SOCIAL MEDIA & ONLINE TOOLSFOR EDUCATORS

Valencia Community College

Learning Day 2010

“If we teach today as we taught yesterdaywe rob our children of tomorrow.”

—John Dewey

“Your goal should not be to discard social media,but to figure out how to make it a powerful tool,

—Ben Parr

rather than a useless distraction.”

the dumbest idea ever.From the outside twitter seems like

Twouble with twitters: SuperNews!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w

the dumbest idea ever too.Until April 2008 I thought twitter was

Yet, there are 3,000,000 tweets per a day

going on twitter.com daily.

Many of my students agreed to give it a try.I started using twitter as an experiment to see how useful it really was.

Reasons to use Twitter.A few

• Collaboration• Reach a larger audience• Share ideas• Inspire• Stay updated• Communicate• Networking• Interact

You don’t know what you’re missing until you see it first hand.”“Twitter is to professional development as HD is to television.

— John Mikulski

tweeting isn’t as geeky as some make it out to be.If you give it a little time, you’ll learn that

Great things can come out of twitter.Proof that

Inspired & informed through twitter.Most that were involved with Help-portrait were

We were twittering to excite everyone about the good we were doing.And of course in between taking photos

It allows me to connect in any many ways I couldn’t before.Using twitter as an educator has been a life changing experience

To share your workTwitter can be an exciting way

Can excite & inspire others.Sharing how hard you work on something

Twitter helps you inspire others.Before long you begin to realize how much

To inspire students to try twitter. It didn’t take long to excite students.Before this presentation I decided to try another little experiment

Advantages to using twitter?Need to find a few other

5,000,000,000The number of minutes spent on facebook every day.

If facebook were a countryIt would be the world’s 4th largest country.

Embrace facebook as a learning & communication toolInstead of asking students to stop using it...

Groups & fan pages are a great way to reach users.

Fan pages can be used to promote & share.

Event pages can also help share news & info about events.

DELICIOUS BOOKMARKS.Become your own little resourceful search engine.

One of the best moves I’ve made as an educator.Using delicious to bookmark resources online is

Many students, faculty, and professional use it.Sharing resources with my students has never been easier.

They’re easy to share from any location.Bookmarks can be organized and

To help bookmarking resources a simple process.Internet browsers like firefox have plugins

200,000,000There are more than this many blogs.

It’s free to create a blog that could someday inspire others.There are many blog sites, but wordpress is best known.

Allow you to create content easily.Blogs like wordpress

The Graphics blog has had nearly 250,000 visitors in about 3 years.Stats can be tracked to help you learn who’s reading your blog.

3,600,000,000The number of photos archived on flickr.com

since June 2009

For our graphics program it’s been an invaluable tool.Flickr has become a great way for us to share student work & photos.

Our student’s work is becoming a source of inspiration for other designers.Flickr allows us to show the quality of our student work.

a total of 1,134,417 times as of February 2010.Our flickr photos have been viewed

Turkey • Brazil •Chile •Colombia • Espana • Italy • Argentina • Vietnam Mexico • England • UK • India • Norway • Portugal • France • Philippines

Canada • Indonesia • China • Kuwait • Malaysia • Finland • England Netherlands • Taiwan • Greece • Germany • Japan • Lebanon • Ireland

Romania • Costa Rica

Our student’s work has been viewed internationallyAfter using flickr for our graphics program for over 3 years

Used by over 60,000,000 users.Linked in is

Post your resume & recommendations.Linked in is a great way to publicly

To stay networked.Linked in is a great way

Network groups.You can set up your own

RSSRSS has changed the way web sites communicate

RSS = Really Simple SyndicationRSS is a fancy way of saying “news”

Anytime you see this icon you can subscribe to a web site’s “news” to stay up to date.

iGoogle offers a way to read RSS.You can use an RSS reader to keep up with RSS

Visit the sites only when there’s updated “news”Instead of visiting separate web sites

Feedburner gives you the opportunity to republish RSS.There are many ways you can spread the news you read or write.

Adding RSS feeds to a web site can help them stay current.RSS feeds can be shared in many ways.

Adding an RSS feed can help share resources with students.RSS feeds can even be shared in online courses.

Social Media resource worth checking out.Google Buzz is a promising new

A convergence of current social media.At a first glance Google Buzz seems like

The latest “hype” in social media.Google Buzz is

“What you leave behind is not

but what is woven into the lives of others.”—Percicles

what is engraved in stone monuments,

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