ITS Forum 2008: Connecting Communities

Engaging our Communities Cole W. Camplese Director, Education Technology Services cole@psu.edu http://www.personal.psu.edu/cwc5/blogs/updates

Deﬁnitions

en gage cause someone to become involved in (a conversation or discussion)

com mu ni ty a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals

con ver sa tion the informal exchange of ideas

Our Communities 3 Groups http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/f-r-a-n-k/515745060/

Students

Short eTtention Span?

Student Challenges “Technology is only technology to those born before technology.” --Alan Kay

This Changes Everything • How they access information • How they connect with media • How they control media • How they create media

This Changes Everything Search is research • How they access information • How they connect with media • How they control media • How they create media

This Changes Everything 40% of our students watch TV on their • How they accessinformation computer • How they connect with media • How they control media • How they create media

This Changes Everything • How they access information DVR/TiVo is the way to • How they connect with media consume • How they control media • How they create media

This Changes Everything • How they access information • How they connect with media at PSU create media 32% • How they control media • How they create media

This Changes Everything • How they access information • How they connect with media • How they control media • How they create media

23% spend more than 5 hours a week in online social spaces

So we know they’ll engage given the right set of opportunities.

Faculty

Faculty • More than ever, faculty are expecting new opportunities to engage students • As soon as we embraced a more open culture, they started coming to us • Our focus has been on the ﬁrst two thirds of the curve

Systematic Approach to Faculty Engagement

Driving Adoption

 All sorts of ways to make our audiences aware of opportunities:  Hot Teams  Engagement Initiative  Face-to-face  Online  Podcasts

 Smallteams dedicated to exploring a single technology or approach for use in teaching and learning  Short time cycles – about 5 weeks  Deliverablesinclude white papers, presentations, and recommendations on further investigation

 Outcomes are shared with interested faculty  We work alongside them to provide:  Guidance  Support  Assessment  Equipment/Funding  Welearn so much more by watching them

 Readone of our Hot Team white papers on podcasting  Thought she’d be interested in trying it out  Proposal asked for a handful of iPod Nanos with voice recorders

 Newspaper story pointed us to her blog  Therewe came across links to podcasts … cool enough

They produced enhanced podcasts & interactive tours of each entry She took her students to D.C. for the Solar Decathlon Students investigated every house and plotted them in Google Earth

New ideas + Faculty Engagement = New Learning Environments

Learning Design Community

Who? • People just like all of us working to enhance teaching and learning with technology • Getting out in front has given us the potential to excite new parts of our community • Open invitations encourage participation

(in)Formal Opportunities • Tweet Meet • BS Breakfasts • BS Bookclub • ETS Talk Podcast

(in)Formal Opportunities By the community • Tweet Meet • BS Breakfasts • BS Bookclub • ETS Talk Podcast

(in)Formal Opportunities Every Friday at 9 • Tweet Meet AM at Irving’s • BS Breakfasts • BS Bookclub • ETS Talk Podcast

(in)Formal Opportunities • Tweet Meet Wiki Decisions • BS Breakfasts and Discussions • BS Bookclub • ETS Talk Podcast

(in)Formal Opportunities • Tweet Meet • BS Breakfasts Recorded and • BS Bookclub Shared in an Hour • ETS Talk Podcast

Technology’s Role

Do you remember the ﬁrst Internet?

Web 1.0 • The ﬁrst time around the web was: • Very static • Hard to create for Photo Credit: Gregory Williams via Flickr

Web 1.0 • The ﬁrst time around the web was: • Very static • Hard to create for • A one way platform (except for commerce) Originally built to allow scientists and researchers to share and collaborate at a Photo Credit: Gregory Williams via Flickr distance.

Web 1.0

Web 2.0 “architecture of participation” --Tim O’Reilly

Let’s just simplify ...

Web 2.0 • For our conversation, Web 2.0 is: • Easy • Available • Collaborative • Web 2.0 is participation • Web 2.0 is people

So, why not tap into this space?

How ETS is Taking Advantage of Web 2.0 A few examples

Social Spaces • Environments that enable: • Proﬁle creation • FOAF opportunities • Ad hoc group formation • Connections and collaboration

FaceBook • Nationally 75-85% of College students are in the FaceBook • 83% of PSU students are in the FB 8% are starting in High School ... today • 60% log in daily and 80% update their proﬁles several times a month!

“I just can’t be a college student without Facebook”

What other brands have this loyalty?

Social Opportunities

PSU Library FB Application • First day available nearly 900 students added the application • About 2,000 current users • Dozens of searches a day out of the FB

Public Information

Fresh Content • Everyday a TLT Coffee Read is posted by Jamie

Fresh Content • Everyday a TLT Coffee Read is posted by Jamie • Every Friday Jamie posts the TLT BuzzLion

Fresh Content • Everyday a TLT Coffee Read is posted by Jamie • Every Friday Jamie posts the TLT BuzzLion • Fresh content everyday ﬁlls up subscribers RSS readers and powers google results

Love to say we’re number one, but I’ll take second place in a crowded space! #2 out of 64,400,000 results

Fresh Content • Everyday a TLT Coffee Read is posted by Jamie • Every Friday Jamie posts the TLT BuzzLion • Fresh content everyday ﬁlls up subscribers RSS readers and powers google results • Twitter takes over from there

Followers • People that follow you see all your updates • Can send direct (private) messages • Can send a public message using @username

So what? (mash-up)

Analytics

Real Time Woopra

Connected communities are changing the speed in which conversations are shared.

Another Example

Internet users watched 10 billion videos online in December 2007. http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2051

New conversations.

Mashed up over 2,000 times.

33% of PSU faculty use YouTube as a classroom technology.

http://youtube.com/psutlt

New Support Models

Maybe the notion of Web 2.0 is important

The Community Hub • Each major initiative is supported by an online Community Hub space • Every member of the Penn State community is free to access and create content • Open access for anyone to read

ANGEL Community Hub http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/angel

Opportunities to Engage ANGEL Community Hub http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/angel

Podcasts Videocasts Town Hall ANGEL Shorts Meetings Opportunities to Engage ELSS Program TLA Program ANGEL Community Hub http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/angel

ANGEL Community Hub http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/angel

Some First Year Stats ANGEL Community Hub http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/angel

Over 1500 Over 200 members unique posts Over 1500 Some First Year Stats Over 150 RSS subscribers unique comments ANGEL Community Hub http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/angel

Connect Community Hub http://meeting.psu.edu

Recent Milestones Connect Community Hub http://meeting.psu.edu

Nearly Launched on 10,000 April 1, 2007 registered users Over Recent Milestones Multiple posts 10,000 reads a per day month Connect Community Hub http://meeting.psu.edu

Educational Gaming Community Hub http://gaming.psu.edu/

Learning Design Community Hub http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/learningdesign

Digital Commons http://digitalcommons.psu.edu

Podcasting Community Hub http://podcasts.psu.edu

Blogging Community Hub http://blogger.psu.edu

Symposium Community Hub http://sympsoium.tlt.psu.edu/

Community Aggregator http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/communities

Online Driving Face to Face

Learning Design Summer Camp • Two day event at UP bringing together over 100 members of the learning design community • Open design with huge contribution by the community • Wiki planning, registration, organizing, marketing, and everything in between

http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/wiki

Original Agenda

Community Contribution

Agenda Set Openly

No Forced Planning Community

Self Registration

Identity Building

Community Logos

Face to Face

TLT Symposium

TLT Symposium • Viewed as a ﬂagship event • We are working on driving attendance for next year • Blogging, photo sharing, podcasts, and so much more used to extend the event across PSU

April 19, 2009

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ITS Forum 2008: Connecting Communities

by Cole Camplese on Dec 05, 2008

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