Social software for teaching and learning, mid-2008

Social software and higher education A mid-2008 survey

Plan of the talk

Pieces of Web 2.0

Storytelling

Pedagogies

(Vermont trees and sky, winter 2008)

Thematics

Emergence in

time and space

Pedagogy

Open determinism

(“Sorpdragon,” Voicethread 2007)

Memes

Shadow IT

Storytelling

Giants

(Middlebury bridge, January 2006)

One problem

How to apprehend emerging technologies?

Panic/siege mode

Vendors

Futurism methods

Networks

One odd metaphor

Web 2.0 and education is like gaming and education: awareness is challenging

Huge, financially and quantitatively successful worlds

Global and rapidly developing scope

Bad anxieties, policies, and media coverage

Perceived lack of seriousness

Five responses

Web 2.0 and education is like gaming and education: intersections are happening

Take advantage of preexisting projects and services

Mod/warp/hack

DIY

Literacy: new media

Influence

(World of Warcraft)

I. Web 2.0

(Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator, http://emptybottle.org/bullshit/ )

“ Technorati is now tracking over 70 million weblogs, and we're seeing about 120,000 new weblogs being created worldwide each day. That's about 1.4 blogs created every second of every day.”

(David Sifry, April 2007 )

(Flickr blog, March 2008)

Will YouTube kill the podcasting star?

(eMarketer, February 2008; Via Podcasting News)

(Le Monde, January 14 2008)

(March 2008 http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/10M_articles )

The term’s history: Tim O’Reilly, 2005

Expands “social software”

Draws on Web history

Microcontent, rather than sites or large documents

(NITLE blog Liberal Education Today, http://b2e.nitle.org )

I. Web 2.0

Multiply authored microcontent

Open content and/or services and/or standards…

(Pepysblog, 2003-)

… leading to networked conversations

(Pepysblog, 2003-)

O’Reilly: Web 2.0 is a platform for development

Open APIs

Access to data

Virtue of the lazyweb

( http://www.hurricanearchive.org/ , Center for History and New Media,George Mason University)

Programming staff

Perceived recognition

Web 2.0 components, movements

Collaborative writing platforms: the wiki way

-Viégas, Wattenberg, Dave (Historyflow, IBM, 2004) Wikis are (often) textually productive

Web 2.0 components, movements

collaborative writing platforms: the blogosphere

(Radio Open Source blog/podcast)

State of the blogosphere, more

Diversity: diaries, public intellectuals, carnivals, knitters, moblogs, warblogs home and abroad…

12 people million using three platforms, including LiveJournal: majority women (Anil Dash, MeshForum 2006)

NIH guidelines, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=citmed.section.61024

Social images

Flickr, Picasa

2 billion images in Flickr (3/2008)

26 million searchable, shareable images in Flickr (December 2006)

(Ben Harris-Roxas, 2006)

Some implications

Metadata is good enough

Folksonomy

Gaming inspiration

Archival uses

(Library of Congress crowdsourcing project, 2007- http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ )

Social news:

Memeorandum

Tailrank

Digg

TechMeme

Social bookmarking

Del.icio.us

Also Furl, Scholar.com, StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, MyWeb (Yahoo)

What’s happened since “podcasting” in 2004? Neologisms:

godcasting

nanocasting

podfading

podsafe

podspamming

podvertising

porncasting

(Missing Link podcast, Southwestern University)

Web 2.0 influences rich media: video

(Gootube? Suetube?)

Videoblogging

(vlog? vog?)

(Ask a Ninja; Rocketboom; Howard Rheingold)

Social object: the person

FaceBook

MySpace

LinkedIn

ZoomInfo

CyWorld…

“ Less than four years after its launch, 15 million people, or almost a third of the country's population, are members.” ( BusinessWeek , September 2005)

Social organization of information, new forms: folksonomy

Search

Retrieval

Self-awareness

http://del.icio.us/

for DoctorNemo

Community surfacing

Ontology

Concepts

Collaborative research

Keeping up

NITLE workshop tag cloud, 2008

Extrapolating principles: Ton Zylstra on the social object:

“ In general you could say that both Flickr and del.icio.us work in a triangle: person, picture/ bookmark, and tag(s). Or more abstract a person, an object of sociality , and some descriptor...” (Zylstra in Second Life, 2007)

“… In every triangle there always needs to be a person and an object of sociality . The third point of the triangle is free to define[,] as it were.”

- http://www.zylstra.org , 2006

(emphases added)

(“Online Communities”, XKCD, April 2007 )…

For academia, this can seem a bit overwhelming

(“Online Communities”, XKCD, April 2007 )

Already out of date

For academia, this can seem a bit overwhelming

Flickr and storytelling

Tell a story in 5 frames group

“ Gender Miscommunication”, Nightingai1e, 2006

“ Gender Miscommunication” (Nightingai1e, 2006)

Social photo stories

Or remix social media into narratives

Example: "Farm to Food", Eli the Bearded (2008)

Library of Congress collections

Flickr, Tell A Story in Five Frames group ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/ )

Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)

Social photo stories Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)

Pedagogies:

Remix

Archive work

Social presentation

Visual literacy

( http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/discuss/72157603786255599/ ; http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ )

Social workshopping

In the Tell a story in 5 frames group, 'Alone With The Sand' , moliere1331 (2005)

Pedagogies and publications

Teaching with Web 2.0: it’s not all new

- Web 1.0, internet pedagogies

Hypertext

Web audience

Discussion fora

Collaborative document authoring

Groupware

Teaching with Web 2.0: it’s not all new

Earlier pedagogies

Journaling

Media literacy

Teaching with Web 2.0: principles

http://smarthistory.blogspot.com/ Distributed conversation Collaborative writing Object-oriented discussion Connectivism (G. Siemens, 2004)

Wiki pedagogies

Collective research

Group writing

Document editing

Information literacy

Discussion

Knowledge accretion

(Romantic Audiences project Bowdoin College, 2005-present

Discussion

Knowledge accretion

Social object pedagogies

Prompts

Discussion object

Composition materials

More social object pedagogies

Annotate details

Remix (“Make it mine”)

Edugadget http://www.edugadget.com/2005/05/07/flickr-creative-commons

RSS pedagogies

Shaping Web reading

Pushing student-created content (mother blog, Feed to Javascript)

Web 2.0 wrangling

(Bloglines)

Teaching with Web 2.0: “ net.gen ”:

“ Fully half of all teens and 57 percent of teens who use the Internet could be considered Content Creators, according to a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.”

http://www.pewtrusts.com/pdf/PIP_Teens_1105.pdf

“ [S]tudents… write words on paper, yes— but… also compose words and images and create audio files on Web logs (blogs), in word processors, with video editors and Web editors and in e-mail and on presentation software and in instant messaging and on listservs and on bulletin boards—and no doubt in whatever genre will emerge in the next ten minutes.