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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:12, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Social media in education

Hi! Here are two ideas on what you could do to expand the page:

• Add a section about the benefits of social media in education. How is it beneficial?
• Expand the history section to cover more of what led to the development of this.

Also, when looking over your sources, take notes on what the sources have that the page doesn't. Also look to see if anything in the page is out of date. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:41, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Sourcing

Hi! Here's my feedback on the sources:

• This is a bit questionable because I'm not really finding where the institution (London College of International Business Studies) is widely thought of as an authority, so to speak. It might be usable, but it's not the strongest possible source out there.

• This is a self-published source. In order to be usable we'd have to be able to show where this site is routinely cited as an authoritative source by places like scholarly journals and texts, which I just wasn't able to find. This one I would avoid using.

• This is a paper published in an open source journal. Looking at the website, it looks like this should be usable, so you can definitely use this. I'd use this link when citing it, though, since this goes through the journal's website.

• This is a webinar - I'm not used to seeing those as sources, but this should be usable. Marion Gruber is definitely a well thought of authority on the topic, so this should be OK as long as you attribute any claims to her. However my concern is more that the source may not be in-depth enough to really be a lot of use, since it doesn't seem to have any audio with it.

I did some searching and found some additional sources for you, which would be usable as sources:

• The role of social media in higher education classes (real and virtual) – A literature review
• Using Social Media in the Classroom: A Best Practice Guide
• Social media for academics : a practical guide
• Social Media Use in Medical Education: A Systematic Review (specifically looks at people in medical school, but could be helpful)
• Engaging students through social media : evidence based practices for use in student affairs
• Exploring the Potential Benefits of Using Social Media in Education

I was able to find some content using your university library, however to get the best results you will definitely need to set up an appointment with your university's research librarians. You can do so here and I also want to note that you can also talk to them via a chat function, as well as via email. There's a general page for research help here. Definitely check in with them since they know the library's holdings best.

I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:31, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Draft help

Hi! What type of help did you need? Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:04, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Notes

Hi, here are my notes:

• This has a lot of lists, but it needs to be put into more of a paragraph format. Keep in mind, however, that this shouldn't be written like an essay. I'll put some examples on how to rephrase or write these into the style Wikipedia uses in your sandbox. The main things would be to avoid things like euphemisms and comparisons that you make on your own, as well as to make sure that you're only summarizing what has been stated in the source material.

• With the portion on "How Social Media benefit the teaching-learning process", I'd re-title this as simply "Benefits".

• This needs more academic and scholarly sources. I think that the webinar should be OK enough given the person who put it out and since it was published afterwards - although I am honestly a little bit uncomfortable with the fact that you're drawing so much from a set of PowerPoints. I'd heavily recommend that you try to find other sources to help back up these points. The source from the LCIBS is really iffy and honestly, I wouldn't personally use it since it's not the strongest source. I really wouldn't use the eLearning Industry source since it's questionable as a source since we don't know how much of an editorial oversight the website gives its pages, especially as the content is pretty much user submitted without any indication of the submitter's qualifications on the topic. I've added a few sources to the first sample paragraph as an example of what you should be looking for, however things like this are definitely usable, as would this, this,this, this, and this.

• I'd leave out the list of digital learning tools for a few reasons. The first is that the source wouldn't be seen as reliable. The second is that the list was created by a single person and as such, this list could differ depending on who writes it. Finally, a digital learning tool may not necessarily be seen as a social media network so I would greatly recommend that any mention of a specific network be drawn from an academic or scholarly source that specifically mentions it in relation to education. For example, I wouldn't really see Quizlet as a form of social media and on its Wikipedia entry it's described as a study application rather than a social media or networking service. I'd say the same about just about everything else in the list. I also must note that the person who wrote the article didn't state that it was a list of social media sites that could be used for learning, so it would be seen as original research to state that these are.

• The topics of usage section should be entirely re-written since it looks like this was taken verbatim from the Marion Gruber PowerPoints. I didn't know if this was meant to be notes or not, but you should not be taking the material verbatim. The material is Open Source, however this doesn't mean that the material can be posted to Wikipedia as OS material can be released under fairly restrictive copyrights that would prohibit the material from being adapted or used for commercial purposes, both of which need to be allowed in order for it to be posted to Wikipedia.

I hope that these help! --Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:45, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

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Notes 2

Hi, I re-reviewed your sandbox.

• The "Top 10 Tools for Digital Learning" list should not be placed in an article for the same reasons I listed before. It's a subjective list and the source it was taken from wasn't seen as reliable per Wikipedia's guidelines.
• Be careful of writing subjectively as a whole. We can only summarize what is in the source material and cannot put in our own observations or examples.
• You don't need to define social media, as the article will link to the topic page for this.

I've done an example of how this section could be rephrased. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:53, 10 December 2018 (UTC)