Social Media & Web 2.0 for Learning (2nd Edition)

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Zaid Ali Alsagoff
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Are These 4 Tools Useless for Learning?

If Social Media were a University
Adapted from: http://www.flowtown.com/blog/class-of-2011-if-social-media-were-a-high-school

Don’t Get Confused!
Source: http://tinyurl.com/47zxymk

MISSION

Starting with this Crash Course…
A Gentle Introduction, It Is Only…

CONTENTS
The Future?
RSS & Curation
Blogging
Twitter
Facebook
Wikis
Other Tools?
Challenges

1
The Future?

FUTURE?
Learning Overload!
Image Source: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/03/31/business/31short.600.jpg

TheFuture of Education...?
James L. Morrison
Source: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/cck11-connectivism-connective-knowledge.html

Graduates Must Be Able To…
Function in a global economy for job success in the 21st century.
Work effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds.
Work as a team member.
Access, analyze, process, and communicate information.
Function creatively and innovatively.
Use information technology tools effectively.
Engage in continuous, independent learning.
Source: http://horizon.unc.edu/projects/presentations/HiED%20in%20transition.pdf

TheFuture of Learning...?
Source: http://tinyurl.com/3ybwox7

The eXtended Web
Web x.0
Web 3.0
Semantic Web
Meta Web
Connects knowledge
Connects intelligence
Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2011
Degree of Information Connectivity
Web 1.0
Web 2.0
The Web
Social Web
Connects people
Connects information
Degree of Social Connectivity

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/the-future-of-learning-6809148

Connectivism
George Siemens &
Stephen Downes
Source: http://www.elearnspace.org/media/ProfessionalDevelopment/player.html

Learning Using A Network of Diverse Technologies
Source: http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=668

Connectivism & Connective Knowledge 2011
Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/cck11-connectivism-connective-knowledge.html

Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2011
Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html

PLE
Where to Start?
Source: http://www.pamorama.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/artoflistening.jpg

Can the Power of Connections Transform Education?
Source: http://weblogg-ed.com/2011/personal-learning-networks-an-excerpt/

THE MOMENT YOU EMBRACE SOCIAL MEDIA, LEARNING GOES…
“There are more than 200 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.”
Source (March, 2011): http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

Are YOU Ready?

2
RSS & Curation

RSS in Plain English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU

With RSS You Can Create Your Own Online Newspaper

What is RSS?
RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary.
It is a web page with a .xml file type that can be subscribed to and read by a newsreader (aggregator). The aggregator will find the new content and display it when it becomes available.
Newsreaders (sometimes called aggregators) are very easy to find and use (stand alone applications or through a web browser).
In essence, it is content that comes to you, instead of having to search for it. It will save you an infinite amount of time.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

Ways RSS is being used:

“My” Google Reader
http://www.google.com/reader

Personal Learning Spaces
http://www.netvibes.com/
http://www.pageflakes.com/
http://www.google.com/ig

Social Bookmarking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU

Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata (tags).
Folksonomy (from folk + taxonomy) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

Social Bookmarking Tools
http://www.delicious.com/
http://www.diigo.com/

My” Delicious Bookmarks
http://delicious.com/zaidlearn

Social Bookmarking For Learning
BUILD
Learning Networks
Literature Review
Research Groups
Bibliography
Search for Resources
Course Collections
Reading Lists
Subscribe to Tags

Social Curation
“…Today there is a new wave of social bookmarking tools in the name of 'Social Curation', which are empowered with some really innovative collaborative sharing tools to make sense of the overloaded web by organizing discoveries and resources into mind-stimulating topics, stories, collections, etc..”
– Zaid Ali Alsagoff
Source: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/buzzing-with-social-curation-tools.html

Social Curation Tools
Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/buzzing-with-social-curation-tools.html

3
Blogging

133+ Million Blogs!
Source: http://www.intac.net/breakdown-of-the-blogosphere/
December, 2009

Why + What People Blog?
December, 2009
Education?
Teaching?
Learning?
Blogger: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/24/google-facts-and-figures-massive-infographic/

How Much People Are Blogging?
Me?
You?
We?
December, 2009

Blogs in Plain English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI

What is a Blog?
A blog (short of weblog) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.
Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.
"Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

Blogging for Learning?
Reflect your teaching and learning experiences.
Group projects to co-produce content.
Build a class newsletter.
Post latest Industrial-related trends and news.
Post materials and resources.
Host online discussions.

Student Project
Story: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/student-blogging-project-to-promote.html

Blogging Tools?
https://www.blogger.com/
http://wordpress.com/
http://www.edublogs.org/

4
Twitter

90+ Million
“12percent of Facebook users update their status every day vs. 52 percent for Twitter”
190+ Million Users
“25% of tweets contain links”
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/breaking-news/2010-social-networking-wars-twitter-vs-facebook-infographic.html
http://technology.eoutputs.com/2010/09/twitter-seeing-90-million-tweets-per-day-25-percent-contain-links/

Twitter
A form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually 140 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user.
http://twitter.com/

Twitter for Learning?
Share ideas, experiences, news and links.
Follow experts, subjects or learning domains.
Follow/Create course/topic related #hashtags.
Build learning communities.
Chunked perfectly for mobile learning.
Conversational learning beyond the classroom.

Use Twitter #Hashtags to Amplify Your Learning!
"The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages"
Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/02/use-twitter-hashtags-to-amplify-your.html

Using Twitter to Transform the Classroom!
Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-twitter-to-transform-classroom.html

Looking for Learning Professionals?
Here: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2009/04/juiciest-learning-professionals-on.html

Useful Twitter Tools
http://monitter.com/
http://paper.li/
http://twitpic.com/
http://www.polleverywhere.com/
http://www.tweetdeck.com/
More useful Twitter tools: http://socialweblearning.blogspot.com/p/twitter.html

5
Facebook

The World Map of Social Networks
Source: http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/03/03/social-networks-in-us-and-asia/

Facebook Stats (08/03/2011)
16. Malaysia
Source: http://www.facebakers.com/countries-with-facebook/

Facebook Users in Malaysia?(08/03/2011)
Facebook Users: + 10 Million
Penetration: 39.09 %
Source: http://www.facebakers.com/countries-with-facebook/MY/

Demographics– Malaysia (08/03/2011)
Male/Female User Ratio
User Age Distribution
Source: http://www.facebakers.com/countries-with-facebook/MY/

What is Facebook?
Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, families and coworkers.
Source: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics#!/press/info.php?execbios

Facebook for Learning? Boleh!
Slidecast: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/04/facebook-for-learning-boleh.html

Why Not Use Facebook…
Missing:
Make it Invisible!
Copyright/Ownership
Tracking, Reporting & Grading?
Privacy
Advertisements
Learning Needs?
Social Vs Work!
Image Source: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fPo-m6G36C8/SevIXYSVqsI/AAAAAAAAIJw/il1OQJFAlcc/s400/Facebook+Addict.jpg

If We Use Facebook, What about…
Formal Learning (LMS)
Course Notes
Discussions
Assignments
Quizzes
Grades
Social Learning (Facebook)
Informal
Easy-to-Use
Sharing
Communication
Collaboration
Communities
Interest Groups
Mobile
Always Connected!
Facebook Legalized for teaching & learning only!

Facebook Groups & Pages
Groups
Pages
Open Communities
Promotion & Branding
Products
Celebrities
Self-Promotion
Closed Groups
Courses
Projects
Ideas
Alumni

Facebook for Learning?
Adapted from: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/140Learning/lecturefb.html

Instead of Facebook, Why Not Use…
"While Facebook is a goldmine for connecting people and having social fun, Linkedin is the present and future goldmine for connecting students and ideas to the corporate world."- Zaid Ali Alsagoff
Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/01/use-linkedin-to-collaborate-with.html

Or Perhaps Use…
Schoologyis a free web-based learning management system (LMS) built on a social network. It leverages the familiarity of popular social media tools to improve communication, and makes it easy to create and share academic content.
https://www.schoology.com/

6
Wikis

Wiki Wiki Shuttle at Honolulu International Airport
Picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HNL_Wiki_Wiki_Bus.jpg

Picture: http://ourfounder.typepad.com/leblog/WindowsLiveWriter/Menu.jpg

Wiki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Definition of Wiki
A website created by a group; rather than by an individual.
In Hawaiian, Wiki means “quick”
What IKnow Is… (descriptive of the process of collaborative content development.)
Wikis are websites that we
can build together!

Wikis for Learning?
Information Sharing
Collaborative Learning
Group Projects
Communication
Participation
Engagement
Content Development

Wiki Tools?
http://www.wikispaces.com/
http://www.wetpaint.com/
http://sites.google.com/
http://pbwiki.com/
http://docs.google.com/

7
OtherTools?

Reuse/Remix/Mashup/Adapt…
URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/university-learning-ocw-oer-free.html

Download YouTube Videos?
URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/08/real-way-to-download-convert-insert.html

Upload PowerPoint Slides & Create Slidecasts?
http://www.slideshare.net/
http://www.authorstream.com/
http://www.slideboom.com/

Create a Screencast?
URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/10/8-free-screencasting-tools-for-tony.html

Salman Khan Uses…
URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/12/salman-khan-uses-microsoft-paint-to.html

Virtual Classes/Learning Sessions
http://www.skype.com/
http://www.wiziq.com/

Broadcast Yourself Live?
http://www.ustream.tv/

3D Virtual Learning Spaces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2jY4UkPbAc

Quora
Accumulating Knowledge
Organized
Collaborative
People
Targeted
Reusable
Continually Improving
Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.
http://www.quora.com/

Create Cartoons, Movies & Animations?
http://www.xtranormal.com/
http://goanimate.com/
http://www.toondoo.com/

100+ EduGamesto Spice Up Your Course!
URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/05/75-free-edugames-to-spice-up-your.html

Wordle Your Learning!
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
http://wordle.net/

URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/04/free-learning-tool-for-every-learning.html

8
Challenges

Challenge I

Challenge II

Challenge III

Have a ZaidLearn!
http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/
Finally, You Might Want To…

9
Hands-On

A
RSS Reader

Google Reader in Plain English
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPZ2Uu_X3Y

Activity
Mission
Find a feed (e.g. blog).
Find the RSS link.
Copy the URL or link.
Go to Google Reader.
Click on Add Subscription.
Paste in the link.
Organize the new feed into your folders or subject structure.
http://www.google.com/reader

B
Twitter

Twitter in Plain English
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

Activity
MISSION
Sign up for a Twitter account.
Customize your profile page.
Write your first tweet.
Find people to follow.
Send someone a tweet (message).
Retweet someone else's tweet.
Share a web link (URL).
Find and Save (follow) a #hashtag.
Create a #hashtag (for your course).

Example 1 – Conference #hashtag
Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/07/using-twitter-to-amplify-connective.html

Example 2 – Movement #hashtag
Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/05/join-moodlewish-twitter-stream.html

C
Facebook

Where to Start?

Activity
MISSION
Login to Facebook.
Create a Facebook Group (or Page).
Customize Group Settings (Closed Group).
Add Logo.
Add a URL or Video to the Wall.
Add a Photo.
Add a Video (if possible).
Add/Invite people to join.
Add a Doc (wiki).
Be creative and have fun!

8 Things Teachers Should NEVER Do on
Source: http://edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/fbteacher_fullsize.pdf

8 Ways Teachers SHOULD Be Using
Source: http://edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/fbteacher_fullsize.pdf

Example 1: University Page
URL: http://www.facebook.com/Harvard?v=app_6009294086

Example 2: Facebook in Education
To serve as an ongoing resource for information about how educators can best use Facebook.
URL: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/education?ref=ts

Example 3: Facebook- Academic Research
A group for anyone conducting or (interested in) academic research into Facebook.
URL: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5114067727&ref=ts

Example 4: IMU E-Learning
Source: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/IMU-E-Learning/251921959456

D
Blogging

Let’s Blog!
https://www.blogger.com/start

3 Steps
Create an account.
Name your blog.
Select your template.
https://www.blogger.com/start

Activity
MISSION
Customize your blog layout.
Set comment moderation settings.
Create and publish a post.
Add a link (URL).
Add a picture.
Embed a video.
Add a gadget.

Example 1 – Expert Blog
Blog: http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/

Example 2 – Newsletter
OLDaily: http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm

Example 3 – Group Blog
URL: http://imuelearning.blogspot.com/

E
Wikis

Activity
MISSION
Select a wiki tool (e.g. Google Sites).
Create a new wiki.
Invite others to participate.
Create a new wiki page.
Add text, pictures and links to the wiki page.
Embed a video to your wiki page.
Explore other features and have fun!

Example 1: Anatomy Wiki
http://anatowiki.wetpaint.com/?t=anon

Example 2: Greetings from the World
http://greetingsfromtheworld.wikispaces.com/

Example 3 - Classroom
Site: http://sites.google.com/site/classtemplate_en/

Example 4 - MedTutor
Site: http://medtutor.wikidot.com/
Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2010/04/medtutor-learning-to-think.html

F
Social Bookmarking

Activity
MISSION
Sign up for your own account.
Install the two buttons in your browser.
Surf the web and find at least two (2) sites you want to bookmark.
Add them to your delicious bookmarks by clicking the "Tag" button and then enter the title, description and tags (optional but recommended).

Social Bookmarking For Learning
Great for groups researching a topic together or a lecturer that wants to share great websites they have found.
Others can subscribe to your bookmarks or individual tags and receive them whenever the publisher adds a new bookmark.
Create working bibliographies for projects by ensuring they share a common tag.
Build lists of resources with fellow students/ teachers (decide on common tags first).
Create a network with friends or fellow club members with whom you share an interest.
Spend a few minutes planning how you’ll tag so that your tags are consistent (remember – no spaces within tags!)
Plural vs singular
Teacher’s names / course names
Clean up your tags periodically using the delete and rename tag functions.
Adapted from: http://www.slideshare.net/leonardstern/rss-in-education/

A Good
Starting Point!
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