Social Media Overview - CCISD Tech Camp 2010

1. Matter & Mass of Social Media The Science of Social Networking

4. Social media is an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio.This interaction, and the manner in which information is presented, depends on the varied perspectives and building of shared meaning among communities, as people share their stories, and understandings.Wikipedia

5. Or more simply…“Social Media is a social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions.” From Groundswell by Charlene li and Josh Bernoff

6. Even More Simply….. People having online conversations.

8. You can use Social Media to facilitate Social Networking. Or, your can network by leveraging Social Media. Social Media vs. Social Networking: What’s the difference? – www.examiner.com – Mark Stelzner

9. Why Should I Care

10. Because 3 Out of 4 Americans Use Social Technology. Forrester, The Growth Of Social Technology Adoption, 2008

11. Because 2/3 of the Global Internet Population Visit Social Networks. Nielsen, Global Faces & Networked Places, 2009

12. Because Visiting Social Sites is Now the 4th Most Popular Online Activity – Ahead of Personal Email. Nielsen, Global Faces & Networked Places, 2009

13. Because Your Students Are Using It… Right Now. Especially the Students You Teach

14. Because Today’s Education Requires More Than the Classroom Today’s pre-k student was born during the invention of the iPad While… 10 years ago, a pre-k student would be born during a time when cell phone backgrounds were still not made in full color.

15. Jump On Everyone’s Doing It.

16. Let’s look @some numbers

17. 412.3 YEARS The length of time it would take to view every YouTube video.

18. 13 HOURS The amount of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.

19. 100,000,000 The number of YouTube videos viewed per day.

20. 3,000,000 The average number of Tweets per day on Twitter.com

21. 500,000,000 The number of people using Facebook.

22. What is CCISD’s Policy on Social Media? A certified or licensed employee, or any other employee designated in writing by the superintendent or a campus principal, may communicate through electronic media with students who are currently enrolled in the district. However… Employee cannot text message a student. Employee must create a separate social network page (professional page) to communicate with students. Employee will not communicate w/students between the hours of 10:00 p.m. & 5:00 a.m. Employee continues to be subject to applicable state and federal laws, local policies, administrative regulations, and the Code of Ethics & Standard Practices for Texas Educators Public Information Act & Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

23. Social Networks

24. Social Networks Publish Social Media Microblog Discuss Share

27. Write status updates on your own profile – what you’re doing, will do, or have already done.

29. You have to have something interesting to say to post a status on Facebook.

30. Facebook destroys your social skills.

32. Make classmate connections

33. Provide direct communication

34. Create study groups

35. Brainstorm

36. Multimedia uploads

37. Showcase student projects

40. Profile is set up like a resume – previous jobs, current job, education etc.

41. Network with experts to find new ideas and opportunities in the field of your interest.

43. Invite everyone or make it exclusive.

44. Not Free. Price ranges from $2.95 /month to $49.94 / month depending on the size of your network.www.ning.com Launched in October 2004

48. Works like email, but instead of sending a message along with its entire thread of previous messages , message documents (referred to as waves) are stored on a central server.

49. Waves are equal part document and conversation.

50. Any participant of a wave can reply anywhere in the message, edit any part of the wave, and add participants at any point in the process.

53. Twitter Twitter is a real-time information network powered by people all around the world that lets you share and discover what’s happening now. www.twitter.com/about

54. Twitter Twitter is like the very beginning of a phone conversation – the part where you ask “What’s up?”

55. Twitter You get 140 characters to tell your followers what you are doing.

56. Twitter You can follow people, people can follow you. It’s not stalking…it’s following. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

57. CCISD Twitter Page: http://twitter.com/copperascoveisd

59. Twitter treasure hunt

60. Learn probability

61. Study geography

62. Recent public updates – Study current events (CNN/ABC News)http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/05/100-inspiring-ways-to-use-social-media-in-the-classroom/

64. Same as Twitter – messages can only be 140 characters in length.

65. Updates are then shown on the user’s home page using a timeline which lists all the updates received in chronological order.

67. Online photo management and sharing application. www.flickr.com Launched February 2004 Offers two types of accounts: Free and Pro Free account users can upload up to 100 MB of images a month and 2 videos – Pro is unlimited Users organize photos using tags – this allows people searching for images related to certain topics to find them quickly 2010 – feature became available for users to label their photographs as suitable for stock use

69. Public can browse presentations by category, or use the search bar to find slides on specific subjects.

71. When you listen to a song on the site, you increase its importance which then affects how many people it is recommended to.

73. This allows for a combined view of everyone’s bookmarks on the website.

74. On the homepage, Delicious will list the most “popular” and most “recent” pages.

77. FREE video/voice calls through Skype to other users.

78. Calls/Text messages to landlines and mobile phones can also be made – for a small fee.

79. Video conference with multiple people at the same time.

81. Users can login to their Meebo account and access all of their social networking accounts.

84. People can submit everything from news to videos to images – people can see this and Digg what they like best.

86. Customize a template using the template designer.

87. Post text, photos, and videos to your blog.

89. Users can customize their own wiki with topics that interest them. These can then be shared with other users across the internet.

91. Get involved. Not on a social networking site? – join one. Not using social media in addition to district curriculum? – use it. There are too many social media sites out there to not take advantage. – so, take advantage

92. Links & Resources http://mashable.com/ http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/05/100-inspiring-ways-to-use-social-media-in-the-classroom/ http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

93. Questions? Comments? Contact: Katie Rudesheim Public Information Officer Copperas Cove ISD rudesheimc@ccisd.com