Social Media: Creating a Space for Conversation

Carolyn Guertin, PhDUOIT | EDUC 5405G

12 May 15

What is a blog (or a vlog)?

Blogs

Blog is short for ‘weblog,’ an online journal or information site

It is part soapbox…

Part connected community…

…and part information resource

Blogs, like all Web 2.0 technologies,mark a revolution in the technologiesof production.

Some of the most influential blogs today include:

• Ariana Huffington/Huffington Post• New York Times OpEd• BoingBoing• TechCrunch• Jezebel• Tim Ferris (http://fourhourworkweek.com/blog/)• Tinu Abayomi-Paul (WomenGrowBusiness.com)• David Pogue• Clay Shirky

Revolution?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI&feature=user

Mena Trott

What are social media?

Definition of SOCIAL MEDIA:

Social media are the online platforms that foster virtual communities for collaborative practices and the sharing of information.

Social media have the following characteristics

• 1. Are format-specific including text, video, photographs, audio, slidesharing, etc. (Social content is a by-product of creating content with your community.)

• 2. Allow interactions to cross one or more platforms through social sharing, email and feeds.

• 3. Involve different types of engagement by users who can create, comment or lurk on social media networks.

• 4. Spread information faster and further.

• 5. Provide for one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many communications.

• 6. Enable communication to take place in real time or asynchronously over time.

• 7. Are device indifferent. They can take place via a computer (including laptops and netbooks), tablets (including iPads, iTouch and others) and mobile phones (particularly smartphones).

• 8. Extend engagement by creating real-time online events, extending online interactions offline, or augmenting live events online.

CINDERELLA 2.0: HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=CP-ZOCL5MD0

How can (or do) you use social media in your teaching?

Why?

User Generated Content

• Definition: The production of content by the general public rather than by paid professionals and experts in the field. Also called “peer production”, and available on the Web via social media platforms, user generated content refers to material such as the daily news, encyclopedias, and other reference sources, movie and product reviews, as well as articles on any subject, all of which have traditionally been written by editors, journalists, and academics.

• It’s ‘conversational media’ versus ‘the packaged goods media’ of the 20th century.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/user+generated

Future of Storytelling Summit: http://www.deepmediaonline.com/deepmedia/2014/01/the-future-of-storytelling-summit.html

Watch Video: “When the audience has an audience”at the link below…

How do we harness this kind of energy for our teaching?

Web 1.0

Users as Consumers

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The age of personal and personalizable media.

Web 2.0

A Two-Way, Collaborative Environment

The user is a contributor

The language of social media. Why?

What social media do you use?

Videoconferencingwith sources

http://www.skype.com/

We have been conditioned to think of media usage as a passive experience

Screen technologies have become so small and ubiquitous that users now carry their own

programming with them.

From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-ablehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeaAHv4UTI8

Web 2.0 has its own philosophy, language and praxis.

It signals the birth of new cooperative and collaborative models.

https://storify.com/

Social networking & microblogging: fostering online communities

Mashups

• Earthalbum -

• http://www.earthalbum.com

• WikipediaVision -

• http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/

• Visual Search Lab – Reverse Search

Engine:• http://labs.ideeinc.com/visual/#random=971197

• Google maps mashups -

• http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/

Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking tool. Wonderful for collaboration and research.

What is social bookmarking?

“Social Bookmarking in Plain English”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBmvDpVbWc

Social annotation, notetaking or collaborative research

Take notes in your browser. Leave notes on the Web.

http://www.diigo.com http://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide

the cost of creation and

distribution has collapsed

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Crowdsourcing is one of the most effective new strategies

Kevin MacDonald’sLife In A Day:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8S4gGI4nRo

we live in an era of participation

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from copyright to creative commons

collective intelligence is often superior to expert

knowledge

5

wikis

vs.

Podcasts

Podcast??

Podcasting has been called radio…without the audience

Podcasts feature this orange icon, which indicates an RSS* feed

*Really Simple Syndication

If I podcast, will they come?

Podscope is a google for audio and video files: http://www.podscope.com/

The campus that never sleeps: iTunes U

http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu/

Podcasts Demystified

Subscribe to Podcasts with

http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Design for How People LearnJulie Dirksen

Contact?Carolyn Guertin

skype: carolyn_guertinemail: cguertin@uoit.cahttp://carolynguertin.com/