Understanding and Using Social Media
With Your Students
NYSFAAA State Conference
October 22, 2014
Lake Placid, NY
Anthony M. Sozzo
Associate Dean
New York Medical College
Making use of the technology
Using Audio Response Devices: Keeping
Students Engaged
Podcasts
Making videos using Screen Capture
and YouTube
Facebook
Intro to Cloud Computing DropBox, Box,
Google Drive
Is Social Media the answer for
Fin/Aid Offices?
“Social media offers an avenue—but not an all-encompassing
solution—to connect students with financial aid information”, panelists
at a recent conference concluded.
Panel discussed role in financial aid during a session entitled “Beyond
Simplification: New Approaches to Access.”
Among the panelists: Justin Draeger, President of the National Association of
Student Financial Aid Administrators
Draeger said that “many financial aid administrators, already laden with a
multitude of responsibilities, often lack the extra time to meet students’ needs in
online forums in addition to in-person counseling”.
But Deil-Amen noted that “those who engaged via social media were able to
answer common questions in bulk, leaving more time for individual counseling
on nuanced issues”.
Publication Date: 6/25/2013
Audience Response
Questions…
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A. Facebook
B. Twitter
C. YouTube
D. Texting
E. Skype
F. Other
G. Not using Social
If you are hesitant about using Social
Media to communicate with your
students tell us Why…
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Will require extra time
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About Audience
Response Devises or
Clickers
Hardware, Setup, Use.
Why use Clickers
1. Audience response is a type of interaction
associated with the use of audience response
systems, to create interactivity between a
presenter and his/her audience.
2. Systems for co-located audiences combine
wireless hardware with presentation software.
3. These systems are often called "student response
systems" or "personal response systems." The
hand-held remote control that students use to
convey their responses to questions is often
called a "clicker.“
1. The presenter uses a computer and a video projector to
project a presentation such as Power Point after downloading
the Clicker software.
2. The clicker software incorporates your Power Point
presentation with any added clicker questions you will use. The
presentation display questions with several possible answers
more commonly referred to as multiple choice questions.
3. The audience participates by selecting the answer they
believe to be correct and pushing the corresponding key on
their individual wireless keypad.
Their answer is then sent to a base station - or receiver - that is also
attached to the presenter's computer.
The audience response software collects the results, the data is
graphically displayed within the presentation for all to see. You can
ask True or False questions or even questions calling for particular
numerical answers and more.
Depending on the presenter's requirements,
1. the data can either be collected anonymously (e.g., in the
case of voting) or
2. it can be traced to individual participants in circumstances
where tracking is required (e.g., classroom quizzes, homework,
or questions that ultimately count towards a student's course
grade) and,
3. Incoming data may also be stored in a database that resides
on the host computer, and data reports can be created after
the presentation for further analysis.
The Benefits of Audience Response
1.
Improve attentiveness. Clickers increased student
engagement in the classroom
2.
Increase knowledge retention
3.
Poll anonymously: Unlike a show of hands, sending
responses by hand-held remotes is much more
anonymous. Audience members can't really see what
response his/her fellow audience members are giving
4.
Track individual responses
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Display polling results immediately
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Create an interactive and fun learning environment
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Confirm audience understanding of key points
immediately
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Gather data for reporting and analysis
Have you ever used “Clicker” as
a teaching tool?
A. Yes
B. No
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Making Podcasts for Your
Applicants and Students
But first “What is a
Podcast?”
1.
An audio recording compressed into a digital format
2.
An audio broadcast available for downloading from
a website to a personal computer or other device.
(IE, an IPod).
3.
The method by which podcasts are distributed is
often called podcasting.
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Here is a Fin/Aid podcast I made…
What you will need to make
Podcasts
1. Computer with a “microphone in” jack
2. A microphone headset or built in mic
3. “Audacity” the free audio recording
software loaded on your computer and
4. A place to list your audio files, for your
students, such as your financial aid
website, a curriculum database etc.
Computer with a “microphone
in” Jack
A Microphone Headset
or use your built in microphone
Audacity free Software
A Place to list and/or store
your Podcasts
1. Create a folder on your desktop
2. Your Financial Aid Website
3. Your School’s Curriculum data base
4. A Folder in the “Cloud” such as Dropbox,
Google Cloud, Amazon Cloud, Box, and
other emerging cloud based sites.
Ok Let’s get Started…
Making a Podcast…
After you load “Audacity” there will be a need to do some adjusting
and testing of the software for sound level and size of the MP3 file.
Once set, you don’t have to deal with it again.
Create a folder for your Podcasts
Now Record your Podcast
(if you don’t like it, delete it and record it again)
Export as an MP3 file
Click it and go up to FILE and in the drop down menu click “export as an
MP3” to the folder you established naming it as you save it.
Save the Podcast in the folder
created for your Podcasts
Now Load the Podcast and Notify
your Students
Now let’s do one
together…
1. See one
2. Do one
3. Teach one
4. Volunteer?
Are you currently using podcasts with
your students?
A. Yes
B. No
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Making Screen
Capture Videos and
Using YouTube
The NYMC YouTube Channel…
NYMC Financial Aid YouTube Channel
You should have a separate
professional YouTube channel from
your personal channel.
Create two separate YouTube
Channels
Now Let’s make a screen
capture YouTube video together
Volunteer?
Have you used Classroom or
Screen Capture with your
Students
A. Yes
B. No
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Creating a Financial Aid Facebook Page
Separate from your personal Facebook
page.
Why Create a Financial Aid
Facebook Page?
1. Student today want data sent to them,
data they asked for on their terms.
2. The average Facebook person spends
about an hour a day on Facebook
3. They go into their account multiple times
a day.
4. We need to send Fin/Aid information to
where our students get information.
September 27, 2013
Technology and the College Generation
By COURTNEY RUBIN
New York Times
Students don’t check their e-mail regularly, if at all. To the students, e-mail was
as antiquated as the spellings “chuse” and “musick” in the works by Cotton
Mather and Jonathan Edwards that they read on their electronic books.
“Some of them didn’t even seem to know they had a college e-mail
account,”
Just how little are students using e-mail these days? Six minutes a day, During the
semester, they spent an average of 123 minutes a day on a computer, by far the
biggest portion of it, 31 minutes, on social networking. The only thing they spent
less time on than e-mail: hunting for content via search engines (four minutes).
The actual average of e-mail time, at least on a tablet or desktop, could be even
lower
NYMC Financial Aid Facebook Page
Does your Financial Aid Office
have a Facebook Page?
A. Yes
B. No
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What is Cloud
Computing and how can
I use it with my students?
Cloud computing is basically Virtual
servers available over the Internet.
Instead of storing your data an office
hard drive you store it on a server on the
internet.
You have access to your data 24/7 and
reduce space usage on your divices.
You can share a file or folder with your
students.
Dropbox
My Dropbox Folder
Google Drive
My Google Drive
Are you NOW more or less likely to
use Social Media with your students?
A. More likely
B. Less likely
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What do you feel you can
implement with relative ease?
A. Audio Response
B. Podcasts
C. Facebook
D. Screen Capture
E. YouTube Videos
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Discussion/Questions
Thank You
Tony