Dana Allen-Greil

1. HOW TO SUPPORT LEARNING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA November 17, 2012 e. dana@jhu.edu t. @danamuses Dana Allen-Greil

2. Introduction Learning Objectives Defining Social media Interactive Polls Your Burning Questions

3. “Educational opportunities ought to be encouraged to provide scientists and ethicists with an overview of social media and strategies for utilizing social media as a tool for public engagement . . . educational efforts should provide them with a general understanding of the basics while promoting the potential value of social media engagement.” --Alan C. Regenberg, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, “Tweeting Science and Ethics: Social Media as a Tool for Constructive Public Engagement”

4. By the end of this session, faculty will be able to: 3 2 1

5. Defining social media web-based and mobile applications that allow individuals and organizations to create, engage, and share new user-generated or existing content in digital environments through multi-way communication Source: Davis et al. (2012). Social media and higher education: A literature review and research directions.

6. Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

7. Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

8. Burning Questions Workshop Wiki https://socialclassroom.wikispaces.com/Burning+Questions

9. learning 2.0 Social Learning The 3 c’s: Consume, Communicate, collaborate

12. Social Learning

13. Learning 2.0 can be used to:

14. The 3 Cs of Learning 2.0 Adapted from Institute for Prospective Technological Studies

15. The 3 Cs: Key Activities for Learners

18. The 3 Cs: Key Activities for Learners

19. Tools

20. SpotLight on Twitter Hashtags The “Backchannel”

21. The Backchannel • How do you use this technology in your personal life? • How do you use this technology in your professional practice? • Have you used this technology as part of your teaching? How? #socialclassroom

22. Uses

23. What the research says • Benefits: • learning to write concisely • conducting up-to-date research • communicating directly with authors and researchers • enhanced faculty-student contact • cooperative and active learning • prompt feedback • communication of high expectations • respect for diversity • deepened interpersonal connections Sources: • Greenhow. (2012). “Twitteracy: Tweeting as a New Literary Practice,” Michigan State University • Davis et al (2012). Social media and higher education: A literature review and research directions. University of Arizona and Claremont Graduate University.

24. Learner Benefits of Tweeting During Lecture

25. A Framework for Teaching with Twitter Source: Mark Sample (2010). ProfHacker.

27. Tools & Technologies

28. Blogging & Podcasting

29. What the research says • Integrate blogs into your curricular activities to increase student motivation, track progress, and provide feedback on student work. • The result suggests that interactive blogs, compared with isolated blogs, are associated with positive attitudes towards academic achievement in course subjects and in online peer interaction. • Students showed positive motivation to learn from peer work, regardless of whether blogs were interactive or solitary. Source: Yang & Chang. (2012). Assessing the effects of interactive blogging on student attitudes towards peer interaction, learning motivation, and academic achievements. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.

36. wikis

37. What the research says • Wiki Assignment Ideas • Micropedia: A tiny, focused version of Wikipedia. • FAQ: Structured around questions and anwers. • Consensus Document: Creation of a document that reflects agreement by parties that began with widely differing points of view and goals. • Openness is instructive • Easily review the history of any article as well as contributors’ ongoing discussion of and sometimes fierce debates around its content, which offer useful insights into the practices and standards of the community • Unleashes productive inquiry • Process of seeking the knowledge when it is needed in order to carry out a particular situated task

38. Wikimedia Global University Program • “In a nutshell, professors assign their student to write Wikipedia articles as part of the class, supported by a team of Wikipedia experts we provide to you in class and online.” • “The faculty members found such great success in enlivening students, improving writing and research skills, and enhancing students’ media literacy.”

39. VoiceThread

41. Social Bookmarking

44. Pinterest • Collaborative boards • Interactive glossary of terms

46. Putting It Into Practice Design a Learning INtervention Spectrogram Barriers Burning Questions Answered?

47. Your Turn Design a Learning Intervention • How will you incorporate social media into your classroom? • How might social media support one of your learning objectives? Things to Consider • What kind of content will be consumed, created, or shared? • Who will be creating or collaborating on the content? • What connections could social media enable for your students? • Why is social media the best way to accomplish your goals for this learning objective?

49. Burning Questions Workshop Wiki https://socialclassroom.wikispaces.com/Burning+Questions

50. Overwhelmed/Nervous Excited/Confident