This document provides an agenda for a class on social media concepts. It includes definitions of social media, forms of social media like forums and blogs, examples of social media sites, tools for web collaboration, information on copyright and fair use, an exercise for students to evaluate social media sites, and plans for the next class.

1. Unit 2: The Social Web
IT 7240 - July 8, 2009
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2. Agenda
• Social media concepts
• Social content; digital assets
• Copyright and Fair Use
• Site evaluation
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3. Social Media
• Online content created by people using highly
accessible and scalable publishing technologies.
• Shift in how people discover, read and share news,
information and content.
• Fusion of sociology and technology, transforming
monologues (one to many) into dialogues (many to
many) and is the democratization of information,
transforming people from content readers into
publishers.
• Allows people to connect in the online world to form
relationships for personal, political and business use.
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4. Social Media - Forms
• Forums
• (http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/)
• Weblogs
• (http://detroithsscience.wordpress.com/)
• Social blogs
• Wikis
• Podcasts
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5. Social Media Examples
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6. Web Collaboration Tools
• Google.com
• Mail
• Docs
• Calendar
• Reader
• Acrobat.com
• Blackboard
• Moodle
• Others?
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7. Copyright and Fair Use
• http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
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8. Work Group Exercise
• In groups of 3-4, come up with a list of
evaluative criteria for gauging the the
educational value of a social media site
• Develop an evaluation form based on
the criteria defined
• We’ll do a report out on this by each
group
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9. Individual Exercise
• Spend some time looking at the social
media sites listed in this session
• Create an account on Twitter (a few
already have one); locate a Twitter
guide and review (hint: Diigo is good
source)
• Begin thinking of education/
collaborative applications for Twitter
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10. Next Class
• Web site evaluations
• Creating our Social Learning Network
• Ning (Create a Personal Web Page)
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Searching
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