Verjans, Steven

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During the past years, the speaker has used social media in a number of courses and projects with adult learners. He has also provided workshops and trainings for his colleagues. Based on these experiences, he will suggest a number of tips for overcoming barriers in implementing social media in lifelong learning situations. These tips will be discussed in an interactive session. Four suggestions are made: Firstly, show the benefits of social media by illustrating how you or others use it with learners. Secondly, start small, take small steps, one at a time. Thirdly, stay close to actual practice of trainers and learners. Fourthly, stay as close to an individual’s comfort zone as possible. Make sure not to lose your audience by suggesting very wild tools. Finally, listen to what your learners are saying, evaluate, and take the next step accordingly

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Open Universiteit www.ou.nl Show small close comfort and listen - How to overcomebarriers in the use of social mediaCitation for published version (APA):Verjans, S. (2011). Show small close comfort and listen - How to overcome barriers in the use of social media.Document status and date:Published: 23/11/2011Document Version:Peer reviewed versionDocument license:CC BY-SAPlease check the document version of this publication:• A submitted manuscript is the version of the article upon submission and before peer-review. There can be important differences betweenthe submitted version and the official published version of record. People interested in the research are advised to contact the author for thefinal version of the publication, or visit the DOI to the publisher's website.• The final author version and the galley proof are versions of the publication after peer review.• The final published version features the final layout of the paper including the volume, issue and page numbers.Link to publicationGeneral rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright ownersand it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain• You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal.If the publication is distributed under the terms of Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act, indicated by the “Taverne” license above, pleasefollow below link for the End User Agreement:https://www.ou.nl/taverne-agreementTake down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us at:pure-support@ou.nlproviding details and we will investigate your claim.Downloaded from https://research.ou.nl/ on date: 08 Sep. 2023Show small close comfort and listenHow to overcome barriers in the use of social mediaSteven Verjans#SVEAconf1. Show and share good exampleshttp://www.mediacyclone.eu/portal/2010/07/17/social-media-marketing-tips/#SVEAconfJapanese Studies Leuven#SVEAconfDefrosting Professional DevelopmentCochrane, T. & Narayan, V. (2011) - Alt-C 2011 Best paper award#SVEAconf#SVEAconf2. Take small steps, one at a timehttp://www.thecornercoach.com/featured-posts/small-step-time/Toll-net community websiteToll-net sharingToll-net sharing through Delicious/Diigo#SVEAconfStart small proceed with small steps• Social bookmarking Start as teacher / trainer Convince participants / students to use specific tags Collect bookmarks from students, react, share• Twitter Start tweeting interesting sources, events Build a network of relevant people for your course Use Twitter list and make it public Develop a daily summary pageToll-net list on Twitter#SVEAconfDaily/weekly summary#SVEAconfPersonal daily summary3. Stay close to practicehttp://stayingclosetohome.blogspot.com/#SVEAconfIntegrate in workflow#SVEAconfIntegrate in (online) learning environment#SVEAconfSupport use of personal mashups4. Stay close (enough) to comfort zonehttp://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/publications/tp185-4-07-operations-4034.htmhttp://www.hetemeel.com/unclesamform.php#SVEAconf#SVEAconf#SVEAconf5. Listen, evaluate, improveQ & A - Discussionhttp://www.netvibes.com/sverjans/http://twitter.com/sverjanshttp://slideshare.net/sverjans/http://celstec.org/http://portal.ou.nl/

Show small close comfort and listen - How to overcome barriers in the use of social media

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