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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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Category Archives: Bluesky
Autoposting your blog post to Bluesky
To save yourself time, you can choose to connect your blog to Bluesky and then when you publish a blog post it will automatically create a post in Bluesky for you and post it. You can choose to turn this … Continue reading
WordPress tips: Adding a Bluesky sharing button
Making sharing easy When I visit a website or blog and find something interesting that I would like to share with others, it is helpful if the site has social media sharing buttons. With the popularity of Bluesky increasing I’ve … Continue reading
Creating themed lists of accounts that you follow on Bluesky
Introduction Bluesky allows you to curate your feed and create themed lists of accounts you follow. This enables you to view content from just those accounts you add to the lists. You can also choose to view other people’s lists. … Continue reading
Setting up a ‘Tweetdeck’ like dashboard for Bluesky using Deck.Blue
Deck.Blue is an app you can opt to connect to your Bluesky account that enables you to view posts in a multi-column layout. It is refeshingly very similar to Tweetdeck (which was initially a free app you could connect with … Continue reading
(Re)building a social network in Bluesky
I joined Bluesky on May 2 2023 after what seemed a long time on the wait list. Once I was in I began to receive between 3-5 invite codes I was able to forward to friends and colleagues. I was … Continue reading
Getting started on Bluesky
Bluesky is a social networking app that is very similar to Twitter. It launched publicly in 2023 but potential users had to initially join a waitlist for an invite code. Now anyone can join. The number of users is growing … Continue reading
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Social Media for Learning 