Social Media for Learning
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The document discusses various social media tools such as Twitter, Delicious, Google Docs, YouTube, Google Reader, Slideshare, and Google Search for enhancing learning. It provides guidance on how to effectively use these platforms, including setting up accounts, utilizing features for collaboration, and applying them in educational contexts. Each tool is presented with its potential for improving communication, organization, and resource sharing among students and educators.
Social Media for Learning
- 1. Social Media for Learning Kanda Runapongsa Saikaew krunapon@kku.ac.th http://twitter.com/krunapon http://www.facebook.com/tom.kanda (with Krit Kamtuo) 1
- 2. Agenda • Twitter: Microblogging tool • Delicious: Social bookmarking tool • Google Docs: Office suite • YouTube: Video sharing site • Google Reader: RSS / Feed reader • Slideshare: Hosting presentations • Google Search: Web search tool 2
- 3. Twitter 3
- 4. Twitter for Learning • Great communication tool, gets the word out to large groups of people easily Corinne Burkhert • Best way to feed my appetite for realtime updates Adam Schwartz • Microblogs with good possibilities for conversations and knowledge gathering by friends and other professionals Malinka Ivanova 4
- 5. Applying Twitter for Learning • Ask students to have Twitter accounts • Create/view a list of students on Twitter • Use a hash tag to write/search for related tweets about materials in the class 5
- 6. Applying for Twitter Account • Go to http://twitter.com and click menu “Sign up Now” 6
- 12. URL Shortner 12
- 13. Searching in Tweets • Keyword prefixed with # will go to http://search.twitter.com 13
- 14. Twitter Vocabularies • RT @someone : Retweet (refers to the tweet by someone) – Example: RT @krunapon Hello all • @someone: Send a public tweet to someone. All your followers will see this tweet – Example: @krunapon How are you? • d someone: Send a private tweet to someone. Only you and someone know about this tweet – Example: d krunapon Please tell me more 14
- 15. How to Create a Twitter List • Go to the right column of http://twitter.com • Look for the Section List which is before Section Trending: Wordwide • Click menu “New list” 15
- 17. Twitter Applications • Browsers extensions – Echofon for Firefox – Chromebird for Google Chrome • Top 5 Twitter client applications – Twitpic – Tweetdeck – Digsby – Twitterfeed – Twitterholic 17
- 19. Chromebird for Chrome b 19
- 20. Agenda • Twitter: Microblogging tool • Delicious: Social bookmarking tool • Google Docs: Office suite • YouTube: Video sharing site • Google Reader: RSS / Feed reader • Slideshare: Hosting presentations • Google Search: Web search tool 20
- 21. Delicious 21
- 22. Delicious vs. Browser Bookmarks del.icio.us Browserbased Bookmarks Use any computer Use own computer Multiple tags for one One folder per source bookmark Share sources Email favorites easily Create networks Find sources manually Annotate 22
- 23. Delicious for Learning • Simple tool to bookmark sites your interested in but can’t read immediately, sharing made easy Corinne Burkhert • Every new site or tool that I find I tag through del.icio.us. I use it to catalog resources and to help me keep track of things that I have found Mary Howard • To tag all, and share. Source of great learning resources too Maria de los Angeles Castro 23
- 24. Applying Delicious for Learning • Creating one's own collection • Saving a bookmark • Searching from one's own bookmarks, one's network bookmarks, and everybody's bookmarks – Getting web recommendations by people not by an algorithm • Collaborating/communicating with other users 24
- 26. Join Delicious • Go to http://delicious.com • If you have Yahoo account, click Sign in • If you don't have Yahoo account, click Join now 26
- 27. Import Your Browser Bookmarks into Delicious 27
- 28. Firefox Delicious Addon • If you use Firefox, install Firefox addon – Go to http://delicious.com/help/installff – Click “Add Buttons” • After installation, restart Firefox • Now you find the Delicious buttons 28
- 37. Agenda • Twitter: Microblogging tool • Delicious: Social bookmarking tool • Google Docs: Office suite • YouTube: Video sharing site • Google Reader: RSS / Feed reader • Slideshare: Hosting presentations • Google Search: Web search tool 37
- 38. Google Docs 38
- 39. Google Docs vs. Office Suite • Share folders of documents and each individual document with others – No need to email with attachments • Translate documents from one language to another automatically • Support uploading files of any type up to 1 GB for free • Create a Google Docs form as a survey 39
- 46. Create a Google Docs Fill each question Finished question 46
- 47. Add a New Question • Click Add a Item to – add a new question – a section header – a page break 47
- 51. Agenda • Twitter: Microblogging tool • Delicious: Social bookmarking tool • Google Docs: Office suite • YouTube: Video sharing site • Google Reader: RSS / Feed reader • Slideshare: Hosting presentations • Google Search: Web search tool 51
- 52. Youtube 52
- 53. Youtube for Learning • "Yes, there are a lot of annoying videos, but there are also some excellent educational resources." Heather Ross • "there are so many treasures waiting to be found " Jochen Robes • "YouTube does for video what SlideShare does for presentations. There are excellent video clips online with enhance classes and training, and I love the ability to embed videos into blogs, wikis, or learning management systems” • Britt Wattwood 53
- 54. Applying Youtube in Classrom • Search videos using keywords and categories • Upload related video • Download for smooth playback before using with students • Organize your videos as favorites and playlists 54
- 61. Best Video Format • Resolution: Recommended: Original resolution of your video for HD it is 1920x1080 (1080p) or 1280 x 720. • Preferred containers: FLV, MPEG2, and MPEG4 • Size : Up to 2 GB. • Length : Up to 10 minutes 61
- 62. Embedding a YouTube Video in your Blog (1/2) 62
- 63. Embedding a YouTube Video in your Blog (2/2) 63
- 64. Embedding a YouTube Video in Twitter 64
- 65. The Need to Download Video from YouTube • You cannot always rely on a video on the Internet to play perfectly and fluidly when you want to use in the classroom A great option is to avoid this, and also allow you to keep the video on your computer is to download it! 65
- 66. How to Download Video from Youtube There are two main choices for this: 1)Download the video in YouTube format (FLV Flash Video) and then play it in a player that can handle FLV files, such as VLC media player 2)Use an online video conversion and download service 66
- 67. Online Video Conversion (1/2) Keepvid http://keepvid.com/ Vixy http://vixy.net/ 67
- 68. Online Video Conversion (2/2) Zamzarhttp://www.zamzar.com/url/ 68
- 69. YouTube Favorites Your personal favorites videos 69
- 73. Agenda • Twitter: Microblogging tool • Delicious: Social bookmarking tool • Google Docs: Office suite • YouTube: Video sharing site • Google Reader: RSS / Feed reader • Slideshare: Hosting presentations • Google Search: Web search tool 73
- 74. Google Reader vs. Other Feed Readers • Let you subscribe any web site, not just feeds – You then know the latest updates of that web site without going to that site • Allow you to share items that you subscribe with whoever that follow you • Allow you to read at most 2000 items while you are offline 74
- 75. Google Reader 75
- 81. What do all these buttons do? • Google Reader has tons of options for things you can do to organize, sort and share the information coming in. Here's a bit of info to help you find out what you can do. 81
- 84. Agenda • Twitter: Microblogging tool • Delicious: Social bookmarking tool • Google Docs: Office suite • YouTube: Video sharing site • Google Reader: RSS / Feed reader • Slideshare: Hosting presentations • Google Search: Web search tool 84
- 87. Apply Slideshare for Learning • Search for relevant slides for teaching and learning • Upload your slides to share with others • Share slides with others • Save your favorite slides • Download other slides • Follow other members who usually upload slides in which you are interested 87
- 90. Supported Files • Supported Formats – Presentations: pdf, ppt, pps, pptx, ppsx, pot, potx (Powerpoint); odp (OpenOffice); key, zip (Apple Keynote). – Documents: pdf, doc, docx, rtf, xls (MSOffice); odt, ods(OpenOffice); Apple iWork Pages. • Max file size: 100MB for presentations & documents. 90
- 99. Agenda • Twitter: Microblogging tool • Delicious: Social bookmarking tool • Google Docs: Office suite • YouTube: Video sharing site • Google Reader: RSS / Feed reader • Slideshare: Hosting presentations • Google Search: Web search tool 99
- 100. 5 Expert Google Search Tips 1. Explicit Phase: Request a search that has all keywords arranged in the way you specify – Simply enclose the search phrase within double quotes. 100
- 101. 5 Expert Google Search Tips 2. Site specific search – Simply use the "site:somesite.com" modifier 101
- 102. 5 Expert Google Search Tips 3. Specific Document Types – Simply use the "filetype:sometype” modifier 102
- 103. 5 Expert Google Search Tips 4. Calculator – Just type your expression in to Google 103
- 104. 5 Expert Google Search Tips 5. Currency Conversion 104
- 105. References • http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/ • http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/19/thetop 20twitterapplications/ • http://www.interactiveinsightsgroup.com/blog1/ulti mateguidetodelicioussocialbookmarking/ • http://nelsoncentral.wikispaces.com/youtube • http://www.google.com/reader/ • http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/1264/ 12QuickTipsToSearchGoogleLikeAn Expert.aspx 105 • http://www.google.com/landing/searchtips/