Role of Social Media in Teaching & Learning

1. Role of Social Media in Teaching & Learning Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty Department of Business Studies Ibra College of Technology Sultanate of Oman

2. The Social Media visionaries…. • Facebook- Mark Zuckerberg • Twitter- Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams • Linkedin- Reid Hoffman • Wikipedia- Jimmy Wales • Blogger- Evan Williams • MOODLE- Martin Dougiamas Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

3. Introspect and Soul Search • Are you a NETIZEN? • How often do you log into the internet? • Which site you visit the first, the second, the third and so forth? • Where do you spend most of your web hours and why? • What are the takeaways you derive after every hour spent on the web? • Do you use social media? If, yes, which one and for what? • Have you tried social media in your profession? • Do you think social media adds value to your professional acumen? Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

4. Contents • Social media visionaries • Introspection and Soul Searching • Background • Teachers Guide • Introduction • Social media landscape • Social Media • Facebook • Wikipedia • Micro-blog • Blog • Google Groups • Google plus • Linkedin • Youtube • Benhance • Slideshare • Resources • Comparison • Activity • Food for thought Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

5. Background • Technology more than an enabler in education • Smart Phones, PDA’s, Hand held devices are the gizmos students like to use • Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Wikis are the new tools for networking and knowledge sourcing and sharing • Wi-Fi campuses are the new infrastructural benefits, educational campuses provide • Learning innovation, faster replication (Viral) through virtual medium are the causes for fast dissemination of knowledge Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

6. Teachers guide to Social Media • Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8lFrW4CSuI • Click http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/teachers-guide-social-media_b25989 • (Source: Online Colleges. Learn button via Shutterstock.) Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

7. Introduction • Social media- Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. (Oxford Dictionary) • Role in teaching-learning- • A supplementary teaching-learning tool • A follow up tool • A novel assessment tool • A tool to encourage interaction and peer learning • A tool for innovative, experiential team based learning • A tool for customized one to one learning between learner and tutor • A tool to measure independent learning takeaway by every learner • Advantages- • Enables two way communication in real time • Mitigates geographical constraint • Encourages self paced learning • Techno-savvy professionals are groomed • Customized user friendly and collaborative contents are prepared • 7x24x365 learning Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

8. Social Media Landscape Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

9. Social Media • Social media are web-2.0 applications • Web 2.0 allow user to interact, collaborate in social media • Web 2.0 also allow to create user generated content in a virtual community • Major social media tools used in education- • Face book, MySpace, Orkut • Blogs • Micro-blogs/Twitter • You-tube • Mashups • Linkedin • Wikis • Google+ • Podcasting • Webinar Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

10. Face book • Create a page on a specific learning community (Refer https://www.facebook.com/DrManisPageForHisLearnerAndTrainees?ref=hl ) Build your audience comprising of the learner Administrator gets weekly summary Encourage learning/revision/assessments by posting and encouraging participations of learner in- Quotes Situations/Case-lets Applied questions Video analysis Assessments Announcements * Key to success-Innovative ways of presenting through audio-visual and crispy mode, ensuring contents go viral through maximum participation * Beware of plagiarism and subsequent consequences! Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

11. Face book • Education centered groups- • EU-educators, don Quizote school, Multi-lingualism global groups, e-learning in developing and developed countries, Active learning group, Teaching critical thinking, Teacher2teacher network, wikieducator, Atlantis, Central Michigan University off-campus programs, Edutopia etc. Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

12. Wikipedia • It can be used in the following ways- • (1) Search and read contents • (2) Contribute and Edit contents and view history of content (Refer http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Business_ethics&action=edit) • (3) User-talk for content development related to courses ( Refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Drmanishankar) • (4) User Sandbox is a sub-page of user’s user page serving as a testing spot for the user and not an encyclopedia article (Refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Drmanishankar/sandbox) Major benefits are- • Collaborative content development with localized and globalized inputs • Periodical editing Challenges • Source of contents • Plagiarism Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

13. Micro-blog/Twitter • Uploading study materials • Several bytes each time, rather than at one go in line with the classroom delivery • Graphs, illustrations, videos etc. can be shared • (Refer https://twitter.com/twelearnmani or https://twitter.com/manitwitts) • Maximizing messaging options • Private chats for individual clarifications • Video chat for non-verbal cues related explanation for better interactivity • Getting more educators • Educators from the network adds value to the discussions, forum plays important role Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

14. Micro-blog/Twitter • Performing assessments • Individual assessments can be done by tagging individuals • Groups or topics on which interaction can happen be formed • Hashtags and tweet chats can be used to bring students together • Some popular hashtags related to education • #AcAdv • #ESDGC • #esl • #gtchat • #highered • #homeschool • #ipaded • #kinderchat • #mlearning • #nclb • #onlineed/#onlinelearning • #opened • #playoutdoors • #scholarship • #school • #smedu • #spedchat • #TLChat • #urbaned Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

15. Blogs • An online diary hosted on the internet • E.g. http://www.hbs.edu/about/social-media/Pages/faculty-social-media.aspx • E.g. http://drmaniforstudents.blog.com/ • Usage of blogs are manifold- • Announcements • Sharing information and content • Additional reading resources • Assessments • Thread initiation • Group discussion and learning • Some blogs of faculties- • http://www.facultyfocus.com/topic/articles/teaching-professor-blog/ http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategy-guides/teaching-with-blogs-30108.html http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/10/12/100-best-professors-who-blog/ http://ferrada-noli.blogspot.com/ http://theelearningcoach.com/elearning2-0/12-blogs-by-professors/ http://science-professor.blogspot.com/ http://academic-jungle.blogspot.com/ http://occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald/ http://www.manishankarthetrainer.blogspot.com/ http://edudemic.com/2011/12/teacher-blogs/ http://manishankarscribbles.wordpress.com/ Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

16. Google Groups and Google+ • Course/Section based groups • Sharing of learning resources • Additional information, illustrations • Initiation of topic based threads/forums for discussions • Individual insights and evaluation along with peer learning is possible • Online assessments and their evaluation • Refer (https://groups.google.com/grphp?hl=en&pli=1 in maildrmani@gmail.com) • Google plus can be accessed by visiting You plus in gmail • Hangouts, Circles of students and teachers are used in teaching/learning Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

17. Linkedin • Professional networking portal • It can be used in the following ways for teaching and learning- • Networking with professionals • Participation in different forums and groups • Collaborative learning through customized threads • Inputs from domain experts on content development • Industry specific illustrations, examples by discussing theoretical topics with industry experts • Great Books Group, Learning, Education and Training Professionals group, many company and sector specific groups. Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

18. You-tube • Teaching courses/concepts through videos of films/documentaries/interviews • Assessments through videos of films/documentaries/interviews • Faculty recorded videos as knowledge reinforcement tools • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyf2xjx4mzU (Documentary) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5BhDaKD4kc (Explanation) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OeSk90yDlk (Faculty recorded reinforcement) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHzTUYAOkPM (Classroom management) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oiW9SNpHvc (Marketing management) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9QWojx8qE (Human Resource management) Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

19. Benhance • http://www.behance.net/Manishankar • Teaching through pictures • Innovative design/creativity driven assessments • Sharing and publishing student/teacher’s work • Additionally flickr and picassa can be used for sharing/gathering digital photos as analogs are difficult to be retrieved and reused. Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

20. Slideshare • Upload presentations for review/comments • Download presentations for usage • Review contents of other contributors • Additional resources for teaching and learning • E.g. www.slideshare.net • Administrator gets weekly summary Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

21. Additional social media related resources for Education • Buddypress-Global Social network on web 2. • SCN-Students Circle Network- Connects schools, students and teachers. • Course-cracker- Elementary school teacher networking platform. • Diigo- Classroom2.0 on practical application of computer technology. • Picasa in education • Elgg- Social network for schools and community in the Middle-east. • i-Teach Mobile- Community of educators exploring the use of mobile technologies. • Linkedin- Ning • ArtEd2.0 • Assessment for Learning • Browardbyte • Business Social Network • E-college • Edublogger Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

22. Comparison

23. Activity • Form groups of 5 members each preferably from various departments. • Identify five opportunities for the application of social media in the teaching and learning sphere of Ibra College of Technology. • Identify five major challenges for incorporating social media in the teaching and learning domain of Ibra College of Technology. • Suggest measures/strategies that would help in overcoming the aforesaid challenges. • List out five value additions you may derive by incorporating social media in the teaching and learning processes of Ibra College of Technology. • Identify a leader within your group who can present the findings derived out of the brainstorming session. • Time allotted for group discussion=15 minutes.

24. Some food for thought-Social Media • Avoiding misuse of resources by teacher-learner duo • Protecting the identity of female students (ID related FB account devoid of real name and picture) • Complimenting with the existing teaching-learning mechanism • Creating awareness among the unaware segment • Avoiding replication of work • Original content protection from plagiarism • Proper referencing of contents used to avoid legal hassles • Scheduling of the usage of social media sans disturbances in routine teaching-learning • Developing a flair for the usage of social media in education and practicing it in unison • Hackers Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty

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26. Floor open for discussion…. • Thanking you! • Happy Learning & Teaching through Social Media!!! Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty