Learn how to incorporate social media tools into learning activities. When used properly, social media tools can boost student engagement, link students to content experts, find online classroom lessons, and help students to establish an online body of work/establish their brand.

1. Social Media in Education
This SlideShare will introduce how to incorporate social
media tools into learning activities.
When used properly, social media tools can:
• Boost student engagement
• Link students to content experts
• Find online classroom lessons
• Help them establish an online body
of work/establish their brand.
• And much more!
Created by:
Adam Voyton

2.  A brief overview of the benefits of social learning
 Over 25 teaching strategies from 12 of the most
popular social media tools
 How to get help learning how to use the various
social media tools
What this SlideShare will cover:

3.  90% of college students visit social networking sites on a
regular basis
 The modern student is connected to the world via social
media and technology
 Social learning is students learning from other students
 Today's students want to document their feelings and
insights in a highly timely manner
 Social learning can increase comprehension of material and
create new channels for students to learn
Why is Social Learning Important?
Reference: http://elearningindustry.com/social-media-in-education-%E2%80%93-the-bright-side

4.  More likely to stay in college and graduate
 Make friends more easily
 Motivated to study together outside of the classroom
 Encourage students to succeed academically and graduate
Benefits for Students that Form a
Learning Community:
Reference: National Survey of Student Engagement. A fresh look at student engagement: Annual Report 2013.

5. Extend learning beyond an individual course!
Social media can enable instructors to keep in touch
with students after a course has ended.
One Final Benefit:

6.  Choose 1 tool to start and make it purposeful.
 Many instructors are interested in learning how to
add social media tools into their curriculum, but they
aren’t sure how.
 It can be challenging to find ways to incorporate
activities with social media that promote actual
learning.
There’s so many social media tools to
choose from, where do I start?

7.  The learning objective is the most important.
 Social media should be used as a tool to help teach a
concept, so be sure to not lose sight of the learning
for the coolness factor.
 That being said…Snapchat is really cool.
Warning: Do not just use
social media just for the sake of it!

8.  If you need help on the technical aspects, I
recommend watching tutorial videos on YouTube or
Lynda.com (requires a paid subscription)
 I’m only going to focus on how select social media
tools can be used for learning activities.
Need help learning how to use a
social media tool?

9. 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 and
share photos.
Facebook is King

10.  Good: students can use it to connect with each other
outside of the classroom.
 Good: students can create a Facebook Group to form
online study groups
 Bad: students may want to add you as a “Friend”
Facebook Pros & Cons

11.  Build a Facebook application: Computer science students can learn valuable skills for
the future by taking on a project to create an app that can be used on Facebook.
 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.
Ways to Use Facebook
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/05/21/100-ways-you-should-be-using-
facebook-in-your-classroom-updated/Source: 100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom

12.  Twitter allows you to post your ideas in just 140
characters
 Letters, numbers, symbols, punctuation and spaces all
count as characters on Twitter.
 What all of this means is, you have to be concise. You
have to know exactly what you want to say, and say it
in as few words as possible.
Twitter
Source: http://www.copyblogger.com/twitter-writing/

13.  Connect students with content experts who have a Twitter
profile
Ways to Use Twitter

14.  Create fake pages:
Ask students to
create fake profiles
for historical figures,
fictional characters,
and more.
Ways to Use Twitter

15.  Allow students to tweet their own notes during lessons and
share with their peers
 Have students follow you and ask them to tweet you about
their learning process – including difficulties they face or
resources they want to share
Ways to Use Twitter
Source: http://www.teachhub.com/50-ways-use-twitter-classroom

16.  Virtual guest speakers – start a lesson with a video that
grabs students’ attention.
 YouTube can be great for bringing in different perspectives.
 Audio visual is higher up on Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Ways to use YouTube

17.  Have students create a narrated presentation and
upload it to YouTube (if an enterprise video platform
like Kaltura is not available)
 Record your own lectures and post them on YouTube
for students to view – students can re-watch!
Ways to use YouTube

18.  Create an Instructor Introduction video
 Create a playlist of videos related to a concept – this
saves students from wasting their time searching for
useless or unsuitable information. Check
YouTube.com/Teachers for examples
More Ways to use YouTube

19.  Use Google Hangouts as a free
alternative to costly web
conferencing tools
 Offer virtual office hours for your
students
 If class is cancelled from bad
weather, just staple it together
with an online lecture!
Google Hangouts

20.  There’s a lot of professional content on SlideShare.
 SlideShare was recently voted amongst the World's Top 10
tools for education & eLearning.
 SlideShare is basically a way to make your PowerPoints easily
viewable on the web without downloading the presentation.
 SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing
presentations. With 60 million monthly visitors and 130 million
page views.
SlideShare

21. www.TED.com/talks
1500+ talks to stir your curiosity

22.  Over 4300 videos
 “Our library of videos covers K-12 math, science topics such
as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into
the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each
video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long,
and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.”
"I teach the way that I wish I was taught. The lectures are
coming from me, an actual human being who is fascinated by
the world around him."
—Sal (founder of Khan Academy)
www.KhanAcademy.org

23. WHAT IS IT?
 LinkedIn helps people with employment via online professional
networking (think of it like an online resume)
 Allows you to maintain a ‘work life’ profile
WAYS TO USE IT
 Join a Group for join discussions and view job postings
 Help them establish an online body of work
 Give and receive recommendations
from colleagues, instructors, or students
LinkedIn

24.  Similar to LinkedIn, students and faculty can use these blogging
sites to create their online brand.
 Some career planning experts are calling portfolios the new
resume. It makes sense since a portfolio demonstrates competency
of a subject.
 Tumblr, Wordpress, or Blogger are popular blogging options.
 Blogging is a mechanism for students to show off their creative
writing skills.
 An easy way to get a student into blogging it to suggest that they
copy the text from their discussion board posts into their blog.
Blogging

25.  Social bookmarking –
extends learning outside of
the classroom even after a
course ends
 Social bookmarking site to
curate hyperlinks and put
them into sortable
categories. It’s also
searchable!
 A great example from a
fellow educator and friend
of mine, Scott Shaw:
Delicious.com/ThirdrowLLC
Delicious

26. Source: http://www.edudemic.com/2012/12/a-straightforward-guide-to-using-pinterest-in-education/
How to Use Pinterest

27.  Many faculty find
lesson plan ideas
Ways to Use Pinterest

28.  Blackboard created an internal
social media tool, which
conveniently reduces the need
to go to other websites.
 Students desire to keep their
academic network separate from
their personal network, although
they do want an online forum to
connect with colleagues...in
other words: They want to keep
their beers and textbooks
separate!
My Blackboard Profile

29.  Share notes and complete group work
 Chat about setting up online or in-person study groups
 Students that feel part of a community have increased
engagement with their course work
 Students that have a support system are more likely to
succeed academically
How can students use My Bb?

30.  The Social Media Pedagogy:
Welcome To My Twitter-verse
 Kristen Bender, Assistant
Professor/Chair – Information
Systems Management &
Software Design and
Development at Wilmington
University
 View this presentation on
SlideShare
Learn More from Fellow Educators
and Social Media Gurus
 Embracing Social Media as a
Global Communication Tool
 Sara Smith, Social Media
Editor at NBC10 Philadelphia
 View a recording of this
Keynote presentation

31.  Decide to learn 1 of these social media tools that you
want to incorporate into your curriculum.
 Be sure to make the learning activity purposeful, so
that it meets a learning objective.
 Comment below how you are using social media tools
in the classroom!
Where do I go from here?

32. Connect with Me on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamvoyton
Adam Voyton