TEACHING WITHAND HOOTSUITE

Corinne Weisgerber Twitter:@corinnew

DIIGOSTORIFY•

STORIFYAllows you to grab anything story-worthy on the web and to create text and media-rich stories. No coding needed. Stories can be embedded anywhere on the web.

Curation Assignment: Set up a network of online mentors using social media.

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2 Curate info received through their PLN by:

- combing through all of it to discover the significant- bundling those ideas together- contextualizing them- repackaging them - sharing them

Narrative to tie the various story elements together

Curated content in the form of blog posts & articles

Curated content in the form of videos/tutorials

Crediting the sources through hyperlinks

Curated content in the form of Twitter posts

Creating a helpful resource and sharing it: 1,634 views

ASSIGNMENT teaches student to connect themselves to experts who share valuable info

TECH TOOL allows students to take bits & pieces of info, work them into a narrative & share them

OTHER OPTIONS: SCOOP.IT, PAPER.LI

DIIGO A social bookmarking service focused on the practice of “annotating, storing, organizing, remembering, collaborating, sharing, and connecting dots into knowledge.

A warehouse of potential course resources filed away for future usage

Aggregating potential course material with social bookmarks

Minimal time investment

A tag for every classEx: COMM3309

Professor & students can share content by using the same tag

ASSIGNMENT:Bookmark at least one resource a week on a topic discussed in class that week (i.e. news stories, articles, videos, podcasts, or slideshows). Summarize & explain the resource’s relevance.

Alternative (instructor) use:To stream resources into Blackboard without updating Blackboard

HOOTSUITEA social media management system that helps you keep track and manage your many social network channels.

Ideal for filtering social media content. Allows you to sort content into columns.

ASSIGNMENT:Set up HootSuite to locate the job of your dreams. Then sit back & relax! 1. Create a list of people on Twitter who tend to

tweet about job openings, job hunting tips, etc. 2. Run a search & save each search as a stream3. Create a “Notice Me” list

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List of people who tweet about job openings

Search stream with key phrase “PR Job Austin”

1. Create your own Notice-Me List. Remember to make it a private list!!

2. Make sure your bio is up-to-date and your banner is looking good before you go on to the next step.  

3. Remember: don’t ask them for anything. You want them to think they discovered you on their own.

4. Interact with them in a valuable and interesting way

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Notice-Me List