1. Beyond Email: 5 Social Media Tools for Class Communications Wendy Tietz wtietz@kent.edu Kent State University

2. You can access everything later at http://teachingintroaccounting.com/ Email me at wtietz@kent.eduwtietz@kent.edu

3. How do you feel about social media?

4. 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

5. % of Global Fortune 100 Companies using: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/55-interesting-social-media-infographics/

6. 86% of U.S. Fortune 100 Companies are using at least one of the following… http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/55-interesting-social-media-infographics/

7. The Email Divide: Teens are Choosing Other Communication Methods Source: http://bit.ly/dYvRJEhttp://bit.ly/dYvRJE

8. Overview

9. Twitt e r

12. Uses for Twitt e r Communicate with students – Announcements – Reminders – Homework hints In-class back channel Follow professionals

13. Why Twitter has been useful… Text messages Integration with Blackboard Vista8 140 character limit - FOCUS

14. Overview

15. 85% of college students use Facebook… …70% of them log in every single day (Source: http://blog.socialmaximizer.com/10-bizarre-facts-you-ought-to-know-about-facebook/)http://blog.socialmaximizer.com/10-bizarre-facts-you-ought-to-know-about-facebook/

16. Friend your students? Facebook group? Facebook page?

18. Why Facebook has been useful… Very popular with students Can have Twitter tweets pushed to Facebook page automatically

19. Overview

23. 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

24. Overview

25. Social network http://about.ning.com/pearsonsponsorship/

26. Ning Components Discussion forum Videos Inbox Member listing, profiles, pics Blog postings Latest activity feed

31. Why Ning has been useful… Communication Facilitates interaction between students and professor Facilitates student to student interactions Lets you listen to the class chatter

32. Financial accounting class Spring 2011 (601 students total)

33. Overview

37. We can use social media too…

38. What to do next…. Pick ONE tool (Twitter, Facebook, Posterous, Ning) Implement that one tool Experiment

39. http://teachingintroaccounting.com/

40. Questions???? Wendy Tietz…wtietz@kent.edu http://teachingintroaccounting.com/ 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