Social Media in Education

1. Social Media in Education By Dr.Kumuda Gururao www.advisor2u.com

2. Learning Objectives By the end of this program, you will learn • What is meant by social media • Tools of social media for education • Benefits of social media • How to implement it for your institution • How to curate the content from various sources • Real life examples

3. What is Social Media?

4. Social Media

5. Social Media: Definition • ‘Social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media use web-based’.

6. Examples for Social Media : Tools of the Day

7. Examples for social media : Tools of the day – Contd….

8. Social Media Tools Used in Education • Ning • Elgg • Diigo (e.g. web slides on eLearing) • Academia.edu • Quora • Slideshare • Storify • authorStream

9. Webslides on eLearning

10. Social Media Tools Used in Education –Contd… • Wikispaces Classroom • Edmodo • 123ContactForm • Edublogs-(Use blogbooker, ZINEPAL, Anthologize to create eBook from blogs) • IHMC software

11. Example for Social Media : cfhe12 Cfhe12 It is a Web Based Course-MOOC My Concept Maps http://cmapspublic.ihmc.us/rid=1L2FYQJCL-12NTCQ0-2NFD/cfhe12

12. Concept Map : e.g.

14. Benefits of Social Media in Higher Education • What are the benefits of using Social Media for Higher Education?

15. Benefits of Social Media in Higher Education • Connections • Everyone can participate as there is no constraint of time • Improves communication

16. Points to be Considered Before Adopting Social Media for Hr.Education What are the points to be considered before implementing Social Media for Higher Education?

17. Points to be Considered Before Adopting Social Media for Hr.Education • Purpose of using social media • Drafting a social media policy The DO’s and DONT’s of social media at VU. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=THjwa-9mwuI#! Or Click here. • Avoiding a social media crisis and dealing with it.

18. Resources for Drafting Social Media Policy • Ottawa Catholic School Board Social Media PolicySocial Media Governance - database of over 195 policies • School AUP 2.0 policy resources • Ontario College of Teachers Professional AdvisoryThinking Machine - Social Media Guidelines • AZTEA resources for AUP and social media • Navigating Social Media Policies - Simple K12 Webinar • Mashable - 10 Must Haves for your social media policy • 15 University Social Media Policies • NSW social media policy

19. How Would You Use Social Media in the Classroom? • Encourage group discussion-use classname/project name hashtag for discussion on Twitter

20. Open Virtual Meetings

21. Post Helpful Information

22. How Would You Consolidate the Information You’ve shared through Social Media?

23. You Can Consolidate by Curating • Distribute /Curate your content using sccop.it e.g. http://www.scoop.it/t/edutek/ http://www.scoop.it/t/smmarketing • Use peartrees for various topics My pearltree

24. Social Media in Education An example for curation : Social Media in Education

25. Examples of Real Life Usage http://india-men.ning.com/ The University of California, Riverside – The Sloan Center for Internet Retailing uses Ning as the graduate school’s main site)

26. Examples of Real life Usage Facebook • Amity University • BITS-Pilani • VIT-Alumini • SRM University • University of Petroleum & Energy Studies

27. Examples of Real life Usage ..Contd.. Twitter • Amity University • SRM University

28. Interaction Provide feedback of this program by tweeting your opinion with #SM4Edu

29. My Networks My networks

30. Thank You By Dr.Kumuda Gururao www.advisor2u.com