1. Personal Learning Networks Presentation by P. Khumalo fromUniversity of Johannesburg

2. Personal Learning NetworksWhat you will learn today: Understand how social networking isimpacting society See examples of common socialnetworking applications Have an opportunity to try socialnetworking applications See resources and data regarding howsocial networking can be used withineLearning 3. Personal Learning Networks 4. Personal Learning Networks Boyd and Ellison (2007) define social networks as web-based services that allow individuals to.1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site. 5. Personal Learning NetworksThe first officially recognized social networkwas sixdegrees.com that launched in 1997 andofficially shut down in 2000. According to theWharton School of Business, as of October2008 social networks impacted more than 230million people worldwide. 6. Personal Learning NetworksSocial Networking Factoids (Nielson Netratings) Social networks now represent thefastest growing Internet segment 3xthe rate of overall Internet growth. (2009) Social networking sites are growing atthe rate of 47% annually, reaching 45%of total web users. (2006) Social networking and blogging are nowthe 4th most popular online activities,according to Nielsens recently releasedGlobal Faces and Networked Placesreport. (2009) 7. Personal Learning NetworksSocial Networking Factoids (Nielson Netratings) 67% of the global online population now visit a socialnetwork site, and this sector accounts for 10% of allInternet time. (Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, andItaly are the fastest growing segments.) Social networks and blogs are now the 4th most popularonline category ahead of personal Email Member sites now account for 1 in every 11 minutes online 8. Social Networking in eLearning Social Networking Factoids (Nielson Netratings)Orkut.com in Brazil (operated by Google) has the largestdomestic online reach (70%) of any social networkanywhere in the world, whereas Facebook has the highestaverage time per visitor among the 75 most popularbrands online worldwide. However, the amount of timespent on Facebook.com increased by more than 566% inonly one year. (Nielsen, 2009) 9. Social Networking in eLearning 10. Social Networking in eLearningAccording to the web site Social Media Defined (http://www.socialmediadefined.com), Twitter is a microbloggingapplication that is more or less a combination of instant messagingand blogging. 11. Social Networking in eLearningin Academia Back-channel chat where participants at conferencesprovide bursts of feedback regarding conferenceproceedings to both other conference participants, and topeople who cannot attend the conference(Hargadon, 2009); or preceding a conference viakeywords (Parry, 2008). Use Twitter during a webinar topost specific keywords denoted by a hash(#facebook), and then participants search on thosekeyword to see what other people in the webinar (at otherlocations) were saying about the topic. (Mullings, 2009) 12. Social Networking in eLearningin Academia Class chatter that allows students to continuediscussion topics outside the classroom (Parry, 2008) Follow professionals who are actively engaged inparticular topics or events. For example, students canfollow any number of correspondents atMSNBC, CNN, and other news outlets Writing assignments where students build on eachothers tweets to generate a story, poem, or haiku.(Parry, 2008) Collaboration with students from other countriesregarding specific topics of political or historicalsignificance 13. Social Networking in eLearning in Academia Use Twitter to track a word. This will subscribe you toany post that contains said word. So, for example, a studentmay be interested in how a particular word is used. Theycan track the word and see the varied phrases in whichpeople use it. Or, they can track an event, a proper name, ora movie title. (Send the message track ______ to Twitter)(Parry, 2008) Storytelling - George Mayo, an eighth grade Englishteacher, recently used Twitter as a tool to collaborativelywrite a story with his students. Mayo invited his studentsand students around the world via his Many Voices Twitteraccount to add to an ongoing story with individual "tweets."After six weeks and the help of more than 100 students andsix different countries, the story was finished. (Parry, 2008) 14. Social Networking in eLearning in AcademiaUse twitterfall.com Use twittervision.com Type in a keyword and watch Twittervision and Twittervisionthe results in real time3D allow you to GeoTag users andtheir posts to know where certaintopics are being discussedhttp://twittervision.com/maps/show_3d 15. Social Networking in eLearning in AcademiaUse Freshlogic AtlasUse historicaltweets Type in a keyword and watch Learn what it may have beenthe results in real timelike for historical figures to tweet 16. Social Networking in eLearning in AcademiaUse tweetdeck Use YouTube or twiddeo Create groups of students Link to video files from Twitter 17. Social Networking in eLearning 18. Social Networking in eLearning Facebook is a social networking website that wasoriginally designed for college students, but is now opento anyone 13 years of age or older. Facebook users cancreate and customize their own profiles withphotos, videos, and information about themselves.Friends can browse the profiles of other friends and writemessages on their pages. (TechTerms.com) 19. Social Networking in eLearning in AcademiaUse academia.eduUse Facebook Groups A facebook-like application Create a class-centric group 20. Social Networking in eLearning in AcademiaResearchAcademics Analysis of how social networks Journalismare formed http://snipr.com/j5d2m http://snipr.com/j5di5 21. Social Networking in eLearning in AcademiaAcademic Networkinghttp://www.facebook.com/pages/ww wdonquijoteorg/27485153678?ref=ts/ Create a networkedblog http://www.inigral.com/products/sch ools.htm http://www.inigral.com/products/stan dardissimo.php http://www.facebook.com/group.php ?gid=18977111129 http://phoenix.facebook.com/group.p hp?gid=12471635541 http://www.networkedblogs.com http://usask.facebook.com/group.ph p?gid=12256460391 22. Social Networking in eLearning 23. Social Networking in eLearning 24. Social Networking in eLearningA blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is awebsite, usually maintained by an individual, withregular entries of commentary, descriptions ofevents, or other material such as graphics or video.Entries are commonly displayed in reversechronological order. "Blog" can also be used as averb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.Co-Winner, Word-of-the-Year: 2004 25. Social Networking in eLearning in AcademiaWordpress.com (no fee; hosted option)Wordpress.org (free software; non-hosted)Variety of fee-based hosts that support Wordpress Hostican Laughing Squid BluehostMu.wordpress.org (Fee-based; multi-user; multi-host) 26. Social Networking in eLearningin AcademiaFrom http://onlinedegreetalk.org/blogs/ The instructor posts various announcements, information, assignments, and abbreviated lessons for student reference More aptly called an interactive medium of study, students get an opportunity to express their opinions about a particular topic or subject posted for discussion over the net Articles on various topics provide extensive knowledge on the subject. Students, in turn, post their comments on these articles Used as a writing portfolio, blogs are found to be very helpful in expressing thoughts by students about their subject of study 27. Social Networking in eLearningin Academia Students find it very useful to post comments, throwquestions to their instructor about the course and thesubjects in particular and talk to fellow students aboutcourse progress and related benefits Activities and presentations pertaining to a particularsubject can be discussed over the net by way of blog posts Students get to know each other, by not just chatting, butinstead by responding to the posts offered by variousstudents As a means of evaluation, assignments are cross verifiedand the qualities of presentations are evaluated by fellowstudents positively by way of blog posts and relatedresponses 28. Social Networking in eLearningin AcademiaWordpress Plugins (5,000+)Scholarly CitationsTwitter ToolsWordbookDaikos Video WidgetFlickr pluginhttp://snipr.com/j5rqk 29. Social Networking in eLearning 30. Social Networking in eLearningA wiki is a website that uses wiki software, allowing theeasy creation and editing of any number of interlinkedWeb pages, using a simplified markup language.Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites (Wikipedia) 31. Social Networking in eLearning 32. Social Networking in eLearning 33. Social Networking in eLearningNing provides a software platform (the "NingPlatform") that enables you to create, joinor browse Social Networks (Ning.com) 34. Social Networking in eLearning in AcademiaNing http://bioarchaeology.ning.com/ A custom social network http://education.ning.com/ http://www.ourprivatenetwork.com/http://podstock.ning.com/profile/RobGibson 35. Social Networking in eLearning 36. Social Networking in eLearningSocial bookmarking is a method for Internet users tostore, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of webpages on the Internet with the help of metadata, typicallyin the form of tags that collectively and/or collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social tagging, "the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content (Wikipedia.com) 37. Social Networking in eLearningin Academia A professor can save readings for a class. Since each taghas its own URL, the URL can be posted in the syllabus.Many of these services also have RSS feeds, so studentswho use a news aggregator can see new postingsautomatically. Bookmarks available from any PC Merge Delicious links into Facebook via a plugin