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Using Social Networks To Engage Students & Enhance their learning Eli Jacobs May 2012

Using Social Networks To Engage Students & Enhance their learning Eli Jacobs May 2012. Social Media. One billion tweets every week, 180,000,000 million every day. 200m twitter members worldwide 140m tweets sent daily.

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Using Social Networks To Engage Students & Enhance their learning Eli Jacobs May 2012

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  1. Using Social Networks To Engage Students & Enhance their learningEli JacobsMay 2012

  2. Social Media

  3. One billion tweets every week, 180,000,000 million every day 200m twitter members worldwide 140m tweets sent daily 450,000 new accounts created every day & 18,000 search tweets every second.

  4. Fish where the fish are…

  5. Twitter A “micro blogging” website where users can post short messages (tweets) of up to 140 characters and update other users including those who follow these posts as well as communicate with users directly. Tweets can contain links to other web sites. Posts can be grouped together using #hash tags, with any word or phrase with # in front, eg#HR or #graduate jobs. A RT (Retweet) when a users respectfully tweets someoneselses tweet.

  6. Objectives Increase student engagement - • Announcements: Rooms, Dates, Work Placement Vacancies, Reminders.... • Connect student with unfolding bus ethics stories – through news paper articles, videos, sites • Connect students with experts/organisations opinions & activities • Recap/Reinforce lectures & tutorials Additional Benefits: Enhanced MY learning, increased profile, managing cohorts is easier.

  7. Objectives Increase student engagement - • Announcements: Rooms, Dates, Work Placement Vacancies, Reminders.... • Connect student with unfolding bus ethics stories – through news paper articles, videos, sites • Connect students with experts/organisations opinions & activities • Recap/Reinforce lectures & tutorials Additional Benefits: Enhanced MY learning, increased profile, managing cohorts is easier.

  8. Objectives Increase student engagement - • Announcements: Rooms, Dates, Work Placement Vacancies, Reminders.... • Connect student with unfolding bus ethics stories – through news paper articles, videos, sites • Connect students with experts/organisations opinions & activities • Recap/Reinforce lectures & tutorials Additional Benefits: Enhanced MY learning, increased profile, managing cohorts is easier.

  9. Ethical Issues Ups and Downs • My uno bus journey • Module results & SFQ’s • Tracking & Survey • Semester End – drop out rates • Spam • What is a credible source? • Toyota & Walmart • Flouting the Law

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