eTwinning workshop on
Social software
Riina Vuorikari
European Schoolnet
riina.vuorikari@eun.org

Based on “Social networking and copyright” by
Hans Põldoja
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Learning resources and
copyright

Copyright laws
• Educational use in motivated amount
is permitted (fair use)
• You need author’s agreement to
distribute, adapt or translate the
resource.

How to recognize the license?

http://creativecommons.org/

Topics
Social software
1. CREATE
2. SHARE
3. USE and REMIX

Social media
1. CREATE: Easy creation of content by everyone
• not only the ones who have the technical knowledge
• many tools available on the Web for anyone to use for free
2. SHARE: Sharing of content is made MUCH easier, thanks to handy
ways of aggregating content
3. USE and REMIX of content is made easier thanks to easy and
freely available software and licensing like Creative Commons

Social software
Any web-based software tool that supports or fosters group
interaction. It enables people to connect and collaborate through
technology-mediated communication.
Characteristics:
• 1. User-profle
• 2. Social networks between users displayed in relation to the
profle, features to support networking
• 3. Annotate any artefacts

Video: Social media
http://dotsub.com/view/f810c5b5-b8dc-4946-a58f-5f7ce7ce4d44

Practical cases of using social
networking tools for learning

CREATE

Blogs
[WordPress]

Blogging terms
• Post
• Comment
• Category
• Blogroll
• RSS feed

http://htk.tlu.ee/etwinest07/

WordPress

WordPress

Getting WordPress
•Free hosting
• http://wordpress.com/
• http://edublogs.org/
•Installing to your own web server
• http://wordpress.org/

Collaborative writing
[writeboard, Google docs]

http://www.writeboard.com

http://www.writeboard.com

http://docs.google.com/

http://docs.google.com/

image manipulation
[sumopaint]

photo sharing
[Flickr]

http://www.fickr.com/

http://www.fickr.com/

movie sharing
[Youtube]

http://www.youtube.com

movie translation
[dotsub]

sharing slides
[Slideshare]

You will fnd these slides at:
http://slideshare.net/vuorikari
http://slideshare.net/

http://slideshare.net/

Frappr! and social mapping

http://www.frappr.com/

SHARE through
tags and ratings
other people
feeds

SHARE: THROUGH TAGS

Folksonomy
i.e.
user created keywords

Terms
• Folksonomy
• Tag
• Tag cloud

Choosing a tag for your event
• eTwinningIschia2008
Choosing a tag for yourself
• mathdrill
• toread
• forpupils

http://www.fickr.com/

Social bookmarking
[tags]

http://del.icio.us/

http://del.icio.us/

http://del.icio.us/

Ratings

Rating learning resources, http://www.melt-project.eu

THROUGH PEOPLE

Feeds (e.g. RSS, Atom)
- pick up feeds and read them
- aggregate from friends

http://www.bloglines.com

http://www.feedreader.com/

RSS readers
• Feedreader:
http://www.feedreader.com
• NetNewsWire Lite:
http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
• Lifrea: http://liferea.sourceforge.net/

e.g. Jaiku, Friends Feeds

Searching and aggregating RSS

http://www.technorati.com

http://www.technorati.com/tag/learnip2006

Where to fnd open educational
resources?

http://www.oercommons.org/

http://wikieducator.org/

http://www.wikipedia.org/

http://en.wikibooks.org/

http://en.wikiversity.org/

http://cnx.org/

http://ocw.mit.edu

Slides available at
NING
thanks! attention
for your
social networks user communities
discover people and projects
questions?