STRETCH with Social Media Tools

1. Enhance, Engage, and S-T-R-E-T-C-H with Social Media Tools Dr. Julie Giuliani Dean of External Affairs, Technology Strategies and Innovation

3. What will I learn today that I don’t know already? Where do you begin when “in the clouds”? How do I know what social media tools work best in an online environment? What are some best practices and guidelines fostering digital literacy?

4. Research Horizon Report 2011 New Media Consortium Examines emerging technologies for their impact on teaching, learning and creative inquiry Critical challenges – a pervasive sense that individual organizational constraints are likely the most important factor in any decision to adopt –or not adopt –any given technology Digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession – but concept ill defined

5. On the Horizon- Technologies to Watch Six emerging technologies likely to enter mainstream adoption within the next one to five years Electronic books Integration of multimedia and collaborative elements Mobiles Allow very simple tools to be easily integrated into classroom activities; Twitter, a micro blog good example Augmented Reality Blending of information and the real world; augmented books

6. Augmented Reality

7. So What? We want a higher education system that provides learners with the workplace skills and competencies they need to adapt in a rapidly changing economy. We want education to adapt to a world altered by technology advances, changing demographics and economies. We want our students to be prepared for uncertainty, complexity and undetermined life and world challenges.

8. Bloom’s Taxonomy RevisitedAndrew Churches

9. Digital Literacy Competency Remembering Understanding Bookmarking Social Networking Searching or “Googling” Manipulating web 2.0 and software/ hardware tools Uploading and sharing materials via sites like Flickr, Google docs, etc. Simple collaboration

10. Digital Literacy Competency Applying Creating Linking inside documents Mashing –integration of several data sources Validating the accuracy and credibility of information Vodcasting, podcasting, vodblogging, mixing and remixing Publishing in text, media or digital formats

11. Most Popular Tools

12. 1. Risk Easy to Embed Extensive Planning 2. Time Free or Inexpensive Enterprise Licenses 3. Cost 4. Student Centered High Low Things to Consider (Curtis Bonk - 100+ Innovative, Interactive and Easy to Implement Instructional Ideas) Low Risk High Risk Instructor Focus Student Focus

13. Student Survey If I set up a Facebook Study Club for this class, would you actively participate? 2) Would you prefer discussing chapter topics using a blog? 3) How many of you have Twitter accounts? Yes, would use, I am a visual learner. Would use a Study Club if an assignment for class. Too busy. Would love to see the class in Facebook. You are more vulnerable in Facebook. None of these students have a Twitter account.

14. Where to Begin?????

15. Path of Least Resistance: Interactive Videos via Discussions = Simple Collaboration Understanding: Videos promote new learning concepts and ideas connected to what learners already know and understand Videos act as Advance Organizers: Provide a context, richer learning, can be replayed for key concepts, bring students to the real world, discussion, reflection, common experience, and the potential for higher order thinking skills. Videos provide verbal and visual information that is more richly stored and recalled.

16. Digital Competency: Understanding & Simple Collaboration Students view video and summarize key concepts. Students design a quiz based on their summary ideas. Upload, Accuracy Students create a Delicious account, add bookmarks, and share relevant and related information. Simple collaboration.

17. Digital Competency: Remembering & Understanding Delicious: Students access your bookmarks

18. Blogs: Student & Community = Understanding and Simple Collaboration

19. Facebook = Understanding

20. Elluminate & Skype = Understanding, Applying Use for Virtual Office Hours, Student Orientation, 1 to 1 Discussions (scheduled times)

21. Connectivism = Remembering, Understanding, Applying & Creating Ask students to maintain a blog. Students follow an expert’s blog; write reflection summaries about weekly postings.

22. Learner Blogs

23. Jing = Applying and Creating Using Jing for Team Project

24. Live Binders = Remembering, Understanding, Applying & Creating 3-Ring Binder for the Web Can collect resources, organize them, present them

25. Live Binders = Networking

27. Scan using smart phones, barcode readers, iPod touch

29. What’s Next? Some recommendations

30. Conclusion: Digital Literacy Made Simple Identify the media tools you are currently using in your class. Ask How am I using these tools to promote lasting learning? Am I fostering digital literacy development? AskHow comfortable am I using and learning new technologies? AskHow will I determine the technology approaches to use leading to enriched student learning experiences? AskAm I ready to learn from my students?

31. Resources Slideshare Questions?