The document summarizes the notes from a university class about social networking and teaching. It discusses classroom roles, mid-term feedback from students, DIY learning approaches, open learning networks, and final projects. Students will explore an online tool and create a resource to convince others of the validity of using social media or web 2.0 tools in education.

1. #udsnf12
EDUC639
Social networking
Week 9 – Forth class meeting
October 22, 2012
Mathieu Plourde

2. Deep into the third layer
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
21st century Teacher
teaching and stories and
practices
learning
Making connections for
professional Personal
development learning
environment/
Personal productivity and network
Information management
2

3. On deck…
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
• Classroom roles
• Feedback from mini-survey
• DIY learning
• Open learning network
• Projects
• Recap
Someone remind
Mathieu to start the
3
broadcast, OK?

4. CLASSROOM ROLES
4
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012

5. Roles
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
• Google Jockey
• Backchannel Moderator
• Archivist
• Recapper
• Ed Tech Analyst
Create a public Google
Document and share the URL
as a comment to the post for
5
class materials (10-22-2012).

6. MID-TERM FEEDBACK
6
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012

7. How much time do you spend?
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
Hours spend per week
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0 7
Less than 3 3 to 6 6 to 9 More than 9

8. Positive feedback
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
• “forces me out of my comfort zone”
• “class discussions have been engaging”
• “diversity of participants and opinions”
• “remote attendance is fantastic”
• “I love the interviews that are with actual people
who share their expertise to our class - like we
have our own chapter in an ebook!”
• “video feedback on Canvas”
• “instructor’s passion and knowledge” 8

9. Could be better…
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
• “so much content generated every week”
• “lacks steadiness, sequence could be improved”
• “the technology seems to become a distraction”
• “more K12 focus”
• “I am learning about them for my personal use
but I still am hesitant on bringing them into the
classroom”
• “Can we pick one and stick with it?”
9

10. Remaining topics…
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
• Week 10 - Copyright and fair use (with Meg!)
• Week 11 - Digital storytelling
• Weeks 12, 13 – You decide!
• Weeks 14, 15 - Final projects
10

11. Potential topics
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
• Week 12, 13:
• K12 banned services/strategies
• Metrics
• Mobile
• Open educational resources
• Teacher practices
• Take a minute, and think of topics you would like
to explore.
11

12. DIY LEARNING
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
12

13. Shallow vs. deep knowledge
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
13

14. Are you chunking yet?
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
NOVICE LITERATE EXPERT
… gets stuck on … sees patterns,
details, sees narrows down the
everything as options on
significant. instinct.
Unitization, like “chunking”, describes a process allowing information to be
encoded or processed more efficiently. The idea is that the information capacity
of certain cognitive functions, such as working memory, is fixed.
14
- Philip Kellman and Patrick Garrigan, Perceptual learning and human expertise (2008)
Physics of Life Reviews 6 (2009) 53–84

15. JUST-IN-CASE
IV
III
PLANNED
UNPLANNED
Context for learning
I
II
JUST-IN-TIME
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
15

16. Be the bridge
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
16

17. OPEN LEARNING NETWORK
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
17

18. #udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
18
Source: Jonathan Mott, Educause Review

19. TOOL EXPLORATION PROJECT
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
19

20. Tool exploration project
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
• Choose an online tool
• Create an account
• Test it out
• Document your experience
• … through an online web presence of your
choice, but including at least one short
screencast to demonstrate the tool (images and
narration). 20

21. Tool exploration project
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
• (Short) analysis of the potential
• Personal productivity
• Professional development
• Educational settings
• Try to find at least one story of someone
describing the use of the tool as a part of their
personal learning process or in an educational
setting (in-class, distance, or hybrid). Or think of 21
one.

22. FINAL PROJECT
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
22

23. Final project
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
“The final project should focus on finding a good
question to answer in relation to your line of
work, trying to find potential answers that involve
the use of social media or web 2.0 services, and
then building a web resource a colleague or
administrator could explore independently in
twenty minutes or less, that would convince the
target person of the validity of your solution (or at
least of your question)”
23

24. Final project
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
• Ideally in groups of two to four, individual
projects accepted
• Start defining your topics, building your teams
• Two deliverables
• Presentations: Nov. 26 and Dec. 3
• Web site: Dec. 7
Project on deck:
• Text4GreatKids project 24

25. RECAP
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
25

26. 5 big ideas and 2 questions
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
26

27. Week 9 – Online homework
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
• Check out week 9 materials
• Blog post, due on Saturday night
27

28. Questions and feedback
#udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Oct. 22, 2012
• Stay after class to fix tech issues, discuss ideas
for projects.
28