Presentation to the MAA Session on Trends in Teaching Mathematics Online
Students today spend more time on Facebook than on any other website. Course Facebook pages are a way to reach students where they are. But duplicating regularly updated content on an official course website as well as a Facebook page can become tedious. We will discuss methods of integrating a Blackboard or other course website with counterparts in social media spaces, including Facebook and Twitter. All techniques will use free online services and will not require programming. Once set up, connections update automatically and content is broadcast further without additional effort.
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MAA Session on Trends in Teaching Mathematics Online
Boston, Massachusetts
January 7, 2012
Image by Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon
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6. • Over 800 million users (200
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• 26% of US users are 26-34yo,
16% 35-44yo, 12% 45-54yo
7. • Over 800 million users (200
million US), 900 million
objects
• 26% of US users are 26-34yo,
16% 35-44yo, 12% 45-54yo
• At least 85% of US college
students have accounts
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69. Thank You
Matthew Leingang
leingang@nyu.edu
twitter: @mleingang
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ob pic of professor in front of blackboard with math on it.\ni teach lots of calculus, often large classes.\nI am an unabashed social media dilettante and evangelist\nwant to talk about why, what, and (some) how of integrating SM channels into your web presence\n
Flickr user striatic\nhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/1650790 (CC BY 2.0)\n\n
I would guess at 4-year colleges FB usage is at 95% or above\n
I would guess at 4-year colleges FB usage is at 95% or above\n
I would guess at 4-year colleges FB usage is at 95% or above\n
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http://uwithelpdesk.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/students-in-classroom.jpg\n\n Outpost for your course in Facebook\n Broadcast information to students, opposed to just stashing it on a website\n Extend class beyond classroom\n
FB has privacy controls to allow you to keep things from your students. I like to reveal some of my life to them--helps them understand me.\n
“microblogging” site\n from the quotidian to the earthshaking\n small messages with links, @mentions, and #hashtags\n platform in that lots of websites hook you into it so you can announce updates via twitter.\n\n
“microblogging” site\n from the quotidian to the earthshaking\n small messages with links, @mentions, and #hashtags\n platform in that lots of websites hook you into it so you can announce updates via twitter.\n\n
“microblogging” site\n from the quotidian to the earthshaking\n small messages with links, @mentions, and #hashtags\n platform in that lots of websites hook you into it so you can announce updates via twitter.\n\n
456,000 new accounts per day\n150 million tweets per day\nThe tweet/sec record went from 456 on 6/25/2009 to 6,939 on 1/1/2011\n
456,000 new accounts per day\n150 million tweets per day\nThe tweet/sec record went from 456 on 6/25/2009 to 6,939 on 1/1/2011\n
456,000 new accounts per day\n150 million tweets per day\nThe tweet/sec record went from 456 on 6/25/2009 to 6,939 on 1/1/2011\n
456,000 new accounts per day\n150 million tweets per day\nThe tweet/sec record went from 456 on 6/25/2009 to 6,939 on 1/1/2011\n
456,000 new accounts per day\n150 million tweets per day\nThe tweet/sec record went from 456 on 6/25/2009 to 6,939 on 1/1/2011\n
456,000 new accounts per day\n150 million tweets per day\nThe tweet/sec record went from 456 on 6/25/2009 to 6,939 on 1/1/2011\n
456,000 new accounts per day\n150 million tweets per day\nThe tweet/sec record went from 456 on 6/25/2009 to 6,939 on 1/1/2011\n
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This is a twitter account for a course on “Writing NY” taught at NYU. It is used for backchannel discussion and Q&A during class, and open discussion outside (and beyond!) class. People follow this account who have not even taken the class\n
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I found this diagram for restaurants when researching. It shows how Web 2.0 platforms become part of a regular old website\n[Explain what these do]. Every “update” to one these gets a twitter post and a FB post. Some tweets go to FB and a blog\n
Here’s a version of that for a course website. [Explain what these do]. Every “update” goes to twitter (and can go to FB too). Manual tweets can go to FB and BB. I want to focus on these two flows: SS to FB, and BB to FB\n
Here’s a version of that for a course website. [Explain what these do]. Every “update” goes to twitter (and can go to FB too). Manual tweets can go to FB and BB. I want to focus on these two flows: SS to FB, and BB to FB\n
Here’s a version of that for a course website. [Explain what these do]. Every “update” goes to twitter (and can go to FB too). Manual tweets can go to FB and BB. I want to focus on these two flows: SS to FB, and BB to FB\n
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Really the way that one website can “talk” to another.\n
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Create a flickr group for your students\nAssign them to take “Found Math” pictures and save them to the group\nGroup RSS feed posted to Bb, FB, Twitter\n