Student-friendly videos and uses of social media in college classrooms

1. Social media and socialnomics in the
BSC classroom
How to bring new tools to your students
(without giving up your connections)
Dr. Martina Arndt, Physics Dr. Nancy Van Leuven, Comm Studies
Cart Celebration! Spring 2010

2. Some big questions:
 What kind of online environment are
students immersed in?
 How can we incorporate this environment
into our classrooms – and should we?
 Where are the teaching and learning
moments?

3. What’s going on?
 Demographic + technology shifts
 Uses and types of social media
-- share
-- publish
-- network
 Student-friendly videos (bring it on in!)
Shift happens: Social media rise

4. Demographic shift + new tech
U.S. population =
4.5% of the world Roughly 52% of the
population. world’s population is
China’s population = under 30-years-
20% of the world old.
population.
Note: and don’t dominate China; instead,
and nd lead the way

5. Uses of social media
Share
Network Publish

6. SHARING
All of us can promote anything to everybody.
Student-friendly video: “Social Bookmarking in Plain English”

7. NETWORKING
All of us can connect with anyone, anywhere.
Student-friendly video: “What is LinkedIn?”

8. PUBLISHING
All of us can publish anything for everybody.
Student-friendly video: “RSS feeds in Plain English”

9. SOCIAL MEDIA in the CLASSROOM
sharing, publishing, networking
Tweeple list for Corporate Communication students

10. Social media in physics
 YouTube
 Alumni tracking through Facebook and LinkedIn
 Student groups like the observatory
 Twitter (not really…but astronauts are cool!)

11. NASA wants Twitter followers!
 Get short, timely
messages from NASA.
 Twitter is a rich source of
instantly updated
information. It's easy to
stay updated on an
incredibly wide variety of
topics. Join today and
follow @NASA.

12. Sample NASA tweets
STS-132 launch countdown began at 4p EDT when
clocks in Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Control
Center began ticking backward from T-43 hours. about
14 hours ago via web
NASA aircraft deployed to Gulf of Mexico to help
assess oil spill & aid disaster response agencies.
http://go.usa.gov/iep about 15 hours ago via CoTweet

13. And in New Teachers Academy
 How to manage online personas
 Networking
 Privacy settings
 Multiple accounts – professional and
personal

14. Instant/text messaging
Teens & tweens send around
20,000 texts per second.
Student-friendly video:
Give it a ponder

15. And then there’s SECOND LIFE!

16. So, it is here…now what?
 Multitasking versus shifting attention
 Where do they learn how to behave online?
 Does it help them learn?
 Final student-friendly overview:
Social Media Revolution