1. Social Learning: how do you use social
media & e-portfolios in the classroom?
with Sheny Gregory
Certified Career Counsellor, Social Media
Enthusiast,
e-portfolio facilitator & SUP board paddler
e-portfolio facilitator & SUP board paddler
e-portfolio facilitator & SUP board paddler

2. qr codes: instant
info using a smart
phone

3. social learning:
e-learning:
learning
from one another in a social context
learning from virtual
situations through internet, video, collaboration in e-formats
learning from virtual situations through internet, video, collaboration in eformats

4. Stats
Facebook
800million
users
Twitter
200million
users
Linkedin
120million
users
(july 2011)
(2011)
(march 2011)
google #1 search engine
youtube #2
Google+
25million users

5. Gen Y
catching
up to Gen
X on
twitter
By 2013 mobile
smart phones
used most in
world (out#
PC’s)

6. Gen Y
thang!
It is not a
Gen Y
thang!
SM is the new
telephone.
SM is a way to
build
relationships.
It does not

7. Social Media
is the ideal
precursor to
f2f
The purpose of
social media is to
meet f2f, share
ideas, solve
problems
e.g. tweetups,
Obama, Egypt

8. Old school social

9. New school social

10. So how do you
start?

11. You need a Base:
website, blog &
e-portfolio
e-portfolio

12. Your
website:
it’s
yours, you
own it
Facebook,
Linkedin,
Twitter could
be gone next
year

13. • You own school website
Your it
• You have control
over all aspects
of it
• You will have
your website
after all the
“latest” social
media tools have
faded
• Look at myspace,
yahoo that were
once “all that” &Link FB LN Twitter to
are now crowded
your website & vice
out by FB,
versa

14. Your e-portfolio
• an e-portfolio is the
result of a reflective
process and builds your
career profile to
increase your on-line
presence for recruiting
purposes
http:selenamartin.jigsy.com
• All high school students
in BC need an e-portfolio
to graduate
• Universities use them to
organize work, share
progress, apply for
http://shenygregory.weebly.com

15. Your blog
• on-line journal
used to share
your insights,
thoughts,
expertise that
represent the
brand of your
school/approach
to teaching
• Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega
@hummingbird604
• Dr. Janni Aragon
@janniaragon

16. twitter.com a
microblog
• 140 characters to say
your thing, use url’s,
use 120 characters for
RT
• Use to share expertise
in your subject area; 19 rule
• Share local updates &
lifestyle insights to
your customer base
• @tourismcollege1
• @cdicollege
Miss604 blog blog not twitter

17. Facebook

18. Uses for Facebook
• Post notices,
events &
reminders to
students
• Post community
involvement like
charity
fundraising
• Keep in touch
with alumni &
sponsors
• Maintain open
channel between
you & students

19. Linkedin
Think
Professional
version of
Facebook

20. Linkedin: alumni

21. rss feeds really
simple
syndication

22. rss
feed
page

23. Honorable Mentions
• Delicious
• Flikr
• stumbleupon
• digg
• foursquare
• yelp
• renren (FB
of

24. Future Trends?
• Google+
interesting to
see what happens
with google
circles etc
• ipad
• i tablets
•?

25. PRIZES!

26. How to apply social
media to....?
• Classroom
• Professionally
with colleagues
• Within your
community
• With sponsors

27. in the classroom
• reminders of
assignments due
• Links to reading
material
• correspondence
asynchronous time
• @janniaragon
• @hummingbird604
•@

28. Top Tips from Raul
@hummingbird604
• Social Media does
not replace
@hummingbird604
teaching
• Social Media does
not replace
lecture
• Offers an
interactive style
of teaching
• Forces all
students to
twitter
• it is about
efficiency when u

29. • Use twitter in more
Tips from
@Janniaragon
advanced classes
younger students not
twitter saavy yet; use
FB for them
• use youtube to break
up lecture every 20
minutes
• send out user
reminders every 2
weeks if don’t use it,
lose it
• “twitter changed my
life” student tweeted
after following United
Nations

30. Professionals
• Get on LINKEDIN
• individually then your
school & its employees
• Create your own eportfolio
• teacher to teacher:
create a blog to share
stuff (non-public)
• keep principle/owner in
the loop with updates
via eportfolio and
blogs
eportfolios
for manage

31. Community
• teacher to
community
• student to
community
• twitter, FB,
blogs, google+
• share images,
videos on
community events
great example of
promoting hands-on
curriculum & bras for a
cause fundraiser

32. PRIZES!

33. add cat picture here
Now what?

34. Make it part of your
routine
Who checks phone
messages & email while
having morning coffee?
Add to that list, check
linkedin, twitter feeds
& Facebook comments &
RESPOND
Create a new
habit

35. Top Tips to start
well then move
• Learn one tool
onto the next one
• choose which
social media tool
is best for your
goals
• use in
conjunction with
marketing
plan/teaching
plan
• Social Media
needs to tie into
your school’s

36. hootesuite, post latest blog post, drive
traffic to blog; Advanced Strategy
FB page bring traffic to
blog
use youtube or video sharing ; 45 million
Linkedin - promote status updates & LN
groups
no spamming
provide value

37. Advanced strategy

38. open to all, it
provides access
to all, without
discrimination
based on
politics,
economics,
gender, race,
or religion. It
is open to all
to share
stories,
passions,
dreams,
knowledge,
prctical wisdom
hopes and
aspirations. It
Your turn

39. Get into Pairs
• What is the most
innovative
technology you are
aware of today in
any field - art,
health, education,
transportation,
manufacturing?
• Describe in detail
some of the
innovative
technologies you
know about & what
they do.
What are their benefits?
What excites you about
these technologies?
What technologies do you
use in your current job?
How is your work and the
quality of your work and
life helped by these
technologies?

40. part II:
pair up w/
another Introduce your
group
•
partners and
share highlights
of their partners
2 stories
What common themes
reveal the best &
most successful
experiences with
technology?
Select 1 story
that illustrates
impressive
technology & share
with one other
group
.
• 1. what is the
best technology
they are aware
of?
• 2. how are they
best using
technology at
work?

41. Shout out the top
technologies talked
about
• i-pads?
• i-tablets?
• -e-books?
• iphone 5?
• samsung android?

42. What if I learn
twitter then it’s
• “It is the gone?
framework which
changes with
each new
technology and
not just the
picture within
the frame”
• -marshall
mcluhan 1911- for coining the expressions "
McLuhan is known
1980 the medium is the message" and "the global village" and p
redicted the World Wide Web almost thirty years before i
t was invented

43. Social Revolution
• The Social revolution is
here
• Social Media has changed
the way we communicate &
organize things & build
relationships
• Join the conversation
• Be a fan
• Get linkedin

44. Resources
• @shenyker
• shenygregory.weeb
ly.com
• shenygregory@gmai
l.com