Social Media for Learning which includes the discuss about Twitter, Delicious, Google Docs, Google Search, YouTube, Google Reader, and Slideshare

1. Social Media for Learning
Kanda Runapongsa Saikaew
krunapon@kku.ac.th
http://twitter.com/krunapon
http://www.facebook.com/tom.kanda
(with Krit Kamtuo)
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2. Agenda
• Twitter: Microblogging tool
• Delicious: Social bookmarking tool
• Google Docs: Office suite
• YouTube: Video sharing site
• Google Reader: RSS / Feed reader
• Slideshare: Hosting presentations
• Google Search: Web search tool
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3. Twitter
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4. Twitter for Learning
• Great communication tool, gets the word out
to large groups of people easily
­ Corinne Burkhert
• Best way to feed my appetite for real­time
updates
­ Adam Schwartz
• Microblogs with good possibilities for
conversations and knowledge gathering by
friends and other professionals
­ Malinka Ivanova
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5. Applying Twitter for Learning
• Ask students to have Twitter accounts
• Create/view a list of students on
Twitter
• Use a hash tag to write/search for
related tweets about materials in the
class
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6. Applying for Twitter Account
• Go to http://twitter.com and click menu “Sign up Now”
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7. Fill the Sign Up Form
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8. How to Follow Someone
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9. Recommended Followers @vajiramedhi
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10. Recommended Followers @andrewbiggs
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11. How to Tweet from Web
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12. URL Shortner
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13. Searching in Tweets
• Keyword prefixed with # will go to
http://search.twitter.com
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14. Twitter Vocabularies
• RT @someone : Retweet (refers to the tweet by someone)
– Example: RT @krunapon Hello all
• @someone: Send a public tweet to someone. All your
followers will see this tweet
– Example: @krunapon How are you?
• d someone: Send a private tweet to someone. Only you and
someone know about this tweet
– Example: d krunapon Please tell me more
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15. How to Create a Twitter List
• Go to the right column of http://twitter.com
• Look for the Section List which is
before Section Trending: Wordwide
• Click menu “New list”
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16. XML & Web Services Students
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17. Twitter Applications
• Browsers extensions
– Echofon for Firefox
– Chromebird for Google Chrome
• Top 5 Twitter client applications
– Twitpic
– Tweetdeck
– Digsby
– Twitterfeed
– Twitterholic
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18. Echofon for Firefox
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19. Chromebird for Chrome
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20. Agenda
• Twitter: Microblogging tool
• Delicious: Social bookmarking tool
• Google Docs: Office suite
• YouTube: Video sharing site
• Google Reader: RSS / Feed reader
• Slideshare: Hosting presentations
• Google Search: Web search tool
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21. Delicious
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22. Delicious vs. Browser Bookmarks
del.icio.us Browser­based
Bookmarks
Use any computer Use own computer
Multiple tags for one One folder per
source bookmark
Share sources Email favorites
easily
Create networks Find sources
manually
Annotate
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23. Delicious for Learning
• Simple tool to bookmark sites your interested in
but can’t read immediately, sharing made easy
­ Corinne Burkhert
• Every new site or tool that I find I tag through
del.icio.us. I use it to catalog resources and to
help me keep track of things that I have found
­ Mary Howard
• To tag all, and share. Source of great learning
resources too
­ Maria de los Angeles Castro
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24. Applying Delicious for Learning
• Creating one's own collection
• Saving a bookmark
• Searching from one's own bookmarks,
one's network bookmarks, and
everybody's bookmarks
– Getting web recommendations by people
not by an algorithm
• Collaborating/communicating with other
users
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25. One's Own Collection
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26. Join Delicious
• Go to http://delicious.com
• If you have Yahoo account, click Sign in
• If you don't have Yahoo account, click
Join now
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27. Import Your Browser Bookmarks
into Delicious
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28. Firefox Delicious Add­on
• If you use Firefox, install Firefox add­on
– Go to http://delicious.com/help/installff
– Click “Add Buttons”
• After installation, restart Firefox
• Now you find the Delicious buttons
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29. Install Bookmarklets on Browsers
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30. Use Bookmarklets
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31. Save a bookmark
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32. Pages Organized Using Tags
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33. Pages in Given Tags
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34. Search on Delicious
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35. Search Results
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36. Networking on Delicious
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37. Agenda
• Twitter: Microblogging tool
• Delicious: Social bookmarking tool
• Google Docs: Office suite
• YouTube: Video sharing site
• Google Reader: RSS / Feed reader
• Slideshare: Hosting presentations
• Google Search: Web search tool
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38. Google Docs
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39. Google Docs vs. Office Suite
• Share folders of documents and each
individual document with others
– No need to email with attachments
• Translate documents from one language
to another automatically
• Support uploading files of any type up to
1 GB for free
• Create a Google Docs form as a survey
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40. A Doc with Menu “Share”
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41. Sharing Levels:View and Edit
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42. Invite People for Sharing
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43. Give the Link to Share
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44. Translate a Document
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45. Support Loading of Any File
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46. Create a Google Docs
Fill each question
Finished question
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47. Add a New Question
• Click Add a Item to
– add a new question
– a section header
– a page break
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48. A Finished Form (1/2)
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49. A Finished Form (2/2)
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50. The Result of Fillled Forms
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51. Agenda
• Twitter: Microblogging tool
• Delicious: Social bookmarking tool
• Google Docs: Office suite
• YouTube: Video sharing site
• Google Reader: RSS / Feed reader
• Slideshare: Hosting presentations
• Google Search: Web search tool
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52. Youtube
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53. Youtube for Learning
• "Yes, there are a lot of annoying videos, but there are also
some excellent educational resources."
­ Heather Ross
• "there are so many treasures waiting to be found "
­ Jochen Robes
• "YouTube does for video what SlideShare does for
presentations. There are excellent video clips online with
enhance classes and training, and I love the ability to embed
videos into blogs, wikis, or learning management systems”
• ­ Britt Wattwood
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54. Applying Youtube in Classrom
• Search videos using keywords and
categories
• Upload related video
• Download for smooth playback before
using with students
• Organize your videos as favorites and
playlists
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55. Searching video by keywords
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56. Searching in YouTube Tips
• Limit to words in the title. Putting "allintitle:" in front of your
search to limit those videos with the matching words in the
title (not in descriptions or tags) Example: “allintitle:Social
media”
• Exclude a term. Add a "­" then the word you want to
exclude will keep it out of the results. Example: "Google
­youtube ­docs"
• Play the wildcard. If you're too lazy to type a word, you can
just put in an asterisk in place of that word. Example: “Khon *
University” will include “Khon Kaen University”
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57. Sign up YouTube (1/2)
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58. Sign up YouTube (2/2)
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59. Upload Video (1/2)
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60. Upload Video (2/2)
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61. Best Video Format
• Resolution: Recommended: Original
resolution of your video ­ for HD it is
1920x1080 (1080p) or 1280 x 720.
• Preferred containers: FLV, MPEG­2,
and MPEG­4
• Size : Up to 2 GB.
• Length : Up to 10 minutes
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62. Embedding a YouTube Video
in your Blog (1/2)
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63. Embedding a YouTube Video
in your Blog (2/2)
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64. Embedding a YouTube Video
in Twitter
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65. The Need to Download
Video from YouTube
• You cannot always rely on a video on
the Internet to play perfectly and fluidly
when you want to use in the classroom
A great option is to avoid this, and also
allow you to keep the video on your
computer is to download it!
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66. How to Download Video
from Youtube
There are two main choices for this:
1)Download the video in YouTube format
(FLV ­ Flash Video) and then play it in a
player that can handle FLV files, such
as VLC media player
2)Use an online video conversion and
download service
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67. Online Video Conversion (1/2)
Keepvid ­ http://keepvid.com/
Vixy ­ http://vixy.net/
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68. Online Video Conversion (2/2)
Zamzar­http://www.zamzar.com/url/
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69. YouTube Favorites
Your personal favorites videos
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70. YouTube Playlists
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71. Favorite YouTube Video
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72. Add Video in Playlists
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73. Agenda
• Twitter: Microblogging tool
• Delicious: Social bookmarking tool
• Google Docs: Office suite
• YouTube: Video sharing site
• Google Reader: RSS / Feed reader
• Slideshare: Hosting presentations
• Google Search: Web search tool
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74. Google Reader vs. Other
Feed Readers
• Let you subscribe any web site, not just
feeds
– You then know the latest updates of
that web site without going to that site
• Allow you to share items that you
subscribe with whoever that follow you
• Allow you to read at most 2000 items
while you are offline
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75. Google Reader
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76. Add a Subscription
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77. Subscribe via Firefox (1/3)
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78. Subscribe via Firefox (2/3)
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79. Subscribe via Firefox (3/3)
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80. Sharing with Others
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81. What do all these buttons do?
• Google Reader has tons of options for things you can
do to organize, sort and share the information coming
in. Here's a bit of info to help you find out what you
can do.
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82. Synchronize to Read While Offline
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83. Read Feeds While Offline
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84. Agenda
• Twitter: Microblogging tool
• Delicious: Social bookmarking tool
• Google Docs: Office suite
• YouTube: Video sharing site
• Google Reader: RSS / Feed reader
• Slideshare: Hosting presentations
• Google Search: Web search tool
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85. Slideshare (1/2)
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86. Slideshare (2/2)
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87. Apply Slideshare for Learning
• Search for relevant slides for teaching and
learning
• Upload your slides to share with others
• Share slides with others
• Save your favorite slides
• Download other slides
• Follow other members who usually upload
slides in which you are interested
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88. Search on Slideshare
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89. Upload Your Slide
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90. Supported Files
• Supported Formats
– Presentations: pdf, ppt, pps, pptx, ppsx,
pot, potx (Powerpoint); odp (OpenOffice);
key, zip (Apple Keynote).
– Documents: pdf, doc, docx, rtf, xls
(MSOffice); odt, ods(OpenOffice); Apple
iWork Pages.
• Max file size: 100MB for presentations &
documents.
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91. Posting this Slide to Other Channels
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92. Tweet Written by Slideshare
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93. Sharing with Others via Email (1/2)
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94. Sharing with Others via Email (2/2)
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95. Save Your Favorite Slides
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96. Download Slide
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97. Follow Other Users (1/2)
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98. Follow Other Users (2/2)
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99. Agenda
• Twitter: Microblogging tool
• Delicious: Social bookmarking tool
• Google Docs: Office suite
• YouTube: Video sharing site
• Google Reader: RSS / Feed reader
• Slideshare: Hosting presentations
• Google Search: Web search tool
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100. 5 Expert Google Search Tips
1. Explicit Phase: Request a search that
has all keywords arranged in the way
you specify
– Simply enclose the search phrase
within double quotes.
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101. 5 Expert Google Search Tips
2. Site specific search
– Simply use the "site:somesite.com"
modifier
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102. 5 Expert Google Search Tips
3. Specific Document Types
– Simply use the "filetype:sometype”
modifier
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103. 5 Expert Google Search Tips
4. Calculator
– Just type your expression in to Google
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104. 5 Expert Google Search Tips
5. Currency Conversion
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105. References
• http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/
• http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/19/the­top­
20­twitter­applications/
• http://www.interactiveinsightsgroup.com/blog1/ulti
mate­guide­to­delicious­social­bookmarking/
• http://nelsoncentral.wikispaces.com/youtube
• http://www.google.com/reader/
• http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/1264/
12­Quick­Tips­To­Search­Google­Like­An­
Expert.aspx
105 • http://www.google.com/landing/searchtips/