Webinar Summary: Engage Students with Social Media

41% of Millennials check Facebook daily, but are as equally connected through Instagram and Snapchat. YouTube is their favorite social network, but podcasts are trending up as an alternative to books, allowing them to learn about their interests and their world. Our webinar this week helped faculty learn easy ways to engage students in the course content by integrating technologies that they are using daily.

We shared the 5 questions that UC Berkeley uses to guide faculty that want to use social media in their class. These questions help instructors plan and be thoughtful about issues that might come up. We also shared 5 classroom activities and the recommended technologies for each.

1. Embedding Twitter feeds into Blackboard pages
2. Sharing lists of appropriate podcasts through CastBox
3. Creating an online bulletin board for students to share links with Padlet
• Example: EBT Debrief
4. Assigning Video Diaries for students, and having them learn basic video editing through WeVideo
• Example: PLB302 Student Diary
5. Creating Infographics as study guides with Piktochart

The webinar ended with time for participants to create their own MEMEs and GIPHYs and share them in the chat session. Below are links to resources for more information.

Resources:

• Video Recording
• PowerPoint
• Video: Socialnomics 2017
• Video: Social Media Experiment
• Amy's GIPHY Example
• Amy's MEME Example
• Step-by-Step Guide for Giphys and MEMEs