November 2013

Use of social media tools in teaching, collaboration and

engagement

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TOPIC: Setting up and using popular SM tools and applications

Adapted from “ICAWEB201A - Use social media tools for collaboration and engagement as used for Australian and State and Territory Government” with minor changes/modifications

Introduction Setting Social Media tool Issues related to facebook Initiating interaction Using Social Media tool Testing and evaluating tools Presenting the findings Conclusion

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Today, we will set up and use social media tool

The tool which will be used is facebook because it is popular and used widely by participants and even students

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At the end, one will be able to: Set up facebook as a social media tool Use facebook as social media tool to

engage students

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In case you have a facebook account yet:◦ logon and configure your profile◦ upload an image ◦ update your status

Note: Facilitator show participants how to

setup tools; Then, participants practise by doing AND facilitator guide them and help in

case of difficult

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In case you do not have a facebook account yet:

◦ Enter First AND Last name◦ Enter your Email◦ Re-Enter Email again◦ Enter your new password◦ Enter your birthday details ◦ Choose M=Male OR F=Female◦ Click sign up

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Click profile link and update your detail such as:

•Basic information•Contact information•Place lived•Life event•Work and education•Professional skills•Relationship•Family•About you•Favourite etc

Discussion and demonstration copyright privacy security trust.

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•Click “Choose a file to upload” icon OR

•Click Add photos/Video icon/link

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Insert your current status in the your status box “what’s on your mind?” AND click Post icon/button

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Why social group

• Discussions and demonstration:

Demonstration and practical doing

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Demonstration and practical doing

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Demonstration and practical doing Click “create group” icon Type a “group name” Choose privacy issues for group i.e

“closed, open AND secret” Participants should discuss together with

facilitator the implication of each i.e “closed, open AND secret” AND WHY

Inserting few members (practical doing)

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Demonstration and practical doing Add description of the group (each

teacher/academic staff write his/her own description)

NOTE: each participant will use his or her own class or subject or course he or she teaches

Add cover of the goup (the cover should be relevant to you class or subject or course-Why?

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The focus will be based on the facebook group created

Adding members (your students-each participant must add his or her own students)

Adding suggested members (practical doing)

Inviting member by email (practical doing)

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Demonstration (facilitator demo) Practical doing (use skills gained) Coaching (facilitator coach for perfection)

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Activities Updating status to your students (it can be

announcement) Uploading file or documents (it can be

course outline or assignment notification) Uploading image (it can be your own image

or related to the subject

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The focus will be based on the facebook group created

Viewing all members-click members (practical doing)

Updating status – click on the status box (practical doing)

Working with comments (practical doing) Responding with comments (practical doing) Working with chats (practical doing) Responding to the chat and message from

inbox etc

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The focus will be based on the facebook group created

Uploading more file (i.e pdf, text etc) and documents- click file (practical doing)

Uploading more photos (bmp, gif etc)-click photo (practical doing)

Uploading video (avi, mov etc) (practical doing)

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Working with a group chat Choose one member who is online at the

moment in the chat dialogue box Click the “option” icon for the first member

or a person you have chosen Click “Add friends to chat” to invite more

members You can add file to discuss by click “add

files” icon

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Working with a group chat Participants interacting with their students

online

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Discussion

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Presentation and Discussion

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We were able to: Set up Social Media tool-facebook Issue related to facebook Initiating interaction-facebook Using Social Media tool-facebook Testing and evaluating tools-facebook Presenting the findings-facebook

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