social_media


 * Course Outline **

This is a fun, hands on program that will require at least a 30 minute commitment from you daily and participation in a weekly Adobe session to discuss your experiences with others. The platform we will use to disseminate your challenges will be Edmodo –through a daily post you will receive a small challenge that will require you to interact with the Social Media platform chosen for that week’s discussion.
 * **Week ** || **Topic ** || **What will I learn? ** ||
 * 1 || ** Get to know Twitter and Edmodo ** || This week you will be asked to sign up to both Twitter and Edmodo. Edmodo is the platform that your facilitator will use to launch your daily challenge. You will also explore the basics of twitter, it benefits and limitations. ||
 * 2 || ** Your personal network ** || This week we will explore strategies designed to help you to developing your own personal learning network using LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a social networking site that has great potential for building your professional identify and connecting with future employers. ||
 * 3 || ** Become a social blogger ** || In our third week we look at common blog sites and commence our own blog. You will be introduced to common strategies that will encourage traffic to your blog. ||
 * 4 || ** Curate your own content ** || In our fourth week we explore Pinterest and its educational use as an electronic pin board. You will also explore strategies to curate content that will assist your learners to undertake research with social media. ||
 * 5 || ** Facebook’s educational use ** || This week we will explore Facebook groups, pages and apps to determines its educational suitability for learners. ||
 * 6 || ** Putting it all together ** || Our final platform we explore this week is Google+. Our goal this week is to bring this altogether so that we have a clear picture of how social media can be used with learners particularly as a tool for social learning. You will also develop your own guidelines for using social media with learners. ||

Participants will meet regularly in Adobe Connect to explore the platform for the week and to discuss how the platform could be used with learners and the guidelines that are required to enhance learning opportunities.

To participate fully you will need a USB Headset with Microphone.

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