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Pedagogical Facebook and Twitter?
Using social media for academic goodStephanie Trunzo
[email protected]: stephanietrunzo
Twitter: sltrunzoSL: Neffy Noland
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What are we going to talk about?
What is social media? Prevalence in academia Case study 1: IDEA grant: ENG331 DE Case study 2: Chatham University Get started!
What is social media?
We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection(3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.
Boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Wikipedia Jan, 09Social media are primarily Internet- and mobile-based tools for sharing and discussing information among human beings.[1] The term most often refers to activities that integrate technology, telecommunications and social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio. This interaction, and the manner in which information is presented, depends on the varied perspectives and "building" of shared meaning among communities, as people share their stories and experiences. Businesses also refer to social media as user-generated content (UGC) or consumer-generated media (CGM).
Social media is the use of technology combined with social interaction to create or co-create value. http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/09/25/the-definition-of-social-media/
It’s fun… but so what? Students are on these tools ALREADY! Get behind, catch up, or get ahead -
When asked about Wikipedia, he noted that it’s a useful starting point when looking into a topic, and added: If you are a teacher and the answer to your question can be copied from Wikipedia, you’re asking the wrong questions. - Charles Leadbetter (http://tinyurl.com/p8hqnt)
Universities, with a young constituency and an employee base of academics interested in new discoveries and ways of communication, should have embraced social media early - but they have not and if they don't embrace new techniques in pedagogy they risk becoming seen as anachronisms in today’s hyper-connected world where information is available freely, says a University of Illinois expert who studies the knowledge economy’s effect on higher education. http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/ivory_tower_needs_embrace_social_media
Student comment: “With all the successful social mechanism models available on the web today, I still find myself amazed that an institution like NCSU uses such a poor tool [Vista] for on-line student interaction.”
List of socialmedia/academia resources: http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/ivory_tower_needs_embrace_social_media
Timeline
Travel back to 2005…Had been teaching ENG331 as DE for 3 years
Students did not feel sense of community Had trouble collaborating as distributed groups Resorted to meeting in person (defeated purpose of
DE, and alienated remote team members) Too many places for students to go (course site,
Vista, their blog, etc.) Students familiar with emerging technologies, but we
weren’t using them
Timeline
Travel back to 2008…Approached for Chatham’s PWR662 – Writing
for Digital Media
Simplify, consolidate Leverage more Web 2.0 tooling Meet the student where they are already living –
engage existing conversations
Chatham course features
Allows anyone in class to simply add related links
Sorts discussion topics by latest post- easy to scan and review
Chatham course featuresTwitter app on FB, but not for groups
Schedule on Google Docs
Link to delicious
Get started!
Synchronous chat/webcam/audio/file sharing
Elluminate
Virtual collaborationSecondLife
Shared bookmarkingdelicious
Social networking application/discussions
Audio or video lecturesPodcasts
Announcements, reminders, quick facts
Group discussion, archiving, journalingBlogs
Aggregate/consolidate tools and resources
Dashboard
My list of resources for ENG331 students: http://courses.ncsu.edu/eng331/lec/005/collaboration/index.html
Questions?
Backups
Course materials Assignments Community Team tools
Syllabus
Schedule
Resources
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Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 3
Submit
Retrieve
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Bios
Discussion forum
Peer reviews
SecondLife cafe
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Team guidelines
Blogs
Google docs
Elluminate
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Random thoughts… Should we launch student out of dashboard or load external links into
content pane? Initial screen’s content pane – what “welcome” info can we put that is useful
each time student logs on – announcement into Could we put dashboard into Vista’s content pane, rather than host on
wolfware? How sophisticated will it allow the content to be – we can post HTML pages, but what about javascript, or Flash?
Sign-up for announcements – where does sign-up go? i.e., text msg idea, or maybe rss feed?
Would like to turn each lesson into podcast as well – continue the “subscribe” idea
SecondLife café – static room available for students to meet/gather, also to meet as teams
Explore Facebook – if that doesn’t work, or for students who choose not to use Facebook but want bio, should we just use discussion forum? Other ideas?
Elluminate – how will the rooms work, how many can we have? Presentation assignment – consider choice to practice synchronous or
asynchronous presentation – accompanied or unaccompanied
Sample comments
I felt out of touch with the course most of the time because I tend to learn better by being in a classroom and hearing information broadcast to me instead of just reading it for myself. Hearing information always sticks with me better than reading it alone.
The blog idea was great too. If we ever had a question about the next meeting or our specific roles we could just look at the blog and this would usually clear everything up.
Instead of brainstorming out loud using the blog gives the same freedom in terms of input, but also at the same time records each though so that nothing is forgotten.
