Technology enhance learning workshop: Social media for educators

Tanya Joosten, @tjoostenDirector, Interim, Learning Technology CenterLecturer, Department of CommunicationUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Who am I?

I will change the world

Getting started with Twitter

Complete bio or profile

Tips for completing your bio• Upload a picture of yourself, true

representation

• Follow the social media culture

• Focus on potential common interests

• Identify your educational institution

• Be professional, yet personal

How to update your bio

Navigating the interface

Tweeting: Introduce yourself

I’m Tanya Joosten from University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, teach communication, help other faculty use technology #TELW12

Build your network

Following

Hashtags

• #telw12• #edusocmedia• #edtech• #highered

#socmedia #sachat #edchat #lrnchat

Google: education hashtags

Others ways to network

• Conference hashtags (#blend12, #et4online, #eli12, #nmc12)

• Join live sessions (#edchat, #sachat)

• Review campus twitter accounts and hasthags (@uwm, #iamuwm)

Tips to developing a network• Update social media profiles to include

an image and a bio appropriate for the social media.

• Connect with colleagues through conference or professional group hashtags.

• Identify useful or influential colleagues and review to who they are connected.

• Participate in your educational institution’s social media accounts.

Social media: Why do we care

Who are our students?

Why do we need to transform?

Engage us

Be human

I want to feel connected

According to a survey by Joosten (2009), students reported that they need good

(67%) and frequent communication (90%) with their instructor and good communication with their classmates (75%). They also reported that they

need to feel connected to learn (80%) (http://tinyurl.com/yafu8qz).

I don’t use e-mail

According to PEW Internet study, “Teens who participated in focus groups for this

study said that they view email as something you use to talk to ‘old people,’ institutions, or to send complex instructions to large groups “ (http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2005/Teens-and-Technology.aspx?r=1).

I *do* use social media – A LOT

According to Bulik (July 8th, 2009) “…They

go to social networking sites 5 days per week and check in 4 times a day for a total of an hour per day” (para 7).

According to PEW Internet study, “…

Nearly three-quarters (72%) of online 18-29 year olds use these sites–similar to the rate among teens–with 45% doing so on a typical day” (http://tinyurl.com/33hynyx).

900+ Million on Facebook

95.1% use social media, primarily Facebook, on a daily basis

96% of undergraduate students reported using Facebook

I am mobile

According to Joosten (2009), 71% of students want to receive text messages about their class (http://tinyurl.com/yafu8qz).

According to PEW Interent, “the

typical American teen sends and receives 50 or more messages per day, or 1,500 per month.”

Answer… social media?

What is social media?

What is social media?

What is social media?

Web 2.0

Social Media

Social Networking

Sites

Boyd and Ellison (2007)

 web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system,

(2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and

(3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system

People sharing; everybody and anybody can share anything anywhere

Solutions UWMSocialMedia.wikispaces.com

Complementing LMS, not replacing

Rachel Baum, Jewish Studies

Susan Stalewski, Health Sciences

Satisfaction

Engagement, Learning, Presence

Communication and Networks

Would you recommend the instructor continue using the social networkingtools? Why or Why not?

If you could fix one thing about the use of the social networking tools, what would it be?

Other benefits of social media

Increases interactions between instructors and students

Enhances communicationBuilds feelings of connectednessOvercomes the challenges of

students at a distance or in remote locations

Facilitates providing timely student feedback

Helps students stay organized Increases student performanceProvides a medium for instructors

enhance their identity and encourage students

Results in high levels of satisfaction of instructors and students

Day 2

Social media: What do we do with it?

5 questions to consider

What is the pedagogical need?How will the selected social media

help meet that need?What aspects of the learning process

should be improved?What learning outcomes can be

better achieved through the use of the selected social media over other technologies?

What is the expected behavior of students within the selected social media?

What is your pedagogical need?

Increase communication and contactEngage students through rich,

current mediaGather and provide feedback in the

classroomCreate a cooperative and

collaborative learning opportunitiesProvide experiential learning

opportunities

Increase feedback opportunities in the classroom using Twitter

Building cooperation and feedback

Back to hashtags

CATs Peer Instruction Reflection

An example

Monica Ranking, UT Dallas, History

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPVWDkF7U8

CATs Activity via Twitter

1.) Answer the question, what is the muddiest point or the point least unclear from this mornings idscussion?

2.) Post your question on Twitter using #telw12.

3.) Respond to at least one other peer on Twitter. Don’t forget to use #telw12.

Tips in the classroom

1. Determine on what you want feedback: the entire class session or one self-contained segment (lecture, discussion, presentation)?

2. Reserve time at the end of the class session or segment to ask the question, for students to respond, and to collect the responses.

3. Let students know beforehand how much time they will have to respond and what you will do with their responses.

Tips in the classroom

4. Allow students to respond using social media, which may include logging into the wireless network and the selected social media tools (e.g., Twitter).

5. Collect their responses using the social media feed through a web-based application or social dashboard (Twazzup, Twitter search, or Tweetdeck).

6. Respond to student’s feedback immediate in class, online in the course management system after class, during the next class meeting, or as soon as possible afterward.

More CATs, Angelo and Cross

josseybass.com

Classroom Assessment Techniques, Angelo and Cross, 1993

Peer Instruction via Twitter 1. Instructor poses a question based on

students’ response to a piece of content (reading, lecture, presentation) or activity (online or f2f discussion);

2. Students reflect on the question and commit to an individual answer by responding using the selected social media (e.g., Twitter).

3. Instructor reviews student responses using the social media feed through a web-based application or social dashboard (e.g., Twazzup, Twitter search, or Tweetdeck).

4. Students then pair up with a partner and discuss their thinking and answers with their peers face to face.

5. Students then commit again to an individual using the selected social media.

6. Instructor again reviews responses using the social media and decides whether more explanation is needed before moving on to the next concept.

Peer Instruction: A User's ManualEric MazurSeries in Educational Innovation

(Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997) 253 pages URL

http://mazur.harvard.edu/publications.php

Benefits

• Provides an opportunity for active learning in large lectures

• Enhances students participation and engagement in class 

• Provides frequent, low stakes feedback on student learning

• Creates an opportunity for just in time teaching or to address weaknesses in student learning

• Provides a strategy for integrating blended courses, online and f2f

• Develops cooperation among students

• Increases students satisfaction

Increase communication to mobile devices using Twitter

Increasing communication and encouraging contact

Who are our students?

• I want to feel connected

• I don’t use email

• I use social media, a lot

• I am mobile

One case

Need: Increase communication and contact

How will a social media help meet that need?

Students are already using it, or it is available on mobile devices

Provides instant or immediate access to information

Lean medium that is primarily text based

Requires focused and succinct messages with a manageable amount of information

Twitter

Getting started with Twitter

Increase communication through a Facebook fan page

Getting started with Facebook

Create a fan page

Share rich media and content on various social media to engage students

Developing a richer learning experience

Creating a YouTube Account

Your YouTube Channel

Creating a YouTube Playlist

YouTube alternatives

CONTENT & PUBLICATION SchoolTube TeacherTube Vimeo

EDUCATIONAL CONTENT MIT World PBS.org TED YouTube.EDU

And many more!

Benefits

Improving student learning

Helps instructors manage their workload 

Enhances 21st century literacy skills for instructors and students

Facilitates the use of rich and current content

Enhances student engagement 

Get to work!

Designing your activity

What is your pedagogical need?What is your desired result or

learning outcome?What documentation from students

will you required that they achieved this result?

How will you assess the student’s contribution?

What learning activity will the students participate in?

Breakout Activity

What are the costs associated with implementing the use of social media for faculty, staff, and students?

Breakout Activity

How do we teach students to use social media appropriately?

Breakout Activity

What concerns should we have about privacy in our use of social media?

Breakout Activity

What are some best practices in using social media?

Breakout Activity

How do we evaluate the impact of social media?

Develop strategies for managing your social media

5 questions to consider

• What is the pedagogical need?

• How will the selected social media help meet that need?

• What aspects of the learning process should be improved?

• What learning outcomes can be better achieved through the use of the selected social media over other technologies?

• What is the expected behavior of students within the selected social media?

What is your pedagogical need?• Increase communication and encourage

contact

• Engage students through rich, current media

• Gather and provide feedback in the classroom

• Create a cooperative and collaborative learning opportunities

Social Dashboards - TweetDeck

EDUSOCMEDIA

Youtube.com, Twitter.com

#edusocmediaEdusocmedia.wikispaces.com

Connect with me

twitter.com/tjoosten

facebook.com/tjoosten

juice gyoza | second life

professorjoosten.blogspot.com

tanyajoosten. com

Considerations

Managing student expectationsBYO Device, Apps/Browsers/TextingAssessmentHashtagAggregatorArchivesTiming/Classroom Management Support – students, instructors

Considerations

Managing student expectationsBYO Device, Apps/Browsers/TextingAssessmentHashtagAggregatorArchivesTiming/Classroom Management Support – students, instructors