Social media: Why bother?
T.MacKinnonPrincipal Teaching Fellow
Language Centre
experiments
• Personal twitter and fb accounts• Lurking and looking• Finding relevant blogs and networks• Engaging with issues• Decisions: Professional/personalChannels of communication
Four steps to improving your online presenceDo youhave anonline
presence?
Do youknow where it is coming from?
Have youGoogledyourselfrecently?
Have youchecked allyour onlineprofiles areup to date?
Fantastic!You monitorandmaintainyour onlinepresenceStart
assessingyour onlinepresenceand decidewhat youwant
Are yousure?
You andeveryoneyou knowcannot have been online, ever!
Look at yourprofiles and online identities
Communicateand connect: Blog, tweet andcomment
Share your
outputs
YES YES YES
NO
What more can
I do?
Step 1:Search for
yourself & checkyour impact
Step 2:Keep all profiles
up to date
Step 3:Self archive andshare what you
can
Step 4:Connect &
interact online
NO
NO
YES
NO
NO
adapted from http://openuct.uct.ac.za/article/academics-online-presence-guidelines
Growing presence
• Blog nextsteps• Twitter @warwicklanguage• Curation: scoop.it #cmc speaktothefuture• Video tutorials warwicklanguage youtube• Website La modification• Sharing presentations: slideshare• Online publishing channels: issu scribd
Unexpected outcomes
• Social media channel management for UCML• #globalclassroom mentoring• Regular participation and moderation of
international twitter chats• Development of research into virtual
exchanges and online intercultural interaction #oie
• Professional development: HEA and CLL
Significant learning
• Look carefully, lurk, check out authenticity of sources
• Experiment, take care with password management
• Authenticity of voice• Commit to community• Be prepared to share and connect
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