Webinar slides for Junior Faculty Development Program Mid-program Virtual Conference

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USING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
DR. VANESSA P. DENNEN
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
PRESENTATION TO JUNIOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
MARCH 8, 2013
ABOUT ME
Associate Professor of Instructional Systems
@ FSU
Teach courses in:
• Social media
• Mobile learning
• Learning theory
• Research methods
Research:
• Social media and mobile learning
• Online learning communities
• Online knowledge networks/knowledge
management
These slides at:
www.slideshare.net/vanessadennen
My web site:
meme.coe.fsu.edu/vanessa
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PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
What kinds of PD have you engaged in recently?
For many educators, PD is something they ATTEND,
but not something they CREATE or INITIATE
How do you define PD? And does that form of PD meet all
of your professional growth or learning needs?
EVERYDAY LIFE
When you have a problem to solve, where do you seek an
answer?
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LEARNING WITH ONLINE
NETWORKS/RESOURCES
THE 4 CS OF ONLINE PD
Colleagues Communication
Contribution Collaboration
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You create a
Personal Learning
Network (PLN)
COLLEAGUES
Traditional definition: the people with whom
you interact at work
Who will your online colleagues be?
• May replicate regular work networks
• May develop new networks
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ELEMENTS OF PD
COMMUNITY
Local
Peers
Experts
Online
Peers
Online PD Network
COMMUNICATION
How will you interact
with the network?
• Lurk/Follow?
• Ask questions?
• Provide advice?
• Provide support?
• Socialize?
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COLLABORATION
Can you solve problems
with(in) your network?
Working with others &
crowdsourcing
from flickr user adesigna
CONTRIBUTION
How? Key Issue:
• Rate Reciprocity
• Comment
• Guide
• Share
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THERE ARE MANY WAYS
TO SHARE AT OUR
FINGERTIPS
CREATING YOUR PLN
There’s so much out there … how do you begin?
Consider the following dimensions:
NEED TOOL LEVEL OF
INVESTMENT
• Knowledge Is it interactive? How much time
• Resources Can you and energy do
• Community archive? you have to
• Advice cultivate the
• Attention network? To
build trust?
Engage in
reciprocity?
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INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY CONCERNS
Two core issues for most teachers:
1. How do you give proper attribution to others?
2. How do you encourage others to give you proper
attribution?
creativecommons.org
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creativecommons.org
SOME
TOOLS
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coursera.org
pinterest.com
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diigo.com
DIIGO: GROUP PAGE
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DIIGO: BOOKMARK,
HIGHLIGHT
DIIGO: STICKY NOTES
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DIIGO: TAGS,
WIDGETS
evernote
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slideshare.net
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OTHER TOOLS
Repositories + Communities
• oercommons.org
• merlot.org
Twitter
• Crowdsourcing
• Chats
• Following news
Networking
• Academia.edu
• LinkedIn.com
ONLINE PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT & YOU
What might you try?
What do you want to learn?
REMINDER: What you get out of the experience is directly
related to what you put into it
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TO RECAP
Colleagues Collaboration
• Follow others • Seek opportunities to
• Do things to help others –
encourage them to whether big or small
follow you • Ask for help as you
Communication need it
• Don’t be invisible
Contribution
• Empower yourself –
you have something
worth sharing!
• Share your
experiences
• Share what you
create
THE END
Any questions?
Contact:
vdennen@fsu.edu
Slides at:
slideshare.net/
vanessadennen
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