Webinar social media and e learning Sept 2012
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Mandi AxmannLearning Design and
Academic Development
Social Media and eLearning:New challenges for online learning facilitation
Centre for Online Learning Excellence
Plenary Work
Time Plenary session Discussion
3:30-4:20 Understand the impact of social media on eLearning
Synchronous and Asynchronous discussions
• Implement and facilitate wikis as effective learning activity
• Implement and facilitate blogs as effective learning activity
• Implement and facilitate twitter as effective learning activity
4:20-5:00 Challenges for online facilitation
Question and Answer time
What is social media?
Source: Terry Anderson and Jon Dron presentation from Networked Learning 2012
Why do people use social media?
Global Students
• Think outside the box – creative and innovative skills
• Think across disciplines – design, technology, mathematics, art
• Smart about new sources of information
• Good people skills (Emotional intelligence)
• Work in large teams and across various cultures
What it means to be a global student?
Asynchronous communication
Anytime, anywhere, any device – different times
•Open-ended review and discussion
•Short papers and presentations
Discussion forums
•Reflective writing
•Critical writing
Blogs
•Instant feedback on progress
•Self/peer assessment
Quizzes
•Co-produce a piece of work
•Teams and small groups
Wikis
•Submission of reports and essays
•Exam papers
eSubmissions
•Collect and archive work
•Measure and track student performance
ePortfolios
Synchronous communication
Anytime, anywhere, any device – same time
•Skype for audio and video conferencing
•Presentation, discussion and collaboration
Webinars
•Messenger or Google Apps for instant messaging and file transfer
•Discussion and collaboration of group projects
Chat
•Camtasia for on-screen demonstrations
•Live video streaming
Video streaming
Learning technology = Connected learning
Source: Terry Anderson and Jon Dron presentation from Networked Learning 2012
Education
Wiki
• A wiki is a collaborative web site that collects and organizes content, created and revised by its users. – The most well-known example is Wikipedia.
What is a Wiki?
Wiki functions
Wiki
• Frequently Asked Questions• Knowledge base for a specific topic• Find group solutions to a problem• Develop standards or guidelines• Database of experiences with relevant stories• Gather requirements for a new product or design
Uses of a wiki
Wiki examples
Wiki: Terry the Tennisball
Edublogs
Edublogs archive and support student and teacher learning
• facilitating reflection • questioning by self and others • collaboration• providing contexts for engaging in higher-order
thinking.
Blogging
• Share materials, news, downloads, links• Facilitate online discussions and collaboration• Replace your newsletter - create a class publication
that students can easily publish• Get your students blogging so that they can share
their work and thoughts• Integrate videos, podcasts, and other media• Create blogs for student groups, events, teams• Get feedback or gather information (opinion polls)
Uses of blogs
Blog example: Visual Arts
• Brainstorming• Publicity for important events, blog posts, websites, podcasts,
videos, live meetings/discussions, etc.• Twitter can serve as your support group when struggling with a
difficult task.• Twitter provides a way to virtually attend confererences, workshops,
conventions, etc. (via #hashtags).• Back channel during lecture (using event specfic hashtags ie.
#newtonfirstlaw) -- students can go back to Twitter to review, reflect, study key points shared
• Back channel during videos/slideshows• Back channel during student presentations
Uses
Digital revolution
Some more ideas
Talkshoe
iTunes U
Personalised Learning Networks
Network
Case study
Case study
Connect
Let your voice be heard
Teamwork
Speed Geeking
Evaluation
Thanks for your attendance and participation in this workshop.