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On the Tuesday afternoon of the Handheld Learning 2009 Conference I had an opportunity to present on Social Media in School. This was part of the social media break out strand of the conference. Below are the main slides that I used in my presentation below: The main points from my presentation were as follows: What is Social Media? There are lots of definitions of Social Media and lists of social media tools all over the Internet. Some diagrams and descriptions are more useful than others in trying to define what social media is and how we can used in education.
I came across the diagram on the right (there are various versions of it) which I thought was useful in trying to define the role of individual social media tools (you can click on the image for a bigger version of it). As I explain during my conference session I don’t pretend to be an expert in this topic.
Social media: 1. Social media such as blogs, wiki’s and podcats can give students a sense of audience. 2. 3. 4. 5. Challenges.
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