Today we wrapped the 2012 class by reviewing what we covered and did. We also talked a bit about the exam.

1. COMP 113
Social Media & Online Communities, Summer School 2012
12: End of everything

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3. What did we do?
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4. Did WE achieve these?
 Gain a solid grounding in social media
concepts and services
 Practical experience implementing social
media to foster and grow online communities
 Appreciation of wider societal issues resulting
from changes on internet
 Practical experience writing and setting up
blogs and generating other online content
 Opportunity to work collaboratively on an
web technology centred project
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5. Did YOU achieve this?
 Attend and actively participate in all classes
 Contribute to online discussions on related
social spaces (e.g., wiki) and add content
 Work collaboratively and constructively with
your fellow students
 Create Twitter, Facebook and blogging
accounts and keep active
 Provide feedback by talking, tweeting,
completing online surveys, etc.
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6. What did WE talk about?
 Web 2.0 & social media  Language change
 Online community,  Blogging
social capital & ties  Disasters (#eqnz)
 Users (recruitment,  Gamification
types, retention)  Politics (US election,
 Identity management & Arab Spring)
privacy  Web tech (AJAX, IPv4,
 Social media strategies IPv6, DNS, HTML, CSS,
 Web (under the hood) cookies,CMS, https, ...)
 Copyright issues  Mobile tech (OS, App
 Memes store, Wifi, 3G, GPS, …)
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7. Online community
 Common
interests
 Reciprocity
 Emotional
investment
 Time
 Social capital

8. “… social aggregations that emerge from the
Internet when enough people carry on public
discussions long enough and with sufficient human
feeling to form webs of personal relationships in
cyberspace”
--Howard Rheingold
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9. What tools did WE try?
 Wiki (Mindtouch Deki)
 Microblog (Twitter)
 Social network site (Facebook)
 Blog (Tumblr, Blogger, Wordpress, ...)
 Cloud apps (Dropbox, ScreenR, Google docs)
 WCMS (Weebly)
 Mashups (Yahoo pipes)
 Others?

11. YOU were assessed as follows
Assessment Weighting Total
Blog assignments 3 x 5% 15%
Group project: 40%
• Report 15%
• Prototype 15%
• Presentation 10%
Final Examination 45%
Total 100%
 Group project with 3 (or 2) other students
 Presentations to expert panel (cf. Dragon’s Den)
 Final examination to be digital!
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12. What can YOU do now?
 Evolve your project idea (next level)
 Start a new online community
 Become active contributors (bye bye lurker)
 Revise your privacy, security, & backup decisions
 Keep on top of social media developments
 Consider a related vocation:
– Community manager
– Social strategist/manager/director
– Social media marketer/advisor/consultant
 Become more social!
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15. The exam?
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16. Ideas?
 Multiple choice  Draw pictures
 Open book (e.g., Google)  Swap answers with class
 Easy short answer mates
 No essays  Give exam before the
 Write blog posts exam
 Rote questions (single  Video then questions
answer)  Show and tell
 Non-obscure  Case study and tasks
 140 character limit  …
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17. The exam (45%)
 When: Tuesday 21st February, 9:30 – 12:30
 Where: CO3.16
 Method: Blackboard (paper-based backup)
 Format:
–?
 What:
– All classes potentially open to exam
– Work done on assessments (indirectly)

18. Logistics
 Arrive by 9:15
 Only pens required
 No notes, paper, phones, etc.
 Exam starts when everyone logged in
 Supervised by team
 Word and notepad available
 Save regularly!
 Anything else?

19. Preparation & resources
 Ensure you can access Blackboard (today)
 Talk with each other
 The Wiki (slides, links, video, ...)
 Read each other’s blogs (see references)
 The internet (Google!)
 Your past exam experiences
 Other ideas?

20. Other stuff
 Deadline for report & Facebook page:
Friday 17th by 12:00pm
 All internal results will appear on Wiki
 Aim to get internal results out before exam

21. Debrief
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22. Feedback
Good stuff Stuff to work on
 Relaxed atmosphere  Waited too long to explain
 Reminders, prompts, … on exam
Twitter
 No Blackboard!  Slow return of blog marks
 Access to computers during  Earlier internal assessment
classes
 Good internal weighting  Not enough treats
 Great start times   Better video selection
 Contribute to course decisions
 More morning teas
 Variety of methods
 Frankness
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24. Finally, this is my last day …

25. Last job: Summer
school survey
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