Jeffrey W. McClurken
University of Mary Washington
@jmcclurken & Google+ (I’m on Facebook as well)

Social media[1] tool box:

UMWBlogs.org (WordPress.org),Facebook.com, zotero.org, Google Docs (docs.google.com) , Google Plus (plus.google.com), wikis (MediaWiki.org (Wikipedia’s platform) or pbworks.com or wikispaces.com), Flickr.com, youtube.com
     — Note that most of these sites have wonderful help tools to get people started.

Selected examples of social media uses in my courses:

Wikis as Group Discussions of Readings — http://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/

My WordPress Blogs as Content/Course Management System

• Adventures in Digital History — http://dh2010.umwblogs.org/
• First-Year Seminar (FSEM): When Americans Came Marching Home — http://marchinghome2010.umwblogs.org/
• US History in Film — http://ushistfilm2010.umwblogs.org/

 Student WordPress Blogs as:

Open research log – Historical Methods

• Topic Discussion — http://eweaver.umwblogs.org/2007/09/06/my–topic/
• Sharing Research Problems — http://amandashumaker.umwblogs.org/2007/10/22/frustration/

Reading reaction journal – First-Year Seminar

• Reading reactions and related links — http://rwelker.umwblogs.org/2008/10/
• Student-located additional materials — http://kokoro.umwblogs.org/2007/10/18/wwii–propaganda–posters/

Continuing class discussion – US History in Film

• Discussion of The Long Walk Home — http://ushistoryfilm.umwblogs.org/?s=long+walk  
• Scroll down to see post-class discussion of Pocahontas — http://ushistoryfilm.umwblogs.org/2008/09/page/3/

Individual digital projects – US History in Film and American Technology & Culture

• The Good Shepherd — http://clevinehistandfilm.umwblogs.org/history–and–film–project/
• Bonnie & Clyde — http://eweaver.umwblogs.org/bonnieandclyde/
• History of American Technology and Culture Student Museum — http://historyoftech.umwblogs.org/

 Class Projects — Digital History

• Historical Markers Project — http://fredmarkers.umwblogs.org/
• Life and Legacy of Mary Ball Washington — http://maryballwash.umwblogs.org/

 Other UMW uses of WordPress Blogs in Teaching

Current UMW course/teaching blogs are catalogued at http://umwblogs.org/courses/.   See also http://umwblogs.org/support/ten–ways–to–use–umw–blogs/ for a discussion of other ways people at UMW are using blogs.

 

Other links on teaching with social media

The following free sources are generally worth examining if you’re interested in teaching with social media:

• ProfHacker group blog at The Chronicle of Higher Education — http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/  (PH)
• Hacking the Academy, edited by Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt — http://hackingtheacademy.org/ (HTA)
• Learning through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy, edited by Trebor Schultz. New York: The New School and the MacArthur Foundation, 2011. http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/  (LDM)
• Writing History in the Digital Age, edited by Kristen Nawrotzki and Jack Dougherty — http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/  (WHDA)

The Promise (and Advice on Proactive Policies) of Teaching with Social Media

Ryan Cordell, Developing a Digital Etiquette Policy http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/developing–a–digital–etiquette–policy/35406 (PH)

Brian Croxall, Reflections on Teaching with Social Media, http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/reflections–on–teaching–with–social–media/24556 (PH)

Natalie Houston, Being Social http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/from–the–archives–being–social/35782 (PH)

Jason Jones, The Creepy Treehouse Problem, http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/the–creepy–treehouse–problem/23027 (PH)

Ethan Watrall, Welcome to the Open Classroom http://streaming.msu.edu/storemedia/packages/vudat/4bf14c8bd455e/April_2010_bseries.html (video)

Michael Wesch, From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/knowledgable–knowledge–able (HTA)

Specific Links broken down by tool

 WordPress/blogging

• LDM on blogging (http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/tag/wordpress)

• Jim Groom, Looking for Whitman: A Grand, Aggregated Experiment http://bavatuesdays.com/looking–for–whitman–a–grand–aggregated–experiment/ (HTA)

• Christopher P. Long, Why I Teach With Blogs (video) http://www.personal.psu.edu/cpl2/blogs/cplportfolio/2010/05/why–i–teach–with–blogs.html (HTA)

• ProfHacker has numerous posts on teaching using blogs in general (http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/tag/blogs) and WordPress in particular (http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/tag/wordpress), including this great summary post by Natalie Houston, http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/from–the–archives–on–blogging/30589

 

Wikis

• LDM article on wikis (http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/how–i–used–wikis–to–get–my–students–to–do–their–readings)

• A Wikipedia Editing Assignment in a First Year Undergraduate Class (Shawn Graham) http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/teach/the–wikiblitz–graham/ (WHDM)

• The Historian’s Craft, Popular Memory, and the Wikipedia (Robert Wolff) http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/crowdsourcing/beyond–the–historical–profession–wolff/ (WHDM)

• Teaching Wikipedia without Apologies (Amanda Seligman) http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/teach/teaching–wikipedia–without–apologies–seligman/  (WHDM)

• Wikipedia and Women’s History: A Classroom Experience (Martha Saxton, J. Scott Payne, Leah Cerf, and Melissa Greenberg) http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/teach/wikipedia–and–womens–history–saxton–etal/ (WHDM)

• Adrianne Wadewitz, Anne Ellen Geller, and Jon Beasley-Murray,Wiki-hacking: Opening up the academy with Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Awadewit/TeachingEssay (HTA)

• ProfHacker on teaching with wikis, http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/tag/wikis

 

Google Docs/Google+

• LDM article on Google Docs — http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/teaching–with–google–docs–or–how–to–teach–in–a–digital–media–lab–without–losing–students%E2%80%99-attention

• PH on Google — http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/tag/all–things–google, but especially this collection by George Williams of ProfHacker articles on Google Docs and collaboration, http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/googledocs–and–collaboration–in–the–classroom/34075

Zotero

• LDM article on Zotero (http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/sharing–research–and–building–knowledge–through–zotero)

• Mills Kelly, Irony of Ironies http://edwired.org/2009/09/09/irony–of–ironies/

• Amy Cavender, Getting Started with Zotero http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/profhacker-101-getting–started–with–zotero/22829 (PH)

• George Williams, Teaching with Zotero Groups http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/teaching–with–zotero–groups/22620 (PH)

• Amy Cavender, Why Teach Tech in Political Science  http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/why-teach-tech-in-political-science/22713 (PH)

 

Twitter

• LDM articles on Twitter (http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/tag/twitter)

• Kim Smith video of Monica Rankin class, “The Twitter Experiment” (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPVWDkF7U8  (HTA)

• Rey Junco, Using Twitter to Support Engagement in the College Classroom (video) http://blog.reyjunco.com/using–twitter–to–support–engagement–in–the–college–classroom (HTA)

• Joanna C. Dunlap & Patrick R. Lowenthal, Instructional Uses of Twitter, http://ucdenver.academia.edu/JoannaDunlap/Papers/455055/Instructional_uses_of_Twitter (HTA)

• Jeff McClurken, Where’s the Prof?: Twitter Feeds for Your Office Door http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Wheres–the–Prof–Twitter-/23043/ (PH)

• Mark Sample, Twitter is a Snark Valve http://www.samplereality.com/2009/10/07/twitter–is–a–snark–valve/ (PH)

• Derek Bruff, Backchannel in Education – Nine Uses http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs/?p=472 (HTA)

• Bill Wolff, Using Twitter in the Graduate Classroom http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/using–twitter–in–the–graduate–classroom/?wscr=1920x1080 (HTA)

Facebook

• LDM articles on Facebook (http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/tag/facebook)

• Facebook and the Co-Creation of Knowledge (Amanda Grace Sikarskie) — http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/crowdsourcing/citizen–scholars–sikarskie/ (WHDM)

YouTube

• Alex Juhasz, Teaching on YouTube http://www.openculture.com/2008/04/teaching_on_youtube.html (HTA)

• Cory Bohon, Screencasting 101 http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/screencasting-101-the–definitive–guide/22738 (PH)

Bonus links

• Monica Bulger, Managing Distraction: Reading in the Age of the App http://monicabulger.com/2010/05/managing–distraction–reading–in–the–age–of–the–app/ (HTA)
• Monica Bulger, Banning laptops doesn’t solve the distraction problem http://monicabulger.com/2010/04/banning–laptops–doesnt–solve–the–distraction–problem/ (HTA)

 

What are your favorite resources on teaching with social media?  Share them in the comments below.