November 2013 Use of social media tools in teaching, collaboration and engagement 1 Prepared by Geofrey KalumunaSupervised by Nkuba Mabula TOPIC: Setting up and using popular SM tools and applications Adapted from “ ICAWEB201A - Use social media tools for collaboration and engagement as used for Australian and State and Territory Government ” with minor changes/modifications

 Introduction  Setting Social Media tool  Issues related to facebook  Initiating interaction  Using Social Media tool  Testing and evaluating tools  Presenting the findings  Conclusion Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna 2 Supervised by Nkuba Mabula

 Today, we will set up and use social media tool  The tool which will be used is facebook because it is popular and used widely by participants and even students 3 Prepared by Geofrey KalumunaSupervised by Nkuba Mabula

At the end, one will be able to:  Set up facebook as a social media tool  Use facebook as social media tool to engage students 4 Prepared by Geofrey KalumunaSupervised by Nkuba Mabula

In case you have a facebook account yet: ◦ logon and configure your profile ◦ upload an image ◦ update your status Note:  Facilitator show participants how to setup tools;  Then, participants practise by doing  AND facilitator guide them and help in case of difficult 5 Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna Supervised by Nkuba Mabula

In case you do not have a facebook account yet: ◦ Enter First AND Last name ◦ Enter your ◦ Re-Enter again ◦ Enter your new password ◦ Enter your birthday details ◦ Choose M=Male OR F=Female ◦ Click sign up 6 Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna Supervised by Nkuba Mabula

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9 Click profile link and update your detail such as: Basic information Contact information Place lived Life event Work and education Professional skills Relationship Family About you Favourite etc

Discussion and demonstration  copyright  privacy  security  trust. Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna10

Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna11 Click “Choose a file to upload” icon OR Click Add photos/Video icon/link

Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna12 Insert your current status in the your status box “what’s on your mind?” AND click Post icon/button

Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna13 Why social group Discussions and demonstration:

 Demonstration and practical doing Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna14

 Demonstration and practical doing Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna15

Demonstration and practical doing  Click “create group” icon  Type a “group name”  Choose privacy issues for group i.e “closed, open AND secret”  Participants should discuss together with facilitator the implication of each i.e “closed, open AND secret” AND WHY  Inserting few members (practical doing) Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna16

Demonstration and practical doing  Add description of the group (each teacher/academic staff write his/her own description)  NOTE: each participant will use his or her own class or subject or course he or she teaches  Add cover of the goup (the cover should be relevant to you class or subject or course- Why? Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna17

The focus will be based on the facebook group created  Adding members (your students-each participant must add his or her own students)  Adding suggested members (practical doing)  Inviting member by (practical doing) Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna18

 Demonstration (facilitator demo)  Practical doing (use skills gained)  Coaching (facilitator coach for perfection) Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna19

Activities  Updating status to your students (it can be announcement)  Uploading file or documents (it can be course outline or assignment notification)  Uploading image (it can be your own image or related to the subject Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna20

The focus will be based on the facebook group created  Viewing all members-click members (practical doing)  Updating status – click on the status box (practical doing)  Working with comments (practical doing)  Responding with comments (practical doing)  Working with chats (practical doing)  Responding to the chat and message from inbox etc Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna21

The focus will be based on the facebook group created  Uploading more file (i.e pdf, text etc) and documents- click file (practical doing)  Uploading more photos (bmp, gif etc)-click photo (practical doing)  Uploading video (avi, mov etc) (practical doing) Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna22

Working with a group chat  Choose one member who is online at the moment in the chat dialogue box  Click the “option” icon for the first member or a person you have chosen  Click “Add friends to chat” to invite more members  You can add file to discuss by click “add files” icon Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna23

Working with a group chat  Participants interacting with their students online Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna24

 Discussion Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna25

 Presentation and Discussion Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna26

Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna27 We were able to:  Set up Social Media tool-facebook  Issue related to facebook  Initiating interaction-facebook  Using Social Media tool-facebook  Testing and evaluating tools-facebook  Presenting the findings-facebook

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