• Social Media • Digital Assets • Copyright and Fair Use • Web Evaluation

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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