Social Software: Teaching Tool Or Not?

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Information Sciences
Zagreb, 2009-11-05
Social Software: teaching tool or not?
Marija Matešić
Kristina Vučković
Zdravko Dovedan

What is social software?
SOCIAL SOFTWARE IS AN UMBRELLA TERM THAT DEFINES THE VARIOUS ACTIVITIES THAT INTEGRATE TECHNOLOGY, SOCIAL INTERACTION, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WORDS, PICTURES, VIDEOS AND AUDIO
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Types of social software
Social networks
MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook
Media sharing sites
YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare
Social bookmarking sites
Delicious, StumbleUpon
Wikis (Wikipedia)
Blogs & Microblogs (Twitter)
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Influnces of social software
Politics
Journalisam
participatory journalisam
Bussines
PR
Marketing
Customer support
Are they change the way we learn?
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About the survey
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Socio-demographic analysis
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USAGE OF SOCIAL SofTware

Familiarity
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Usage
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Weekly usage
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Purposes
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SOCIAL SofTware AS A TEACHING TOOL

Social software in teaching process 1
57% of a teachers consider social software useful and 64.02% of students consider it as a potentially good idea
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Social software in teaching process 2
This question was answered by 14% of teachers who allready use SS in the teaching process
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Advantages of social software (teachers)
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Disadvantages of social software (teachers)
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Advantages of social software (students)
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Disadvantages of social software(students)
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Thank you for your attention!
Q&A?
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