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Brie Boynton
Brie Boynton

This session will help instructors utilize social media to create a more inclusive and collaborative classroom through effective technology use. By showing instructors how to set up social media accounts for their classes and how to use key features, instructors will be able to spend less time reminding students about assignment due dates while being able to create and foster group work as well as building 21st Century skills.

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SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE CLASSROOM How to use Social Media to enhance learning and communication?
SESSION DESCRIPTION This session will help instructors utilize social media to create a more inclusive and collaborative classroom through effective technology use. By showing instructors how to set up social media accounts for their classes and how to use key features, instructors will be able to spend less time reminding students about assignment due dates while being able to create and foster group work as well as building 21st Century skills.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES  Will be able to name the most popular social media (SM) websites  Will know what the most popular SM websites do  Will learn how to set up profiles for the most popular SM websites  Will learn how to use the SM websites to help create a more inclusive classroom  Will learn how to use SM websites’ features to lower the burden on reminding students of assignment due dates and more effective monitoring of group work and group assignments
ABOUT ME  Who am I? Where I work?  What I do? Education  Email: baboynton@waketech.edu; baboynton@gmail.com Twitter:@baboynton  Facebook: BrieBoy; SMintheClassroom Tumblr: SMintheClassroom Wordpress: SMintheClassroom
ABOUT YOU First Name What subject you teach? Do you currently use Social Media personally/professionally/in classroom? Are you a gamer?
DEFINITIONS Social Media: websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking (Oxford Dictionary) 21st Century Skills: Are skills students need to be successful in the 21st century. http://www.curriculum21.com/pd/curriculu m-mapping/archives/glossary/
21ST CENTURY SKILLS  Critical Thinking and Problem Solving  Creativity and Innovation  Communication and Collaboration  Visual Literacy  Scientific and Numerical Literacy  Cross-Disciplinary Thinking  Basic Literacy  Information Literacy  Media Literacy  Health Literacy  Information, Communications and Technology Literacy  Global Awareness  Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy  Civic Literacy  Environmental Literacy  Flexibility and Adaptability  Initiative and Self-Direction  Social and Cross-Cultural Skills  Productivity and Accountability  Leadership and Responsibility
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS How many currently have a personal social media account, i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest? What is the main use of your account? How many currently ban outside technology from the classroom, i.e. cellphones, laptops? What are your concerns with using SM?
POPULAR SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Flickr Instagram  LibraryThing  Yelp  YouTube  Myspace  LiveJournal  Wordpress
FACEBOOK What it Does? Connects students and professors in and out of the classroom Faster response time Creates a more social classroom experience Able to reach absent students/online students  Key Features Create calendar and events schedule Receive Email from Facebook Download Facebook data Manage Privacy
TWITTER What it Does? Microblogging Great for due date reminders, test reminders, ungraded pop quizzes, crowdsourcing, increased participation Key Features 140-character limit Download an archive of every tweet Tweet via SMS
TUMBLR What it Does? Blogging for pictures. Photo Journaling Can send fun memes to your class as reminders that work is due, no class being held, have a great weekend Key Features Allows you to send still images, gifs, text and short video, audio and links Can be accessed anywhere Password protection
YOUTUBE What it Does? Create video content Great for taping lectures, PowerPoint presentations, etc. Key Features Content can be made public or private Can be viewed on device with access to the internet
WORDPRESS What it Does?  Allows you to create a custom blog for your class.  Online Journal  Allows students to respond to writing assignments  Allows you to respond to their assignments Key Features Mobile Blogging Create the blog page you want for your class Do Not have to rely on Blackboard to receive writing assignments
QUESTIONS?
Break Time. YAY!!!!!!!!
HOW TO CREATE  https://www.facebook.com/  https://twitter.com/baboynton  https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard  https://www.youtube.com/  https://smintheclassroom.wordpress.com/wp-admin/

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Social media in the classroom

  • 1. SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE CLASSROOM How to use Social Media to enhance learning and communication?
  • 2. SESSION DESCRIPTION This session will help instructors utilize social media to create a more inclusive and collaborative classroom through effective technology use. By showing instructors how to set up social media accounts for their classes and how to use key features, instructors will be able to spend less time reminding students about assignment due dates while being able to create and foster group work as well as building 21st Century skills.
  • 3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES  Will be able to name the most popular social media (SM) websites  Will know what the most popular SM websites do  Will learn how to set up profiles for the most popular SM websites  Will learn how to use the SM websites to help create a more inclusive classroom  Will learn how to use SM websites’ features to lower the burden on reminding students of assignment due dates and more effective monitoring of group work and group assignments
  • 4. ABOUT ME  Who am I? Where I work?  What I do? Education  Email: baboynton@waketech.edu; baboynton@gmail.com Twitter:@baboynton  Facebook: BrieBoy; SMintheClassroom Tumblr: SMintheClassroom Wordpress: SMintheClassroom
  • 5. ABOUT YOU First Name What subject you teach? Do you currently use Social Media personally/professionally/in classroom? Are you a gamer?
  • 6. DEFINITIONS Social Media: websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking (Oxford Dictionary) 21st Century Skills: Are skills students need to be successful in the 21st century. http://www.curriculum21.com/pd/curriculu m-mapping/archives/glossary/
  • 7. 21ST CENTURY SKILLS  Critical Thinking and Problem Solving  Creativity and Innovation  Communication and Collaboration  Visual Literacy  Scientific and Numerical Literacy  Cross-Disciplinary Thinking  Basic Literacy  Information Literacy  Media Literacy  Health Literacy  Information, Communications and Technology Literacy  Global Awareness  Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy  Civic Literacy  Environmental Literacy  Flexibility and Adaptability  Initiative and Self-Direction  Social and Cross-Cultural Skills  Productivity and Accountability  Leadership and Responsibility
  • 8. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS How many currently have a personal social media account, i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest? What is the main use of your account? How many currently ban outside technology from the classroom, i.e. cellphones, laptops? What are your concerns with using SM?
  • 9. POPULAR SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Flickr Instagram  LibraryThing  Yelp  YouTube  Myspace  LiveJournal  Wordpress
  • 10. FACEBOOK What it Does? Connects students and professors in and out of the classroom Faster response time Creates a more social classroom experience Able to reach absent students/online students  Key Features Create calendar and events schedule Receive Email from Facebook Download Facebook data Manage Privacy
  • 11. TWITTER What it Does? Microblogging Great for due date reminders, test reminders, ungraded pop quizzes, crowdsourcing, increased participation Key Features 140-character limit Download an archive of every tweet Tweet via SMS
  • 12. TUMBLR What it Does? Blogging for pictures. Photo Journaling Can send fun memes to your class as reminders that work is due, no class being held, have a great weekend Key Features Allows you to send still images, gifs, text and short video, audio and links Can be accessed anywhere Password protection
  • 13. YOUTUBE What it Does? Create video content Great for taping lectures, PowerPoint presentations, etc. Key Features Content can be made public or private Can be viewed on device with access to the internet
  • 14. WORDPRESS What it Does?  Allows you to create a custom blog for your class.  Online Journal  Allows students to respond to writing assignments  Allows you to respond to their assignments Key Features Mobile Blogging Create the blog page you want for your class Do Not have to rely on Blackboard to receive writing assignments
  • 17. HOW TO CREATE  https://www.facebook.com/  https://twitter.com/baboynton  https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard  https://www.youtube.com/  https://smintheclassroom.wordpress.com/wp-admin/