Effective Uses of Social Media in Education


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Tech Tip: How To Integrate Twitter With PowerPoint 2003 & 2007

50 Social Media Innovators in Higher Education
A look at exemplary uses of social media, with descriptions of how 50 colleges and universities are using Facebook, Twitter, blogs and YouTube for news, marketing and instruction. Includes links to examples from each institution.

Tweeting Your Own Horn
Kevin Butler describes how school districts are using Facebook and Twitter to more effectively communicate with parents.

Social Media and Young Adults
A summary of the latest Pew Report, which shows a decrease in blogging and Twitter among young adults, but an increase in sites such as MySpace.

The Future of Social Media in Higher Education
 A panel discussion sponsored by McGraw-Hill explores how social media is affecting the classroom now, and how it will change the classroom of the future. Includes videos of the discussion.

Fifth Period Is Facebook: Why Schools Should Stop Blocking Social Networking Sites
 Nicholas Bramble suggests that it’s time to start utilizing the educational potential of social networking tools rather than trying to keep students away from them.

Incentive For Students and Teachers To Use Social Media in the Classroom
Yong Lee presents ideas from a Social Media Week discussion about how to motivate students and instructors to use social media in instruction.

13 Enlightening Case Studies of Social Media in the Classroom
Jeff Jarvis summarizes 13 examples of effective use of social media in specific K-12 and college institutions.

Higher Education’s Future: Collaboration, Augmented Reality, Faculty Education
 David Berkowitz reports on the outcomes of a recent panel discussion which explored specific challenges and opportunities in using social media in higher ed.

Ages of Social Network Users
The Pingdom blog team provides interesting data on the age distribution across different social media tools. A major finding is that the 35-44 year-old age group dominated in the use of social media.

Social Media Seminar Series
George Siemens and David Cormier facilitate free monthly online seminars on Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning which explore the impact of new technologies and research on social media in education. The next seminar is March 18, 2010.

 

Tech Tip: How To Integrate Twitter With PowerPoint 2003 & 2007
The staff at MakeUseOf.com provides step-by-step instructions for using a PowerPoint add-in which allows you to automatically tweet notes from your presentation and also display a TweetCloud of real-time audience feedback in your presentation.

 

Online Course Spotlight

What Our Students Are Saying About…

 EDUC 744 930 Web Design for Educators (Beginning) March 15 - May 14, 2010  


"The outcome of this class has exceeded my expectations. Designing a Web page has been a goal of mine for over a year. I was lacking the knowledge to accomplish my goal but now have the knowledge and a finished project! This has been a rewarding experience!"
Media Specialist from Beech Grove, Indiana

EDUC 744 937 Intermediate Web Design for Educators March 15 - May 14, 2010
"I am very happy I took this course! I understand templates, CSS sheets, anchors, layouts, etc. And what a prize Fireworks has turned out to be! I love using it, and I know I wouldn't have tried it without taking this class."
~ Director of Library Services Willard City Schools, Ohio


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Our Favorite New Tech Resources and Publications

 

Tech Tip: 4 Useful Microsoft Word Tips

The Online Professional Development Program instructors at UW-Stout share their favorite tech tools and recent publications.


Susan Manning:
Tech Tools: Jing and Screencast.com
Both are terrific tools to create free screencasts for technology tutorials.
 
Book: Manning, Susan. Online Education for Dummies. “A helpful guide for new adult students who wonder what they're getting into when they register for an online course.“

Online Education For Dummies

 


Ann Bell:
Book: Bell, Ann. Exploring Web 2.0: Second Generation Interactive Tools
This book is designed to help the casual computer user, students, parents, and teachers understand the latest in free and inexpensive web tools and their power for research, collaboration, and communication.

Exploring Web 2.0

 

Dennis O’Connor:
Tech Tools:
Diigo.com   “This social bookmarking system provides power tools for navigating and reading the Web. Mark up web pages, share bookmarks and resources, develop discussions, and automate bookmark-based slide shows and blog posts.”
Screenr.com   “A very flexible desktop video capture system tied to your Twitter account.  It allows you to make up to a 5-minute video with narration. Send your video via Twitter, upload to YouTube, create a downloadable MP4, embed the video, or provide a direct URL to the video on the screenr.com server.   Similar to Jing, but no download required.”


Mary Alice Anderson:
Article:  "The Power of Primary Sources", Multimedia & Internet@ Schools, November/December 2009.
Professional Development Program: TPS Direct, the online professional development program for the Library of Congress.


Kay Lehmann and Lisa Chamberlin:
Book: Lehmann, Kay and Chamberlin, Lisa. Making the Move to eLearning: Putting Your Course Online.
Making the Move to eLearning proposes a radical truth—that online education, when taught using the methodology perfected by successful veterans of distance learning—surpasses traditional face-to-face teaching and learning.

Making the Move to eLearning

 

Tech Tip: 4 Useful Microsoft Word Tips
 4 Useful Microsoft Word Tips and Tricks You Should Know
Ryan Dube shares four handy-to-know Word 2003 tips, including: how to place images precisely so the text flows smoothly around them, how to get pages to re-number in different sections of a document, how to insert pop-up comments, and how to use Word’s built-in research library.

Online Course Spotlight
EDUC 744 966 Implementing Instructional Technology Innovations  
January 25-April 9, 2010
 Explore how to improve instruction using Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs, podcasts, photo sharing, virtual offices, simulation and digital game-based learning.

Register Now For Classes Starting in February
Participate from your home computer; no travel to campus is required.

Sign up today to reserve a spot! Payment plan available.
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EDUC 763 930 Instructional Design for E-Learning
February 1-March 29, 2010
EDUC 744 951 Teaching Information Literacy with Primary Sources
February 1-April 8, 2010
EDUC 744 968 Global Awareness and Collaboration Across the Curriculum
February 1-26, 2010
EDUC 744 914 Methods of Teaching Middle School Math  
February 1-March 28, 2010
EDUC 760 930 E-learning for Educators
February 8 - April 4, 2010
 
EDUC 744 939 Intermediate Web Design
February 8 - April 2, 2010
RDGED 702 930 Reading in the Content Areas of K-12
February 15 - April 23, 2010
EDUC 744 964 Workforce Development: Every Teacher’s Responsibility
February 15 - April 11, 2010
EDUC 744 920 Teaching Writing with the 6-Traits Elem (PK-4)
February 16 -  April 10, 2010
EDUC 744 909 Teaching Writing with the 6-Traits  Middle School-Adult
February 16 -  April 10, 2010


List of Online Courses For Spring and Summer 2010
Request Information Online
Register Online now to reserve your spot!
School of Education
Online Professional Development
University of Wisconsin - Stout
Phone: (715) 232-2253
Archives - back issues in case you missed the most recent newsletter.

Posted by Karen Franker; 1/21/10