eLearning Conference- Social Networking for Beginners

Mathew Evins, Instructional Designer, San Jacinto College

Web 1.0-pretty much author giving author out and not engaging or being interactive with
Included:
static pages
forms sent via email (listservs)
online guestbooks
one-way information

"Web 2.0" was coined really before web 1.0 (interactive, community-building)
descirbes the changes trends in www
dynamic pages
multi-way information

Why do People Use Social Networks?
Personal Reasons (keep in touch with distant friends)
Professional (share ideas with colleagues, look for jobs)
(Linkd-In has 90 % of users looking for jobs)

Centralized place for sharing variety of ideas and resources

Social networks can archive information from all users

Each network serves it's own purpose and each user uses their network in a different way

Social Network Users
Students
*Started in high schools (myspace) like a public diary on the web
*Facebook started with the college student which then opened up
Young Professionals
*Connect with others with similar interests
Parents
*check in/monitor their kids
Faculty

Social Media-"a tool that engages users..."

Social Network--"a conglomeration of social media, social tools into..."

Blogs:
"a website that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer"
Can be open to the public or kept private
Searchable, if desired
subscribe to other's blogs and be updated when they post
Readers can comment on postings
(Word Press, LiveJournal, Blogger)

Blogs in Education
reflection on articles
journal of activities while studying abroad
Perspectives on content
Creative examples for research and assignments

Wikis
"a page or collections of web pages desinged to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content"
*collaborative website
different people can have different privileges
(wikispaces, pbwiki/pbworks) (look for free educator--tools)

Most popular wiki
2.7 million articles in English
Articles in over 260 languages

Wikis in Education
*collaborative work on a group project
*Teacher makes corrections to a draft assignment before the final is truned in

Twitter
*form of microblogging in 140 characters
*a service for friends, family, and cor-workers, to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequetn answers to one simple question "what are you doing?"
*But can also be an archive or documentation of event or time period done with hashtags
*public or private messages
*can be integrated with facebook, blogs, social bookmarking, rss, etc. depending on how you want to use it
*must subscribe to follow others (and they to follow you)
*140 characters to allow for your username (160 is max so 140 takes that into account)

Backchanneling in class with pre-identified hashtag (can go through a filter that is posted on screen) way for instructor to gauge how students are responding to information

Common Craft "In Plain English series" Awesome--go to youtube to find them

Social Bookmarking (almost identical to bookmarking it on your computer)
*However, can access from any computer
*can tag with keywords
*ability to share information with others
*You can see how popular sites are by how many people are
*creates a sense of community
*can put a button to toolbar automatically add to your delicious account
(Delicious, Digg)

RSS FEEDS
*RSS "really simple sydication"
*pulls information from websites and aggregates them into a central location
*available on most news websiets, blogs, wikis, etc.
*keeps you from having to go to 20 different sites to get what's new.

In Education:
Their work comes to you.
Can categorize (news, classes,)
share
filter
(GOOGLE READER)

Social networks


Facebook
request to be friends
plan events
address book
have sub-groups (people who have common interests, local or global with discussion boards to upload videos)
Post updates
Tag people in videos and photos
post photos/videos/notes
birthday notifications
private and public messages

Third party applications
companies can create apps for their employees
all apps are free
fb tests all of the apps to ensure that they do not contain viruses
not all apps work

MySpace (oldest version)
uploaded photos/videos/blog
request to be friends
private and public messages
address book
customizable profile
full of ads

LinkedIn
network to connect with professionals from simiar regions or in like fields
30 million users plus
job searches

Ning (completely isolated)
Similar features to facebook
blog
forums
groups
privacy settings
network for creators/admins to collaborate

"Very easy for students to get distracted with facebook" (because of the apps) So Ning could be good for education.
Ning good if you have a specific purpose

http://itcelearning2010.ning.com/
http://

Learning Town a Village for Learning Professionals learningtown.ning.com

Pip.io
Central social networking interface
social networking operating system
real-time communication whle sharing videos, etc.
launched 2/8/10
realtime communication while in there from other sites/tools
catch all for social media (reader)

Honeycomb Map:
Presence
Relationships
reputation
groups
conversations
sharing
all around identity

Handout of free websites--still like that hard copy!

http://www.evinsmj.net/2010/02/21/social-networking-presentation-summary/

eLearning Conference-Taming the Tornado

Presentation by Todd McCann English Instructor Bay College

Where do you "live"?
*Desktop (wood or electronic)
*Laptop
*Cell phone/Smart phone
(They don't live on paper)


igoogle

remember the milk--it is a To-Do List program or to send SMS (text message reminder) can connect to iphone. igoogle gadget (can be be added) has gps mapping function too

Google calendar

iphone aps sync to google calendar

Could set reminders (alerts) for students (email, pop-up, textmessage) on iphone

Broadtexter--mobile club
Students can sign up to receive textbook reminders

My Dropbox (dropbox.com) 2 G storage free. Reduces need for carrying flashdrives. Helps sync machines to the cloud

Evernote (and evernote ap for phone) Can leave a note by text, snapshot, camera shot or VOICE

YELP yelp.com

Auto Text (MS Word) and TExtExpander (Mac) by typing a code which inserts common feedback into email or student papers

ReQall (phone ap?) talk into it and it records in text?

Dial2Do (phone number you can call so do a series of tasks like read you the headlines of new york times, send a text message, record)

Siri (iphone ap) restaurants, movies, events, local businesses, taxis, allows you to find places (can also send voice reminders or book a taxi)

Google Voice (can set up a number that then can get redirected to whatever number you want so you don't have to give out your personal number) Can have incoming voice message come in as a text message to your preferred site) Transcription can be ify but still nice not to have to give out personal number. Can set time restrictions and customize it to fit your schedule that day.


Ribbit iphone app messages takes phone email and transcribes it

Poll Everywhere (30 responses) as many questions as you'd like but only accepts 30 responses

eLearning Conference--Featured Presentation "For Who Hath Despised the Day of Small Things"

Jim Groom, Instructional Technologist, University of Mary Washington

"Students lives are somewhere else." "They have digital lives before and will have after the attend class"

Examples of using free tools/open resource in schools:
NC State on Twitter

Khan University (using Youtube)

MOC (Massive Online Course) aggregated, blog, write "Commune"

RSS Syndication-Oriented Architecture (Feed-Frenzied Learning) Seamless Sharing

Sitewide Tag Pages Plugin (FeedWordPress Plugin) Allows do work in own space, pulls into course blog (Blog in own space--aggregating with tag and then it comes to determined site to (umw.blog)

Currator function in flickr (project where they pulled pictures of flowers used by ??HD in poems)

Zach Whalen uses droggle?

UMW Blogs is first and foremost an educational publishing platform

Follow conference on Twitter: #ITC10

"Triangulating learning in and out of the course classroom/institution/world"

Electronic Portfolios through UMW Sites: Department Sites, Professional Sites, Student sites, Student Portfolios, Club ands Organizations, Presentations

"Universities need new ways of sharing"

http://chronicle.com/article/Blogs-Instead-of-Blackboard/44412/

"Domain one's own" based off of Virgina Wolf's "A Room of One's Own" The work you do in your own space, you'll take pride in and have respect for, a sense of consitancy" (And can keep moving out to continue transformation)

Prof. Jeff McClurken's Mapped Domain (project based class) His information is like blog within blog. History 101 under Jeff McClucken.org History 102 under same .org

Buy a domain for a dollar? Worked a deal for $10 a month for 4 months

Then you can have that go with you. "LIFE LONG LEARNING"

"If you dream it or will it, it is no dream"

Bring it back to the community--alumni. How do you know what they are doing after they leave?

Digital Storytelling--Jim Groom (Student doing the Lost "Extra" story) . Chasinglilly.net (suggest that he continue the writing of the story after it ends)

He starts with what get a space. Remember your space reflects YOU. Do what the web was made to do, get obsessed about something and the DO (and reflect).

A resource that isn't going to "DIE" after 15 weeks. Makes you think about pedagogy and course differently.

"We don’t need to own and control their data. What we need to do is to manage the flow as it comes into our space and leaves"

"Generative Effect of Sharing"

"Crazy Google Juice" Power in community

Word Press Multi User

"Reimagine Collaboration"

"Mobile-Revolution Preparedness"

We can Do without having to be a programer because we AREN'T

"We're at a moment in history where we can reimagine relationships"

Depends on each of us to work together to "reimagine eduction".

Will stream presentation and acces through ITC site.

Network effects. We have power. Remain excited.

eLearning Conference--Opening: Late Night Learning LIVE

Key Note Presentation by John Krutsch, Sr. Director Instructional Design, Development and Delivery, and Jared Stein, Director Instructional Design Services--Utah Valey University. and Marc Hugentobler

Cheating Rubric http://learningfield.org/cheat/

Journal of Interactive Online Learning

PLN personal learning network
PLE personal learning environment

Debate: more multitasking the less likely to do deeper reflecting

David Wiley, Jon Mott

"Center of gravity around what the instructor {assigns} not what the student does"

Part of being a life-learner is learning to analyze the web 2.0 tools (and communicating and sharing information through the tools)

"Escape from the confines of the LMS"

Diego Leal Consultant with the Ministry of Education, Columbia taught a course using Open Resource Class (no LMS)

7 Signs of academic zombification:
apathy, no creativy
decaying bodies of teaching and learning
simple over complex
appetite for standardized assessment
decisions based on fear
mindless conformance
aggressiveness toward non-zombies

I Have a Dream Speech via Wordle

Here is the link to a wordle compilation created using Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech, "I HAVE A DREAM". His speech as delivered on August 28th 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington D.C.

Wordle compiles all of the words used and duplicated words "grow" in size. The larger the word the more times it was used.

What word stands out as having been used the most in his famous speech?




Credit to: http://www.wordle.net/

Back-up Wedding in Norway

Alarm Clocks and Personality Traits

I think that I can learn a lot about people by where they place their alarm clock and how they use it. I know I'm using broad generalizations and stereotypes. These are just my perceptions based on some people I know. So, right or wrong, read them over and see if you agree or recognize anyone you know!


A. Before we even get to the alarm feature, let’s take a look at the time setting in relation to real time.

I think there are three main categories of people here:

1) The first category is those that have their time (alarm clock, watches, wall clocks) set to the exact/actual time. Based on my experience these people tend to be very orderly and precise. These are the type of people who like the adage, “a place for everything and everything in its place”. They tend to be meticulous and organized. These people are time-focused and would rarely be without a means of telling time (watch, cell phone used for telling time, etc.). In fact, they might feel a little lost without a watch, alarm clock or cell phone.

2) The second category is for people whose clocks are behind real/actual time. I've found that these people tend to be more laid back and perhaps even a little more apathetic about time and schedules in general. "The clocks off? Whatever...who needs time? I’ll get there when I get there." People who have clocks that are off might not even know they are off. These people might also tend to be the ones that don’t wear watches. In my experience, they can also be a little more disorganized, forgetful, and polychronic (those that tend to be social, like to do something until they feel ready to go, and tend to generally like going with the flow). I think non-watch wearers are not the type to set strict agendas and as is the case with some people I know, can have trouble following schedules set by others. (Sometimes people from category 2 will see people from category 1 as "uptight" or "rigid", while category 1 people might see category 2 types as "lazy" or "apathetic").

3) Ah, then there's the last category…those that set their time ahead, on purpose. What I've discovered here is that these are the type of people who tend to consistently run late. They too are a bit disorganized, maybe take on too much and think they can change. “If I just set the clock ahead I’ll end up getting there on time” but guess what? Typically, these late people still tend to be late. In my experience, these are the people who usually have good intentions but lack some follow-through. These people like to think they are in control but sometimes aren’t.

B. Ok now let’s move on to where your alarm clock is located.

1) Right next to the bed. To me this indicates you are self-motivated. Again, probably like some organization in your life and can follow through on given tasks.

2) Across the room. You like your sleep and tend to give in to self pleasures like a little extra sleep. You need more motivation than some others because unless you actually get yourself up out of bed, you might just go back to sleep. And I’m guessing for some of you across-the-room alarm clockers, that you’ve actually still done just that—get out of bed, turn off the alarm, and collapse back on the bed in rebellion. That’s right, you have a bit of a rebellious side.

3) Cell phone alarm clocks. You might fit into category 1 if you are diligent in placing your cell phone within reach each night before you go to bed. Or you may be a category 2 if your cellphone is still placed across the room. However, if it gets left where ever it gets left, like in a pocket, this might indicate a slight tendency to be a 2. But whether you're a 1, 2, or pocket alarmer, people who use their cell phone as an alarm generally are into gadgets, technology and toys. More than likely these people would feel lost without their cell phone and would probably rank it high on the list of items they couldn’t live without. Oh, and perhaps they tend to exaggerate.

4) Some people don’t set an alarm. This either indicates that you are a morning person, bright and bubbly, ready to face the day. Or you have kids that wake you up, so why bother setting one. You don’t really count in this category, because at heart you’re really one of the other personality types, but your kids have gotten in the way of your morning alarm preference and routine. Am I right?

Now, let’s look at the time setting of when you want your alarm to go off.

1) I’m guessing if you were an A.1 you are going to have your alarm set for the exact time you plan on getting up. You probably also tend to get up at the same time everyday or alternating times if you are on a swing shift. More than likely you tend to also be a B.1

2) People who set their alarm ahead exactly one “snooze” unit feel like they’re missing something in life. For example, this type of person knows they require 30 minutes to get ready in the morning. They need to leave the house be 7:30 am. So this person sets their alarm for 6:51 am. (Just reading that uneven number is probably unnerving some of you A.1/B.1 individuals) “If only I had 9 more minutes of sleep…I’d feel better.” These type of people like to trick themselves into thinking things are better than they are. My guess is you like your sleep and aren’t happy that you’re not getting enough.

3) The more “snooze units” you use, the more possibly lazy or possibly unproductive perhaps a person might be. I’ve had students report they set their alarms 5 snooze units ahead. These type of people tend to also be more of a night-owl and some might say self-pleasing. They probably stayed up very late playing video games or hanging out with friends. These people sometimes have trouble getting work done that others may think is important and again, are probably a little more apathetic about it as well. However, to this person, setting 5 snooze units ahead makes perfect sense. As does setting your wall clock ahead 12 minutes. To an “exact timer” (someone who likes the time set exactly to real time and gets up on the first alarm) this sounds absolutely ridiculous.

Enter culture clash: You get a roommate or a spouse who is of a different “time persuasion”. A couple who come from opposite time orientations, might have some serious communication problems if these differences aren’t talked about and a collaborative agreement reached.

An alarm clock may just be an item but it sends messages about its owner based on where it is located, what time is showing, and how the alarm is set in correlation to "snooze units". And we didn't even touch on other telling factors like volume settings, radio vs buzzer, music selection, white noise use and other alarm clock features. Those too are interesting variables to look at in correlation to personality types.

I hope you've enjoyed this generalized and stereotyped view of alarm clocks as "Artifactual communication".

Questions to Think About:

Can you classify yourself by how you use or don’t use an alarm clock?

Did other people come to mind when you read the classifications?

How do you agree or disagree with the assessments made about each personality type based on the alarm clock's use?

Do those traits hold true for you?

What other “traits” might be implied by the alarm clocks?

In the last example, the culture clash, what options do these individuals have?

What other common “artifacts” (objects) and corresponding use do you think are “telling” of one’s personality?