Social software for teaching and learning, mid-2008

Slide 1: Social software and higher education A mid-2008 survey

Slide 2: Plan of the talk 1. Pieces of Web 2.0 2. Storytelling 3. Pedagogies (Vermont trees and sky, winter 2008)

Slide 3: Thematics • Emergence in time and space • Pedagogy • Open determinism (“Sorpdragon,” Voicethread 2007)

Slide 4: Memes • Shadow IT • Storytelling • Giants (Middlebury bridge, January 2006)

Slide 5: One problem How to apprehend emerging technologies? • Panic/siege mode • Vendors • Futurism methods • Networks

Slide 6: 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

Slide 7: 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)

Slide 8: I. Web 2.0 (Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator, http://emptybottle.org/bullshit/)

Slide 9: “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)

Slide 10: (Flickr blog, March 2008)

Slide 11: Will YouTube kill the podcasting star? (eMarketer, February 2008; Via Podcasting News)

Slide 12: (Le Monde, January 14 2008)

Slide 13: (March 2008 http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/10M_articles)

Slide 14: The term’s history: Tim O’Reilly, 2005 • Expands “social software” • Draws on Web history

Slide 15: Microcontent, rather than sites or large documents (NITLE blog Liberal Education Today, http://b2e.nitle.org)

Slide 16: I. Web 2.0 Multiply authored microcontent

Slide 17: Open content and/or services and/or standards… (Pepysblog, 2003-)

Slide 18: …leading to networked conversations (Pepysblog, 2003-)

Slide 19: O’Reilly: Web 2.0 is a platform for development • Open APIs • Access to data • Programming staff • Virtue of the lazyweb • Perceived recognition (http://www.hurricanearchive.org/, Center for History and New Media,George Mason University)

Slide 20: Web 2.0 components, movements • Collaborative writing platforms: the wiki way

Slide 21: Wikis are (often) textually productive -Viégas, Wattenberg, Dave (Historyflow, IBM, 2004)

Slide 22: Web 2.0 components, movements • collaborative writing platforms: the blogosphere (Radio Open Source blog/podcast)

Slide 23: 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

Slide 24: Social images • Flickr, Picasa • 2 billion images in Flickr (3/2008) • 26 million searchable, shareable images in Flickr (December 2006) (Ben Harris-Roxas, 2006)

Slide 25: Some implications • Metadata is good enough • Folksonomy • Gaming inspiration • Archival uses (Library of Congress crowdsourcing project, 2007- http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/)

Slide 26: Social news: • Memeorandum • Tailrank • Digg • TechMeme

Slide 27: Social bookmarking • Del.icio.us • Also Furl, Scholar.com, StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, MyWeb (Yahoo)

Slide 28: What’s happened since “podcasting” in 2004? Neologisms: • godcasting • nanocasting • podfading • podsafe • podspamming • podvertising • porncasting (Missing Link podcast, Southwestern University)

Slide 29: Web 2.0 influences rich media: video (Gootube? Suetube?)

Slide 30: Videoblogging (vlog? vog?) (Ask a Ninja; Rocketboom; Howard Rheingold)

Slide 31: 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)

Slide 32: Social organization of information, new forms: folksonomy • Search • Retrieval • Self-awareness http://del.icio.us/ for DoctorNemo

Slide 33: Community surfacing • Concepts • Ontology • Collaborative research

Slide 34: Keeping up NITLE workshop tag cloud, 2008

Slide 35: 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)

Slide 36: “…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)

Slide 37: For academia, this can seem a bit overwhelming (“Online Communities”, XKCD, April 2007 )…

Slide 38: For academia, this can seem a bit overwhelming (“Online Communities”, XKCD, April 2007 ) Already out of date

Slide 39: Flickr and storytelling • Tell a story in 5 frames group “Gender Miscommunication”, Nightingai1e, 2006

Slide 43: “Gender Miscommunication” (Nightingai1e, 2006)

Slide 44: Social photo stories Or remix social media into narratives Example: "Farm to Food", Eli the Bearded (2008) • Library of Congress collections

Slide 45: Social photo stories

Slide 46: Social photo stories

Slide 47: Social photo stories Flickr, Tell A Story in Five Frames group ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/) Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)

Slide 48: Social photo stories Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)

Slide 49: Social photo stories Pedagogies: • Remix • Archive work • Social presentation • Visual literacy (http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/discuss/72157603786255599/; http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ )

Slide 50: Social workshopping In the Tell a story in 5 frames group, 'Alone With The Sand' , moliere1331 (2005)

Slide 51: 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

Slide 52: Teaching with Web 2.0: it’s not all new Earlier pedagogies • Journaling • Media literacy

Slide 53: Teaching with Web 2.0: principles Distributed conversation Collaborative writing Object- oriented discussion Connectivism http://smarthistory.blogspot.com/ (G. Siemens,

Slide 54: Wiki pedagogies • Collective research • Group writing • Document editing • Information literacy • Discussion • Knowledge • Discussion accretion • Knowledge accretion (Romantic Audiences project Bowdoin College, 2005-present

Slide 55: Social object pedagogies • Prompts • Discussion object • Composition materials

Slide 56: More social object pedagogies • Annotate details • Remix (“Make it mine”) Edugadget http://www.edugadget.com/2005/05/07/flickr-creative-commons

Slide 57: RSS pedagogies • Shaping Web reading • Pushing student-created content (mother blog, Feed to Javascript) • Web 2.0 wrangling (Bloglines)

Slide 58: 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

Slide 59: “[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. Note that no one is making anyone do any of this writing.” Kathleen Blake Yancey, "Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key." CCC 56.2 (2004):297-328. Emphasis added.

Slide 60: Academic open archives for social media Freesound archive •DIY copyright •Social networking values •University of Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/)

Slide 61: Podcasts and teaching: profcasting • Bryn Mawr College: Michelle Francl, chemistry • Duke: “Classroom recording” • Learning objects: Gardner Campbell, University of Richmond • Duke: “Course content dissemination” • Information literacy

Slide 62: Student program podcasting on campus • War News Radio (Swarthmore College) •PEPI courses (University of British Columbia, department of Land and Food Resources)

Slide 63: Media to enhance other media • Podcast + pdfs: Allegheny College, Gothcast

Slide 64: Podcasts and research • Public intellectual – Out of the Past – Engines of Our Ingenuity – In Our Time – University Channel – The Missing Link

Slide 65: New forms of scholarly communication CommentPress implementation, Institute for the Future of the Books McKenzie Wark, Eugene Lang College

Slide 66: Still more bookblogging Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia

Slide 67: Combining Web 2.0 forms • Podcasting • Blogging • Digital storytelling • Web-based photography • YouTube • Video mashups Middlebury College, Jason Mittell and Barbara Ganley • Blend teaching with research • BG now involved in rural community media

Slide 68: National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) http://nitle.org Liberal Education Today blog http://b2e.nitle.org