Building a social learning environment

NAACE Annual Strategic Conference 2010 Blackpool, March 2010 Building a social learning environment Jane Hart Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies 17 March 2010 Presentation hashtag: #jhnaace © C4LPT | Slide 1

people students learners social learning environment connections community communication conversation collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving © C4LPT | Slide 2

people formal students structured learners social learning environment connections informal community personal directed communication group directed conversation intra‐organisational collaboration accidental/ sharing serendipitous keeping up to date problem solving © C4LPT | Slide 3

people formal course management system students structured virtual learning environment learners course space social learning environment connections informal personal learning environment community personal‐directed group spaces communication group ‐directed enterprise social environment conversation intra‐organisational collaboration accidental‐ sharing serendipitous keeping up to date problem solving © C4LPT | Slide 4

managed environment tracking and monitoring learning LEARNER CONTROL people formal course management system students structured virtual learning environment learners course space social learning environment connections informal personal learning environment community personal ‐directed group spaces communication group ‐directed enterprise social environment conversation intra‐organisational collaboration accidental‐ sharing serendipitous keeping up to date problem solving © C4LPT | Slide 5

people formal course management system students structured virtual learning environment learners course space social learning environment connections informal personal learning environment community personal‐ directed group spaces communication group‐directed enterprise social environment conversation intra‐organisational collaboration accidental‐ sharing serendipitous keeping up to date problem solving open environment supporting and enabling learning LEARNER AUTONOMY © C4LPT | Slide 6

Functionality Target audience Privacy Use Management Control © C4LPT | Slide 8

Twitter is a very simple – and yet very powerful – tool 50m users worldwide © C4LPT | Slide 9

Get started You may want to have separate personal and professional accounts You can protect your tweets – only people you allow to follow you will see them

connections community communication conversation Establish connections and build your community by collaboration following people sharing keeping up to date problem solving © C4LPT | Slide 11

connections Write a tweet – up to 140 characters community communication conversation collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving Ask questions Reply to someone or send them a message ‐ @ To send a private message to one of your followers ‐ D Re‐tweet someone’s tweet ‐ RT © C4LPT | Slide 12

connections community communication Share a weblink conversation collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving Shorten link to save space Share photos, music, videos, docs, etc © C4LPT | Slide 13

connections community Incorporate Twitter into presentation or learning communication conversation Use a backchannel ‐ a hashtag ‐ # collaboration sharing NAACE conference backchannel is #naace keeping up to date problem solving I’ve been auto‐tweeting using #jhnaace social learning © C4LPT | Slide 14

connections community Incorporate Twitter into presentation or learning communication conversation Use a backchannel ‐ a hashtag ‐ # collaboration sharing NAACE conference backchannel is #naace keeping up to date problem solving I’ve been auto‐tweeting using #naacejh social learning Who’s attending this session? #jhnaace I’m using the SAPWeb2.0 Twitter tools to auto‐ tweet, view feedback. © C4LPT | Slide 15

This slide was used to display the #jhnaace feed during the presentation

connections community Twitter in the classroom/workshop communication conversation For Pre‐, In‐ and Post‐class use collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving social learning © C4LPT | Slide 17

connections community Synchronous learning communication conversation collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving social learning #lrnchat is an online chat over the social messaging service Twitter that now happens twice every Thursday: first at 4:30‐6pm GMT (11:30am‐ 1pm ET) and then again at 8:30‐10pm ET/5:30‐ 7pm PST (1:30am‐3:00am GMT). © C4LPT | Slide 18

connections community communication conversation collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving social learning © C4LPT | Slide 19

connections community communication Micro‐learning conversation collaboration sharing keeping up to date “Microlearning deals with relatively small learning units problem solving and short‐term learning activities.” Wikipedia social learning A fact + a link Or even a quiz © C4LPT | Slide 20

connections community communication conversation collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving social learning © C4LPT | Slide 21

connections community communication Live streaming conversation collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving social learning © C4LPT | Slide 22

connections community communication Twitter polls to capture feedback conversation collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving social learning © C4LPT | Slide 23

connections community communication Private, Twitter group conversation collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving social learning © C4LPT | Slide 24

Twitter has over 400 million users worldwide If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest between the United States and Indonesia © C4LPT | Slide 25

Get started by opening an account You may want to have separate personal and professional accounts or use Facebook in different ways © C4LPT | Slide 26

connections On a personal page you establish connections and build community your community by becoming friends with people – this communication conversation is a reciprocal relationship. collaboration sharing You will need to ensure your privacy settings are as you keeping up to date want them – i.e. what information they see about you. problem solving © C4LPT | Slide 27

connections community On a professional (fan) page, Facebook members communication become fans of the page – there is no reciprocal conversation relationship. collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving © C4LPT | Slide 28

connections Another fan page community communication conversation collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving social learning © C4LPT | Slide 29

connections You can set up an open, closed or secret Facebook group community for specific activities. You can manage who joins. communication conversation collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving social learning © C4LPT | Slide 30

connections In each case, you update the status on your wall community communication conversation collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving Others can comment on someone’s update, and this is displayed underneath the update. © C4LPT | Slide 31

connections You can easily share a link, photo, video or event community Videos will play on the page. communication conversation collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving © C4LPT | Slide 32

connections community You can also set up discussion topics or events in the communication different tabs. conversation collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving social learning There’s also internal messaging and live chat. © C4LPT | Slide 33

connections community Facebook also has a large number of applications to add communication extra functionality for both the teacher/trainer and the conversation student/learner collaboration sharing keeping up to date problem solving Slideshare – import your existing social learning slides into Facebook Courses – add your courses and activities Webinaria – record a screencast Poll – to capture feedback © C4LPT | Slide 34

Over 1 million Ning communities have been set up on the Ning social platform Easy to set up an open or closed community and add the functionality that you require, and the “look and feel” that you want. Easy to manage. © C4LPT | Slide 35

A Ning network has the familiar networking functionality … Profile page Sub‐groups includes blog, file sharing Members list Discussion Chat © C4LPT | Slide 36

Open source social engine to create a social environment. Fully customisable and configurable using core and 3rd party plugins. Provides an open infrastructure © C4LPT | Slide 38

An Elgg‐powered social network can include the familiar networking functionality but also provides access to a range of social media tools for personal use … © C4LPT | Slide 39

Which SLE is right for you will depend on many different factors Functionality Target audience Privacy Use Management Control Which of these 4 platforms would you like to use as a SLE? ? http://poll.fm/1phzv © C4LPT | Slide 43

Building a social learning environment Resources Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies : www.c4lpt.co.uk Social Media & Learning Handbook : www.c4lpt.co.uk/handbook How to use Twitter for Social Learning : www.c4lpt.co.uk/140Learning/twitter.html How to use Facebook for Social Learning: www.c4lpt.co.uk/140Learning/facebook.html Jane Hart Twitter : www.twitter.com/c4lpt Facebook : www.facebook.com/c4lpt Email: jane.hart@c4lpt.co.uk © C4LPT | Slide 44

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