Blogs are online journals that allow for the sharing of information and fostering of connected communities. Social media are online platforms that enable the sharing of various types of user-generated content and real-time interactions between users. Educators can harness the collaborative power of social media and user-generated content in their teaching by encouraging students to contribute to online discussions, collaboratively annotate materials, and participate in other participatory activities that develop communities of learning.

1. Social Media:
Creating a Space for Conversation
Carolyn Guertin, PhD
UOIT | EDUC 5405G
12 May 15

2. What is a blog (or a vlog)?

3. Blogs

4. Blog is short for ‘weblog,’ an online
journal or information site
It is part soapbox…

5. Part connected community…

6. …and part information resource

7. Blogs, like all Web
2.0 technologies,
mark a revolution
in the technologies
of production.

8. Some of the most influential blogs
today include:
• Ariana Huffington/Huffington Post
• New York Times OpEd
• BoingBoing
• TechCrunch
• Jezebel
• Tim Ferris (http://fourhourworkweek.com/blog/)
• Tinu Abayomi-Paul (WomenGrowBusiness.com)
• David Pogue
• Clay Shirky

9. Revolution?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI&feature=user
Mena Trott

10. What are social media?

11. Definition of SOCIAL MEDIA:
Social media are the online platforms
that foster virtual communities for
collaborative practices and the
sharing of information.

12. Social media have the following characteristics
• 1. Are format-specific including text, video, photographs, audio,
slidesharing, etc. (Social content is a by-product of creating content with
your community.)
• 2. Allow interactions to cross one or more platforms through social
sharing, email and feeds.
• 3. Involve different types of engagement by users who can create,
comment or lurk on social media networks.
• 4. Spread information faster and further.
• 5. Provide for one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many
communications.
• 6. Enable communication to take place in real time or asynchronously
over time.
• 7. Are device indifferent. They can take place via a computer (including
laptops and netbooks), tablets (including iPads, iTouch and others) and
mobile phones (particularly smartphones).
• 8. Extend engagement by creating real-time online events, extending
online interactions offline, or augmenting live events online.

13. CINDERELLA 2.0:
HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=CP-ZOCL5MD0

14. How can (or do) you use
social media in your teaching?
Why?

15. User Generated Content
• Definition: The production of content by the general
public rather than by paid professionals and experts
in the field. Also called “peer production”, and
available on the Web via social media platforms, user
generated content refers to material such as the daily
news, encyclopedias, and other reference sources,
movie and product reviews, as well as articles on any
subject, all of which have traditionally been written by
editors, journalists, and academics.
• It’s ‘conversational media’ versus ‘the packaged
goods media’ of the 20th
century.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/user+generated

16. Future of Storytelling Summit:
http://www.deepmediaonline.com/deepmedia/2014/01/the-future-of-storyte
Watch Video: “When the audience has an audience”
at the link below…

17. How do we harness this kind
of energy for our teaching?

18. Web 1.0
Users as Consumers

19. Click
Share
The age of personal and personalizable media.

20. Web 2.0
A Two-Way, Collaborative Environment

21. The user is a contributor

22. The language of social media. Why?
What social media do you use?

23. Videoconferencing
with sources
http://www.skype.com/

24. We have been conditioned to think of media
usage as a passive experience

25. Screen technologies have become so small and
ubiquitous that users now carry their own
programming with them.

26. From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeaAHv4UTI8

27. Web 2.0 has its own philosophy, language and praxis.

28. It signals the birth of new cooperative and
collaborative models.

29. https://storify.com/

30. Social networking & microblogging: fostering online communities

31. Mashups
• Earthalbum -
• http://www.earthalbum.com
• WikipediaVision -
• http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/
• Visual Search Lab – Reverse Search
Engine:
• http://labs.ideeinc.com/visual/#random=971197
• Google maps mashups -
• http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/

32. Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking tool.
Wonderful for collaboration and research.

33. What is social bookmarking?

34. “Social Bookmarking in Plain English”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBmvDpVbWc

35. Social annotation, notetaking or
collaborative research
Take notes in your browser.
Leave notes on the Web.
http://www.diigo.com http://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide

36. the cost of
creation and
distribution has
collapsed
1

37. Crowdsourcing is one of the most
effective new strategies
Kevin MacDonald’s
Life In A Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8S4gGI4nRo

38. we live in an era of
participation
2

39. from copyright to creative
commons

40. collective intelligence is
often superior to expert
knowledge
5

41. wikis
vs.

42. Podcasts

43. Podcast??

44. Podcasting has been called radio…
without the audience

45. Podcasts feature this
orange icon, which
indicates an RSS* feed
*Really Simple Syndication

46. If I podcast, will they come?

47. Podscope is a google for audio and video files:
http://www.podscope.com/

48. The campus that never sleeps: iTunes U
http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu/
Podcasts Demystified

49. Subscribe to Podcasts with
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

50. Design for How People Learn
Julie Dirksen

51. Contact?
Carolyn Guertin
skype: carolyn_guertin
email: cguertin@uoit.ca
http://carolynguertin.com/