Modeling social media in groups, communities, and networks - Socialnetworking 2009 Online Conference

Modeling social media in groups, communities, and networks Vance Stevens Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE Prepared for the AVEALMEC/ARCALL online conference on Social Networking November 5-8, 2009 http://avealmec.org.ve/ Attribution: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fractal_nevit_60.png Detailed information at http://tinyurl.com/vance-socialnet09

Where to begin?
How about with some pieces loosely joined?
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle Attribution: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/y58UDZ0ies25xvJ-HYCgXQ

Where to begin?
How about with this thought
From Stephen Downes, Learning the Web 2.0 Way
http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/personal-learning-the-web-20-way

Where do we get our models?
Our daily network interactions; e.g.
Morning Tweets

Nings http://cck2009.ning.com/ http://multiliteracies.ning.com/video

Webcasts, Podcasts http://edtechtalk.com/live http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/

Edmodo Modeled and demonstrated by Nicky Hockley, #Socialnet09

Waves Who are the early pouncers ? http://wave.google.com

Waves and Wikis http://webheadswave.wikispaces.com/

Future of Learning in a Networked World http://flnw.wikispaces.com/Brazil

Knowledge (Creative Commons) Attribution: http://www.kelvybird.com/facilitation/scribing/workingknowledge.html

How did you learn about Creative Commons? http://creativecommons.org/

How did you LEARN how to find Creative Commons Images?

Heard it through the grapevine? http://delicious.com/vancestevens/art Attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonastherkildsen/122881874 /

One State of Knowledge http://www.wblut.com/constructs/cyclic/

Knowledge Changes http://www.wblut.com/constructs/cyclic/

Paradigm Shift http://www.wblut.com/constructs/cyclic/

Paradigm Shifts in Education http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/2007alexandria/web20arabia.htm

10 Aspects of Paradigm Shift
Pedagogy : Didactic --> constructivist
Modeling : Do as I say --> AND as I do
Transfer : Technology enjoyed at leisure is F.U.N. --> also, applied to professional practice
Trepidation : Will they find out? --> ok to say “I don’t know!”
Literacy : Print literacy --> multiliteracies
Heuristics : Client server --> peer to peer
Sharing : Copyrighted --> creative commons
Classification : Taxonomies --> folksonomies
Directionality : Push --> pull
Ownership : Proprietary --> open source

Paradigm Shifts in Wordle.net

Can’t get enough Wordle.net

Configurations for sharing and dissemination of knowledge
Groups
Communities
Communities of practice
Connectivist perspectives
Personal learning networks
Distributed learning networks
Rhyzomic learning
Attribution: Nancy White http://www.fullcirc.com/

Configurations
Groups

Configurations
Groups
Communities

Configurations
Groups
Communities
Domain
Practice
Community

Configurations
Groups
Communities
Networks can include overlapping communities

Configurations
Groups
Communities
Networks and sample Connections

Webheads started as EFL class in 1998
WiA formed as result of 2002 EVO sesson
Educators who engage in
Helping each other pursue lifelong, just-in-time, informal learning
Through experimentation in use of social-media and computer mediated communications tools
Webheads in Action Online Convergence WiAOC 2005, 2007, 2009 http://wiaoc.org

Webheads: Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/

Webheads: Community Attribution: http:// flickr.com/photos/94794165@N00/410359410/

Webheads: Community of Practice http://webheadsinaction.org/

Personal Learning Networks Scott Leslie's PLE (above) and more PLE diagrams: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

Getting back to knowledge Attribution: http://www.kelvybird.com/facilitation/scribing/workingknowledge.html

Knowledge dissimenation through communities and networks
Downes on distributed learning networks
Knowing ( where’s Waldo?) Once you know, you can’t not know
Knowledge exists throughout nodes in a network
Wenger notes (2002:6) ‏
Increasing complexity of knowledge requires greater … collaboration; whereas …
Half life of knowledge is getting shorter

Cormier - Rhizomatic Learning to deal with increasingly rapid obsolescence of knowledge
Knowledge dissimenation through communities and networks http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1380055

Siemens – Connectivism stresses importance of pipes over content
Knowledge dissimenation through communities and networks Attribution: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venice_-_Piping.jpg

Siemens – Connectivism – dealing with explosion of available info http://www.wiziq.com/TutorSession/Session.aspx?JuX%2bgH%2b2GbYuXrqZqj1F3uIA%2fgrtIiAEcKQ3usZlk1VhT5GwwVHz6vferdj5MlOz5JOdRjZO8mc%3d http://tinyurl.com/siemens-socialnet09

Implications for Teacher Professional Development
Jack Richards plenary Denver TESOL 2009 (March 27) ‏
About what teachers need to KNOW in order to practice effectively
Research indicates that teachers tend to revert to traditional methods rather than activate what they are exposed to in training curricula
Derick Wenmouth (also from NZ) mentioned similar research findings at K-12 Online 2008 http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=181

Problems
Teacher-trainers
without sufficient experience with technology and
rooted in old-school methodologies
simply not modeling new age learning behaviors for trainees
Attribution: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8aagIQGZq-RyFMO1dFHHNg

Problems
Students and staff
love to learn but hate to be taught,
resent top-down approach forced on them by managers sometimes out of touch with actual needs of students and staff
Attribution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxHb5QVD7fo&feature=player_embedded

Solutions
Allow, facilitate, encourage networking in meetings, conferences, classrooms
Offer workshops/projects bottom up, as something that staff/students organize themselves
Create atmosphere encouraging formation of communities of practice where staff/students interact with peers in other institutions

Models for professional and student skills development
Encourage teams to organize training sessions that utilize synchronous and non-synchronous social media tools. Call them something other than ‘training’ sessions
Use Nings / Moodles / wikis / Google Wave / Jing / uTiPu / or other LMS/CMS to replace outmoded email attachment systems
http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/06/speedlifing.html
Hold un-conferences and other grass roots events such as
Bar camps
LAN parties
Speed-geeking
Speed Lifing

Keep current, participate with peers around the world in:
Social networks: Ning, TappedIn, EVO, WiAOC
Social bookmarking: Delicious, Diigo
Groups: YahooGroups and GoogleGroups
Microblogging: Twitter, Plurk
Instant messaging: Yahoo Messenger, Skype

Keep current, participate with peers around the world in:
Blogging and podcasting: keeping current via RSS
Wikis: PBWiki, Wikispaces
Aggregation: Technorati, Pageflakes, Netvibes, Protopages, iGoogle, http://addictomatic.com

This suggests that …
Key to success in keeping current is in expanding productive contacts within a network
Attribute: d'arcy norman touchgraph: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/436670816/

Thanks for joining Vance Stevens and friends … at AVEALMEC/ARCALL 2009 Social Networking Conference http://avealmec.org.ve/

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