#thing5

The SAMR model helps to demonstrate how to use Web 2.0 tools successfully for learning. 

SAMR stands for Substitution, Augmentation, Modification & Redefinition. 

Working in the modification and redefinition stages allows transformation in the students learning as they are learning skills that will transfer into the digital real world as opposed to just being used as a new and different way of learning. 

Last week’s things were to a) explore our personal brand online, b) find out a bit about Twitter, and c) explore images online (Pinterest, Instagram etc.)  This is quite an easy week for me as I’m very familiar with all of these things.  

I’ll start with my personal online brand – I googled my name, and unsurprisingly the things that came up about me were my Facebook page (which is set to the highest privacy settings so all you can see are my profile pics, no issues there), my University profile page, and myself amongst a list of other Emma Chandlers on LinkedIn.  When I search for images of myself my Twitter profile photo comes up, but that’s about it.  As I used to work in social media marketing I understand the importance of having a good online brand so I have made sure that my online presence is something that I wouldn’t be embarrassed about a future employer seeing, or perhaps even a future boyfriend! Future boyfriends, however, do not seem to be as concerned.  For example I recently went on a date with someone who seemed very keen and arranged a second date, only for me to find out via Facebook that he has a girlfriend. An epic social media fail if ever I’ve seen one, perhaps I should have pointed him in the direction of a 23 things course.

For the next thing we were asked to explore Twitter.  I have used Twitter in a variety of different ways over the years so I didn’t need to really spend much time on this.  I’ve used Twitter much like everyone else to follow brands that I like, and people that I know, and to search for hashtags on trending topics, and to keep up to date with breaking news.  I’ve also used it as research tool a number of times, mainly to send out online survey links for members of the public to fill in.  In terms of using social media for research I think that Twitter would be high on the list – you can find out pretty much anything on Twitter if you know how!

From a marketing perspective I used Twitter a lot to engage with prospective students for the University. I was actually surprised at how well used twitter is amongst 16-18 year olds, I guess I thought that it was a bit out dated for the younger generation! Younger people seem to use Twitter quite a lot as a messenger system, talking to their friends openly via Tweets for everyone to see. I personally don’t think this is the best idea as I wouldn’t want everyone knowing my business! What with iMessage, Facebook chat and Whatsapp I think that there are plenty other platforms that are better suited to private conversations…

The final thing was to explore images online, specifically Flickr, Instagram and Pinterest.  I use Instagram and Pinterest a lot – in fact these are my two favourite social media platforms to use personally, but I don’t think that I would use them for research purposes. Flickr is something that I’m not too keen on to be honest, for some reason I don’t like the feel of it and it’s not something that I would choose to go to, however I can see that it might be useful for finding images for posters/presentations etc. (assuming that they are copyright free of course!) Personally I would use Getty images or something like that if I needed some good snaps for my presentations.

After completing #Thing2 and #Thing3 I have to say that my name was easy to find on-line, but rarely something unexpected came up, just a few small surprises from the past. Still, I think I show myself on-line as a person I want to be seen, I only have to promote myself as a researcher a little bit more and also my work. This will come in handy especially when I will be looking for a new job or try to make some new connections in my field.

Before #23ThingsSurrey I rarely thought that I could use f. e. Instagram for research purposes, also I have neglected my self-promotion as a researcher. After reading some of the suggested work, I definitely understand the purpose and value of it.

I still don’t like Tweeter that much and have signed up only on Instagram for the use of photo sharing and searching.

About Twitter.