January 12Social Media’s (positive + negative) Potential as a Teaching Tool

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January 12Social Networking

Microblogging

Social Bookmarking

SBA Teaching Brown Bag

Social media

How can social media extend class discussion + interest?

What courses are best suited for using social media?

Does social media break down necessary boundaries?

What risks are involved with accepting students as “friends?”

Is Twitter really that useful?

Are there certain under/over-served students?

Is using social media worth the time + commitment

Social media

“Promotes the individual while also emphasizing an individual’s relationship to the community, the rights of all members to collaborate and be heard within a protective space, which welcomes the opinions and contributions of participants.”

Tracy Tuten, 2008

Social media

Social media

Social media

participatoryinterconnected

thematic

functionalsymbolic of self

experiential (CGC)

Social media

younger + African-American outpace males

older lag dramatically

slightly more intense Net users

more enthusiastic Net communicators

perform more online transactions

more aggressive consumers of online information

bigger users of Net for entertainment

more interested in technology + more tech savvy

value Net’s ability to enrich relationships value Net’s breadth of offerings

Social networking

Social networking

Social networking

Facebook US audience grew 8.6% in September, 2009 (88.3 million unique visitors)

Social networking

Microblogging

Microblogging

Microblogging

Social bookmarking