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Presentation for Guardian Higher Education 22nd September 2012:Using social media to enhance student experience
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Alan Cann
School of Biological Sciences
University of Leicester
Find me here: bit.ly/AJCann
Students in the sandbox - social scaffolding for education
Personal Learning Environments
Facefeed?
Friendfeed
Engagement? 10 weeks, 134 students analyzed:
5,376 entries
8,151 comments
5,232 "likes”
199,853 words - average of 1,491 each, not including private messages
~15% of students continued to use the service more than one month after the end of assessment - considerable increase from other tools (<1%)
Females score higher marks than males (Wilcoxon rank sum test, p < 0.001). Although females make more contributions than males, males are strategically focused on assessment criteria.
gephi.org
"Authority"
• Active group (red)• Internalized group (purple)• Inactive group (blue)
“Communities"
Google Social?
Google can’t do social?
Google+ is different
• Familiarity• Integration
A work in progress
• Search not working (apart from people)
• No groups like Friendfeed Groups/Facebook pages - you can't join someone else's circle
• No tagging (yet)
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Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen.
Clay Shirky, 2008.