This document discusses how social media can be used to support learning activities, organizing learning, and showcasing learning. It provides examples of how lecturers have used tools like YouTube, WhatsApp, Socrative, Google Docs, Pinterest, LinkedIn, WordPress, SlideShare and Twitter to communicate with students, collaborate on projects, organize course materials, and allow students to showcase their work to potential employers. The document advocates for the strategic use of social media across the various stages of the learning process.
3. Our Focus
Helping staff to identify and use social media tools for
communication and collaboration within and beyond the
classroom (Learning Activities)
Helping students and staff to identify and use relevant social
media tools to curate and organise information relating to
learning (Organising Learning)
Helping students to prepare digital portfolios to openly share
outcomes and projects to develop a professional online
presence (Showcasing Learning)
4. LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Did you know that there are a variety of ways in which social
media can be used to communicate with students both in and
out of lectures?
Below are just some examples of social media tools used by
lecturers
5. LEARNING ACTIVITIES
YouTube
Students learn in a variety of different ways
- Some prefer to read out of text books
- Some prefer work based learning activites
- Some prefer visual based learning (here's where YouTube comes in handy)
To aid this form of learning style one lecturer Published YouTube
videos which he created via Video scribe to aid students to prepare for
exams on his modules.
This was a great technique to aid visual based learners
6. LEARNING ACTIVITIES
WhatsApp
Many tutors communicate with students either verbally or by email
But what about something thats more personal
What about.....WhatApp
WhatsApp was used by a French Lecturer as a communication tool, this was
particularly useful through setting up groups for classes/courses to act as a rapid
means of communication in comparison to email.
7. LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Socrative
Lectures dont always have to be a one sided push of information
Students can also contribute
To aid a lecture that was revision based one lecturer used asked students to
download the Socrative application
The application was then used to host interactive polls based on questions
the students could answer to aid their learning
8. ORGANISING LEARNING
Both students and staff have multiple modules to
organise and collect information on...
Social Media tools can assist in the collaboration of
this information!
Google Docs Pinterest
9. ORGANISING LEARNING
Google Docs
Problems occasionally faced with group work projects, where it is difficult to find suitable
occasions to meet up and complete group activities.
Google applications solve this: Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides
Tasks can be collaboratively fulfilled in real-time sessions
Can see live updates of others' work to allocate tasks accordingly
Can be used by lecturers to record weekly task marks, can be seen at any time
and are constantly updated
10. ORGANISING LEARNING
Pinterest
Collection of images and infographics containing links to articles,
websites etc.
Users can create 'boards' and 'pin' different images accordingly
Creation of 'Boards' to define each module/learning topic
Staff to Student sharing of boards - useful links and sources
Collection of information crucial for revision
Especially useful for visual based learners
11. ORGANISING LEARNING
Using a Class/Module Hashtag you can curate all the shared tweets into a story board
You can also create a digital story from various social media streams
A playlist of videos can be created to aid learning as well as adding a narrative
underneath the playlist
Create stories using social media. Turn what people post on social
media into stories. Collect the best photos, video, tweets and more to
publish to a storyboard for discussion.
12. SHOWCASING LEARNING
What use is expanding student experiences without being able to
showcase these developments to others?
Social Media platforms allow the sharing of learning and experiences to a
global audience
LinkedIn WordPress SlideShare Twitter
13. Professional networking site to build connections to other people in similar
industries or interests
LinkedIn
Upload university projects including other people you have collaborated
with and clients
Show case qualifications, skills, academic achievements
Popular method used by Human Resource teams to reach out to
potential employees
SHOWCASING LEARNING
14. Wordpress
Blog style articles and reflections
SHOWCASING LEARNING
Sharing personal experiences on chosen topic(s)
Link other social media channels to showcase other sectors of learning
Website creation service incorporating different themes and plugins
for user customisation. Wide range of options available for specific
blog theme characterisation.
15. SlideShare
Share informational presentation slides amongst professionals
SHOWCASING LEARNING
Use own experiences e.g. conferences attended to share knowledge
Used by both professionals for lecture material and students for assignment research
Presentation slide sharing site. Users can upload and view other
users' creations for their own educational purposes
16. Twitter
Promote projects and showcase work and achievements completed
SHOWCASING LEARNING
Acknowledging and sharing peers work
Pin specific and current project/events to the top of your Twitter profile
Online news and social networking service where users post
and interact with messages, "tweets", restricted to 140
characters.
