How Do You Decide

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Subject: [PD 4774] How Do You Decide?
From: Jackie A. Taylor
Date: Mon Jul 12 13:07:32 EDT 2010

Dear All,

I am also enjoying the conversations; here's another aspect to our discussion.

Part of the "beauty and horror," as Nell Eckersley noted last week, is in deciding which social media tools to learn and use. One method (among many that we tend to use implicitly) is the POST Method. As described by Josh Bernoff, it is a "systematic" approach to using social media:

http://forrester.typepad.com/groundswell/2007/12/the-post-method.html

How do you decide which social media tools to use in teaching or professional development?

For example, tell us about the SM tools you already use successfully in teaching or PD. How did you decide to use them? Do you start with the tool? Audience? Objective? Yours or your students' interests? Some combination thereof?

Tell us about the adult learners or colleagues with whom you interact - or wish to interact -- via SM tools. What access to social media do they have?

What skills does your audience (adult learners or practitioners) already have using social media? How does this impact your approach to teaching or providing professional development using these tools?

Best...Jackie

Jackie Taylor
PD List Facilitator