This document discusses engaging communities through technology. It outlines three main groups - students, faculty, and a learning design community. For students, it notes how their access, use, and creation of media has changed with technology. It discusses efforts to systematically engage faculty through initiatives and support. It also describes an informal learning design community that meets regularly both online and in person to enhance teaching and learning.

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

2. Definitions

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

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

5. con ver sa tion
the informal exchange of ideas

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

7. Students

8. Short eTtention Span?

9. Short eTtention Span?

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

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

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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

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

17. 23% spend more than 5 hours a
week in online social spaces

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

19. Faculty

20. 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

21. Systematic Approach to Faculty Engagement

22. Driving Adoption

23. Driving Adoption

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

26.  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

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

30.  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

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

33. 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

34. New ideas + Faculty Engagement = New Learning Environments

35. Learning Design
Community

36. 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

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

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

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

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

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

42. Technology’s Role

43. Do you remember the first Internet?

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

45. HTML

46. 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.

47. Web 1.0

48. Web 1.0

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

50. Let’s just simplify ...

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

52. So, why not tap into this
space?

53. How ETS is Taking
Advantage of Web 2.0
A few examples

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

55. 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!

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

57. What other brands
have this loyalty?

58. Social Opportunities

60. 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

61. Public Information

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

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

66. 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

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

69. 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

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

73. So what?
(mash-up)

80. Analytics

81. Analytics

82. Real Time
Woopra

83. Real Time
Woopra

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

85. Another Example

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

88. New conversations.

95. Mashed up over 2,000
times.

96. Mashed up over 2,000
times.

97. 33% of PSU faculty use YouTube
as a classroom technology.

99. http://youtube.com/psutlt

103. New Support Models

104. Maybe the notion of
Web 2.0 is important

105. 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

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

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

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

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

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

111. 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

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

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

114. 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

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

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

117. Digital Commons
http://digitalcommons.psu.edu

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

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

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

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

122. Online Driving Face to Face

123. 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

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

125. Original Agenda

126. Community Contribution

127. Agenda Set Openly

128. No Forced Planning Community

129. Self Registration

130. Identity Building

131. Community Logos

132. Face to Face

133. TLT Symposium

134. 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

135. April 19, 2009

136. Discussion