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Social networking’s potential for teaching and learningMary Thorpe and Philip GreaneyInstitute of Educational Technology
Thanks to Stuart Brown, Keith Honnor, Mick Jones, Sheran Slade, Non Scantlebury and ALs involved in the project Social Networking for Practice Learning (SNPL)
If Flickr collects and shares photos and Delicious collects and shares bookmarks…
Funded by the Practice-Based Professional Learning CETL
4 ALs from OUBS, 5 from HSC
Using social networking to explore the potential of Delicious and RSS for:◦ Student learning◦ Knowledge management/updating/research needs
of ALs
Email, wiki, explanatory videos, FlashMeeting and closed Facebook site used to work together as a group, with IET
ALs worked on a series of tasks clearly specified in advance, so they built up confidence and skills stage by stage
Key features of the tools that proved their potential:◦ Shared tags, tag subscription and setting up a
network across group members on Delicious
◦ Working together to establish an agreed set of feeds for ALs in each faculty
The course team sets up defined tags that tutors and students will use for bookmarking on the course e.g.B823_Technologies, B823_Communication
B823 tutors search and tag resources so these already on Delicious before students start
Student welcoming letter includes tutor’s Delicious name and links to guide&video on setting up Delicious account
Students set up their own account and create a network of their tutor group
During the course they search for and tag at least 10 websites using Delicious using the notes field to explain what their resource contributes to course understanding
In this way students will add to the B823 tagged bookmarks created by tutors as they do their research for TMAs…At the end of the course they will have built up a supplementary ‘Managing Knowledge’ resource that will continue to be available after the course. The work they have done on this presentation, in tagging sites, will be a starting point for the next cohort of B823 students. The description fields on the tags can be used to build up different ideas of the value of the page in the context of managing knowledge…Pages that get very few tags can be deleted by a student but he/she can justify that in the course forum.
Independence in learning - going beyond course resources
Active processing through tagging and description
The network makes one student’s work available to all – increases likelihood of finding good material, promotes idea of learning from each other, builds resources from presentation to presentation
ALs had no difficulty designing activities to deliver learning outcomes such as:
For HSC ◦ Locate Information relevant to health and social care
through reference to a range of sources ◦ Evaluate the reliability of different sources of evidence ◦ Use a wide range of study skills appropriate to degree
level
For OUBS◦ You should be able to reflect and critically appraise the
human and technological dimensions of developing and implementing strategies for managing knowledge in practice
Week 10: students given detailed explanations for setting up Delicious account and shared tags – H800_2009, H800_block1_2009, etc
Explanation given for how to subscribe to tags that students want to follow regularly, including the H800 tags
Week 18: Delicious, RSS and Twitter used in turn (instructions for new users given) in order to find resources to explore three key issues for that week e.g. what evidence can we find about the actual use of social networking and its accessibility in different countries/groups?
Students set up their tutor group as a network and share resources
TMA associated with this block asks students to incorporate some resources derived from using these tools in their assignments
When saving any resources connected with H800, we recommend you select the most relevant of those listed here:
H800_2009 H800_block1_2009 H800_block2_2009 H800_block3_2009 H800_block4_2009
To search for all bookmarks tagged with one of the H800 tags, go to the Delicious home page and click on the down arrow beside ‘Tags’ in the toolbar across the top. Select ‘Explore’ and type ‘H800_block2_2009’, for example, or ‘H800_2009’ and click the arrow at the right-hand end of the box. You will get all the examples that have already been saved as bookmarks with that tag. If you use the tag ‘H800’, you may also find articles that members of the course team have selected during the production phase of the course.
SNPL still current - Any OU course team member can access wiki and resources via IET team and start using tools
Course teams can use existing H800 course materials as an exemplar, could use the site for AL preparation/staff development
Projects with HSC and OUBS course teams being set up
Individual meetings with a team are a useful beginning
Technologically feasible: sites are free to join, easy to use and run on technology like mobiles.
Large userbase: if only we could create an educational community with a userbase like Facebook…
Sustaining communities: for distance learners without a ‘bricks and mortar’ campus (and even those that have), social networks can create and sustain a richly variable and geographically-scattered community.
Spaces: creates different spaces for working and ‘socialising’ within a single site, creating formal and informal networks.
Rich functionality: writing apps (widgets, gadgets) can add specific functionality to an existing social network: Course Profiles; My OU Story.
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Mary Thorpe & Phil GreaneyInstitute of Educational Technology
OverviewSocial networking Learn About Guidehttp://kn.open.ac.uk/workspace.cfm?wpid=8738Social networking in plain English videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc&eurl=http:/facebooklife.net/blog/facebook-tutorials/understand-what-is-social-networking/What is social networking?http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com/Map of Web 2.0 apps HQshttp://www.platial.com/map/Web-2-0-HQ-Map/1768List of social networking siteshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites‘Social network services’ definition from Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_servicesSocial networking bloghttp://www.socialnetworking-weblog.com/If you use the internet, it’s likely you use broadbandhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7105242.stm
Social networking in educationOU Facebook Position Statement (PDF) (Internal only)http://www.open.ac.uk/online/objects/fb-position-statement.pdfH800 is a course that makes use of social networking (Internal only)http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01H800UK University pages on Facebookhttp://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/revisiting-uk-university-pages-on-facebook/Facebook in Wolverhampton Universityhttp://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/library-20-at-the-university-of-wolverhampton/‘Make friends before you start’: Facebook Guardian Articlehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/30/students.facebookA search of the tags ‘social_networking’ and ‘education’ in everyone’s Delicioushttp://delicious.com/search?p=social_networking+education&u=&chk=&context=all&fr=del_icio_us&lc=1Classroom 2.0 (a site about Web 2.0 in education that uses the Ning platform)http://www.classroom20.com/OpenLearn social networkshttp://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/about-us/our-networks.phpE-learning at Sheffield Hallamhttp://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html
Tools for sharingFlickrhttp://www.flickr.com/How to get the most out of Flickr (and what it does)http://www.flickr.com/get_the_most.gneGuidelines for using Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gneOnline photo sharing in plain Englishhttp://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vPU4awtuTsk
Delicious (formerly del.icio.us)http://delicious.com/A search for ‘social_networking’ on Delicious
List of social bookmarking siteshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_software#Social_bookmarkingSocial bookmarking in plain Englishhttp://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU
Some social software tools
Slidesharehttp://www.slideshare.net/
Citeulike (academic social bookmarking socftware)http://www.citeulike.org/
SocialLearn presentation (Martin Weller)http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2008/02/the-sociallearn.html
Dipity (timeline creation software)http://www.dipity.com/
Google mapshttp://maps.google.com/
Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com
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Mason, R. and Rennie, F. (2004) The connecticon: learning for the connected generation (Information Age, US)Paulsen, M.F. (2002) Online Education Systems: Discussion and Definition of Terms [online], http://www.nettskolen.com/forskning/Definition%20of%20Terms.pdf
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Weller, M. 2007 ‘Is education intrinsically a bit dull?’ EdTechie Bloghttp://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2007/07/is-education-in.html
All photos are from Flickr unless other stated and are subject to the Creative Commons Licence agreement (http://creativecommons.org/ )
StabiloBoss’s photostream at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022/
davidking’s photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/davidking/2584489931/
Cougar-studio’s photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/suvcougar/1273657633/
