Mashup of several of my presentations regarding network literacy. This is for EDST499k, a social media seminar I am facilitating in Kelowna - UBC-Okanagan.

1. Network Literacy 101
Dr. Alec Couros
EDST499k - 2010

2. me

3. Who is this guy?

4. my blog, my hub

5. microblogging

6. photosharing

7. videosharing

8. social networking services

9. content sharing

10. open cv

11. open teaching

12. Course Trailer

13. non-credit students

14. shift

16. Projections/Focus

17. Projections/Focus

18. Converging Media

19. Visitors vs. Residents

20. David Wiley
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open

21. David Wiley
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open

22. David Weinberger
The Web is “a
world of pure
connection, free
of the arbitrary
constraints of
matter, distance
and time.”
@dweinberger

23. Connected Reality

24. quick stats (2009)
• 90 trillion emails sent annually from
1.4 billion email users
• 234 million websites
• 1.73 billion Internet users
• 126 millions blogs
• 350 million Facebook users
• 4 billion images on Flickr
• 1 billion Youtube videos served daily.
Stats as of Jan 22/10 via Royal Pingdom

25. Stats as of March 17/10 via Mashable

26. Each technology
creates a new
environment.
The effects of media
come from their form
not their content.

27. affordances

28. Free Tools

29. Free/Open Content
“describes any kind of creative work in a
format that explicitly allows copying and
modifying of its information by anyone,
not exclusively by a closed organization,
firm, or individual. (wikipedia)

30. Abundance

31. Beyond Institution

32. New Possibilities

33. Realtime Collaboration

34. Disruptive Creativity

35. Distributed Creativity

36. Disruptive Education

37. issues

38. Innapropriate Content

39. http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy

40. “Some of the comments on
Youtube make you weep for the
future of humanity, just for the
spelling alone, never mind the
obscenity and naked hatred.”
@leverus
(Lev Grossman)

41. Verifiability

43. Identity

47. Citizenship

50. Kyle Doyle is not going to
work today, f*** it, I’m still
trashed. SICKIE WOO
Cisco just offered me a
job! Now I have to weigh the
utility of a fatty paycheck against
the daily commute to San Jose
and hating the work

51. danah boyd
Teens are not connecting in
the ways we fear. But, we need
to pay attention to:
•Properties: persistence,
replicability, searchability,
scalability, (de)locatability.
•Dynamics: invisible
audiences, collapsed contexts,
blurring of public & private @zephoria
spaces

52. Michael Wesch
• Inspired by McLuhan’s
“We shape our tools and
thereafter our tools shape
us.”
• Youtube & other social
media mitigate “connection
without constraint”. In
many cases this leaves to
@mwesch “tremendously deep
communities”.

53. “heroes for our mediated culture”

57. personalization

58. Mediating Experiences

60. locks

61. parents as pirates

63. personalizing the institution

64. the reality

66. in practice

67. Personal Learning Networks

68. connections

69. Expert Visits
@kathycassidy

70. Transparent Learning
@kathycassidy

71. Sharing/Inspiring
ps22chorus.blogspot.com

72. Global Mentoring

73. Student Portfolios

74. Open Learning

75. recommendations

76. considering information flow
•blogging & RSS
•use of SMS (txt’ing)
•microblogging (Twitter)
•rich media like Youtube or
podcasts
•student or interdepartmental
partnerships

77. augment relationships
•e-mentoring
•use of existing social networks
(Facebook), but beware the
“creepy treehouse”.
•in-house social networking service
•Twitter as personality
•Web-conferencing (Skype)
•videostream of live classes/
sessions.

78. professional collaboration
•use of collaborative tools
(e.g., Google Docs)
•social network for academic
advisors for pro. learning (in
and beyond the province)
•increase personal and
professional learning
opportunities

79. important
social media is about
enhancing relationships
- it is not about the
tools - it is about
personal investment in
our students and in
ourselves

80. final thoughts
*this* is not going away
social media provides
engagement/motivation
incredible possibilities
for student engagement
development of meaningful
learning communities
geographies become nearly irrelevant
in a open, connected reality.

81. Don’t limit a child to
your own learning, for
he was born in another
time. ~Tagore
web: couros.ca
twitter: courosa
google: couros
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