Social Software, teaching, and learning: fall 2007

Social software for teaching and learning: Web 2.0, fall 2007 NITLE Workshop to go

Plan of the talk

Web 2.0

Rich media web 2.0

More pedagogies

New forms

(Middlebury waterfall, spring 2006)

Thematics

Emergence in

time and space

Pedagogy

Open determinism

(Radio Open Source blog/podcast, 2006)

One problem

How to apprehend emerging technologies?

Panic/siege mode

Vendors

Futurism methods

Networks

One response: antecedents

One response to too much information: humble marginal annotation

Glossators (Franciscus Accursius, Denis Godefroi)

Then the Geneva Bible

Managing texts, readers

(Early English Books Online)

Another response to overload

Cyclopedia (Ephraim Chambers, 1728)

Encyclopedie (1751-1772)

Another response to overload

Cyclopedia (Ephraim Chambers, 1728)

Encyclopedie (1751-1772)

(Another precursor, lacking the technology: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae , 636)

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 scope

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: new media

Influence

(World of Warcraft)

I. Web 2.0

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

Expands “social software”

Draws on Web history

I. Web 2.0

Microcontent, rather than sites or large documents

(NITLE blog)

I. Web 2.0

Multiply authored microcontent

I. Web 2.0

Open content and/or services and/or standards…

(Pepysblog, 2003-)

I. Web 2.0

… leading to networked conversations

(Pepysblog, 2003-)

I. Web 2.0

Data mashups

(Google Maps meets Twitter)

I. Web 2.0

Perpetual beta (O’Reilly, now history)

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

Web 2.0 components, movements

collaborative writing platforms: the blogosphere

I. Web 2.0

Addressable content chunks

I. Web 2.0

Distributed and/or attached conversations

I. Web 2.0

State of the blogosphere

70 million blogs tracked by Technorati:

“ 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 )

Chart follows…

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

Social news:

Memeorandum, Tailrank, Digg, TechMeme

I. Web 2.0

Social bookmarking

Del.icio.us

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

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)

This can all be a bit overwhelming

(“Online Communities”, XKCD, April 2007 )

I. Web 2.0

What can we learn from this? Ton Zylstra:

“ 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...”

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

New forms: folksonomy

Search

Retrieval

Self-awareness

http://del.icio.us/

for DoctorNemo

I. Web 2.0

Community surfacing

Ontology

Concepts

Collaborative research

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

-Alex Iskold, The Read/Write Web , April 2007

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_future_of_rss.php

“ RSS is basically a filtered push - the user subscribes (pulls in) to channels that he/she likes, and after that content is delivered automatically.”

II. Web 2.0 and rich media

Web 2.0 influences rich media

Podcasting

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 “podcasting” in 2001? Neologisms:

godcasting

nanocasting

podfading

podsafe

podspamming

podvertising

porncasting

Web 2.0 influences rich media: more audio

Freesound archive

DIY copyright

Social networking values

(http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/)

Web 2.0 influences rich media: video

(Gootube? Suetube?)

Videoblogging

(vlog?

vog?)

(Rocketboom, Amanda Congdon) (already moved on) (Ask a Ninja)

III. Web 2.0 pedagogies

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: CMS involvement

Moodle modules

Teaching with Web 2.0: Blackboard Beyond

Teaching with Web 2.0: principles

Distributed

conversation

Collaborative

writing

Object-oriented

discussion

http://smarthistory.blogspot.com/

Teaching with Web 2.0: more principles

Ease of entry

Personalization

Wiki pedagogies

Collective research

Group writing

Document editing

Information literacy

Discussion

Knowledge accretion

(Romantic Audiences project Bowdoin College, 2005-present

Social object pedagogies

Prompts

Discussion object

Composition materials

Social object pedagogies

Annotate details

Remix (“Make it mine”)

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

New forms: profcasting

Bryn Mawr College: Michelle Francl, chemistry

Duke: Classroom recording

Student program podcasting on campus

War News Radio

(Swarthmore College)

Podcasts and research

Public intellectual

Out of the Past

Engines of Our Ingenuity

In Our Time

University Channel

(Napoleon 101)

Instrumental to pedagogy: enhance other media

Handouts: Allegheny College, Gothcast

Illustrations in pdf format

Enhance other media

Middlebury College, Barbara Ganley

Podcasting with…

Blogging

Digital storytelling

Photography

Study abroad

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.