Using Social Media for your own Professional Development

Using Social Media for Professional Development

Sue Tucker & Zachary Watt

Learning and Teaching Week 2016

Topics

How do you define “social media”?

What are the benefits of using Social Media in education?

What platforms come to mind?

How do others use Social Media for professional development?

Making it personal – what’s in it for me?

Be aware – some policies

How do you define “social media”?

What are the benefits of using Social Media in education?

#1 Find great resources, lesson plans &

conferences

#2 Share your resources and ideas

Slideshare

#3 Follow amazing educators and their

blogs

#4 Get support when needed

1 minute CPD

#5 Make International Connections

#7 Collaborate globally on projects

CLMOOC 2015

http://www.slideshare.net/NomadWarMachine/developing-flexible-open-courses-cmoocs-with-international-collaborators

What platforms come to mind?

See https://conversationprism.com/ for more

How do others use Social Media for CPD?

Platform How it’s being used

Google+ Join communities and participate in discussions

LinkedIn Join relevant industry groups and participate in discussions

Twitter Follow industry groups, businesses, individuals; join twitter chats, take notes at conference, conference backchannel

Facebook Join professional groups; follow relevant industry groups, businesses, individuals

Slideshare Sharing of training resources

Delicious, Diigo, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr

Collating ideas, sharing of resources and following others

Making it personal – what’s in it for me?

Be aware – some policies

• Use of Social Media at CDU is covered in three different policies

• CDU supports participation in social media technologies.

• The use of social media for learning and teaching purposes is outlined in the Learnline Policy (draft) and is separate to the Social Media Policy.

• Official posts must comply with the Media and Public Commentary Policy.

• Staff members are NOT to use the University name as part of their username/handle/screen name if making personal comments.

• Acceptable Use – refer to the dot points of the Social Media Policy for clear guidance.

Be aware – personal protection

• Don’t post personal identifying information (date of birth, address, etc)

• Don’t engage with trolls

• Anything of concern: “Ignore. Block. Report”

References and Links

CDU Social Media Policy http://www.cdu.edu.au/governance/doclibrary/pol-059.pdf

CDU Media and Public Commentary Policy http://www.cdu.edu.au/governance/policies/pol-028.pdf

Internet trolls http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/weirdwebculture/f/what-is-an-internet-troll.htm

http://www.josiefraser.com/2016/09/alt-c-2016-keynote-in-the-valley-of-the-trolls/

A Guide to Social Media for Learning from GCU, UKhttps://sway.com/WJOIcKAajpfZE3OD

References and Links

Gilly Salmon blog http://www.gillysalmon.com Craig Kemp blog http://mrkempnz.com/ The Ed Techie blog http://blog.edtechie.net/ Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/ Hybrid pedagogy http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/1 minute CPD https://1minutecpd.wordpress.com/Conversation prism https://conversationprism.com/ Learning wheel http://learningwheel.co.uk/tag/debmillar24/ CLMOOC 2015 http://www.slideshare.net/NomadWarMachine/developing-flexible-open-courses-cmoocs-with-international-collaborators

With thanks

Stuart Kelly @stuartkellynz

Jenny Grabiec @JennyGrabiec

Deb Millar @learningwheel

Sylvia Duckworth @sylviaduckworth

Craig Kemp @mrkempnz

Wendy Taleo @wentale

James Clay @jamesclay

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Getting started with Twitter

Sue Tucker and Zachary Watt

Learning and Teaching Week 2016

Topics

Why use Twitter for professional development?

Find people to follow

Using @ and # appropriately

Sending, replying, retweeting and quoting

Why Twitter for PD?

Edchats #1

Edchats #2

Edchats #3Participate Learning

Calendar

Some of our favourites:

#digitaledchat#AussieED#digiped#PubPD#includEDau

And the new

#AusVETchatStarting on Wednesday

Conference backchannels

Conference backchannels

Conference backchannels

Taking notes

Find people to follow

Find people to follow

Using @@ is an address and will send a notification to a particular person or organisation.

@wentale @sueinasp @CDUni @ZacInDarwin

Using #

# is a means of tracking a topic or conversation

Anybody can search and follow a hashtag.

Nothing is private!

#LTWeek2016 #CDUnistaff #2016NVC #AussieEd #edtech #altc

“Hashtags are the coffee houses of the internet” - Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire

Send and reply

Retweet and quote

Help! I didn’t mean to send that!

Other toolsTagboard – the social search & display platform

Other tools

Tweetdeck – organise your Twitter feed

Join us on Wednesday at 1pm for

#AusVETchatTopic: Doing Industry Engagement Better

In summary

References and Links

Participate Learning https://www.participate.com/chatsTagboard https://tagboard.com/ Tweetdeck https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/

With thanks

Stuart Kelly @stuartkellynz

Jenny Grabiec @JennyGrabiec

Deb Millar @learningwheel

Sylvia Duckworth @sylviaduckworth

Craig Kemp @mrkempnz

Wendy Taleo @wentale

James Clay @jamesclay

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