1. Active Learning Institute Educause Solutions in Action “Reaching and Engaging Today's Learners” April 20, 2009 Barbara Knauff, Senior Instructional Technologist Academic Computing, Dartmouth College Our Next Speaker: Christopher Rice Professor, Department of Political Science NetworkBlue: Social Media for Student Success

2. Building NetworkBlue: Using Social Media for Student Retention & Success Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. University of Kentucky

3. The Birth of NetworkBlue Photo (cc) 2007 Flickr User Haeretik

4. GOAL: Increase student retention & success rates by:

5. (cc) 2007 Flickr User Code Poet Harnessing the power of social media to build community around issues

6. (cc) 2009 Flickr User Cristóbal Cobo Romaní Engaging Digital Natives where they already are

7. (cc) Flickr user Chris Shiflett Avoiding “Creepy Treehouse” Syndrome

8. © 2009 Michael Speaks Student Leadership is the Key

9. Harnessing the power of Many-to-Many communications

11. Social Media Benefits Enhance peer-to-peer learning, mentoring and advising programs on campus. Provide a platform for student leadership activities and opportunities (K Crew, etc.) More easily facilitate building communities of practice and communities of scholars within and between departments and colleges. Get faculty involved in online campus social life, faculty mentoring, provide communities of practice around web 2.0 tool adoption.

13. NetworkBlue (Ning) Tools Activity streams Blogs Chatwalls Video (YouTube, Slideshare) Photos (diagrams, Flickr) Groups Threaded Discussion Forums Ubiquitous Chat.mp3

14. engaging Students

15. engaging Faculty

16. NetworkBlue

17. (cc) 2007 Flickr User Timothy Greig

21. christopher.rice@uky.ed u twitter: @ricetopher SL: Ricetopher Freenote