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1. Best Practices in Afrikan-centered
Web 2.0 Education
THE MANDATE “PRESSURE”
(Via Social Networking)
By FROLINAN Scholar

2. How to Use the
Internet
To Learn,
Master & Teach
NU Afrikan
Liberation
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3. Exploring Best Practices in
Social Networking
Topics Covered:
1) Exploring Best Practices in Social Networking
2) Computer Revolution / Communication / Information age
3) What is Social Networking?
4) The Conversation: The Art of Listening, Learning and Sharing
5) Social Networking Applications
6) Microblogging “tweets” Link to cell phone
7)Twitter, Known as the Swiss Army of Social Media
8) Why Educators/Organizers/Activist/Movements Need Go Social
9) Marketing, recruitment, Monitoring conversations referencing your
group
10) Blogging
11) Podcasting
12) Platform for creating your own social network very easy
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4. Exploring Best Practices in
Social Networking
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5. Exploring Best Practices in
Social Networking (2)
Show of Hands: How many people have/use any of these social
networks/tools?
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6. The Computer Revolution
Communication & Information
Technology (CIT) Age
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7. What is Social Networking?
The interaction between a group of people
who share a common interest
Web 2.0 is a concept that takes the network
as a platform for information sharing,
interoperability, user-centered design, and
collaboration on the World Wide Web. A
Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and
collaborate with each other in a social media
dialogue as creators (prosumers) of usergenerated content in a virtual community, in
contrast to websites where users
(consumers) are limited to the passive
viewing of content that was created for
them.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
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8. What is Social Networking?(2)
Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites,
blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web
applications, mashups and folksonomies /social
tagging.
What is social media?
A category of sites that is based on user
participation and user-generated content.
Software tools that allow groups to generate
content and engage in peer-to-peer
conversations and exchange of content.
 Multi-Dimensional,
 Involve,
 Create,
 Discuss,
 Promote,
 Measure
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9. Social Networking Applications
These are the 6 that make
RBG Communiversity Tick
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10. The Conversation:
The Art of Listening, Learning and Sharing
RBG-BLAKADEMIXTAPE-VOL 2-NU-AFRIKAN-EDITION
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11. Microblogging “tweets”
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12. Known as the Swiss Army of Social Media
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13. Why Educators/Organizers/Activist
/ Movements Need Go Social
Improve instruction
Global collaboration
Sharing of resources
Discussion
Knowledge acquisition
Why Schools/Universities Use
Twitter
Communication,
Events,
Meetings School closings, Student
honors, live scores/Updates
Campus, Weather,
News/RSS feeds,
Emergency information
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14. Publishing, Marketing, Recruitment
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Agency overview
Formed
1958
Headquarters
Arlington, Virginia
Employees
240
Annual budget
$3.2 billion
Agency executive
Dr. Kaigham J.
Gabriel[1], Director
Parent agency
Monitoring
Department of
Defense
Website
DARPA.mil
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H
istory_of_the_Internet
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15. Blogs
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16. Blogs(2)
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17. Podcasting
Example: BlogTalk Radio
A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of
audio files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or
streamed online to a computer or mobile device. The word is a
neologism derived from "broadcast" and "pod" from the success of the
iPod, as podcasts are often listened to on portable media players.
Example:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rbg4lif
RBG4Lif Report | Blog Talk Radio Feed
www.blogtalkradio.com/rbg4lif.rss
An RSS feed icon, commonly used to indicate the Web feed for a podcast
A list of all the audio or video files currently associated with a given series is maintained
centrally on the distributor's server as a web feed, and the listener or viewer employs
special client application software, known as a podcatcher, that can access this web feed,
check it for updates, and download any new files in the series.
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18. “Its Creativity, Imagination,
Intellect and Historical Accuracy”
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19. “Its Creativity, Imagination,
Intellect and Historical Accuracy”
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20. SUMMARY:
Take Home Points
Best Practices for Afrikan –centered Educators/ Schools,
Organizers, Leaders, Activist:
“PUT THA PRESSURE ON EM”
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Keep it professional
Remember your role within the community
Think before you post to the internet Digital footprint
Policy Development
Why You Should Use Social Media
Communication
Public Relations Professional Growth
Branding
Opportunity
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21. THE END,
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