Engaging the Learner with Social Networking
Tools: Techniques for the Online Classroom
Jennifer B. StaleyAmerican Public University System
August 26, 2010
Hagerstown Community College
What are You Doing?
Conversation Made Easy
Share FollowSimplicity & Mobility
No Right Way to Use It!
“Interesting Ways to use Twitter in the Classroom” - http://bit.ly/9akyWb“50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Education” - http://bit.ly/cAcBql
Gather Real World Data
Summarize Topics
Collate Classroom
Views
Communicate with
Experts
Scavenger Hunt
DiscoverCollaborateConnections
Engage students on any subject while using a medium familiar to students
Information presented using multiple voice, perspectives & formats
Centralized or Decentralized Role Play
http://multimedialearning.com/abraham-lincoln-and-facebook-for-learning/
Facebook for Learning ResourcesEducause:http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7025.pdfFacebook Group:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6726749007Facebook as a Learning Platform: http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/10/facebook-as-learning-platform.html25 Facebook Apps that are Perfect for Online Education:http://www.collegedegree.com/library/college-life/15-facebook-apps-perfect-for-online-educationFacebook Learning: http://www.jarche.com/2008/10/facebook-learning/I’m majoring in Facebook, how about you: http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/08/magazines/fortune/blakely_facebook.fortune/index.htm
Read Only, Viewing, Flat,Editor, Personal Website, Centralized
User Generated, Hands On, Dynamic, Buzz, Blog, Crowdsourcing, Social Networking
Web 2.0: TechnologiesWiki: Web page that can be viewed & modified by anybody with a Web browser & access to the Internet. Enables collaboration. If any part of your class involves collaboration or a collaborative project, a wiki can be a valuable tool.
Diigo | www.diigo.com | Diigo's features allow you to highlight critical features within text & images, write comments directly on the web pages, collect & organize series of web pages into coherent & thematic sets, and facilitate online conversations within the context of the materials themselves.
Delicious | www.delicious.com | Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.
iTunesU | www.apple.com/education/itunes-u | A distribution system for lectures to language lessons, films to labs, audiobooks to tours. An innovative way to get educational content into the hands of students.
Web 2.0 Technologies
YouTube | www.youtube.com | Video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos.
TeacherTube | www.teachertube.com | Video sharing website similar to, and based on, YouTube. It is designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others designed to aid teacher training.
LinkedIn | www.linkedin.com | Connect with classmates, faculty and family professionally.
Google Groups | www.google.com | Form an online community, communicate with students, homework, integration with other online resources, online discussion, co-curricular groups, teacher to teacher groups.
ResourcesSloan Consortium (Sloan-C) | http://sloanconsortium.org |
Institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of education.
Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) | http://www.ccsse.org | The report offers data about the quality of community college students’ educational experiences & describes how colleges across the country are intentionally making connections with students online, in the classroom, & on campus.
eLearning Guild | http://www.elearningguild.com | Community & Resources for e-Learning Professionals
United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) | http://www.usdla.org | Advocacy, information networking & opportunities for the distance learning community
Resources, cont.Edutopia (George Lucas Educational Foundation) |
www.edutopia.org | Empowering & connecting teachers, administrators, and parents with innovate solutions & resources to better education
Educause | www.educause.edu | Advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology
Blackboard Community | http://www.blackboard.com LinkedIn Groups | www.linkedin.comThe Chronicle of Higher Education | chronicle.com
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