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Modeling social media in groups, communities, and networks
Vance StevensPetroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Prepared for the AVEALMEC/ARCALL online conference on Social Networking
November 5-8, 2009 http://avealmec.org.ve/
Attribution: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fractal_nevit_60.png
Detailed information at http://tinyurl.com/vance-socialnet09
Where to begin?How about with some
pieces loosely joined?
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_KindleAttribution: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/y58UDZ0ies25xvJ-HYCgXQ
Where to begin?How about with this thoughtFrom Stephen Downes, Learning the Web 2.0 Way
http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/personal-learning-the-web-20-way
Where do we get our models?
Our daily network interactions; e.g.Morning Tweets
Nings
http://cck2009.ning.com/
http://multiliteracies.ning.com/video
Webcasts, Podcasts
http://edtechtalk.com/live
http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/
Edmodo
Modeled and demonstrated by Nicky Hockley, #Socialnet09
Future of Learning in a Networked World
http://flnw.wikispaces.com/Brazil
Knowledge (Creative Commons)
Attribution: http://www.kelvybird.com/facilitation/scribing/workingknowledge.html
How did you LEARN how tofind Creative Commons Images?
Heard it through the grapevine?
http://delicious.com/vancestevens/art
Attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonastherkildsen/122881874/
One State of Knowledge
http://www.wblut.com/constructs/cyclic/
Paradigm Shifts in Education
http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/2007alexandria/web20arabia.htm
10 Aspects of Paradigm Shift• Pedagogy:
Didactic --> constructivist• Modeling:
Do as I say --> AND as I do• Transfer:
Technology enjoyed at leisure is F.U.N. --> also, applied to professional practice
• Trepidation:Will they find out? --> ok to say “I don’t know!”
• Literacy: Print literacy --> multiliteracies
• Heuristics: Client server --> peer to peer
• Sharing: Copyrighted --> creative commons
• Classification: Taxonomies --> folksonomies
• Directionality:Push --> pull
• Ownership:Proprietary --> open source
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Paradigm Shifts in Wordle.net
Can’t get enough Wordle.net
Configurations for sharing and dissemination of knowledge
• Groups• Communities• Communities of practice• Connectivist perspectives
– Personal learning networks– Distributed learning networks– Rhyzomic learning
Attribution: Nancy White http://www.fullcirc.com/
Configurations
• Groups
Configurations
• Groups• Communities
Configurations
• Groups• Communities• Communities of
practice– Domain– Practice– Community
Configurations
• Groups• Communities• Communities of
practice• Networks
can include overlappingcommunities
Configurations
• Groups• Communities• Communities of
practice• Networks
and sampleConnections
• Webheads started as EFL class in 1998• WiA formed as result of 2002 EVO sesson• Educators who engage in
– Helping each other pursue lifelong, just-in-time, informal learning
– Through experimentation in use of social-media and computer mediated communications tools
– Webheads in Action Online ConvergenceWiAOC 2005, 2007, 2009 http://wiaoc.org
Webheads: Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/
Webheads: Community
Attribution: http://flickr.com/photos/94794165@N00/410359410/
Personal Learning Networks
Scott Leslie's PLE (above) and more PLE diagrams: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams
Getting back to knowledge
Attribution: http://www.kelvybird.com/facilitation/scribing/workingknowledge.html
Knowledge dissimenation through communities and networks
• Downes on distributed learning networks– Knowing ( where’s Waldo?)
Once you know, you can’t not know
– Knowledge exists throughout nodes in a network
• Wenger notes (2002:6)– Increasing complexity of knowledge requires
greater … collaboration; whereas …– Half life of knowledge is getting shorter
Knowledge dissimenation through communities and networks
Cormier - Rhizomatic Learning to deal with increasingly rapid obsolescence of knowledge
http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1380055
Knowledge dissimenation through communities and networks
Siemens – Connectivism stresses importance of pipes over content
Attribution: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venice_-_Piping.jpg
Siemens – Connectivism – dealing with explosion of available info
http://www.wiziq.com/TutorSession/Session.aspx?JuX%2bgH%2b2GbYuXrqZqj1F3uIA%2fgrtIiAEcKQ3usZlk1VhT5GwwVHz6vferdj5MlOz5JOdRjZO8mc%3d
http://tinyurl.com/siemens-socialnet09
Implications for Teacher Professional Development
• Jack Richards plenary Denver TESOL 2009 (March 27)– About what teachers need to KNOW in order to
practice effectively– Research indicates that teachers tend to revert to
traditional methods rather than activate what they are exposed to in training curricula
• Derick Wenmouth (also from NZ) mentioned similar research findings at K-12 Online 2008 http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=181
Problems• Teacher-trainers
– without sufficient experience with technology and
– rooted in old-school methodologies
– simply not modeling new age learning behaviors for trainees
Attribution: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8aagIQGZq-RyFMO1dFHHNg
Problems• Students and staff
– love to learn but hate to be taught,
– resent top-down approach forced on them by managers sometimes out of touch with actual needs of students and staff
Attribution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxHb5QVD7fo&feature=player_embedded
Solutions
• Allow, facilitate, encourage networking in meetings, conferences, classrooms
• Offer workshops/projects bottom up, as something that staff/students organize themselves
• Create atmosphere encouraging formation of communities of practice where staff/students interact with peers in other institutions
Models for professional and student skills development
• Encourage teams to organize training sessions that utilize synchronous and non-synchronous social media tools. Call them something other than ‘training’ sessions
• Use Nings / Moodles / wikis / Google Wave / Jing / uTiPu / or other LMS/CMS to replace outmoded email attachment systems
http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/06/speedlifing.html
• Hold un-conferences and other grass roots events such as• Bar camps• LAN parties• Speed-geeking• Speed Lifing
Keep current, participate with peers around the world in:
• Social networks: Ning, TappedIn, EVO, WiAOC
• Social bookmarking: Delicious, Diigo
• Groups: YahooGroups and GoogleGroups
• Microblogging: Twitter, Plurk
• Instant messaging: Yahoo Messenger, Skype
Keep current, participate with peers around the world in:
• Blogging and podcasting: keeping current via RSS
• Wikis: PBWiki, Wikispaces
• Aggregation: Technorati, Pageflakes, Netvibes, Protopages, iGoogle, http://addictomatic.com
This suggests that …Key to success in keeping current is in expanding productive contacts within a network
Attribute: d'arcy norman touchgraph: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/436670816/
Thanks for joining Vance Stevensand friends …
at AVEALMEC/ARCALL 2009Social Networking Conference
http://avealmec.org.ve/
Modeling social media in groups, communities, and networks
Vance StevensAt the AVEALMEC/ARCALL
online conference on Social NetworkingNovember 5-8, 2009
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More information here: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/11/modeling-social-media-in-groups.html