Why Educators Can’t Live Without Social Media

How a university uses social media says a lot about its culture, innovativeness, and commitment to learning. Examples and successful practices of how social media are vital as channels for improving the student experience, employability, and digital identity.

Keynote given at the 16th Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference at Durham University. http://community.dur.ac.uk/lt.team/conference/

Transcript

1. Why educators can’t live without social media @ericstoller #DURbbu
2. What can we learn today? @ericstoller #DURbbu
3. ericstoller.com/inside #DURbbu @ericstoller
4. #DURbbu
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7. Digital Identity What happens online matters. #DURbbu
8. In our current education system, it’s not *rational* for an employee to seek more engagement with students — because none of our pay, promotion and appraisal systems reward it.
11. Digital Identity #DURbbu
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14. Facebook and my Mother #DURbbu
15. Organizational culture #DURbbu
16. “it blurs social & professional” – a Twitter user who happens to be an academic #DURbbu
17. Leadership via social media #DURbbu
18. TWEETS 41.8K FOLLOWING 11K FOLLOWERS 62.3K
20. #DURbbu
21. #SIT15
23. Listen & Learn #DURbbu
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28. First meeting in September 1995 Connected on LinkedIn in March 2010 Sharing LinkedIn endorsements in 2015
30. Final thoughts #DURbbu
31. The student experience is holistic #DURbbu
32. #SIT15 #DURbbu
33. What happens when you Google your name?
35. Email (will always) matter #DURbbu
37. privacy #DURbbu
38. “Snapchat deletes messages from its servers once all recipients have seen them, messages that are unread are kept for 30 days.”
39. Anonymity Accountability Mobility Community #DURbbu
42. questions + answers @ericstoller ericstoller@gmail.com #DURbbu
43. @ericstoller ericstoller.com/work ericstoller@gmail.com #DURbbu