SOCIAL MEDIA IDEAS
WEBSITE / ACTIVITIESBlogging
· www.blogspot.com
· www.blogger.com
· www.wordpress.com / · Have students join a free blogging website and create a daily or weekly journal entry. This allows them to create a personal website and share their reflective thoughts with the whole class or world.
· www.twitter.com / · Students can join twitter and share their twitter address with other students to discuss their service learning projects, group communication, upload pictures, and share articles. This encourages students to summarize their thoughts in 140 characters.
· Professors can tweet articles and have a class discussion on these articles and/or pictures.
· You can keep track of “tweets” through www.twittercounter.com
· www.facebook.com / · Students can create their own Facebook site for their group project and the nonprofit agency (if allowed). Great for promotion of projects.
· Professor can also post questions and articles for discussion.
· Great way to keep track of students once they graduate.
Paperli
· http://paper.li/#! / · This is a Twitter online newspaper that is emailed to you daily. On twitter, follow several people that you are interested in (educational, pop culture, etc.). Once you join paper.li, it will organize all these people and their blogs/articles and email it to you in an organized newspaper format.
· Great way to find updated information to pull from and then tweet to your class.
Flickr
· www.flickr.com / · Upload pictures to create a story.
· Instead of writing, students can put together a “visual” presentation of their service learning project.
Podcasting
· www.podbean.com / · Have students upload their video/audio file to reflect about their projects through their voice.
Vlogging
· www.youtube.com / · This is a combination of video and blogging. Your students can video themselves and reflect (in 10 minutes) about their projects. Then they post it to YouTube where students and others can write comments.
YouTube
· www.youtube.com / · Professors can create their own YouTube channel where they can follow certain YouTubers or find certain YouTube videos that they want their students to see and comment on.
· Professors can also use this site for students to upload their videos of their service learning projects.
· Students can also share what they want other students to see in the class related to a course topic.
Eportfolio
· www.foliospaces.com
· www.eportfolio.org / · Have students create an eportfolio consisting of all their activities related to service learning. This can be visual aids, powerpoint presentations, reflective essays, etc.
· This can be useful for job applications and a way to share information with other students in the class.
PUPIL
· http://openbadges.org/en-US/ / · The Purdue University Passport to Intercultural Learning (PUPIL) digital badge is a specific, multi-use application and open version of Passport to document and display the intercultural learning and the critical thinking reflections of students. PUPIL uses the Intercultural Knowledge and Competence Value Rubric from the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and intercultural learning reflection items by Darla K. Deardorff at Duke University and the Executive Director of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA).
· This is great for job applications and a way to encourage cultural awareness/competence