Intro to Social Media and Web 2.0 Tools Through Faculty Practices - Workshop

On April 15, 2010, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, I moderated for the first time my new training session on the use of social media and web 2.0 tools in higher education. I have spent a considerable amount of time preparing for this and hoped to be able to draw some people in from my personal learning network during the event, which did happen.

On June 4, during the Summer Faculty Institute, I will moderate it again, but this time on a tighter schedule (only 30 minutes). The live stream will be available on Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ud-workshops

This TinyURL will point to this workshop gateway page (this page you're reading right now):

http://tinyurl.com/smpractices0410

I had to use a date stamp at the end because I used /smpractices before for my dry run... A downside of URL shortening...

Please monitor the #smpractices hashtag on my Twitter account (@mathplourde) for more details. Since this will be a one man show, I probably will not be able to monitor Twitter during the presentation but will try to take pauses to discuss when appropriate. I will also prepare tweetbites in advance using SocialOomph to send automated timely updates during the presentation.

As I work on which practices to showcase and on the flow of the presentation, I will edit this blog post to add links and embeds to specific resources.

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Session Support Links

• Ustream (Live Video) Channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ud-workshops
• #smpractices hashtag search on Twitter: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=smpractices
• #smpractices search on TwitterFall: http://twitterfall.com/?trend=%23smpractices%21%231F3547
• Mathieu's Twitter account: http://twitter.com/mathplourde

Faculty Practices

• List of all practices on Wallwisher: http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/ws8lLJK63z

In no particular order, here's the list of practices that might be used during the presentation:

• TwHistory, Twitter Reenactments: http://twhistory.org/
• Learning activity in Second Life for diagnosing and treating virtual patients (Imperial College London): http://www.healthwithbyte.net/2008/08/game-based-learning-for-virtual_13.html
• Ning vs. Learning Management Systems: http://connecting2theworld.blogspot.com/2009/02/ning-vs-learning-management-systems-lms.html
• Use of Blogs in IT Applications in Marketing Class: http://ats.udel.edu/community/node/615
• Googles, Tweets, and Pods: Social Media and the Millennial Learning: http://anythinginstructional.blogspot.com/2009/06/googles-tweets-and-pods-social-media.html
• The Twitter Experiment at UT Dallas: http://www.utdallas.edu/~mar046000/usweb/twitterconclusions.htm
• Lynnette Claire on Student Entrepreneurship Videos: http://itech.ups.edu/showcase/lynette-claire-film
• Tutoring via Instant Messaging: http://leap.ubc.ca/get-study-help/online-tutoring-how-tos/
• Professor Textblaster: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Professor-Textblaster/21451
• Course Twitter Feed: http://www.joshuadanish.com/courses/course-twitter-feed/
• Class Delicious Tag in Computer Science: http://delicious.com/tag/cisc367ud
• 7th Grader Personal Learning Environment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEls3tq5wIY
• Richard Gordon- Supplementing Sakai to Increase Student Engagement: http://udcapture.udel.edu/events/sfi2010/Presentation%20Recordings/Effective%20Instruction%20Online/?t=a4dfec06ffc65dc9ca096357579d6a87

Comment from Stéphane Gauvin, Professor of Marketing, Université Laval, about his use of Facebook as a LMS:

For me, as a teacher, it turned out to be the best environment, by a mile. More and better interaction. It may not provide the easiest way to manage some chores, though, as culling assignments and integrating graded activities is not as easy as it is in a customized [LMS]. Many students were skeptical at first. Most liked it. Some were overwhelmed by the amount of information; some were uneasy with the friends/colleagues mix. I'll very probably use it again next year (keep in mind that this is for an eMarketing [graduate] course -- my assessment is less enthusiastic for support to regular courses).

Professor Gauvin also uses Dropbox to share files and have students drop their assignments.

Still Didn't Get Enough?

• Bookmarks tagged with SMPracticesTraining on Delicious: http://delicious.com/mathplourde/SMPracticesTraining

Faculty Practice: Use of Blogs in Anu Sivaraman's Marketing Classes

I recorded a short interview with Anu Sivaraman, Professor, Business Administration, about her use of blogs in her IT in Marketing classes. We tried to keep the video as short as possible and were able to keep it down to 5 minutes.



I think this practice is really smart, since marketing graduates tend to get entry-level jobs that requires them to maintain or publish to blogs, and be involved in business social media from the get-go.

I am going to use this video during my new training session on social media and web 2.0 in higher education that's coming up next week. Although it is targeted at UD faculty, I'll Ustream it as well. Check my Twitter account for updates (@mathplourde)!