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The use of facebook & skype to facilitate online crits Department of Architectural Technology Faculty of Informatics & Design Cape Peninsula University of Technology Jolanda Morkel

The use of Facebook and skype to facilitate online crits

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The use of

facebook & skype to facilitate online crits

Department of Architectural Technology Faculty of Informatics & Design Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Jolanda Morkel

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STUDIO

the place where architectural design learning happens

The studio is a social environment that is characterised by communication, critique and collaboration.

(Gross, 1997)

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creativity

criticality

contemplation

collaboration

citizenship

studioRose, E. A., Higgins, M., Dixon, J. and Kabzamaloza, E. 2007

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learning is the relationships between people

  

Smith, M. K. 2003. Communities of practice, the encyclopedia of informal education www.infed.org/biblio/communities_of_practice.htm. Accessed 10 July 2011

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self-reflectiveACTION

peer to peerINTERACTION

student-tutor REACTION

MODE of knowledge construction

range of conversations: offline and online

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facebook

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asynchronous

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peer to peer [horizontal] interaction_collaboration

Interviewer: And has it [facebook] also helped in your interaction with fellow students?

STUDENT D2: Yes it has. No, yes definitely. It definitely has. STUDENT G1: “I think a large part of it (is) ... interactivity... you can upload a project or like post an idea and then people in our class could in this like electronic environment give feedback on it. “STUDENT A2: For me it feels like we are still in a class and we are interacting, ja.STUDENT B2: It’s just a digital way. Digital classroom.

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student-tutor [vertical] reaction_apprenticeship

Do you feel it [facebook] enhances the interactions with your lecturer?

STUDENTS: Yes.STUDENT G: Definitely.STUDENT C2: Yeah quick feedback that’s what I like, that’s where it comes in.STUDENT A2: It’s just like an open discussion, they are open to...STUDENT C2: It’s like they [the lecturers] stand with us. STUDENT C2: And I think this is actually like making us gain confidence in our work, because actually you know where you are heading to and what is required from you.

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what is the communication about?

Utterances categories compared to Gabriel and Maher’s (1999) findings on synchronous communication – facebook results shown in red:

design communication 42% 67%social communication 29% 7%communication control 24% 17%communication technology 5% 9%

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facebook goes synchronous

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facebook...•enhances learner engagement, students’ domain

•asynchronous and synchronous

•supports existing relationships

• facilitates interaction, dialogue

•supports collaboration & apprenticeship

•social media, not an LMS

• important role in multimodal learning approach

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skype

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share images and text

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conversation: prompt response

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conceptualising/ argumentation

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small group interaction

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skype...•synchronous, closed to the individual/ group

•used with iDroo etc.

•one on one or small group

• facilitates interaction, dialogue

•supports collaboration & apprenticeship

•helps build confidence

• important role in multimodal learning approach

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T H A N K Y O U

please contact me at

[email protected]