1. How to Leverage SOCIAL MEDIA in BLENDED LEARNING

2. Kat Hollowell { google me }

3. a.k.a. katzzzilla

4. OBJECTIVES 1.Awareness of different types of Social Media 1.Ideas on how to leverage Social Media into a Blended Learning Design

5. What is SOCIAL MEDIA?

6. SOCIAL MEDIA are the various forms of user generated content and the collection of websites and applications that enables people to interact and share information online.

7. SOCIAL MEDIA = SOCIAL NETWORKING

8. These are all SOCIAL MEDIA Online forums Blogs and micro-blogs(Twitter) Social Networking Sites (Facebook, LinkedIn) Social Bookmarking Sites (Digg) Video Sharing Sites (YouTube) Photo Sharing Sites (Flickr, Instagram) User Reviews (Amazon) Crowdsourcing (Wikipedia) Social Pinboard (Pinterest)

9. SOCIALNOMICS

10. Caution! Identity Theft Everything known about you may be used against you Everything is traced to you as a person No control over your user data Who are you talking to?

11. hmmm… Avoid being attracted to “shiny objects” Social Learning is not informal learning Design the right learning process Create a seamless learner experience Measure social learning Develop social media policies

12. Pinterest is a virtual pinboard. It lets you share things you find interesting on the web and you can browse other people’s pinboards.

14. Leveraging PINTEREST Use it to pin visual resource of pictures, videos and website links Share ideas and collaborate by setting up boards to allow multiple people to pin

15. FACEBOOK Wikipedia: Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc

17. Leveraging FACEBOOK Create a Facebook group (secret or closed) or Facebook page (public) Use discussion threads Post training session notes and links to supporting information Extend learning post-training

18. Wikipedia: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read each others’ updates, known as ‘tweets’ TWITTER

20. Leveraging TWITTER Provide information to your learners. Post regularly. Use hashtag (#) so learners can provide feedback and communicate on your materials Encourage learners by liking and re-tweeting their tweets Follow the influencers

21. Leveraging TWITTER “Backchanneling” Use hashtags (#) so your tweet can be found – for example: #Xavier Display Twitter stream during training If possible, have someone monitor the tweets and address them during the training session Use Twitter’s “favorite” feature to mark insightful comments

22. WIKI Wikipedia: A wiki is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) text editor. WIKI = HAWAIIAN FOR “FAST”

24. Leveraging a WIKI Post training notes, multi-media materials Create forms and post surveys Use discussion board

25. BLOG Wikipedia: A blog (a contraction of the term "web log”) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse- chronological order.

27. Leveraging a BLOG Create content that showcases your expertise and your unique perspective of your industry Use it to establish credibility with your attendees Encourage attendees to subscribe to your blog Post your personal review on your training session and gather feedback from attendee comments on your blog

29. CONNECT WITH ME: Twitter.com/katzzzilla Linkedin.com/in/KatHollowell