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LTSI 2010 Social Media in Higher Education
1. Social Media &
The University Classroom
LTSI 2010
Jason Michel
Andy Revelle
Glenn Platt
2. Agenda
What Is Social Media?
What Do We Know About Social Media Users?
Who Is Using Social Media?
What Do We Know About Faculty And Social
Media?
Taxonomy and Examples Of Social Media Use In
Classrooms.
14. [Digg] was ... something that we wanted
to try out by giving power and control
back to the masses. Typically with
technology news sites a handful of
editors choose which stories are relevant
and which they believe the audience
would like to read about. This was the
first time that anyone experimented with
allowing the general mass audience to
decide what they believed to be the most
important topic of the day.
Kevin Rose, digg Founder
16. What Do We Know About
Social Media Users?
3 out of 4 Americans 61% of Facebook users
use it are middle aged or older
2/3 of the global 900,000 blog posts each
Internet population uses day
it
Classmates.com has
largest user base over
65
17. What Do We Know About
Social Media Users?
20 Hours of YouTube added per
minute
440,000,000 YouTube videos
watched each day
4 billion photos on Flickr
19. What Do We Know About
Social Media Users?
50,000,000 t weets each day on
Twitter
5 billion things added to
Facebook each week
If Facebook was a country...
20. What Do We Know About
Social Media Users?
50% of Facebook users Years it took for media
check in once a day. to reach 50m people:
84% of social Radio: 38 years
net working sites have
more women than men. Film: 13 years
More social media is TV: 4 years
shared by mobile devices
than desktop Facebook: 6 mo.
24. What Do We Know About
Faculty and Social Media
More than four out of every five professors use
social media.
More than half of professors use tools like video,
blogs, podcasts, and wikis in their classes.
By a ratio of over four to one, faculty members
report that social media have value for teaching.
25. What Do We Know About
Faculty and Social Media
Almost one-quarter of professors have accounts on
four or more social net works, and 59 percent have
more than one account.
Nearly one-third of faculty members use social
net works to communicate with their peers, and
more than 30 percent use them to communicate
with students.
26. What Do We Know About
Faculty and Social Media
Professors with more than 20 years of teaching
experience use social media only slightly less than
do their younger peers.
Faculty members working in the humanities and
social sciences report greater social-media use than
those in mathematics, science, and business.
76. Social Media and Higher
Education Resources
http://disruptology.com/social-media-resources-for-
educators/
http://delicious.com/tag/socialmedia+education
+university