Guest presentation for ELI Course | Humanizing Online Teaching and Learning https://events.educause.edu/eli/courses/webinar/2017/humanizing-online-teaching-and-learning

1. Social Learning
Building Social
Presence
Sue Beckingham
@suebecks
Guest presentation for ELI Course | February 2017
Humanizing Online Teaching and Learning

3. Blended
Learning
Distance
Learning
Face to
Face
My teaching experience and learning experience

4. I will share examples using technology
that have contributed to social learning
through:
 building online presence
 connecting with students
 helping students connect with each other
 encouraging collaboration and co-learning
synchronously and asynchronously

5. Building
online
presence

6. What does a Google search reveal?
Building a public professional online presence

7. Identity(ies)
of the
blended
professional

8. Building a learning partnership

10. Plutchik's wheel of emotions
Easily missed when online
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrasting_and_categorization_of_emotions

12. My personal initial negative
online experience
Director of... Head of...Principal
Lead of...

14. Technology moves on…
Access to video, audio, chat.

15. Having the confidence to connect with others,
communicate and collaborate
is as important online as it is face to face.

16. Pick n Mix Methods

17. Video Slideshows
https://animoto.com and https://screencast-o-matic.com/
Who am I?
where I'm from
favourite food
favourite band

18. Scenarios
• Creating 'about me' videos to get to know
each other - start with fun facts
• Capturing career aspirations, skills to be
developed
• Ongoing reflective learning diary

19. Group Chat
Google Hangouts
By using interactive video based tools the
experience of distance learning students
can be improved - "I no longer feel alone"
being a telling comment from one
student. Another said "Being able to see
our tutor and peers was great!"
First year students used Google
Hangouts or Skype, which they
captured using screencast-o-matic and
embedded in to their individual blogs to
reflect upon their contribution.
Group Skype

20. Scenarios
Making the suggestion students meet for
'virtual coffee outside class time
Virtual office hours for 'one to one' meetings
Groupwork meetings combining with Google
Apps for collaborative work

21. Microblogging
https://wordpress.com/themes/p2/ and https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/p2-breathe/
WordPress P2 theme

22. Scenarios
This can be used to introduce microblogging
in a shared space that is not public. For
example:
• to share resources
• discussions
• FAQs

23. Social Bookmarking
https://www.diigo.com/education

24. Scenarios
Ask students to:
• Contribute (with you) to create an
annotated bibliography
(Education version - class groups)
• Search for and follow other bookmarked
lists. Then share with peers

25. Active Reading
https://hypothes.is/

26. Scenario
Ask students to
• Work in pairs to critique a paper and
annotate their points.
• Share back with the class.

27. Video Annotation
https://vialogues.com/

28. Scenario
Whilst a synchronous activity, students can
work together to comment upon a video of
your choice. This 'video dialogue' can be
stimulated by your own questions and replies
to comments.
The vialogue can then be saved and
embedded in a website, blog or VLE.

29. Digital Posters
https://piktochart.com/ and upload to SlideShare http://www.slideshare.net/suebeckingham

30. Scenarios
Ask students to present their posters as a
slideshow (each section becomes a slide).
Embed in your website, blog or VLE.
Hold a virtual online conference. Share
presentations via SlideShare and LinkedIn.

31. Digital Noticeboards
https://padlet.com/

32. Scenarios
The notice board could be used as a:
• space for feedback
• student led lexicon of terms
• tips for forthcoming students

33. Digital Noticeboards
https://uk.pinterest.com/suebecks/

34. Scenarios
• Tutor photo board
• Curate a group reading list
• Clues for an orientation event /treasure
hunt
• Space to promote visual work

35. Digital Curation
http://www.scoop.it/t/taking-a-look-at-moocs and http://www.scoop.it/t/google-glass-by-suebecks

36. Scenarios
Ask students to
• curate resources for a project
• useful tools to organise their learning
• create a collaborative newsletter
• add their viewpoint using comments to
articles

37. …there are a still a few obstacles yet to overcome
Whilst tech is getting easier and more intuitive…

38. Blog: http://socialmediaforlearning.com/
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/in/suebeckingham
Note: all images used are Public Domain
https://pixabay.com/ are my own.
Sue Beckingham | @suebecks
Educational Developer and Senior Lecturer
at Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield, UK