Enhancing Participatory Culture: How to design international collaboration through mobile and social media

Enhancing Participatory Culture: How to design international collaboration with social and mobile media?

Ilona Buchem, Beuth University Berlin, GermanyHelen Keegan, University of Salford, UKMar Camacho, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain

Online Educa Berlin 2012, Pre-Conference WorkshopVenue: Beuth University of Applied Sciences BerlinAddress: Luxemburger Strasse 10, House Gauss, Room 501 (5th Floor)

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Ilona BuchemBeuth UniversityBerlin, Germany@mediendidaktik

Helen KeeganSalford UniversitySalford, UK@heloukee

Mar CamachoUniversity URVTarragona, Spain@marett

Thom CochraneAUT UniversityAuckland, NZ@thomcochrane

iCollaborate

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Twitter stream

Twitter hash tag

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Participatory Culture

Source: http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF

Henry Jenkins


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• Affiliations: memberships, formal and informal, in online communities centeredaround various forms of media.

• Expressions: producing new creative forms, such as digital sampling, video-making, mash-ups.

• Collaborations: problem-solving and working together in teams to complete tasks and develop new knowledge.

• Circulations: Shaping the flow of media, such as podcasting, micro-/blogging.

Henry Jenkins

attributes

media creators






• Play: capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as problem-solving.

• Simulations: ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real world.

• Performance: ability to adopt alternative identities for improvisation and discovery.

• Appropriation: ability to remix media content.

• Multi-tasking: ability to monitor one’s environment and shift focus ad hoc

• Collective intelligence: ability to pool knowledge and work on common goal

Henry Jenkins

21st century skills

collaborators




15:15 - 15:45Educational scenarios for virtual, international collaborations

15:45 - 16:15Live questions and answers with invited students

16:45 - 17:15Hands-on activities with selected tools in rapid exercises

17:15 - 17:45 Small group design activities of innovative educational scenarios

17:45 - 18:00Plenum discussion and open questions

Agenda


•Scenario 1: “Mobile Reporters” (Ilona Buchem)

•Scenario 2: “Mobile Filmmaking” (Helen Keegan)

•Scenario 3: “Mobile Storytelling” (Mar Camacho)

15:15 - 15:45

Educational Scenarios


•Aim & Outcomes: Field research on how social and mobile media is used in your city. Multimedia documentation.

•Groups & Context: Students in Berlin (media sociology), New Zealand (journalism), UK (media studies).

•Tasks & Activities: Define the context and the question of your field research, collect data in the city (interviews, photos, videos), publish research results on the web.

•Tech & Media: Mobile devices (cameras, audio recording), WordPress, Tumblr, Prezi, Qik, YouTube, QR codes, Twitter, polleverywhere, wall wisher, Mahara (ePortfolio).

S1: Mobile Reporters


Social Media Reports Berlin (Mahara)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ctLpUuLzy4I




http://mussaicollab12.tumblr.com/

Social Media Reports Manchester (Tumblr)




Social Media Reports Auckland (YouTube)


Social Media Reports Auckland (Prezi)

http://prezi.com/uuxxpzrx_43g/the-localist/




Live streaming from courses (qik)

http://qik.com/video/51100343




Just watching ...


Cross-boundary sharing (Twitter)


Peer Voting


Peer feedback: wall wisher

http://wallwisher.com/wall/icollab12




#iCollab12 project blog (WordPress)

http://icollab12.wordpress.com/




S2: Mobile Filmmaking•Aim & Outcomes: Develop skills in mobile phone

filmmaking and collaboration/negotiation of creative process over time and space

•Groups & Context: Students in UK (Audio Production), New Zealand (Cinematic Arts), France (Animation)

•Tasks & Activities: Crowdsourced split screen film: “24 Frames 24 Hours”; International teams collaborated to produce films on topic of sustainability: “Global In Mobile Out”

•Tech & Media: Smartphones, Google docs and hangouts, Wordpress, Twitter, YouTube


S2: The first MASS HANGOUT!


S2: 24 Frames 24 Hours - instructions


S2: 24 Frames 24 Hours - Facebook


S2: 24 Frames 24 Hours - Vimeo


S2: 24 Frames 24 Hours - main site


S2: Mobile Filmmaking


S2: Student-Tutor hangouts


S2: ELVSS Reflections• Speculate on the role

internationally-collaborative mobile movie-making might play in effecting cultural change

• Reflect on your experiences with both your Local Team and your Global Team, and evaluate your individual contributions to each of them


•Aim & Outcomes: Research on how mobile technologies account for storytelling.

•Groups & Context: Students in Tarragona (education), New Zealand (journalism)

•Tasks & Activities: Design a story (storyboard), create it with the use of apps or other web-based tools including multimedia (audio, photos, videos), publish stories in blogs & Twitter

•Tech & Media: Smartphones, educational apps for storytelling, WordPress, QRs, Twitter ...

S3: Mobile Storytelling


mobile storytelling: the process


data gathering


story creation


story sharing



•Scenario 1 “Student reporters” / Beuth University Berlin

• Sascha Feldmann

• Marco Seidler• Andreas Oettinger

•Scenario 2 “Mobile Filmmaking” / Salford University

• Jason Wright (G+ Hangout)

•Scenario 3 “Mobile Storytelling” / University Tarragona

• Maria Zapata & Pilar Alonso (G+ Hangout)

15:45 - 16:15

Q&A with students


Coffee break!


•Activity 1: Video streaming & recording on mobile devices

• Aim: Make a short video with your impressions/thoughts on international collaboration using mobile technologies OR of Berlin/OEB12

• Tool: QIK, or Twitter or Youtube ... Remember to upload it to using the #icollaboeb hashtag.

•Activity 2: Generating and decoding QR codes

• Aim: Creating a QR code with the link to the recording

• Tool: Splash URL: http://splashurl.net/

•Activity 3: Content curation and sharing

• Aim: Create a note in Google Docs & share on Twitter

16:45 - 17:15Hands-on activities


http://splashurl.net/

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or Download Qik on your mobile phone by going to http://d.qik.com

from your mobile browser.

QIK


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Work in groups of about 10 participants

Use these points to design activities:

17:15 - 17:40

•Aim & Outcomes:

•Groups & Context:

•Tasks & Activities:

•Tech & Media:

Design activities


17:40 - 18:00

Presentation & conclusions

Each group presents their idea for a scenario

Time per team: 5 minutes

Finish with a short conclusion about the workshop


17:40 - 18:00

Thank you!

Ilona Buchem @mediendidaktik

Helen Keegan @heloukee

Mar Camacho @marett


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