Beyond 5 Social Media Tools for Class Communications Wendy Tietz Kent State University
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How do you feel about social media?
Reasons to embrace social media Power to engage “Meet them where they live” Social media is not going away Businesses want to hire workers who understand social media
% of Global Fortune 100 Companies using:
86% of U.S. Fortune 100 Companies are using at least one of the following…
The Divide: Teens are Choosing Other Communication Methods Source:
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Twitt e r
Uses for Twitt e r Communicate with students – Announcements – Reminders – Homework hints In-class back channel Follow professionals
Why Twitter has been useful… Text messages Integration with Blackboard Vista8 140 character limit - FOCUS
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85% of college students use Facebook… …70% of them log in every single day (Source:
Friend your students? Facebook group? Facebook page?
Why Facebook has been useful… Very popular with students Can have Twitter tweets pushed to Facebook page automatically
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Why Posterous has been useful… Communication Auto posts to Facebook and Twitter Longer posts than Twitter and Facebook Gives you URLs for “answers” to common questions
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Social network
Ning Components Discussion forum Videos Inbox Member listing, profiles, pics Blog postings Latest activity feed
Why Ning has been useful… Communication Facilitates interaction between students and professor Facilitates student to student interactions Lets you listen to the class chatter
Financial accounting class Spring 2011 (601 students total)
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We can use social media too…
What to do next…. Pick ONE tool (Twitter, Facebook, Posterous, Ning) Implement that one tool Experiment
Questions???? Wendy Using technology in teaching accounting blog Narrated how-to slide shows for: Twitter basics Adding a Twitter feed to Blackboard Vista8 Facebook page creation and management Posterous basics Ning network creation LinkedIn basics