Social Networking

Phil Greaney, IET

This presentation is for those new to social networking

This is a whistle-stop tour and there’s little time for the detailed exploration it deserves. So…

… I’ve added lots of resources to the end of this presentation that you can look at in your own time…

… by downloading or viewing this presentation online.

So far, we’ve looked at two examples to illustrate how – broadly speaking – the web is full of social networks…

…but now I want to direct our focus to a narrow definition of social networking.

If Flickr collects and shares photos

and

Delicious collects and shares bookmarks…

People create identities, friends and groups.

Users add details about themselves (interests, workplace, relationships, and so on).

Users add media, including photos, video, sound clips and so on.

Users communicate with each other with public, private and real-time messages.

Users add ‘applications’, add-ins which provide additional functionality.

Technologically feasible : sites are free to join, easy to use and run on technology like mobiles.

Large userbase : if only we could create an educational community with a userbase like Facebook …

Sustaining communities : for distance learners without a ‘bricks and mortar’ campus (and even those that have), social networks can create and sustain a richly variable and geographically-scattered community.

Spaces : creates different spaces for working and ‘socialising’ within a single site, creating formal and informal networks.

Rich functionality : writing apps (widgets, gadgets) can add specific functionality to an existing social network: Course Profiles; My OU Story.

Privacy

Demanding of time, energy

Change

Social networking is an online approximation of real world relationships. But it is also much more than that. What social networks are and what that might mean for the web in general and education in particular we have yet to discover…

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Overview

Social networking Learn About Guide

http://kn.open.ac.uk/workspace.cfm?wpid=8738

Social networking in plain English video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc&eurl=http:/facebooklife.net/blog/facebook-tutorials/understand-what-is-social-networking/

What is social networking?

http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com/

Map of Web 2.0 apps HQs

http://www.platial.com/map/Web-2-0-HQ-Map/1768

List of social networking sites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

‘ Social network services’ definition from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_services

Social networking blog

http://www.socialnetworking-weblog.com/

If you use the internet, it’s likely you use broadband

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7105242.stm

Social networking in education

OU Facebook Position Statement (PDF) (Internal only)

http://www.open.ac.uk/online/objects/fb-position-statement.pdf

H800 is a course that makes use of social networking (Internal only)

http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01H800

UK University pages on Facebook

http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/revisiting-uk-university-pages-on-facebook/

Facebook in Wolverhampton University

http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/library-20-at-the-university-of-wolverhampton/

‘ Make friends before you start’: Facebook Guardian Article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/30/students.facebook

A search of the tags ‘social_networking’ and ‘education’ in everyone’s Delicious

http://delicious.com/search?p=social_networking+education&u=&chk=&context=all&fr=del_icio_us&lc=1

Classroom 2.0 (a site about Web 2.0 in education that uses the Ning platform)

http://www.classroom20.com/

OpenLearn social networks

http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/about-us/our-networks.php

E-learning at Sheffield Hallam

http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html

Tools for sharing

Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/

How to get the most out of Flickr (and what it does)

http://www.flickr.com/get_the_most.gne

Guidelines for using Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne

Online photo sharing in plain English

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vPU4awtuTsk

Delicious (formerly del.icio.us)

http://delicious.com/

A search for ‘social_networking’ on Delicious

List of social bookmarking sites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_software#Social_bookmarking

Social bookmarking in plain English

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU

Some social software tools Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/ Citeulike (academic social bookmarking socftware) http://www.citeulike.org/ SocialLearn presentation (Martin Weller) http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2008/02/the-sociallearn.html Dipity (timeline creation software) http://www.dipity.com/ Google maps http://maps.google.com/ Facebook http://www.facebook.com

E-learning references, with especial focus on collaborative activities and learning Brown, R. (2001) ‘The process of community-building in distance learning classes’, JALN , vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 18–35; also available online at http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/v5n2/index.asp Carson, S. (2005) MIT OCW 2004 Programme Evaluation Findings Report , Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; also available online at http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/90C9BC91-7819-48A0-9E9A-D6B2701C1CE5/0/MIT_OCW_2004_Program_Eval.pdf Castells, M. (2001) The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (New York: Oxford University Press) Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (2002) How Do People Learn? , CIPD Dalsgaard, C. (2006) ‘Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems’, European Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning [online], http://www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2006/Christian_Dalsgaard.htm Dirkx, J and Smith, R ‘Learning to Learn in Online Collaborative Groups’ in Roberts, T. (ed) (2004) Online Collaborative Learning: Theory and Practice (Information Science Publishing: London) Mason, R. and Rennie, F. (2004) The connecticon: learning for the connected generation (Information Age, US) Paulsen, M.F. (2002) Online Education Systems: Discussion and Definition of Terms [online], http://www.nettskolen.com/forskning/Definition%20of%20Terms.pdf Roberts, T. (2005) (ed) Computer-supported Collaborative Learning in Higher Education (Idea Group: London) Karen Swan and Peter Shea ‘The development of virtual learning communities’ in Hiltz, S. and Goldman, R. (ed) (2005) Learning Together Online: Research on Asynchronous Learning Networks (Lawrence Erlbaum, New Jersey) Weller, M. 2007 ‘Is education intrinsically a bit dull?’ EdTechie Blog http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2007/07/is-education-in.html

All photos are from Flickr unless other stated and are subject to the Creative Commons Licence agreement ( http://creativecommons.org/ )

StabiloBoss’s photostream at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022/ davidking’s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidking/2584489931/ Cougar-studio’s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/suvcougar/1273657633/ MatthewField’s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewfield/2306001896/ Luc Legay’s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/1824234195/

Julie70’s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/2424793700/ 185Queen’s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/185queens/1268803822/ JimGrant’s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimgrant/257793151/ Joriel ‘Joz’ Jimenez’s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/joriel/3100236400/ bejealousofme's photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/thexbeautyxofxlove/2793965150/ Dave-F’s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/frield/95509221/

jurveston’s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/2242999901/ kk+ photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/1717899661/ Matt Hamm’s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthamm/2945559128/