This document discusses new technologies for teaching and learning, including various social media platforms. It provides examples of how platforms like Facebook, Twitter, wikis, blogs, and Second Life have been used for teaching and collaboration. These include using Facebook for community service learning projects, Twitter for backchannel discussions in classes, wikis for group writing assignments, and holding guest lectures in virtual worlds like Second Life. The document advocates that content, especially visuals, is important for social media, as well as the concepts of reciprocity through following, favoriting and friending others.

1. New Technologies for
Teaching and Learning
Lorri Mon, Assistant Professor
FSU College of Communication & Information Colloquium
November 17, 2010, email: lmon@fsu.edu

2. Early Teaching/Learning Technologies:
Correspondence Mail
Popular Mechanics ad, Sept 1955
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/07/31/chemistry-big-laboratory-given-free/

3. What’s Old is New:
Netflix & Correspondence Mail
http://www.netflix.com

4. Teaching Technologies
Second LifeBlogging Community
Facebook
MySpace
Twitter
Wiki
YouTube
IPL2 digital library learning
venues include Facebook,
MySpace, Twitter,
Delicious, Flickr, YouTube,
Slideshare, wiki, forums,
blogging community, and
more.
IPL2 digital library learning
venues include Facebook,
MySpace, Twitter,
Delicious, Flickr, YouTube,
Slideshare, wiki, forums,
blogging community, and
more.
http://ipl2.org

5. Blackboard (VLE)

6. Anonymity…
• encourages students to take risks in
collaborative participation. (Bonk &
Reynolds, 1997: 168)
Bonk, Curtis Jay & Thomas H. Reynolds (1997), "Learner-
Centered Web Instruction for Higher-Order Thinking, Teamwork,
and Apprenticeship," in Web-Based Instruction, ed. by Badrul H.
Khan. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology
Publications, 167-178.

7. Group Effects of E-mail & Chat
AsynchronousAsynchronous online communication (email) –online communication (email) –
– Status equalization / more democracticStatus equalization / more democractic
– Better for thoughtful, reflective discussionBetter for thoughtful, reflective discussion
– Least inhibited, more prone to “flaming”Least inhibited, more prone to “flaming”
– Difficult to collaborate & coordinate group effortsDifficult to collaborate & coordinate group efforts
SynchronousSynchronous online communication (chat) –online communication (chat) –
– Better for decision-making and brainstormingBetter for decision-making and brainstorming
– Better for negotiation and reaching consensusBetter for negotiation and reaching consensus
– More immediacy and greater social presenceMore immediacy and greater social presence
– Less democratic – the faster & fluent are in controlLess democratic – the faster & fluent are in control
Sia, Choon-Ling et al. (2002), “Group Polarization and Computer-Mediated Communication:
Effects of Communication Cues, Social Presence, & Anonymity,” Information Systems Research,
March 2002, 13(1): 70-90.
Sharples M. et al. (1993), “Research Issues In the Study of Computer Supported Collaborative
Writing,” in Computer Supported Collaborative Writing, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 9-28.

9. Class Facebook Group

10. FSULibIT Facebook Page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tallahassee-FL/FSUlibIT/208771023918

11. Facebook in Community Service Learning
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Internet-Public-Library/10387691910

12. Facebook Questions

13. Questionpoint Chat
http://www.questionpoint.org/

14. Mosio SMS
http://www.mosio.com/biz/

15. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk

16. Twitter (Best Buy Twelpforce)
http://twitter.com/TWELPFORCE

17. Wikis for Writing Projects
http://ipl.ci.fsu.edu/community/wiki/index.php/Digital_Reference_and_Web_2.0

18. LIS Wiki
http://liswiki.org/wiki/Library_2.0

19. Wikipedia Contributions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

20. Delicious for Web Sites
It appears that in late March 2009, IPL was shown at Michigan Association for
Computer Users in Learning conference (observed via Delicious users’ tags)
IPL2 on Delicious : http://delicious.com/TheInternetPublicLibrary

21. Connotea for Digital Articles
http://www.connotea.org/user/IPLCommunity

22. http://www.librarything.com/profile/IPLCommunity

23. Diigo (includes Groups)
http://groups.diigo.com/group/vre2010

24. Blogging Community
IPL2 Learning Community Blogging
http://ipl.ci.fsu.edu/community/blog.php
Creating “collaborative learning spaces” and
exploring new forms of reference services
Answering: here’s helpful
info for you
Modeling: here’s what to
expect
Reassuring: this is normal,
you’re not alone
Answering: here’s helpful
info for you
Modeling: here’s what to
expect
Reassuring: this is normal,
you’re not alone
Internet Public Library LC Blogging Community

25. Elluminate (Text, Visuals & Voice)

26. Class Twitter Group

27. Creative Uses of Twitter
Mike Wesch, Twitter and the World Simulation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgbfMY-6giY
http://mediatedcultures.net/worldsim.htm (Simulation)
Young, J. R. (2010) Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart.
The Education Digest 75 no. 7, 9-12 (Backchannel)
Messner, K. (2009) Pleased to Tweet You. School Library Journal 55
no. 12 44-47 (cross-class author discussion)

28. Creative Uses of Facebook
Pride and Prejudice Facebook Status: http://www.much-ado.net/austenbook/
Skerrett, A. (2010) Lolita, Facebook, and the Third Space of Literacy Teacher Education.
Educational Studies (American Educational Studies Association) 46 no. 1, 67-84

29. iSpace FSU, Florida State University
http://slurl.com/secondlife/iSpace%20FSU/53/138/21

30. Guest Lecturer at iSpace FSU

31. Florida State University Graduation Ceremony, May 2010
Professor Paul Marty parachutes into graduation ceremony
Video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/fsulibit

32. Experiencing Brownian Motion
Exploratorium in Second Life (The ‘Splo / Sploland)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sploland/175/75/25/

33. Content is king,
especially visuals
(photos, videos)
Content is king,
especially visuals
(photos, videos)
Favoriting, subscribing, friending
and following – the importance
of reciprocity in social media
Favoriting, subscribing, friending
and following – the importance
of reciprocity in social media
ipl2 15 Things: http://ipl.ci.fsu.edu/community/wiki/index.php/IPL_15_Things
ipl2 Blogging Community http://ipl.ci.fsu.edu/community/blog.php
ipl2 Delicious http://delicious.com/TheInternetPublicLibrary
ipl2 Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Internet-Public-Library/10387691910?ref=mf
ipl2 Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/21790484@N06/
ipl2 LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com/profile/IPLCommunity
ipl2 MySpace http://www.myspace.com/internetpubliclibrary
ipl2 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=iplcommunity
ipl2 Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/iplcommunity
ipl2 Twitter https://twitter.com/theipl
ipl2 Wiki http://ipl.ci.fsu.edu/community/wiki
ipl2 Second Life http://slurl.com/secondlife/Imagination%20Island/226/129/24
ipl2 Blog - http://theipl.wordpress.com/ and http://theipl2blog.wordpress.com/
ipl2 Web – http://www.ipl.org
ipl2 Social Media links