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Best Practices in Social Media

Best Practices in Social Media. CTET Lunch and Learn, October 30th. Social Media = Social Software. Software that enables people to rendezvous , connect and collaborate through computer-mediated communications. from wikipedia.org.

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Best Practices in Social Media

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  1. Best Practices in Social Media CTET Lunch and Learn, October 30th

  2. Social Media = Social Software Software that enables people to rendezvous, connect and collaborate through computer-mediated communications. fromwikipedia.org

  3. Web 2.0 =“interconnectivity and interactivity of web-delivered content”fromwikipedia.org Diaz, V. & Rodrigo, S. (2008). Web 2.0 and the 21st Century Learner. Available at: http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/Web20forthe21stCenturyLea/47388. 3

  4. Kinds of Web 2.0 Applications • Social Bookmarking • Blogs • Wikis • Social Networking • Social Media Sharing • Mashups • Synchronous VOIP • Virtual Worlds

  5. Why use Web 2.0 applications at RRU?

  6. Challenges • Maximizing educational value -- tools not designed for educational use • Limited support to users • No institutional support/control • Integration with existing platforms, i.e. separate log-ins • Security issues • Changing environment • Choice can be overwhelming

  7. Make It Personal From: Diaz, V. & Rodrigo, S. (2008). Web 2.0 and the 21st Century Learner. Available at: http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/Web20forthe21stCenturyLea/47388. 7

  8. The Road Ahead “The hope for this new generation of tools, which are sometimes grouped as Web 2.0, is that they will provide important ways for people to discover each other, make connections, and foster conversations that will grow over time.” Sreebny (2007)

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