1. Incorporating Social Media
in your Practice
Nell Eckersley

2. Introductions
 What do you know about Social Media?
 What would you like to learn?
 What one thing would you like to take away from this
session?
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3. Agenda
 What is Social Media and why should we use it?
 Bitly
 QR Codes
 Pinterest
 Twitter
 Go2web20
 Top 100 Tools for Learning list
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4. What is Social Media
 Social media includes web-based and mobile based
technologies which are used to turn communication into
interactive dialogue among organizations, communities,
and individuals.
--Wikipedia
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5. Components of Social Media
 Web 2.0
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6. Components of Social Media
 Cloud Computing
 performing computer tasks using services
delivered entirely over the Internet.
 movement away from applications installed
on an individual's computer towards the
applications being hosted online.
 The "cloud" refers to the Internet and was
inspired by technical flow charts and
diagrams, which tend to use a cloud
symbol to represent the Internet.
 http://mobileoffice.about.com/od/workingontheroad/f/cloudcomputin
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7. Components of Social Media
 Mobile Learning
 The use of common
handheld hardware,
wireless networking
and mobile telephony
to facilitate, support,
enhance and extend the
reach of teaching and
learning.
 https://mobilelearninginfokit.pbworks.com/w/page/41751137/What%
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8. Tagging
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9. Why use Social Media in Adult Ed?
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyZRS0BnpAI&feature=youtu
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10. Why Social Media?
 Makes tasks authentic &
challenging
 Extends time devoted project
 Supports collaborative work
 Inexpensive, multiplatform
 Real life experience
 Help break down the digital
divide
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11. Myths about Social Media
 Only young
people use Social
Media
 Social Media; just
a waste of time
 Fears about
security & privacy
 Hierarchy of
needs; technology
comes after
literacy
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12. Integrating Social Media into Adult Ed
Blooms Taxonomy
 Creating
 Evaluating
 Analyzing
 Applying
 Understanding
 Remembering
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13. Blooms Digital Taxonomy Pyramid
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http://www.usi.edu/distance/bdt.htm

14. 5 Moments of Learning
 Dr. Conrad Gottfredson’s Five Moments of
Learning Needs:
 When Learning for the First Time
 When Wanting to Learn More
 When Trying to Remember
 When Things Change
 When Something Goes Wrong
http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/17/the-practice-of-mobile-learning/
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15. What Do You Know?
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16. Bitly
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17. https://bitly.com/
You can use Bitly to
shorten URL’s without
creating an account
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19. Customizing Your Shortened URL
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20. Analytics
With an account you can also track how many times the URL
you created has been clicked.
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21. QR Code
And with or without an
account you can make any
of the shortened URLS into
a QR Code by adding .qr at
the end
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22. QR Codes
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23. QR Codes
 Quick Response Code
 Can be scanned using apps on a smart phone, an iPad, and
even a desk top computer with a camera and generated
using Bitly but others too
 http://www.scanlife.com/en/ Scanlife
 http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ Kaywa
 QR codes contain information and directions
 Most are used to take you to a website, but can also
contain other information and directions
 Great way to share content in mobile way
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24. QR Infographic
 http://bit.ly/elKi2c
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25. QR Codes: Applications in Education
(Video)
 http://bit.ly/LCszKx
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26. Pinterest
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27. https://pinterest.com
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28. Boards and Pins
http://pinterest.com/nelightful/adult-education-ideas/
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29. Twitter
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30. https://twitter.com/
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31. What Can You Say in 140 Characters?
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32. Retweeting
 RT @Username
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33. HashTags
#EdTech #EdChat
#AdultEd #TechPD
#TwEd #SoMeEd
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34. Anatomy of a Good Tweet
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35. Shortened URLS
 http://ipadeducators.ning.com/profiles/blogs/preparing-your-scho
(73 characters)
 Bit.ly/3FjhpX (13 characters)
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36. http://tweetchat.com/
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37. https://support.twitter.com/articles/64986-how-to-report-spam-on-twitter#
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38. Where to find more tools
 Go2Web20
 Top 100 Tools for Learning
 Paper.Li
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39. Go2Web20
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40. http://www.go2web20.net/
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41. http://www.go2web20.net/#tag:e-
learning+tag:student
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42. http://twiducate.com/
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43. Top 100 Tools for Learning
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44. http://c4lpt.co.uk/
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45. http://c4lpt.co.uk/top-100-tools-for-
learning-2011/
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46. http://c4lpt.co.uk/top-tools/top-100-
tools/top-tools-twitter/
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47. http://c4lpt.co.uk/top-100-tools-for-
learning-2011/voting-2012/
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48. http://paper.li/LACNYCnell/1320940472
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49. Advanced What Do You Know?
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51. My contact info
 Moderator, NIFL Technology and Literacy Discussion List
 http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Technology
 Email: nelle@lacnyc.org
 Twitter: http://twitter.com/LACNYCnell
 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nell.eckersleylac
 Blog: http://nelightful.wordpress.com/
 Delicious: http://www.delicious.com/nelleckersley
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