Social Networking and College ClassroomsSome Thoughts for Instructors

Kem Saichaie & Leighton Christiansen

Des Moines Area Community College 27 February 2009

Fitting Social Networks into the Conversation

Conceptualizing Social Networks 1

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Conceptualizing Social Networks 2

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Social Networking Software 1

http://www.elgg.com/

Social Networking Software 2

http://www.facebook.com/

Social Networking Software 3

http://www.linkedin.com/

Social Networking Software 4

http://www.myspace.com/

Social Networking Software 5

http://www.ning.com/

A Look Inside Social Networks 1

A Look Inside Social Networks 2

A Look Inside Social Networks 3

A Look Inside Social Networks 4

A Look Inside Social Networks 5

A Look Inside Social Networks 6

Who Owns Knowledge?Who Owns Your Profile?

• Recent Facebook Terms of Use Controversy:You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content. Facebook does not assert any ownership over your User Content; rather, as between us and you, subject to the rights granted to us in these Terms, you retain full ownership of all of your User Content and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your User Content. --Facebook Terms of Use May 2007

You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you ( i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof. –Facebook Terms of Use February 2009 (withdrawn)

Using Social Networks in Education:Pros and Cons

• Should You “Friend” Students in Facebook?• Could You use a Social Network as a Course

Management Tool?• Could You Use A Social Network as a Course

Discussion Tool?• Could Your Class Create Facebook Apps?

Things Not to Say on

Facebook

Third-Party Web-Based Social Networks are:

• Social!• According to Educause Center for Applied

Research Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008, only 5.5 percent of 22,207 students from 44 colleges and universities used Social Network Sites to communicate with instructors about course content. (ECAR 89)

Final Thoughts

• Not every technology is necessarily appropriate for the classroom…and that is O.K.

• More important that instructors are aware of the various ways students are using technology and communicating .

Contact Information

• E-mail us at sita@uiowa.edu• Social Networking wiki space at

http://wiki.uiowa.edu