{"id":5799,"date":"2015-02-25T11:57:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T16:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=5799"},"modified":"2022-06-14T01:29:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T06:29:21","slug":"social-media-tools-for-teaching-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/social-media-tools-for-teaching-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Tools for Teaching and Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Janice Florent<\/p>\n<p>Social media has evolved into more than a simple tool to stay in touch with friends or to share vacation pictures. Educators are finding interesting ways to use social media in their teaching and learning. Benefits to using social media in teaching and learning include putting concepts into context, keeping course content up-to-date, and fostering a sense of community both in and out of the classroom.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Facebook and Twitter may be ubiquitous, but there are many other social media tools out there that can enhance teaching and learning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Facebook and Twitter are social media tools that are familiar to most people. Here are a few other social media tools that are being used in education:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/voicethread.com\/\">VoiceThread<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/\">Diigo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/\">Scoop.it<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/\">Pinterest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/feedly.com\/\">Feedly<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read more about how three educators are using these social media tools in the <a href=\"http:\/\/campustechnology.com\/\">Campus Technology<\/a> article, <a href=\"http:\/\/campustechnology.com\/articles\/2015\/01\/07\/6-alternative-social-media-tools-for-teaching-and-learning.aspx\">6 Alternative Social Media Tools for Teaching and Learning<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Janice Florent Social media has evolved into more than a simple tool to stay in touch with friends or to share vacation pictures. Educators are finding interesting ways to use social media in their teaching and learning. Benefits to using social media in teaching and learning include putting concepts into context, keeping course content <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/social-media-tools-for-teaching-and-learning\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Social Media Tools for Teaching and Learning\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8,11],"tags":[291],"class_list":{"0":"post-5799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online","7":"category-teaching","8":"category-social","9":"tag-social-media","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-1vx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1632,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/50-web-tools\/","url_meta":{"origin":5799,"position":0},"title":"50 Web Tools","author":"Bart Everson","date":"February 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to everyone who attended our workshop on \"50 Web Tools in 50 Minutes.\" For your clicking convenience, check out the full list of web-based tools that we covered. Online OCR \u2014 Convert scanned documents to text. Wordle \u2014 Word clouds! (example) See also Tagxedo Up-Goer Five Text Editor\u2014 Can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;CAT &amp; Mouse: E-Learning&quot;","block_context":{"text":"CAT &amp; Mouse: E-Learning","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/topic\/online\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"50 Web Tools in 50 Minutes","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8389\/8482032023_6afddcdf80_m.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14156,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/using-infographics-for-teaching-and-learning\/","url_meta":{"origin":5799,"position":1},"title":"Using Infographics for Teaching and Learning","author":"Janice Florent","date":"August 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Infographics are likely a part of your everyday life. Infographics came into the graphic design scene about ten years ago. The increase of free, easy to use tools have made the creation of infographics available to many. They\u2019ve become a staple for communication in classrooms, in the workplace, and across\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Brightspace Small Plates&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Brightspace Small Plates","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/topic\/brightspace\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/laptop-3190194_640.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/laptop-3190194_640.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/laptop-3190194_640.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3458,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/3-megatrends-influencing-distance-education\/","url_meta":{"origin":5799,"position":2},"title":"3 Megatrends Influencing Distance Education","author":"Karen Nichols","date":"July 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"by Karen Nichols One interesting session I attended at this year's Distance Learning Administration conference was a presentation by Dr. Connie Reimers-Hild called Future-Focused Leadership: Three Mega-Trends Influencing Distance Learning. To paraphrase her three trends, Dr. Reimers-Hild discusses the rise of the \"Gig Economy\", the fact that more people are\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6539,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/sharing-from-olcs-emerging-technologies-conference\/","url_meta":{"origin":5799,"position":3},"title":"Sharing from OLC&#8217;s Emerging Technologies Conference","author":"Karen Nichols","date":"April 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Karen Nichols Actually, the above chart is an indirect find while researching, on my own, an item that came up during a few of the conference presentations I've attended virtually from the Online Learning Consortium's Emerging Technologies Conference. I hadn't thought about Personal Learning Networks (PLN's) as such but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;CAT &amp; Mouse: E-Learning&quot;","block_context":{"text":"CAT &amp; Mouse: E-Learning","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/topic\/online\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5008,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/conversation-28\/","url_meta":{"origin":5799,"position":4},"title":"Conversation #28: Service Learning","author":"Bart Everson","date":"December 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Download Conversation #28 A conversation with Jeremy Tuman of Xavier University of Louisiana on teaching, learning and service learning. Ultimately I think a transformative experience is one in which students internalize the idea that reality is not fixed \u2014 that all of these social problems are products, by-products, results of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Old Podcast Archive (\u22642018)&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Old Podcast Archive (\u22642018)","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/topic\/podcast\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14328,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/students-say-they-are-not-as-tech-savvy-as-educators-assume\/","url_meta":{"origin":5799,"position":5},"title":"Students Say They Are Not as Tech Savvy as Educators Assume","author":"Janice Florent","date":"January 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"In an Edsurge article by Jenny Abamu, she notes that one of the biggest misconceptions following Millennials is that they are digital natives. Students at a New Media Consortium Summer Conference (NMC) pushed back on the generational generalizations, noting that assumptions regarding their attitudes, hobbies, and abilities are hurting them\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;CAT &amp; Mouse: E-Learning&quot;","block_context":{"text":"CAT &amp; Mouse: E-Learning","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/topic\/online\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"young woman staring at a computer screen with a look of frustration on her face","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/laptop-3087585_640.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18443,"href":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions\/18443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}