Presentation created for the 2014 National Communication Conference in Chicago, IL.

1. TEACHING WITH
AND HOOTSUITE
Corinne Weisgerber Twitter:@corinnew
DIIGOSTORIFY
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2. STORIFY
Allows you to grab anything story-
worthy on the web and to create text
and media-rich stories. No coding
needed. Stories can be embedded
anywhere on the web.
Curation Assignment:
Set up a network of online
mentors using social media.
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2 Curate info received through
their PLN by:
- combing through all of it to
discover the significant
- bundling those ideas together
- contextualizing them
- repackaging them
- sharing them

3. Narrative to tie the various
story elements together
Curated content in the form
of blog posts & articles
Curated content in the form
of videos/tutorials
Crediting the sources
through hyperlinks

4. Curated content in the form
of Twitter posts
Creating a helpful resource
and sharing it: 1,634 views
ASSIGNMENT teaches student to connect themselves to experts who share valuable info
TECH TOOL allows students to take bits & pieces of info, work them into a narrative & share them

5. OTHER OPTIONS: SCOOP.IT, PAPER.LI

6. DIIGO
A social bookmarking service focused on the
practice of “annotating, storing, organizing,
remembering, collaborating, sharing, and
connecting dots into knowledge.
A warehouse of potential course resources filed away for future usage

7. Aggregating potential
course material with
social bookmarks
Minimal time investment
A tag for every class
Ex: COMM3309
Professor & students
can share content by
using the same tag

8. ASSIGNMENT:Bookmark at least one resource a week
on a topic discussed in class that week
(i.e. news stories, articles, videos,
podcasts, or slideshows). Summarize &
explain the resource’s relevance.

9. Alternative (instructor) use:
To stream resources into Blackboard without updating Blackboard

10. HOOTSUITEA social media management
system that helps you keep
track and manage your many
social network channels.
Ideal for filtering social
media content. Allows you to
sort content into columns.

11. ASSIGNMENT:Set up HootSuite to locate the job of your dreams. Then sit back & relax!
1. Create a list of people on Twitter who tend to
tweet about job openings, job hunting tips, etc.
2. Run a search & save each search as a stream
3. Create a “Notice Me” list
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12. List of people who tweet
about job openings
Search stream with key
phrase “PR Job Austin”

13. 1. Create your own Notice-Me List. Remember to make it
a private list!!
2. Make sure your bio is up-to-date and your banner is
looking good before you go on to the next step.
3. Remember: don’t ask them for anything. You want
them to think they discovered you on their own.
4. Interact with them in a valuable and interesting way
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Notice-Me List