Slides from the Week 2 Webinar of the Social Media for Active Learning MOOC. Topic: Promoting Active Learning Through Social Media Lessons http://bit.ly/smoochome #SMOOC2014

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SOCIAL MEDIA
LESSONS
MODULE 2
Promoting Active Learning Through
Social Media Lessons
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Fabrizio Fornara
Vanessa Dennen

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Webinar Rules of the Road
Interacting During the Webinar
• Feel free to use the chat
• Feel free to tweet using #SMOOC2014
If You Need Help
• TAs will help in the chat
During the Q&A
• Raise your (virtual) hand if you want to speak. We’ll call
on you and enable your audio.
• Type questions for the speakers into the chat. Start with a
Q: to indicate it’s a question for the speakers.
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About the MOOC
• Co-designed by graduate students in the Instructional
Systems Program at Florida State University
• This week’s module design team is:
• Fabrizio Fornara
• Yanjun Pan
• Wei Qiang
• Kate Sumsion
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Topics Covered in Webinar
• Social Media, Web 2.0, and the Knowledge Economy
• Sample Social Media Lessons
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Curation à Lessons
Curation
• Collecting and
organizing
materials and
resources
Lessons
• Planned
activities and
interactions
• May draw upon
or generate
materials and
resources
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POLL: Engaging Learners
Are you engaging learners in active use of social media
and Web 2.0 tools?
A. Yes, definitely
B. Maybe, I’m not sure
C. No, but I would like to
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Types of Online Learning Interactions
• Moore (1989) suggests:
Learner-teacher
Learner-learner
Learner-content
• Social media adds learner-outsider or learner-
community (Dennen, 2013)
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Shifting Web Technologies
A small # of
people
create, a
large #
consume
(static)
Web 1.0
Many people
create and
consume;
few are pure
consumers
(user
contributors)
Web 2.0
We all
contribute to
the creation
as we
consume
(semantic
web)
Web 3.0
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What is Web 2.0
Web 2.0 IS
• A philosophy about tool
use
• Ever changing
• Constant redefined by
users
Web 2.0 IS NOT
• A tool
• A software version
• Static
• Defined by experts
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IT’S NOT ABOUT THE
TOOL …
but how you use it.
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Case in point:
Google Docs & Dropbox
Most common uses:
• Personal productivity
• File sharing
• Low-level
collaboration
between known
parties
Just because it is online and allows
sharing doesn’t make it social media
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Case in point:
• Prezi
Most common use:
• In lieu of Powerpoint
Just because it is online and allows
sharing doesn’t make it social media
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Case in point: Blogs
• Changing personal,
paper-based journals
into web-based ones
• Using Wordpress to
create a static Web
site
Just because it supports social
interactions doesn’t make it social media
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Dimensions of Participation in the Social
Knowledge Landscape
• Using items posted onlineConsumption
• Creating and posting items onlineProduction
• Reading and lurkingPassive
• Commenting, sharingActive - Network
• Curating, remixing, designingActive – Creation
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Online Knowledge Activities
• Knowledge consumption
• Knowledge creation
• Knowledge management
• Knowledge brokering
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Produsage and Produsers (Axel Bruns)
• A blending of
consumption and
production
• Iterative and ongoing
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Produsage Principles (Bruns, 2007)
Open Participation
Fluid Roles
Meritocracy
Distributed
Leadership
Continuous
Development
Shared Intellectual
Property
Individual
Objectives
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Why engage learners in this way?
Social media and produsage are both
important parts of the educational
experience:
• To prepare learners for participation in the
knowledge economy
• To develop lifelong learning skills
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Reasons why educators integrate social
media
• It’s new and trendy
• Students are digital natives
• Institutional pressure
• Motivates learners
• Enhances learning outcomes
• Enables new types of learning interactions
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Reasons why educators integrate social
media
• It’s new and trendy
• Students are digital natives
• Institutional pressure
• Motivates learners
• Enhances learning outcomes
• Enables new types of learning interactions
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POLL – Are you using social media
lessons?
How many of you have already integrated social media into
your instructional design or teaching?
A. I have done this and engaged learners as producers
B. I have done this and have engaged learners primarily
as consumers
C. I have done this and have
engaged learners equally as
consumers and producers
D. I have not yet used social
media in a lesson
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POLL – What is your primary reason for
social media integration?
Why do you want to develop social media lessons?
A. Enable new types of learning interactions
B. Enable new types of learning creations / products
C. Institutional pressure
D. To keep current
Be honest! J
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Example: Twitter in an Ed Tech Course
• Learners: preservice teachers
• Assignment: use Twitter throughout semester
• Class updates
• Find resources
• Build a network
• Submitted for assessment
• Archive of tweets
• Reflection paper
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Example: Twitter in an Ed Tech Course
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Example: Twitter in an Ed Tech Course
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• Google Sites wiki/website, collaborative project
• Information on the Italian society and culture
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Example: L’Italia dal vivo (1)

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Example: L’Italia dal vivo (2)
• Platforms:
• L’Italia dal vivo site
• Work-in-progress wiki: Wiki dal vivo
• Google Groups forum
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Example: L’Italia dal vivo (3)
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Example: L’Italia dal vivo (4)
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Example: Voicethread Presentations
• voicethread.com
• Presentations may be instructor or student created
• Students provide comments (text, audio, video) and
annotations
• Can be closed or open commenting environment
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Example: Voicethread Presentations

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Example: Voicethread Presentations

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Ideas for Social Media Lessons
• Collaborative writing activities
• Publication, presentation and feedback activities
• Communication and networking activities
• Collecting and curating activities
• Other types of activities?
• Share your ideas in the chat!
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Wrap Up
• Think about ways of using the media to promote active
learning, whether via networking or creation
• Do it for the right reasons – to facilitate learning and
promote knowledge creation, management, and
brokering (and not just consumption)
• Keep sharing on this topic … in the discussion forum, on
Twitter, on Facebook
• We can’t wait to see your projects!
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THANKS FOR JOINING US!
Time for Questions
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