Using Social Networks To Engage Students & Enhance their learning Eli Jacobs May 2012

Using Social Networks To Engage Students & Enhance their learning

Eli JacobsMay 2012

Social Media

One billion tweets every week, 180,000,000 million every day

200m twitter members worldwide140m tweets sent daily

450,000 new accounts created every day & 18,000 search tweets every second.

Fish where the fish are…

Twitter A “micro blogging” website where users can

post short messages (tweets) of up to 140 characters and update other users including those who follow these posts as well as communicate with users directly. Tweets can contain links to other web sites. Posts can be grouped together using #hash tags, with any word or phrase with # in front, eg#HR or #graduate jobs. A RT (Retweet) when a users respectfully tweets someones elses tweet.

ObjectivesIncrease student engagement -

Announcements: Rooms, Dates, Work Placement Vacancies, Reminders....

Connect student with unfolding bus ethics stories – through news paper articles, videos, sites

Connect students with experts/organisations opinions & activities

Recap/Reinforce lectures & tutorials Additional Benefits: Enhanced MY learning,

increased profile, managing cohorts is easier.

ObjectivesIncrease student engagement -

Announcements: Rooms, Dates, Work Placement Vacancies, Reminders....

Connect student with unfolding bus ethics stories – through news paper articles, videos, sites

Connect students with experts/organisations opinions & activities

Recap/Reinforce lectures & tutorials Additional Benefits: Enhanced MY learning,

increased profile, managing cohorts is easier.

ObjectivesIncrease student engagement -

Announcements: Rooms, Dates, Work Placement Vacancies, Reminders....

Connect student with unfolding bus ethics stories – through news paper articles, videos, sites

Connect students with experts/organisations opinions & activities

Recap/Reinforce lectures & tutorials Additional Benefits: Enhanced MY learning,

increased profile, managing cohorts is easier.

Ethical Issues Ups and DownsMy uno bus journeyModule results & SFQ’sTracking & Survey

Semester End – drop out ratesSpamWhat is a credible source?Toyota & Walmart Flouting the Law