1. ICT and Social Media
in Education
University Pedagogical Studies
Vaasa Summer University/ Eduta Oy
Vaasa 19.2.2015
Matleena Laakso
Blog: www.matleenalaakso.fi
Twitter: @matleenalaakso
Slides: www.slideshare.net/MatleenaLaakso
Picture: Matleena Laakso, CC BY.
The pictures have also other CC-
licencies.

2. Kuva: Wikipedia, Public domain
Diamonds are
a girl's best
friend.

3. Picture: Pixabay.com, CC0

4. New Media Consortium
• Horizon-reports (schools, universities, libraries and
museums,.. also regional reports)
• Twitter: @nmcorg
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/NewMediaConsortium
• YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/NewMediaConsortium

5. NMC Technology Outlook:
Scandinavian Schools, 1-2 years
www.nmc.org/publication/2015-nmc-technology-outlook-scandinavian-schools/ (CC BY)

6. The Matriculation Examination
www.ylioppilastutkinto.fi/images/sivuston_tiedostot/Kehittaminen/YTL_presentation_English.pdf
• First arranged in Finland in 1852
• 2000s: 35 000 (about half of the age group)
• The examination consists of at least four compulsory tests
– candidate’s mother tongue (Finnish, Swedish, Sami)
– three other compulsory tests from the following group:
• second national language
• a foreign language
• mathematics
• one test in the general studies battery of tests
(sciences and humanities)
– Additional (optional) test(s) may be
included in the examination

7. Digabi - the digitalization project of the
matriculation examination
https://www.ylioppilastutkinto.fi/images/sivuston_tiedostot/Kehittaminen/YTL_presentation_English.pdf
• From paper format to electronic exam (2016-2019)
• Digitalization of the whole process

8. Digabi has changed the pedagogy
• Evaluation and assesment do affect learning
• Teachers and students are getting motivated and used to
the regural use of ICT
 Soon those students are here at the university!
Picture: Matleena Laakso, CC BY

9. kahoot.it

10. kahoot.it
An easy tool for tests
•Only teacher needs to sign in (getkahoot.com)
•You or your students can easely create your own quizzes
(private/public)
•There are millions of public quizzes you can use as they are or
dublicate and edit
NOTICE
•There can be several right answers
but you can choose just one of them
•Your get better points when you
give the right answer quickly

11. Exams and quizzes with Google Drive
• Teacher needs to have a Google
account, the students don’t
• New  More  Google Form
– Give the title
– Chance the theme (if you want to)
– Add items (questions)
Google Form

12. Add items
• ”View live form” shows you the form as students see it.
• ”View responses” collects the responses automatically.
• ”Send form” gives you the link to share to your students.
• You can get an add-on called Fluraroo to automatically grade
the test and to get report and analysis on student performance.

13. NMC Horizon Report: 2015 HE Edition
cdn.nmc.org/media/2015-nmc-horizon-report-HE-EN.pdf (CC-BY)

15. Flipped classroom
• ICT and collaborative learning are actively in use
Picture: www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom

16. NMC Horizon Report: 2015 HE Edition
cdn.nmc.org/media/2015-nmc-horizon-report-HE-EN.pdf (CC-BY)

17. NMC Horizon Report: 2015 HE Edition
cdn.nmc.org/media/2015-nmc-horizon-report-HE-EN.pdf (CC-BY)

18. Social media is about sharing
Sharing is an important part of the culture
Kuva: Scott Maxwell, CC BY-SA

19. • Creative Commons licenses are the
standard for sharing free content online.
– International and non-commercial
• The most used license in the world
– The Finnish National Board of Education
recommends each teacher to use them.
• If you wish to let others use your materials,
you need to tell them that.
The best way to do it is to add CC-lisence
to your work.
• creativecommons.org
Picture: creativecommons.org/licenses, CCBY

20. stateof.creativecommons.org/?utm_campaign=2014fund&utm_source=carousel&utm_medium=web (CC BY)

21. stateof.creativecommons.org/?utm_campaign=2014fund&utm_source=carousel&utm_medium=web (CC BY)

22. stateof.creativecommons.org/?utm_campaign=2014fund&utm_source=carousel&utm_medium=web (CC BY)

23. This slide is a variation from Tarmo Toikkanen tarmo.fi CC BY-SA –licensed content: Tekijänoikeudet ja Creative Commons datan avaajille:
www.slideshare.net/tarmot/tekijanoikeudet-ja-creative-commons-datan-avaajalle
Creative Commons -terms
By combining these terms you get the licenses on the following slide

24. Unoffical recommentation to
learning materials is CC BY-SA

25. How to find CC-licensed pictures
• Google Images  Search tools  Labeled for reuse
• pixabay.com

26. #openeducationwk #jaajotain
Open Education is about free and open sharing. Free, meaning
no cost, and open, which refers to the use of open licenses that
allow everyone to reuse and modify educational resources. Open
Education Week is celebrated as Jaa jotain -päivä in Finland.
•9.-13. March 2015
•In English: www.openeducationweek.org
•In Finnish: jaajotain.wordpress.com
Kuva: Anne Rongas, CC BY

27. todaysmeet.com

28. Picture: www.fredcavazza.net/2013/04/17/social-media-landscape-2013, CC BY-SA

29. FINLAND
1. google.fi
2. google.com
3. facebook.com
4. youtube.com
5. iltalehti.fi
6. wikipedia.org
7. yahoo.com
8. iltasanomat.fi
9. yle.fi
10. bing.com
GLOBAL
1. google.com
2. facebook.com
3. youtube.com
4. yahoo.com
5. baidu.com
6. wikipedia.org
7. amazon.com
8. twitter.com
9. taobao.com
10. qq.com
Top Sites
www.alexa.com/topsites (1/2015)

30. 1. Twitter
2. Google Docs/Drive
3. YouTube
4. PowerPoint
5. Google Search
6. WordPress
7. Dropbox
8. Evernote
9. Facebook
10. LinkedIn
Top Tools for Learning 2014 List
c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools

31. One address for one course

32. What is Twitter?
• Communicating with tweets (max. 140 letters)
• A lot of links and pictures are used
• You can follow anyone (unless the tweets are protected)
• Hashtags are key to global communication
– #HigherEd #BETT2015 #openeducationwk #Vaasa
• List of Twitter-hashtags for higher education professionals

33. Eric Langhorst, Twitter, a powerful collaboration tool for teachers

34. How to read tweets?
• Sign in to Twitter
• Read the tweets from the users website
– twitter.com/matleenalaakso
• Read the embeded tweets from the blog/website/Moodle
• Show the tweets to the audience (lecture, seminar,..)
– www.tweetwally.com
– visibletweets.com
– twitterfontana.com

35. Chat and livetweeting
TWITTER
•You need to sign in
•You need to learn tweeting
TODAYSMEET
•todaysmeet.com
•Easy, no signing in

36. Blogs
A blog is a site published on the internet. It consists of blog
posts (text, slides, pictures, video,..) and is typically displayed in
reverse chronological order.
•blogger.com
•wordpress.com
Picture: Cortega9, CC BY-SA

37. Audiomessages: vocaroo.com
AppStore: QuickVoice or Google Play: Smart Voice Recorder

38. 10 minutes videomessages
• mailvu.com
• Easy to use, just sign in, record and share

39. QR codes bring mobile contect
to printed material
QR Code (=Quick Response) is
usually a link to a web page.
It can also open a text or audio
message or contact information.
You can read the QR codes with your
mobile devices
•QR Code Reader (Google Play)
•QRReader (App Store)
•Lumia: magnifying glass --> eye
Kuva: Matleena Laakso, CC BY

40. Make your own QR codes
And test them before sharing
• www.the-qrcode-generator.com
• qr.snipp.com
URL makes a link
to a web page

41. QR codes in teaching and learning
With QR codes the students or groups can find
•Assignments
•Guidelines
•Links to social media tools where to post answers/pictures,..
•Instruction videos
Pictures: Matleena Laakso, CC BY

42. Ideas for using QR codes
• QR Code Art: www.scoop.it/t/qr-code-art
• QR Code Marketing: www.scoop.it/t/qr-
code-marketing
• QR codes for learning:
www.scoop.it/t/qr-codes-for-learning
• The best of Qrcode:
www.scoop.it/t/the-best-of-qrcode

43. padlet.com
• Teacher creates a Padlet wall and shares its link
• You can post texst, pictures, videos, links ect.
• It is worth signing in!

44. Modify the wall
• Basic info
• Wallpaper
• Layout (grid!)
• Address (your username is part of the
address)

45. What did you learn?
notegraphy.com, App Store, Google play
You can use these to sign in…

46. • CC-licensies: creativecommons.org
• CC BY-SA (these slides): creativecommons.org/licenses/by-
sa/4.0
• You can also contact www.matleenalaakso.fi to get more
rights.
Licenced under Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
International License (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Some of the pictures have other licenses!