Social software in education: an early 2007 overview

Web 2.0, teaching, and learning: early 2007

Plan of the talk
Web 2.0 in early 2007
Web 2.0 and rich media
Pedagogies
Web 2.0 storytelling
(Middlebury waterfall, spring 2006)

Thematics
Emergence in
time and space
Pedagogy
Dynamic information ecologicy
(Radio Open Source blog/podcast, 2006)

One metaphor
Web 2.0 and education is like gaming and education: awareness is challenging
Huge, financially and quantitatively successful worlds
Global and rapidly developing
Bad anxieties, policies, and media coverage
Perceived lack of seriousness

One metaphor
Web 2.0 and education is like gaming and education: intersections are possible
Take advantage of preexisting projects
Mod/warp/hack
DIY
Literacy: IF/audience

I. Web 2.0
The term: Tim O’Reilly, 2005
Expands “social software”
Draws on Web history

I. Web 2.0
Microcontent, rather than sites or large documents

I. Web 2.0
Multiply authored microcontent, rather than sites or large documents

I. Web 2.0
Open content and/or services and/or standards
(Pepysblog, 2003-)

I. Web 2.0
Network constructivism
(Pepysblog, 2003-)

I. Web 2.0
Data mashups

I. Web 2.0
O’Reilly: perpetual beta

I. Web 2.0
AJAX-based projects? Also Flash

I. Web 2.0
O’Reilly: platforms for development

I. Web 2.0
Web 2.0 components, movements
Collaborative writing platforms: the wiki way

I. Web 2.0 Research: wikis are textually productive -Viégas, Wattenberg, Dave (IBM, 2004)

I. Web 2.0
News-gathering: wikis are textually productive
( OhMyNews! , WikiNews)

I. Web 2.0
Web 2.0 components, movements
collaborative writing platforms: the blogosphere

I. Web 2.0
Addressable content chunks

I. Web 2.0
Distributed, attached conversations

I. Web 2.0
State of the blogosphere
57 million blogs tracked by Technorati:
“ As of October 2006, about 100,000 new weblogs were created each day… the doubling of the blogosphere has slowed a bit (every 236 days or so…”
(David Sifry, November 2006)
Chart follows…

I. Web 2.0

I. Web 2.0
State of the blogosphere, more
12 people million using three platforms, including LiveJournal: majority women (Anil Dash, MeshForum 2006)
Diversity: diaries, public intellectuals, carnivals, knitters, moblogs, warblogs home and abroad…

I. Web 2.0
Web 2.0 components, movements: social objects
http:// flickr.com /
Photo sharing:
Flickr

I. Web 2.0
Reach of Flickr
100 million images, as of Feb 2006
As of October 2006, 4 million Flickr members (3/4 not in the US)
1 million photos uploaded each day
( http://www.radioopensource.org/photography-20/ )

I. Web 2.0
Reach of Flickr
26 million searchable, shareable images in Flickr (December 2006)
Metadata is good enough
Gaming inspiration
(Ben Harris-Roxas, 2006)

I. Web 2.0
Web 2.0 enables the Web office
Example: Google Spreadsheets
http://spreadsheets.google.com/

I. Web 2.0
What can we learn from this? Ton Zylstra:
“ In general you could say that both Flickr and delicious work in a triangle: person, picture/bookmark, and tag(s). Or more abstract a person, an object of sociality , and some descriptor...”

I. Web 2.0
“… 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)

I. Web 2.0
What can we learn from this?
Jyri Engesrom is succinct:
“ The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made up of people. They're not; social networks consist of people who are connected by a shared object .”
- http://www.zengestrom.com/ , 2005

I. Web 2.0
Social object principles: tagging
Flickr is one influential and leading tagging project

I. Web 2.0
“ Home
Owain
Hestia
Chickens
Ripton”

I. Web 2.0
Folksonomy
User benefit
Search
Retrieval
Self-awareness
http://del.icio.us/
for DoctorNemo

I. Web 2.0
Community surfacing
Ontology
Concepts
Collaborative research

I. Web 2.0
Case study, tagging museums:
the Steve project

I. Web 2.0
Tagging museums: the Steve project
Expert discourse, controlled vocab

I. Web 2.0
Tagging museums: the Steve project
Users tag differently
Curators get it
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004)

I. Web 2.0
Tagging libraries: PennTags
Coded locally
Also tags the open web
http://tags.library.upenn.edu/

I. Web 2.0
Components, movements
Mixing and mashing:
the RSS feed

I. Web 2.0
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)

I. Web 2.0
Social news:
Memeorandum, Tailrank, Digg, TechMeme

II. Rich media and Web 2.0
Web 2.0 influences rich media
Podcasting

How old is the term?
“ With the benefit of hindsight, it all seems quite obvious. MP3 players, like Apple's iPod, in many pockets, audio production software cheap or free, and weblogging an established part of the internet…”

How old is the term? “… all the ingredients are there for a new boom in amateur radio.
But what to call it? Audioblogging? Podcasting ? GuerillaMedia?”
(Ben Hammersley, The Guardian
February 12, 2004)

What’s happened since February 2004?

What’s happened since?
“ More than 22 million American adults own iPods or MP3 players and 29% of them have downloaded podcasts from the Web so that they could listen to audio files at a time of their choosing.”
-Pew Internet and American Life study,
April 2005

What’s happened since? Neologisms:
godcasting
nanocasting
podfading
podsafe
podspamming
podvertising
porncasting

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

Videoblogging
(vlog?
vog?)
(Rocketboom, Amanda Congdon) (already moved on)

Web 2.0 influences rich media: audio
Freesound archive
DIY copyright
Social networking values
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/

(Second Life, 2004-present)
Web 2.0 influences rich media: social gaming and Web 2.0?

III. Pedagogies
Teaching with Web 2.0: it’s not all new
Web 1.0, internet pedagogies
Hypertext
Web audience
Discussion for a
Collaborative document authoring
Groupware

III. Pedagogies
Teaching with Web 2.0: it’s not all new
Earlier pedagogies
Journaling
Media literacy

III. Pedagogies
Teaching with Web 2.0: CMS involvement
Moodle modules

III. Pedagogies
Teaching with Web 2.0: Blackboard Beyond
“ Chief Executive Officer Michael Chasen... explained, "Just as the Web 2.0 is facilitating a change in the way people interact online, e-Learning 2.0 represents a transformational shift for how the Internet can improve education. Blackboard is excited to work with our clients to help shape and accelerate this transformation.“”

III. Pedagogies
Teaching with Web 2.0: Blackboard Beyond
(Kevin Creamer, March 10 2006)

III. Pedagogies
Teaching with Web 2.0: principles
Distributed
conversation
Collaborative
writing
Object-oriented
discussion
http://smarthistory.blogspot.com/

III. Pedagogies
Teaching with Web 2.0: more principles
Ease of entry
Personalization

III. Pedagogies
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

III. Pedagogies
“ 33 percent of online teens share their own creative content online, such as artwork, photos, stories or videos.
32 percent say that they have created or worked on webpages or blogs for others, including groups they belong to, friends or school assignments.”

III. Pedagogies
“ 22 percent report keeping their own personal webpage.
19 percent of online teens keep a blog, and 38 percent of online teens read blogs.
19 percent of Internet-using teens say they remix content they find online into their own artistic creations.”

III. Pedagogies
“ Teens are often much more enthusiastic authors and readers of blogs than their adult counterparts. Teen bloggers, led by older girls , are a major part of this tech-savvy cohort.”
(Pew Internet and American Life,
November 2005 )

III. Pedagogies
Teaching with Web 2.0: blogging
Distributed
conversation
Collaborative
writing
Object-oriented
discussion

III. Pedagogies
University of British Columbia uses:
“ as personal logs/ journals to keep track of work/learning activities”
as digital photo albums
as potential e-portfolio tools…”

III. Pedagogies
“… Currently, UBC is using weblogs…:
as course web pages, encouraging discussion and collaboration
as private management and communication tools for large campus groups, administrative teams, and communities of practice
to easily update online newsletters
to keep a collection of useful, searchable links”
( http:// weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/home/about.php )

III. Pedagogies
Blog problem: privacy
Contrary to class safe space (Gary Kornblith)
Culture of too much disclosure
Problem increasing archivally
Some responses
Can block comments and/or readers
Teachable moment: what is privacy in 2007?
Complement other practices

III. Pedagogies
Wiki pedagogies
Collective research
Group writing
Document editing
Information literacy
Discussion
Knowledge accretion

III. Pedagogies
Social object pedagogies
Prompts
Discussion object
Composition materials

III. Pedagogies
Social object pedagogies
Annotate details
Remix (“Make it mine”)
Edugadget http://www.edugadget.com/2005/05/07/flickr-creative-commons

III. Pedagogies
RSS pedagogies
Shaping Web reading
Pushing student-created content (mother blog, Feed to Javascript)
Web 2.0 wrangling

III. Pedagogies
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

III. Pedagogies
Podcasts and research
Public intellectual
Out of the Past
Engines of Our Ingenuity
Napoleon 101
In Our Time
Trudi Abel, “Digital Durham and the New South” (Duke University, 2006)
Duke: Field recording

IV. Web 2.0 storytelling
Web 2.0 storytelling
Nonfiction ( Pulse )
Fiction (“I Found a Camera…”)
ARGs
Public intellectuals

Lonelygirl15
One YouTube
Another YouTube
Myspace
Blogs
Discussion frenzy
Media attention
(2006-)

Flickr and storytelling
Tell a story in 5 frames group
“ Gender Miscommunication” (Nightingai1e, 2006)

IV. Web 2.0 storytelling “ Gender Miscommunication” (Nightingai1e, 2006)

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

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