1. Using social media in Higher Education
teaching
April 2014
Claire Mann
c.mann@nottingham.ac.uk
@clever_claire
http://DrClaireMann.wordpress.com

2. Today’s session
• This session will introduce social media as tools
for education and research.
• Some of the key social media tools will be
introduced, demonstrated and discussed.
– Collaborative working tools
– User-generated content
– Social networking tools.
• No previous social media experience is required
to participate.
• Please complete registration with email, logon
to computer and open email

3. Why use social media in HE teaching?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9
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A vision of students today

4. Can you define Social Media?
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/graduateschool/resources/socialmedia/what-
is-social-media.aspx

5. www.wordle.net
www.tagcloud.com

6. Collaborative Working Tools
• For working together
• Communication tools – Skype, IM
• Document storage – Dropbox, Blackboard
• Writing tools - Wiki, Google docs, Ning
• Case study
• http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/graduateschool
/resources/socialmedia/using-social-
media/collaborative-tools.aspx

7. User-generated content
• Define and examples
• Videos – YouTube (etc)
• Pictures – Flickr, http://www.pinterest.com/
• Links – del.icio.us
• Multi-methods – Blogs
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-
network/blog/2011/dec/28/top-higher-
education-blogs-2011
• http://onlineuniversityreviews.net/2010/top-50-
higher-education-blogs/

8. Social networking
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Twitter tools
http://twitterfeed.com/
http://mytweetcloud.com/

9. What now?
• What do you want to use?
• Have a go!
• Set up an account – twitter
• Look for blogs and follow
• Questions?
• Hands-on.

10. User-generated content
• Delicious
• “Go to my Delicious and then we’ll talk,” a
professor told a student asking to meet
• Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship in a Digital Age
:Greenhow, Beth Robelia and Joan E. Hughes,
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER 2009 38: 246
• http://delicious.com/oook/

11. Review
• Comments?
• You can use social media for teaching
– Promote collaborative working
– Utilise user generated content as a resource
– Social networking for interaction and to keep up to
date
• You SHOULD use social media for teaching
• What will you try??
• Did you learn something new today?
• Do you learn something new every day?

12. Thanks!
See you online soon
Claire Mann
c.mann@nottingham.ac.uk
@clever_claire
http://DrClaireMann.wordpress.com