15 tips on using social media to develop course communities
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A thunderstorm presentation = 5 slides in 5 minutes looking at five key social media tools to develop course communities in higher education.TRANSCRIPT
15 Tips on Using Social Media to Develop Course CommunitiesSue Beckingham | @suebecks
Sheffield Hallam University #shult13
YouTube
Create short 'about me' videos
Collaborative student projects to create how to guides
Record Google Hangouts e.g. discussing the assessment brief
Blogger (or WordPress)
Getting to know each other: 'About Me' posts or behind-the-scenes journeys through university life
Add student presentations to Slideshare and embed in the blog
Debate a weekly topic using comments
Set up a Course group and connect with alumni
Set of sub groups for specialisms
Use the poll tool (within groups) e.g. vote on revision topics
FACT: There are over 30 million students
and recent college graduates on
LinkedIn.
Create a course member list
Share useful links and aggregate using a #hashtag
Create a course paper.li newspaper
#jpp13
Facebook Group
What's on page
Student photo of the week
Post info on internships, jobs AND link back to Careers
A Thunderstorm Presentation: !5 Tips on 5 slides in 5 minutes
Learning and Teaching ConferenceSheffield Hallam University
Sue Beckingham@suebecks
@suebeckshttp://uk.linkedin.com/in/suebeckinghamhttp://gplus.to/suebecks