This presentation written for the University of Alabama Faculty Resource Center reviews how professors can utilize Social Media in college classes. Reviews include the Pearson 2013 Survey of Social Media in Higher Education, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Levo League, Lean In, Daily Muse, Google+, Slideshare, LinkedIn, Prezi, iTunesU, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge and Stanford ECorner
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How to Use Social Media in College Classrooms
2. Social Media Year-to-Year
Increase by Faculty Members
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/21/more-professors-using-social-media-teaching-tools
3. Faculty & Student
Perspectives
0 "Nothing replaces the face-to-face communication, but
when you have a class that large I found it was helpful to
have yet another tool to get to know them…it also gives shy
students another way to participate.”
0 Students say using social media for academic purposes can
be beneficial, as long as it doesn't get too personal.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/02/social-media-teaching-tool/3377929/
4. Pearson Annual Survey of Social Media Use by Higher Education Faculty, 2013: http://www.edudemic.com/wpcontent/uploads/2013/10/social-media-for-teaching.jpg
5. Sharing Work Socially
Encourage students to share work socially.
0 Anna Divinsky created an iTunes U class at Penn State University
called Art 10: Introduction to Visual Studies, which she then
adapted into a massive open online course (MOOC) on Coursera.
With more than 58,000 students.
0 For each class assignment, students were responsible for
evaluating each other's work. Because the class was online, social
media played an essential role in connecting students and
creating an online community.
0 Students shared their work on a variety of platforms. On Flicker,
they tagged artwork, on Twitter they tagged posts all with
“artmooc” creates a record of learning and articles
USA Today Survey, 2013
6. #coolestclassatUA
Use a hashtag to facilitate guest speaker discussions.
0 According to a recent YPulse Survey, 21% of Millennials Use Twitter
as a primary new source.
0 During an investigative journalism class at New York University, one
professor invited prominent journalists to come speak to the class
of more than 200 people, and encouraged students to live-tweet
using the hashtag #IJNYU. The class was big and tweets frequent,
the hashtag occasionally became a trending topic in New York City.
0 Another way to incorporate hashtags is to encourage students to
tweet questions to a guest speaker as the speaker is talking. This is
exactly what Mara Einstein and Chad Boettcher did for NYU's
Innovations in Marketing class. This method ensures that students
don't interrupt the speaker while he or she is talking.
USA Today Survey, 2013
7. Pearson Annual Survey of Social Media Use by Higher Education Faculty, 2013: http://www.edudemic.com/wpcontent/uploads/2013/10/social-media-for-teaching.jpg
35. Extra Resources
0 Pearson Annual Survey of Social Media Use by Higher
Education Faculty, 2013:
http://www.pearsonlearningsolutions.com/highereducation/social-media-survey.php
0 7 Ways Teachers Use Social Media in the Classroom:
http://mashable.com/2013/08/18/social-mediateachers/
0 Social Media Today: http://www.socialmediatoday.com