Learning Network Competencies for Student Affairs Professionals #ACPA11 Convention Monday, March 28, 2011 5:45-6:45 pm Session Program #320 Room #341

1. Emerging Technology for Emerging Leaders:
Online Tools for Professional Development
Learning Network Competencies for Student Affairs Professionals
#ACPA11 Convention
Monday, March 28, 2011
5:45-6:45 pm
Session Program #320
Presented by: Julie Larsen & Laura Pasquini
Presentation on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/LauraPasquini/learning-network-
competencies-for-student-affairs-professionals
Learning Network Competencies for Student Affairs Professionals
1. Explore the Network
2. Establish Your Identity
3. Personalize Your Learning Experience
4. Connect and Collaborate
5. Challenge Yourself
Definitions
Web 2.0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
Social Media: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
Articles related to Presentation
Why Networks Matter - Manuel Castells Castells, M. (2004). Afterword: Why networks
matter, Network Logic: Who governs in an interconnected world? DEMOS, UK
PLN: Your Personal Learning Network Made Easy
Personal Learning Networks - David Warlick
What is a PLN? Or, PLE vs. PLN
ASTD WLP Competency Model

2. SOCIAL NETWORKS
Social networking is a great way to connect people to other people, events, groups, etc. It
functions as a community with a common purpose.
Check out: http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com/
Social Networking Engines:
http://www.twitter.com
http://www.facebook.com/
http://linkedin.com
http://academia.edu
http://mendeley.com
Helpful Twitter Tools:
Twitter Search http://search.twitter.com/
CoTweet: http://cotweet.com/
Twitter aggregator for a daily paper: http://paper.li/
Twitter Visualizations http://mashable.com/2010/08/04/twitter-followers-visualizations/
Twitter Clients for organization
●Hootsuite http://hootsuite.com/
●Tweetdeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/
● Seesmic http://seesmic.com/
URL Shorteners
●Bitly http://bit.ly/
●Google URL Shortner http://goo.gl/
●Tiny URL http://tinyurl.com/
Chat Rooms & Chat Aggregators
●TweetChat http://tweetchat.com
●TweetGrid http://tweetgrid.com/
●What The Hashtag: http://wthashtag.com/Main_Page
Twitter Search http://search.twitter.com/

3. Hash Tags:
#SAChat
#BreakDrink
#CTCX
#SAJobs
#SAGrad
#NASPACPA
#WLSalt
Encouraging a Conference Backchannel http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/encouraging-a-
conference-backchannel-on-twitter
7 Things You Should Know About Backchannel Communication
http://www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutBackc/198305
Weekly #SAChat Chat: http://thesabloggers.org (find transcripts under archive)
Twitter Chat Schedule: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?
key=0AhisaMy5TGiwcnVhejNHWnZlT3NvWFVPT3Q4NkIzQVE&hl=en
Teaching Twitter to Higher Education Colleagues http://edcabellon.com/tech/teachingtwitter/
Break Drink Twitter Guide http://breakdrink.com/twitter-guide/
The Power of Facebook and Twitter Lists http://edcabellon.com/tech/lists/
ACPA LinkedIn Group
Mashable List of Twitter Lists http://mashable.com/twitterlists/
SOCIAL STORAGE SPACES
Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking in Plain English http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english
Social Bookmarking Defined http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf
Social Bookmarking: Mark It, Manage It, Share It http://bit.ly/96Jx2e
Top 20 Most Popular Social Bookmarking Websites | May 2010
http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-bookmarking-websites

4. Social Bookmarking Websites:
AddThis http://www.addthis.com/
delicious http://delicious.com/
A.notate http://a.nnotate.com/
reddit http://www.reddit.com/
ShareThis http://sharethis.com/
StumbleUpon http://www.stumbleupon.com/
Scholar http://www.scholar.com/
Why it is important:
●fostering student-centred learning
●facilitating social networking
●enable lifelong learning
●providing structure to explore/direct
●pushing resources out to students
●setting activities to engage with resources e.g.
●getting resources from others in your discipline
●making students co-builders, active learners
●ease of updating & sharing with students and staff
Practical Examples & Ideas:
●personal productivity
●course content-course tags, library lists
●teamwork and projects
●professional development
●discovery, tracking and networking
●academic social networking, cross department sharing, etc

5. Collaborative Spaces
Why collaborate? Because advising and work environments are social. By encouraging
collaboration, staff are able to share information and learn from one another. As the economic
challenges and changes in higher education impact our advising units, it is important to to
emphasize the need to collaborate and support each other in our professional field on campus
and around the globe. Whether there are immediate projects, open-ended assignments,
reference materials, group research or training goals in mind, digital workspaces allow for
advisors, faculty and supervisors to connect and work together.
Online Collaborative Software Resources:
Google Docs https://docs.google.com
PbWorks http://pbworks.com/
Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/
Dropbox http://dropbox.com What it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFb0NaeRmdg
Slideshare http://slideshare.net
Reasons to use collaborative digital workspaces:
●Group writing: research, drafts, editing & publishing
●Professional development: networking
●Exchange shared resources
●Project management
●Meeting minutes
●Grant proposals
●Archival of training materials & job aids
●Commission/Interest Group/Regional planning tools
OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA RESOURCES FOR P.D.
Blogs
A blog details information, stories and anecdotes. There can be a regular theme or topic
connected to a blog. This online journal/web log is written for different purposes, i.e give advice,
provide support, answer questions or provide general information.

6. Current Examples Student Affairs Blogs:
Student Affairs Women Lead: http://sawomenlead.com/
On the Go With Ed Cabellon: http://edcabellon.com/
The Student Affairs Collaborative http://thesabloggers.org/
Blog Engines:
https://www.blogger.com/
http://wordpress.com/
http://posterous.com/
Photo Sharing
Online photo sharing has changed the ways we look pictures and how we learn. Instead of
keeping our photographs and videos on a shelf, it is now possible to share these visual
representations with a variety of individuals and groups online. Photo sharing websites not only
serve as storage spaces for pictures, they also provide us with an arena to organize, tag, share,
comment, create, and enhance the learning experience. Advisors are able to engage students
with collaborative photo sharing by displaying visual information, linking academic resources,
connecting to various learning styles, and engaging in group-based advising.
Say Cheese!
How can you use photo sharing in advising?
Photo Sharing: Say Cheese for Academic Advising Presentation, NACADA Technology
Seminar 2009 http://www.slideshare.net/LauraPasquini/photo-sharing-in-advising
Photo Sharing Articles & Websites
●7 Things You Should know about Flickr: http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/
7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/46186
●Institution vs. Collboration TED Talk:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html
●The Web Photo Site Faceoff
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_photo_sharing_faceoff.php
●Metadata Goes Mainstream http://www.allegrotechindexing.com/metadata.pdf
Photo Sharing Websites:
http://www.flickr.com/
http://picasa.google.com/

7. Helpful Web 2.0 references, articles & websites:
The Social Media Maze: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/10/09/socialmedia
The Horizon Report (Technology Trends in Higher Education) http://horizon.wiki.nmc.org/
The Wired Campus Blog - The Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/
Educause: http://www.educause.edu/
Social Networking in Plain English http://www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking
Social Networking by Tech News World http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/section/social-
networking/
Your Guide to Social Networking Online
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/08/digging_deeperyour_guide_to_so_1.html
Social Network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network
http://learningforsustainability.net/social_learning/networks.php
Student Affaris Professionals Search and Personal Branding http://ericstoller.com/blog
Educause Engaging Students with Engaging Tools (Article)
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/Engagi
ngStudentswithEngagingTo/192954
Growth of Social Media In Stats [VIDEO] http://mashable.com/2010/05/07/social-media-stats-
video/ (may be a link to send out; edit & use key points etc - e.g. 80% online students out
performed better than those in class)
Socialnomics http://socialnomics.net/