Post on 05-Dec-2014
description
Social media in virtual mobili1es Dr. Diana Andone
Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
SMART 2014 #SMART2014TM
Interna1onal Conference SMART – Social Media in Academic Research and Training Timisoara 18-‐20 September 2014
Digital students & Technology
SMART 2014
need to control - online activity, communication, eLearning environment�
Digital students
SMART 2014
Virtual mobility or virtual placement virtual components facilitated through an ICT supported learning environment, where the three key stakeholders (students, universities and enterprises) interact with one another independent of time and space
4 SMART 2014
Projects
5 SMART 2014
Computa1onal thinking
SMART 2014
Crea0ve creators SMART 2014
Global workforce
SMART 2014
TalkTech project 2008-‐2013 UPTimisoara Romania
BU, Boston, USA
SMART 2014
TalkTech 2008 – 2013 Where We Are
ELSE 2014
TalkTech 2008 – 2013 Students
Bentley University • IT 101, Informa1on
Technology • 50 students • Spoke English • Web literate • PC Literate • Age 18-‐21
UP Timisoara • TMM, Technologies of
Mul1media • 40 students • Spoke English • Web literate • PC Literate • Age 21-‐24
ELSE 2014
587 students involved, no dropout
TalkTech 2008 – 2013 Students
ELSE 2014
ViCaDiS campus
ELSE 2014
TalkTech 2008 – 2013 2008
• Create a web page with images, a video, a PowerPoint or Google presenta1on, a recorded audio conversa1on, or a combina1on of any of these that presents your group’s understanding of a current issue in technology and culture
• Post content and group progress to a collabora1ve Google Site TalkTech2008
2009
• Research a web-‐based collabora1on tool
• Create a wiki page with images, blog entry, video or video tutorial of a tool; post link on ViCaDiS
2010
• Create a short video evalua1ng two similar online collabora1on tools (screen sharing, forms, presenta1ons, video conferencing, scheduling, project management, mind mapping) from the perspec1ves of usability and entrepreneurship
• Summarize findings in a Google Doc or video. SMART 2014
SMART 2014
TalkTech2010 project
SMART 2014
TalkTech 2008 – 2013 2011 • Create a presenta1on in which your group analyzes and discusses the poten1al of
various start-‐up Internet companies • Use VoiceThread to add comments or narra1on to the presenta1on’s slides;
integrate in ViCaDiS blog 2012 • Create a presenta1on in which your group researches innova1ve methods used in
business by promising start-‐up companies • Use VoiceThread to add comments or narra1on to the presenta1on’s slides;
integrate in ViCaDiS blog 2013 • Research popular web or mobile apps • Create an interac1ve image using ThingLink Annota1ons must include audio and
video clips in which interna1onal partners appear simultaneously discussing their topic
• Post ThingLink to ViCaDiS blog
SMART 2014
TalkTech 2008 – 2013
SMART 2014
SMART 2014
SMART 2014
TalkTech 2008 – 2013
• Mul1cultural • Online – different 1mezones • Simulate real world work in an IT company • Students freely choose the tools, communica1on, working 1me and hours
• Students connect using several social media tools
• All students finished and delivered the ar1fact
SMART 2014
TalkTech 2008 – 2013 main Tools
SMART 2014
TalkTech 2013 Student Use of Technologies
• 1. Mobile phone • 2. SMS – text messaging • 3. iPod /mp3 player • 4. Search engines (Google/Bing) • 5. Online Messaging (Yahoo, G-‐Chat,
etc) • 6. VoIP (Skype, Google Talk, etc) • 7. Mobile chat (WhatsApp/Viber) • 8. Online video (YouTube) • 9. Photo Sharing (Flickr, Picasa) • 10. Online games • 11. Blogs • 12. Wikipedia • 13. Facebook • 14. Twider • 15. Collabora1ve Wri1ng Apps
(Google Docs/Office Web Apps)
ZEF analy1cs tool SMART 2014
Task Tools
align time zones timeanddate.com
chat Facebook, Yahoo! IM,Google Hangouts
create and host audio SoundCloud
create and host video YouTube, Screencast-o-Matic
create interactive images ThingLink
edit audio Sound Forge
edit images PhotoShop, Paint.net
edit video Windows Live Movie Maker
email Gmail, Outlook
hold video conferences Google Hangouts, Skype
record video mobile phone camera apps
schedule meetings Doodle
search the web Google, Bing
share photos Flickr, Tumblr
share screens join.me, Google Hangouts SMART 2014
Use of tools
• Each year over 80% of students connected via social media tools
• Each year 45-‐62% from students stayed connected with each other via Facebook, Google+ or Instagram, at one year aier the end of project
SMART 2014
TalkTech2013 Desirability Test
SMART 2014
Conclusions
• introduced students to real-‐world technology topics, trends and working methods
• Empowered students
• create the learning and working environment for producing the final ar1fact, in a self-‐organized, networked-‐based and quite oien complex and chao1c manner
SMART 2014
CONTACT Dr.eng. Diana Andone Director e-Learning Center Tel: +40.256403300, Email: diana.andone@upt.ro
UPT – CeL Campus Virtual www.cv.upt.ro
@diando70
hdp://www.slideshare.net/diando70/ SMART 2014