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Like This, Tweet That: Engaging Students Through Social Media

Register now for session: 
Engaging Through Social Media 1 Apr 2012
Register now for session: 
Engaging Through Social Media 2 Aug 2012
Track: 
Social Media
Level: 
Level 1 - Beginner
Sloan-C Certificate Program Eligibility: 

This online workshop can be counted toward the Sloan-C Certificate.

Workshop Description
Introduction: 

Formerly titled: Supporting and Engaging Students Through Social Media

Whether used inside or outside of the classroom, social media provides opportunities to enhance and improve engagement and achievement. By exploring examples of these efforts at the course, program, or institutional level, and making clear connections to course and program goals, faculty, staff and administrators can identify meaningful ways to engage learners using social media. This workshop will explore popular social media tools (such as Facebook and Twitter) as well as the broader spectrum of social media tools that play a role in education.

Resources Provided: 
  • Presentations, readings, web links, discussion threads and other materials, viewable online for 1 year
  • 1-Hour Live Workshop Orientation - Learn about Moodle 2.2 and BlackBoard Collaborate. Navigate the workshop space 
  • 1-Hour Live Panel Discussion - Participation in Live Q&A
  • Viewing of Live Sessions available for 1 year
Learning Objectives: 
  • Discuss issues related to student support and engagement through social media in higher education
  • View examples of educational institution efforts to facilitate support and engagement
  • Identify relationships between strategies applied in social media and relevant student outcomes
  • Present a framework for social media planning and implementation for your situation
Outcomes: 

Creation of a proposal for a social media effort applicable to your professional context

Facilitators
Facilitator(s): 

Holly Rae Bemis-Schurtz
Holly Rae Bemis-Schurtz, M.A. is an educational technologies specialist and instructional consultant at New Mexico State Unviersity where she has worked with both K-12 educators and higher education faculty to integrate new, emerging and social technologies. She has facilitated workshops and webinars on many social media topics.

Pricing and Cancellation Policy

Price: $345 Each
Sloan-C Member price: $195 w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)
College Pass Member Pricing: No Cost w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)
*Members receive unlimited discounts with membership and College Pass holders receive 100 (50 or 25) "free" seats in the entire Sloan-C Workshop series.

Cancellation Policy: 

If you register and pay for a Sloan-C workshop and are unable to attend or if Sloan-C reschedules/cancels a workshop, we will be happy to apply your payment to another Sloan-C workshop/seminar at your request. However, no refunds will be given. This offer is good for one year.

Technical Requirements/Minimum System Requirements

Combining the capabilities of industry leaders Wimba and Elluminate, Blackboard Collaborate provides a comprehensive learning platform designed specifically for education. It is helping thousands of higher education, K-12, professional, corporate, and government organizations worldwide deliver a more effective learning experience through online, blended, and mobile learning.

System Requirements:

  • Click here to check the system requirements and support browsers for using Elluminate
  • Click here to find out if your computer has the right Operating System and Java version installed to run Elluminate and to configure your system.

     
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Moodle: Sloan-C uses an open-source LMS called Moodle for the asynchronous component of workshops. Moodle provides a flexible and user-friendly set of asynchronous collaboration and learning tools. As with most open-source technologies, the Moodle software is free, making it a very cost-effective software package for any institution or company, without sacrificing quality. Moodle is a robust environment that is dynamic, interactive, and provides cross-platform learner access through a standard web browser.

System Requirements

Moodle will work in any modern web browser, however, moodle works best in a range of specific browser types (see below). Your browser should also have both cookies and javascript enabled. These are typically enabled by default, but if you think these settings might need enabling, check the documentation for your particular browser for how to do these.

To make best use of what moodle has to offer, it is recommended that users choose a browser that supports moodle's in-line HTML editor. This is a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor with an interface much like you would see in most word processing packages.

This in-line HTML editor will only appear if you use one of a specific range of browser types that knows how to start the editor. If you do not use one of these browser types, you can still use moodle just fine, but without the luxury of a WYSIWYG editor. Luckily, there is a supported browser that will work on all major operating system types. The list of supported and not supported browsers is shown below:

Browsers that support the HTML editor Browsers that do not support the HTML editor
Recent versions of: 

Internet Explorer (v5.5 or later) 
Firefox (all versions) 
Mozilla (v1.7 or later) 
SeaMonkey (all versions) 
Netscape (v7 or later) 		 Any versions of: 

Opera 
Safari 
Camino 

 
Register now for session: 
Engaging Through Social Media 1 Apr 2012
Register now for session: 
Engaging Through Social Media 2 Aug 2012
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