This page will provide examples for leveraging social learning in the classroom. Emphasis will be placed on social media and social networking tools that are having a pronounced impact on social learning.
Social Learning
- Debunking 4 Myths of Social Learning
- What is Social Learning & How Can It Help You?
- Social Learning Theory in Second Life
Social Media in Education
- Teaching, Learning, and Sharing: How Today’s Higher Education Faculty Use Social Media
- Social Media in Higher Education
- Educause Library – Social Media
- Four Ways to Use Social Media for Learning in the Real World
- 5 Ultimate Tricks Of Using Social Media As Learning Tools
- 13 Enlightening Case Studies of Social Media in the Classroom
- 100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teaching Students About Social Media
Examples
Blogging
- Seven reasons teachers should blog
- A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network
- Strategies for Blog-Powered Instruction
- The Virtues of Blogging as Scholarly Activity
- Teaching with Blogs
- Do Educators Really Need Blog Posts?
- Shorter, better, faster, free
- A 60 Seconds Guide to The Use of Blogging in Education
- Making Student Blogs Pay Off with Blog Audits
- 5 Ways Blogging Has Made Me a Better Scholar
- 7 Reasons Your Students should be Blogging in 2013
- Academic blogging – 10 top tips
- A Wonderful Blogging Rubric for Teachers and Students
- 7 ways to use a blog as a research journal
- Social Writing and Learning: Using Class Blogs to Enrich the Student Experience
- Blogging in the classroom
Curation
- Curate or Be Curated: The Coming Age of the Curation Economy
- A Curator’s Tools and To-Do List
- 11 Ways to Use Curation as Part of a Learning Strategy
- Blogging as a Curation Platform
- A Comprehensive Guide to Content Curation
Diigo – Social Bookmarking
- Diigo Educator Accounts
- Diigo in Education Group
- Teachinghistory.org
- Use Diigo To Help Write Your Next College Essay or Term Paper
- Social Bookmarking with Diigo
- Diigo for Digital Writing Reflection
- Using Diigo in the Classroom
- 12 Reasons Teachers should use Diigo
- Using Diigo in the Classroom – Slideshare
- Classroom Collaboration Using Social Bookmarking Service Diigo
- Removing the “scroll of death” in Moodle with Diigo – Also applies to Blackboard
- Social Bookmarking and Annotating
Discussion Boards
- Mastering Online Discussion Board Facilitation (PDF)
- Educational benefits and issues in using discussion boards.
- Generating and Facilitating Engaging and Effective Online Discussions (PDF)
- In Class and Online: Using Discussion Boards in Teaching (PDF)
- 3 Reasons Students Don’t Participate in Online Discussions
- Best Practices in Managing Online Discussions
- 10 Tips for Effective Online Discussions (PDF)
- How to Prepare and Moderate Online Discussions for Online Learning (PDF)
- Online Discussions for Blended Learning (PDF)
- Improving the Use of Discussion Boards
- Managing Online Discussion Forums (PDF)
- Down-and-dirty Guidelines for Effective Discussions in Online Courses (PDF)
- Protocols for Online Discussions (PDF)
- IRA Method for Online Discussions (PDF)
- How to Use Instagram
- How to Recreate Your Favorite Instagram Filters in Photoshop
- Five ways libraries are using Instagram to share collections and draw public interest
- 10 Ways To Use Instagram In Your Classroom
- How to show Instagram photos on screen for events
Mind Mapping
- Mind Mapping & Creative Thinking
- My Mind-Mapping Classroom
- Mind-Mapping And The Digitization Of Learning
- The Students’ Guide to Mind Mapping
- Mind mapping for essays – helping students organise their thoughts
- The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them
- Backing up mindmapping
- Concept maps or mind maps? the choice
- LEARNING with Mind Maps – Part 1 of Mind Maps in Education Series
- TEACHING with Mind Maps – Part 2 of Mind Maps in Education Series
- 40 Ultimate Useful Mind Mapping Tools
- Mind Map Library. 1000s of MindMaps
- How to Mind Map Guide
- How to Make a Mind Map®
- Mind Mapping
Mobile Learning
- Making The Shift To Mobile-First Teaching
- 25 Examples Of Mobile Teaching
- 12 Principles Of Mobile Learning
- 10 mLearning Lessons I Learned from reading Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
- Four Ways to Use Pinterest in Education
- Pinterest II: Optimizing Content For Pinterest
- Pinterest Part III: Participating on Pinterest as a Brand Curator
- Pinterest Part IV: Making the Most of Pinterest – Tips and Tricks
- In The Pinterest Of Education
- 37 Ways Teachers Should Use Pinterest
- Pinterest for teachers
- How To Use Pinterest With Bloom’s Taxonomy
- 16 Ways Educators Use Pinterest
- Using Pinterest as a Training and Development Tool
- Pinterest for L&D
Personal Learning Environments/Networks
- The Educator’s PLN – The personal learning network for educators
- Building your future: How to create your personal learning environment (PDF)
- Creating an Online Personal Learning Network
- Developing a Personal Learning Environment for Language Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools
- Connectivist Learning and the Personal Learning Environment
- Personal Learning Environments: What They Are And How To Implement Them
- Personal Learning for Learning Professionals – Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective
- The 5 Cs to Developing Your Personal Learning Network
- 5 Great Tutorials on How to Build your Personal Learning Network
- 20 Tips for Creating a Professional Learning Network
- Step 1: What is a PLN?
Podcasting
- Audacity Tutorial: How to Record and Edit Audio with Audacity (video)
- 12 Creative Ways to Use iPods and Mp3 Players in Adult Education
- Two Approaches to Podcasting Use in the Classroom
- Top 20 history podcasts
- How to Record and Publish a Podcast from Your iPad (Video)
- How to Convert Video to MP3 Using Camtasia Studio (video)
- 6 Tips For Adding Podcasts In eLearning
- Podcasting in the Modern Language Classroom
- Mobile Learning: Why Tech Savvy Educators Are Turning to Podcasts
- Bozemanscience
Poll Everywhere
- Poll Everywhere
- QR and Poll Everywhere
- Real-time Assessment with Poll Everywhere (PDF)
- Timed emails through Blackboard announcements and Polleverywhere
- Poll Everywhere (Video)
- Poll Everywhere In Library Instruction
- PollEverywhere: Student Engagement through Cellular Phones
- Polleverywhere – Advice & Questioning Strategies
RSS Feeds
- How to Get Your Own YouTube RSS Feed
- RSS Feeds from the U.S. Government
- RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators (PDF)
- RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feed
- So, what is RSS all about then?
- RSS for Education
- RSS and Education
- RSS Ideas for Educators
- Turn Evernote Into An RSS Reader In A Few Easy Steps
Skype
- 7 things you should know about… Skype (PDF)
- The Complete Educator’s Guide to Using Skype effectively in the classroom
- Using Skype in the Classroom (or just learning how to use it!)
- 50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom
- 50 Ideas For Using Skype In Your Classroom
- Learning Beyond Walls: 21 Skype Resources
- Skype recording, transcription, collaboration
- How to Record Skype and Google Hangout Video Calls
- Skype Call Recorder
- How to Record Skype Audio and Video Calls – Use this Easy Skype Recorder
- Recording an Interview with Skype using Audacity 1.3
- Record Skype Video Calls and Edit for Free with Vodburner
- How to Record Your Skype Calls
- Skype Explained Visually
- 10 Video Tutorials on How to Use Skype
- How to Add a Skype Button to Email
- Managing Your Skype Contacts: 5 Tips
Smartphones
- Does Research Support Letting Students Use Cell Phones for Learning?
- 7 Ways You Can Use Texting to Your Advantage in the Classroom
- Part 1: 44 Smart Ways to Use Smartphones in Class
- Turn Your Smartphone Into a Digital Microscope! (video)
- 40 Simple Ways To Use A Smartphone In The Classroom
Social Media and the Sciences
- Social Media for Scientists Part 1: It’s Our Job
- Science and the Media: Why Every Lab Should Tweet
- The Shorty Award for Social Media’s Best Science
- Social Networking for Scientists
- What social media does for scientific and academic communities
- How to Bring History to Life Using Facebook Timeline and Twitter
- Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool
- The Ultimate Twitter Guidebook For Teachers
- 25 ways to teach with Twitter by Sonja Cole
- Twitter for Librarians: The Ultimate Guide
- Twitter – A Teaching and Learning Tool
- Using Twitter in libraries
- Using the Power of Twitter: Building Online Learning
- 100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics
- 101 WAYS TO USE TWITTER ON CAMPUS
- 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom
- 28 Creative Ideas for Teaching with Twitter
- 60 Inspiring Examples of Twitter in the Classroom
- Potential uses of twitter in teacher education courses
- Thirty Interesting Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom
- Backchannel in Education – Nine Uses
- Four Interesting Ways to Use Backchannels in the Classroom
- How to Use Twitter in the Classroom (VIDEO)
- Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart
- 99 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics
- A Framework for Teaching with Twitter
- Professors Use Twitter to Increase Student Engagement and Grades
- TWHistory
- 10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics
- Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitter
- 19 Twitter Videos to Help Teachers and Students Connect
Wiki
- University of Leeds: What is a Wiki?
- 7 things you should know about… Wikis (PDF)
- How Wikis Work
- Web 2.0 and Emerging Learning Technologies/Wikis
- Wikis in University Teaching and Learning – Richard Buckland UNSW (Video)
- How to Build An Educational Wiki (WikiSpaces)(Video)
- University of Leeds: Example Wiki applications in learning and teaching
- Wikis in Teaching
- Wikis for teaching and learning
- Dispelling 8 Common Myths about School Wikis by Lisa Nielsen
- 8 Ways To Use A School Wiki to Increase Communication, Collaboration, and Enrich Instruction
- 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom
- Reading, Writing, and Wikis
- 18 Interesting Ways* to Use a Wiki in the Classroom
- Eight Ways To Use School Wikis
- Wikis in Higher Education (University of Deleware) (PDF)
YouTube
- 25 Of The Best Resources For Teaching With YouTube
- Five Reasons Why YouTube Rocks the Classroom
- Intelligent YouTube Channels
- Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites
- 197 Educational YouTube Channels You Should Know About
- How to Make an Interactive Lesson Using Youtube
- How to Add Transcripts to Your YouTube Videos
- Top 20 Ways to Use YouTube in the Classroom
- 99 Incredible YouTube Channels for History Buffs
- 10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About
- Creating interactive online video using YouTube
- 9 YouTube Tips and Tricks for Teachers
- How to Create YouTube Photo Slideshows – A Good Alternative to Animoto
- How to Add A NEW Intro Video to Your OLD YouTube Videos
- 4 Important YouTube Search Tips for Teachers and Educators
- How TED-ED Site Turns YouTube Videos To ‘Flipped’ Lessons