Educational Web 2.0: Using Social Media/Twitter in the Classroom

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Educational Web 2.0 Using Social Media/Twitter
in the Classroom
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What is this Social Media thing about?
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Social Media Guidelines for Schools

• http//thinkingmachine.pbworks.com/Think-Social-Me
  dia-Guidelines
• http//socialmediaguidelines.pbworks.com/
• Faculty Staff Guidelines
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• Student Guidelines
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• Parent Guidelines
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• District Recommended Social Media Sites 
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• Examples of Social Media Permission Forms
• Social Media Guidelines is a collaborative wiki
  project.  All information and materials, unless
  otherwise indicated, are licensed under a
  Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States Lic
  ense.

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 School District Blogging/Social Media Policies

• Academy of Discovery Online Code
• Arapahoe High School Blogging Policy
• East Lothian Council Self-publishing and Social
  Media Guidelines Pupils
• East Lothian CouncilSelf-publishing and Social
  Media Guidelines Staff
• Goochland Countty Public Schools AUP
• - Acceptable and Unacceptable Use Policies for
  Publishing Content
• Kennett Consolidated School District AUP -
  Includes Blogging Policy
• Laramie County School District 2 - Safe Blogging
  Policy
• Maine School Admimistration District 22 Weblogs
  Terms of Use
• http//delicious.com/klmontgomery/social_media

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Social Media

• EDITED SHORT LIST
• Top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites
• Top 10 Social Networking Sites by Market
• Share of Visits August
• 13 Social Networking Sites You Should Be Using 

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• 1  Facebook
• 2  Twitter
• 3  LinkedIn
• 4  Pinterest
• 5  MySpace
• 6  Google Plus
• 7  DeviantArt
• 8  LiveJournal
• 9 Tagged
• 10  Orkut
• 11  CafeMom
• 12  Ning

• 13  Meetup
• 14  myLife
• 15  Multiply
• 16 YouTube
• 17 Foursquare
• 18 Tumblr
• 19 Reddit
•  20 StumbleUpon
•  21 GetGlue
•  22 Instagram
• 23  Path

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Social Seniors Flock to Facebook
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• Social network service focuses on building online
  communities
• People who share interests
• Exploring the interests of others
• Web based
• Variety of ways to interact

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Micro-Blogging

• What is it?
• Some micro-blogging sites are
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Tumblr
• Google

• Snapchat
• ooVoo
• pinterest
• WorldStuffer
• Friendster
•  Plurk

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Facebook in Education

• Search Results
• Facebook in Education Facebook
• https//www.facebook.com/education
• Facebook in Education. 652221 likes 1048
  talking about this. A Facebook Page for
  information about how educators can best use
  Facebook.
• ?About - ?Photos - ?Likes - ?Timeline
• Social Media in Education The Power of Facebook
  Edutopia
• www.edutopia.org/social-media-education-examples-f
  acebook
• Edutopia
• May 7, 2010 - A couple recent models of this
  education advocacy on Facebook that come to mind
  may be different in intent, but they both have
  something in ...
• 100 Ways To Use Facebook In Education By Category
• www.teachthought.com/.../100-ways-to-use-facebook-
  in-education-by-c...
• Sep 8, 2012 - Back in 2009, we wrote a popular
  post, 100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in
  Your Classroom. Now almost three years later,
  educators ...
• The Why and How of Using Facebook For Educators
  No ...
• www.theedublogger.com/.../the-why-and-how-of-using
  -facebook-for-ed...
• May 11, 2011 - If you are one of those out there
  that believe that Facebook has no place ... From
  http//www.mindjumpers.com/blog/2011/04/education-
  industry- ...
• 100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your
  Classroom
• www.onlinecollege.org/.../100-ways-you-should-be-u
  sing-facebook-in-y...
• Oct 20, 2009 - These groups show how other
  instructors are using Facebook in education or
  work to unite educators through Facebook. You can
  connect with ...
• 10 Reasons Why Schools Shouldn't Block Facebook -
  Study ...

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Facebook or Fakebook
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• Facebook or Fakebook?

Try the New Fakebook for Creating Fake Facebook
Pages
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• http//www.classtools.net/FB/home-page

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Applications for Education

• Creating a fake Facebook profile could be a fun
  way for students to organize information that
  they know and or find about a famous person.
• You could also have students create profiles for
  characters in a novel that they are reading for
  your literature course.
• Take a look at the Fakebook profile gallery for
  more ideas about using Fakebook in your
  classroom.

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Fakebook is a tool created by Russel Tarr which
allows users to create unreal Facebook profiles.
Fakebook can be used  to chart the plot of a
book, the development of a character, a series of
historical events, the debates and relationships
between people, etc.

• Create a fictional social profile at
  www.classtools.net.
• Create free educational games and tools in flash.
  

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Russel Tarr has just released a new version of
Fakebook.

• Tool for creating fake Facebook profiles.
• Latest version of Fakebook makes it easy to
  create a page by just clicking on a field and
  entering as much information as you like.
• Profile picture field you can enter a name and
  Fakebook will search for images to use.
• For example, if you create a Fakebook page about
  George Washington Fakebook will search for
  pictures of George Washington.

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http//www.classtools.net/fb/11/M4Lcj8k
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ClassTools.netclasstools.net/

• Create free educational games and tools in flash.
  ... Fakebook. Create a fictional social profile.
  Tarr's Toolbox. Scores of teaching ideas and
  resources! 3D Gallery ... This tool checks if an
  essay uses the most important key terms for a
  topic.

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So, what is
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Twitter - Rank 2 450,500,000
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• Twitter invites users to sign up
• Free online account
• Find friends and colleagues
• Follow
• Publish (send) short updates
• tweets, of 140 or fewer characters

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Networking Tool Lucy Gray,University of Chicago

• spread the word about upcoming events
• promote her seminars and workshops
• share new ideas and best practices
• follow ed-tech experts
• learn about new tools from educators

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Twitter sounds fun, but how is it educational?

• Collaboration with colleagues
• Creating a your personal brand.
• Learning to be concise.
• Personifying characters on Twitter.
• Teaching executives about social media
• Communication with parents
• Infinite classroom activities
• For lecture notes

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https//twitter.com/hdiblasi
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Twittering with Colleagues

• You have learned a lot this semester! Did you
  tell all your colleagues about it?
• new uses of technology
• lesson plan ideas for your curriculum
• discovery of new resources
• Can you think of a way of using Twitter with
  colleagues in your grade/content?

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Tweets with Parents

• Parents can follow you from the Twitter Web site,
  their mobile phones, or instant messaging. Think
  of all the things you could Twitter!
• tonights homework
• a new long term project
• school or classroom supplies needed
• a new topic/unit
• enrichment suggestions
• quick survey/opinion about something relevant to
  the lesson or class discussion
• Can you think of a way of using Twitter with
  parents in your grade/content?

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Twittering with Students

• introducing a topic/lesson
• take a quick poll/fact collection from your
  network
• access the prior knowledge of your network
• type a keyword in Twitterfall and read what
  people are saying about it
• activities
• Twitterfall a short story
• Twitter a dialogue between two figures or
  characters
• follow another class who is studying the same
  topic
• communicate with experts
• Twitter topical facts to students whenever

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Twittering with Students (cond)

• long term projects
• journals/research logs/learning logs
• analysis of a celebrity Twitter page
• develop and maintain a Twitter page- character ,
  figure, how to, etc.
• closure
• what was learned during a lesson
• reflection
• Can you think of a way of using Twitter with
  students in your grade/content?

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How to Get Started

• Go to www.Twitter.com
• Think of a user name and create and account
• Twitter searches your e-mail contacts to create
  your network
• Search for others you want to follow and add them
• Invite others to follow you
• You can set your preferences so that you follow
  everyone who follows you
• Dont worry! You can block anyone you dont want
  to follow you.

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Suggested Resources

• Twenty-Five Interesting Ways of Using Twitter in
  the Classroom
• Twitter for Academia
• How to Use Twitter in the Classroom (video)

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Ways to Teach With Twitter

• 100 Ways to Teach With Twitter - Emerging EdTech
• WeAreTeachers 6 Creative Ways to Teach Students
• 60 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom
• 25 Ways Teachers Can Integrate Social Media Into
  Education
• How To Teach World History Using Twitter

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• 25 ways to teach with Twitter
• by Sonja Cole http//www.techlearning.com/article
  /20896
• Educators Test the Limits of Twitter
  Microblogging Tool
• http//www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2008/06/24/01twi
  tter_web.h02.html

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Did you learn how to use Twitter?

• Using the chat feature of our electronic
  classroom, write a Twitter message to a
  department member at your school telling him or
  her what you learned today about using Twitter in
  the classroom. Remember that a Twitter is
  limited to 140 characters !