Social Media for Higher Education

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social media in higher education Trebor Scholz Eugene Lang College [email protected] last update: March 28, 2009

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social media in higher education

[email protected]:March28,2009

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Trebor ScholzInternet Studies, Media Education, Art, Activism

media activist

educator

blogger

artist

writer

creative conferencing

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•Right now

Student Twitter poetry slam competition (followed by booklet)

In the classroom (Free software, Seesmic, Slideshare, SMC, blogs, wikis, Zoho, Screenflow, podcasts, video casts, live streaming)

Guest speakers via Skype or Seesmic

LibraryThing: Cataloguing party with students. Reference personal library of faculty online

Social media dash board to bring together social web presence of college in one place

Official Flickr stream and dedicated YouTube channel (photo gallery of all people at Lang)

Live stream and archive large university lectures

Twitter for administrative purposes: Twtpoll (quick feedback from students)

Twitter account to tweet all Lang events(calendar as twitter stream)

Students connect through Twitter, Flickr, Netvibes (i.e., freshmen with seniors, alumni with current students)

video essays

•Mid-termFaculty and students micro-blogcreate directory and feature on website

•Long-termOpen Access: Invite faculty to make their syllabi and all of their research available to the public

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What can we do right now?

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graphic created with wordle.com

social media?publish

share

discuss

microblog

livestream

livecast

blogs

explore virtual worldsuse social networking services and social games

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http://globalnerdy.com/2007/07/23/kids-say-email-is-only-for-talking-to-the-man/Through social media we can make our classes more relevant to the interests of students by

engaging with their everyday fascinations and obsessions.

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content in many placesFacebook

Delicious

Seesmic

Twitter

Flickr

YouTube

Blogs

Tweetworks

Wikis

Yammer

Podcast

How findable is our content?Does it reside in places where students gather?

web page culture

Social bookmarking

GamesVirtual Worlds

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http://community.livejournal.com/loltheorists/tag/foucault

Linking everyday vernacular to academic scholarship

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Poetry Twitter Slam a socially networked student competition

•publish booklet of entries on Lulu.com

winner of thetwitter poetry slam competition

http://www.flickr.com/photos/evandagan/3283259916/

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In the classroom

Learning to work as peers in public

Educating authors for the networked age

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http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/we-have-a-winner/

video essays

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F66qju9N0SE&feature=related

UC Irvine course about YouTube on YouTubeLiz Losh (UC Irvine)

editing, very engaged and engaging, dialogical writing situation

Fostering practices aimed at public writing and semiotic mobility and thus

encouraging sensitivity to new questions about authorship and audience

-Liz Losh

http://videoessays.tumblr.com/

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22 Short Films about Grammarhttp://www.bunkmag.com/grammar/

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http://sharewidely.org/

tool to share and collaboratively build syllabi

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Profcast to record lecture slides with audio (video casts)

ScreenFlow to record computer screen (segments of DVDs, screen interaction)

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http://ww

w.facebook.com

/video/video.php?v=579416073383&

ref=m

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“Instructors set aside a few hours each week for students to drop by for conversation. These conversations can cover anything from a review of course content to the latest research findings or career advice.”

Open Office Hours on Facebook

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video discussion of readings and hosting of guest speakers with Seesmic

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Cataloguing Book cataloguing parties in faculty’s houses

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Social networking sites for groups with Ning

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http://socialmediaclassroom.com/

several tools in one interface

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Pro:Threaded private Twitter conversationMessages limited to 140 characters

Con:too many casual replies- misunderstanding of discussion as instant messaging

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http://creator.zoho.com/trebors/articles/#Form:Participation_Literacycredit: http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=202

Reading and sharing a large number of articles in preparation for class (thanks to Michael Welsh)

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students submit summaries of a large number of articles through Zoho: the class ends up getting an overview of a large number of texts

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http://www.noahwf.com/

faculty and student research blogs

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http://imlbeta.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/tempestentrance.jpg

Multi-user Virtual Environment for Learning

Gamesandvirtualworldsas“gateways”toparEcipaEonliteracythatfostercollaboraEveproblemsolving

“Gamescanalsobeusedbyinstructorstounderstandwhatit'sliketobeanoviceinadeep,complexsystemofunfamiliarsignsandsignifiers.”‐AliceRobison

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http://www.googlelittrips.org/

Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place.

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Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Firefox The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, weʼve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.

Tweetdeck takes an abundance of information from Twitter i.e twitter feeds, and breaks it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

OpenOffice.orgis a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

Miro is the free open-source video platform.

VLC Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more.

Instructorʼs Resources http://delicious.com/Trebor/

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  Twitter

uchicagolaw: “Twitter allows us to give prospective students a bite-sized glimpse into what life here is like.”

selected from: http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2009/01/04/chronicle_hlp.html#comment52073

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• Chat with your professor or other students after class

• Collaborate on a project. Start a conversation thread.

• In-class back channel

• Follow the tweets of professionals

• Share your teaching resources beyond the class room

Feature Twitter faculty address directory on College website

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•Learn what people say about you and join that conversation

•Find experts in your field on Twellow.com or Twitter Search

•What do people think about your organization?

•Twitter as possibility for creating intellectual community.

•Organizational: quick way to point to problems.

•Of course, it only works if people make an effort to use it.

http://messageboard.chatuniversity.com/eugenelang/

Twitter could enhance live chat service

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What is my colleague writing, reading,... right now?What are her research interests?What can I learn about him or her?

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http://www.newschool.edu/lang/events.aspx

Use a Twitter stream to announce events

http://

Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets and schedule their release. You can tweet hourly/daily/monthly announcements.

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http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

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http://twtpoll.com

invite quick feedback from studentstwtpoll.com

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https://www.yammer.com/

private twittering in the organization$1 per employee per month

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Who is telling the story about your university?

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-Hand out upload details to very many people

(authorize with Flickr so that people can email

photos from their phones)

-Create a gallery of people

at your college

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http://ww

w.youtube.com

/user/Swarthm

oreCollegePA

Set up YouTube channel and document most events

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http://ww

w.google.com

/talks/authors/index.html

recording small events without complicated setup, inexpensive

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tweetgrid.com

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Pull all college-related content together in a social media dash board NetvibesSocial Media Dash Board

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http://friendfeed.com/uw

gb

Friendfeed

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http://www.mogulus.com/thefutureofnewsHarvard University live cast of the Future of News course

tools: Ustream, Mogulus

Live stream and archive large university lectures

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http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/

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Long term:

Open access to all research and syllabiGradual approach: Encourage faculty to publish lectures publicly

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http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Most of our content should be available to all.

MIT faculty open access to their scholarly articles

March 20, 2009http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/open-access-0320.html

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http://trebor.blip.tv/file/1829726/

Video cast of lectures on blip.tv,

Podcasts: record public faculty readings as well as other public lectures and make them publicly available

http://davidharvey.org/

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slideshare.net

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http://firstmonday.org/

open access peer reviewed journalsexperiments with new models of peer review

http://ijlm.net/

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Concerns Considerations

Loss of control

conversations are happening anyway

student stories can provide a human, unfiltered image of the institution

it’s expensive to monitor, edit

Information overload/overwhelming

Just pick two or three tools that make immediate sense to you.

Time commitment Start with work/study students and a working group of enthusiastic faculty and staff.

Syllabi: copyright issues Not every institution has the resources of MIT to clear the copyright for all material appearing in syllabi. Openness comes at a prize.

What is the value of working in public? Should not students edit, edit, and re-edit before steppinginto the limelight?

Some kind of public practice is required in all professions. Working in public is a necessity. Learning to work on the mentioned platforms helps students to establish a literacy of tools that they will still use once they graduated.

What is the point of investing time and energy in technologies that may be obsolete at the end of the semester already?

The suggestions in this presentation are not bound to specific tools. These educational practices could easily migrate from one tool to another, from one service to another and you simply move with the technologies. This is why committing large resources to one platform or tool, especially if it is exclusive to educational settings, makes little sense. Our content should be where students spend most of their time online.

Q&A

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Summary Tools, Services, Practices

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Facebook Pages, LinkedIn social networking service

Blogs blogging

Ning.com social networking, media sharing

Twitter micro-bloggingTweetworks: Twitter threaded conversationsTweetworks

Flickr photo

YouTube video, media sharing-YouTube only short video-Viddler allows private video, large files-Vimeo- large files, bad for slides, great for live video-Blip.tv high quality large video possible

Viddler.com

Blip.tv

Vimeo

Tumblr

Delicious social/bookmarking

Seesmic video conversations (asynchronous)

Profcast video casts/podcasts

Slideshare sharing

Seesmic conversation

Zoho collaborative writing

Google Reader RSS

Technorati Search

PbWiki wiki

Voicethread audio and video conversation (asynchronous)

Skype video conversations (synchronous)

hOp://seriousgames.org|hOp://gamesforchange.org Games as “gateway”

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Twitter: trebors

Blog: http://www.collectivate.net/journalisms

Delicious: http://del.icio.us/trebor

Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/treborscholz

LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com/profile/trebor

Trebor [email protected]