Social Media in Learning and Education (SMILE) - Summary Post and other links

Sponsored by Facebook I did some work recently for the EUN where we looked at the role of Social Media in Learning and Education (SMILE). One of the outputs of my contribution to the project was a professional development eLearning course for European Teachers and Head Teachers on the use of Social Media in Schools.

This is my summary post where I have aggrigated all of my thought on social media in education together in one place to form an on-line handout. Last updated - 15th June 2013.

1. The Smile Project

You can read more about the SMILE units (and see the CPD Videos) by following the links below:

1. What is social media?
2. Using social media in schools - whole-school approach;
3. Using social media for learning and teaching - pedagogical principles;
4. Using social media for professional development;
5. Using social media responsibly;
6. Social media policy and the challenges of social media adoption in schools?

You might also like to check out the SMILE Video Channel.

The full report Challenges and opportunities for schools and teachers in a digital word – Lessons learned from the 2012 SMILE action research project also be downloaded. 

Also: Some thoughts from the partisipants and our first graduates!

 

2. Presentation at Glasgow Social Media Week 2012

At Social Media Week Glasgow in September 2012 I gave a talk called The New Learning Landscape: Social Media and New Technology in Education which was sponsored by Bloxx.

The main points that I covered were:

• Why use social media?
• Cultural Relevance
• Real Time Data
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Data Collection
• Audience
• Professional Development
• It’s not going away

The talk was written up by Delesia Watson and you can read what she thought over on the Glasgow Socila Media Week Blog.

The presentation was also filmed and live streamed, you can watch it here if your interested:

 

3. Download the free eBook

In Collaboration with Bloxx, I've put together a free downloadable ebook on the Use of Social Media in Schools - you can download it from here.

 

 

4. From the archive

I've been talking about all this stuff for a while now - here are a few other blog posts from the archive that capture some of my other thoughts on some of these issues.

• 2010 -Twit to woo: how to harness social media (TES article - January 2010)

• 2009 -Social Media in Schools: Handheld Learning Conference Presentation

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

[KSingh]

Social media is a must for every business today. Specialised training like this can be really helpful as it will allow an organisation to manage social media marketing in-house which is essential for long term success.