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Social Media for Learning
The aim of this blog is to help you explore the different ways you can interact online using social media and the tools to help you do this.Introducing Social Media
Social Media is an umbrella term for web based and mobile technology that allows the user to produce and share information with others using text and/or media (video, audio, images), who in turn are then able to engage in a interactive dialogue about the content.
About me
Sue is an Associate Professor Learning and Teaching and National Teaching Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University; a Visiting Professor at Arden University and a Visiting Fellow at Edge Hill University. She is also a Principal Fellow of the HEA, a Senior Fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association, a Certified Management and Business Educator and a Member of the Association of Learning Technology.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suebeckingham/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/suebecks.bsky.social
Twitter X: https://x.com/suebecksKeynotes and presentations: https://www.suebeckingham.com/p/conference.html
Social Media Research
My publications can be found on my Sheffield Hallam University profile page and books and book chapters at amazon.com/author/suebeckingham-
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Author Archives: Sue Beckingham
How to network professionally online
LinkedIn is renowned as the world’s largest professional social network site with over 175 million members and growing. I have often heard people say that as they are not looking for a new job, they don’t don’t take much notice … Continue reading
Google+ one year on
Google+ has just celebrated it’s first birthday. It now boasts 250 million users, which although only a quarter of that of Facebook (which recently exceeded 900 million), is still a considerable number in such a short time. So what’s it all … Continue reading
Taking flight: #Twitterbird
Twitter has a brand new logo! After six years the logo has been simplified. You can download the new logos from https://twitter.com/logo On Twitter’s blog Doug Bowman, Creative Director says: This bird is crafted purely from three sets of overlapping … Continue reading
Social Media for the Terrified
This is a presentation I gave at a conference earlier this year. The session was aimed at those who were new but intrigued with what social media might be about. This wasn’t so much a ‘how to use’ the individual … Continue reading
Copyright
Sharing on social media websites is clearly seen as a positive step forward but we still need to be mindful of copyright and that we cannot just use somebody else’s work without permission. Where permission is granted then it is important to … Continue reading
Welcome to SocialMedia4Us!
This is a blog about Social Media and will introduce you to some of the many social media tools there are now available. What is Social Media Social Media is the use of web-based and mobile technologies which allows the user … Continue reading
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