Meaningful use of social media

Social media in education

• Disclaimer first

– Do not be driven by the ‘technology’

– First recognize and outline your purpose and objectives

– Appreciate that not everyone will ‘want to participate’

– The potential and value these forms of communication technology can afford may be the best place to start

– Safety first! Ground rules.

– Need to appreciate the culture of social media – you can’t use social media to teach/learn about everything or every topic. It only works for topics/subjects that lend* themselves to social media.

Can I do this with paper?

Yes, rather effectively

No, not really

Use paper

Rest of this presentation

*People/topic/rationale first – technology second

Situation 1 – Engaging a small group

in collaborative effort

Write down….

Work in small groups…

Report back…

Situation 1 (redux)

Google docs

Wordle

Tinyurl

Small Group Activities – even in a class of 65+

Situation 2 – Exploring and Ethics

• PatientsLikeMe.com/patients

• Reddit.com/r/health

• Curetogether.com

• 23andMe

• search.twitter.com

• Healthmap

Should patients-consumers be given access to

their electronic health records/information?

Situation 3 – Interpret something

• Students wrote a paragraph reflection on a

really dry paper

• My instructions – reinterpret the paragraph: Draw.io,

Prezi, Wordle.net, bubbl.us, Pinterest, PowToon, et al.

How’d I do it

• Present the activity

• Present a listing of opportunities (i.e., social technologies that could be used)

• Afford the freedom to select, *and see others

• Reinterpret information into a usable artifact

• Post the URL or artifact (namely, screen shot) on a pre-generated Sakai message thread

• Discuss all artifacts – reinterpret artifacts, then start over

Situation 6 – Stuff with Twitter

• Join a Twitter chat – #HCSCMA, #RNChat,

#mhnursechat

– http://www.symplur.com/healthcare-hashtags/tweet-chats/ for more

• Use Twitter at a conference – The next time you see a

conference with a hashtag, tweet on it

– #med2 #medx

– Hashtag for your class, for a day?

Situation 7

• Want to generate knowledge?

• Why not write/edit a wikipedia article?

Situation 8

• I’m running a workshop – I want to make it innovative and engaging

• I have some helpers who understand technology

• I want artifacts from the workshop

• Have a budget <50 bucks

• Super. There is stuff you can do.

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Situation 9 – more ‘stationary’

learning, with a research focus

• Mendeley

• ResearchGate

• Twitter for research

• Google Scholar

• Facebook groups

• YouTube

• Reddit subreddits

Situation 10 – Social Networks*

• Sermo

• PatientsLikeMe

• Mayo Clinic

• CDC Social Media

• Practice Fusion (free EMR)

• Open Source Pharma

• Kiva

• Community Lend

• Kick Starter / EventBrite