To learn about SM

1. Social networking & E-learning

2. What is Social Networking?
• New platform for social interaction
• Global communication tools
• Virtual community
• Place where people share common interests

4. Social Network Tools
Multimedia:
• Photo-sharing: Instagram, Flickr
• Video-sharing: Youtube
• Audio-sharing: imeem
News/Opinion:
• News: Digg, Reddit
• Review: Yepp, epinions

5. Social Network Tools
Communication:
• Microblogs: Twitter
• Social networking services:
• Facebook, Myspace

6. Social Network in Education
● 90% of college students visit social networking sites on a
regular basis
● Today's students want to document their feelings and insights
in a highly timely manner
● Social network can create new channels for students to learn.
Source: http://elearningindustry.com/social-media-in-education-%E2%80%93-the-bright-side

7. Challenges for teachers
● Many instructors are interested in learning how to add social
media tools into their curriculum, but they aren’t sure how
● Social media sites can be a huge distraction for students who
aimlessly click through sites
● It can be challenging to find ways to incorporate activities with
social media that promote actual learning.

8. Challenges for teachers
● The learning objective is most important. Social media is a
tool to help teach a concept so be sure to not lose sight of the
learning for the cool factor.
● Choose 1 tool to start and make it purposeful.

9. FACEBOOK
Facebook is the world's
largest social network, with
more than 900 million users.
People mainly use it to
connect with important
people in their life.

11. FACEBOOK in Education

12. FACEBOOK in Education
● Students can use it to connect with each other outside of the
classroom.
● Students can create a Facebook Group to form online study
groups
● Students may want to add you as a “Friend”

13. FACEBOOK in Education
Brainstorm: Ask students to collaborate and brainstorm on your classroom's
Facebook page.
News gathering: Your classroom can follow media outlets or public figures relevant to
your latest classroom discussions.
Archived videos: Important lectures, slides, and more can be shared and saved on
Facebook.
Familiarize yourself with students: In large classes, it can sometimes be hard to
remember each and every student. Facebook makes it a little easier to connect faces
with names.
Flashcardlet: Using Flashcardlet, you can create your own flash cards that students
can study on Facebook.
Source: http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/05/21/100-ways-you-should-be-using-facebook-in-your-classroom-updated/

14. GOOGLE+
second-largest social media site in the world
monthly active user base of 235 million.
Circles, Hangouts, Communities, Google
News

15. Google+ in Education
1. Communication
Classroom teachers can use Google+ to communicate directly with learners,
learner families or other educators.
Clarifying current learning targets, reviewing recent concepts, delineating
homework assignments or providing a public forum for learners to ask questions...
Tips
Publish test and due dates
Publish and clarify learning targets
Review complicated topics
Offer extension activities for Gifted Learners

16. Google+ in Education
2. Project Management
An online portal where users can all access the same documents, notes, research links and
videos needn't require Moodle or other more formal learning platforms.
Signing up for a Google account gives you access to the full portfolio of Google software. That
means if you've got a Gmail account, you have access to Google Calendar, Google Docs and
of course Google+.
So consider setting up a circle for each:
Project
Content area (K-5)
Period/block (6-12)
Advanced content area (9-12+)
By doing so, you can use these circles as ways to manage projects: distribute rubrics, clarify
due dates, share critical handouts or disseminate multimedia content. In fact, you can even
verify who actually saw the documents by having them "+1" the link (Google's version of "like").

17. Google+ in Education
3. Full Collaboration
Rather than simply responding to parent inquiries or sharing documents, by functioning as a
messaging, media and link-sharing platform visible to everyone, Google+ can act as a potent
project management platform.
Tips
Learners can collaboratively brainstorm a problem
Writers can support one another through stages of the writing process
Groups can compete against one another through said "circles" in a public forum
Literature circles can be separated by role, first on pages, then in circles, so that all
"Visualizers" can collaborate on a reading section before sharing with their groups. The
same approach would also work for jig-sawing.