joanwalker65 @celeste_mcl

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