Enhancing Participatory Culture: !How to design international collaboration with social and mobile media?

Ilona Buchem, Beuth University Berlin, Germany Helen Keegan, University of Salford, UK Mar Camacho, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain

Online Educa Berlin 2012, Pre-Conference Workshop Venue: Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin Address: Luxemburger Strasse 10, House Gauss, Room 501 (5th Floor)

Ilona Buchem Beuth University Berlin, Germany @mediendidaktik

Helen Keegan Salford University Salford, UK @heloukee

Mar Camacho University R&V Tarragona, Spain @marett

Thom Cochrane AUT University Auckland, NZ @thomcochrane

iCollaborate

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Twitter stream

Twitter hash tag

#iCollabOEB

Participatory Culture

Source: http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF

Henry Jenkins

15:15 - 15:45 Educational scenarios for virtual, international collaborations 15:45 - 16:15 Live questions and answers with invited students 16:45 - 17:15 Hands-on activities with selected tools in rapid exercises 17:15 - 17:45 Small group design activities of innovative educational scenarios 17:45 - 18:00 Plenum discussion and open questions

Agenda

• Scenario 1: “Mobile Reporters” (Ilona Buchem)

• Scenario 2: “Mobile Filmmaking” (Helen Keegan)

• Scenario 3: “Mobile Storytelling” (Mar Camacho)

15:15 - 15:45

Educational Scenarios

• Aim & Outcomes: Field research on how social and mobile media is used in your city. Multimedia documentation.

• Groups & Context: Students in Berlin (media sociology), New Zealand (journalism), UK (media studies).

• Tasks & Activities: Define the context and the question of your field research, collect data in the city (interviews, photos, videos), publish research results on the web.

• Tech & Media: Mobile devices (cameras, audio recording), WordPress, Tumblr, Prezi, Qik, YouTube, QR codes, Twitter, polleverywhere, wall wisher, Mahara (ePortfolio).

S1: Mobile Reporters

Social Media Reports Berlin (Mahara)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ctLpUuLzy4I

http://mussaicollab12.tumblr.com/

Social Media Reports Manchester (Tumblr)

Social Media Reports Auckland (YouTube)

Social Media Reports Auckland (Prezi)

http://prezi.com/uuxxpzrx_43g/the-localist/

Live streaming from courses (qik)

http://qik.com/video/51100343

Just watching ...

Cross-boundary sharing (Twitter)

Peer Voting

Peer feedback: wall wisher

http://wallwisher.com/wall/icollab12

#iCollab12 project blog (WordPress)

http://icollab12.wordpress.com/

S2: Mobile Filmmaking • Aim & Outcomes: Develop skills in mobile phone

filmmaking and collaboration/negotiation of creative process over time and space

• Groups & Context: Students in UK (Audio Production), New Zealand (Cinematic Arts), France (Animation)

• Tasks & Activities: Crowdsourced split screen film: “24 Frames 24 Hours”; International teams collaborated to produce films on topic of sustainability: “Global In Mobile Out”

• Tech & Media: Smartphones, Google docs and hangouts, Wordpress, Twitter, YouTube

S2: The first MASS HANGOUT!

S2: 24 Frames 24 Hours - instructions

S2: 24 Frames 24 Hours - Facebook

S2: 24 Frames 24 Hours - Vimeo

S2: 24 Frames 24 Hours - main site

S2: Mobile Filmmaking

S2: Student-Tutor hangouts

S2: ELVSS Reflections • Speculate on the role

internationally-collaborative mobile movie-making might play in effecting cultural change

• Reflect on your experiences with both your Local Team and your Global Team, and evaluate your individual contributions to each of them

• Aim & Outcomes: Research on how mobile technologies account for storytelling.

• Groups & Context: Students in Tarragona (education), New Zealand (journalism)

• Tasks & Activities: Design a story (storyboard), create it with the use of apps or other web-based tools including multimedia (audio, photos, videos), publish stories in blogs & Twitter

• Tech & Media: Smartphones, educational apps for storytelling, WordPress, QRs, Twitter ...

S3: Mobile Storytelling

mobile storytelling: the process

data gathering

story creation

story sharing

• Scenario 1 “Student reporters” / Beuth University Berlin

• Sascha Feldmann

• Marco Seidler • Andreas Oettinger

• Scenario 2 “Mobile Filmmaking” / Salford University

•  Jason Wright (G+ Hangout)

• Scenario 3 “Mobile Storytelling” / University Tarragona

•  Maria Zapata & Pilar Alonso (G+ Hangout)

15:45 - 16:15

Q&A with students

Coffee break!

• Activity 1: Video streaming & recording on mobile devices!

• Aim: Live stream your impressions of Berlin/OEB12

• Tool: Qik App: http://qik.com/

• Activity 2: Generating and decoding QR codes!

• Aim: Creating a QR code with the link to the recording

• Tool: Splash URL: http://splashurl.net/

• Activity 3: Content curation and sharing!

• Aim: Create a note in Evernote & share on Twitter

• Tool 1: GoogleDoc: http://bit.ly/icollab

• Tool 2: Twitter: http://twitter.com & #iCollabOEB

16:45 - 17:15 Hands-on activities

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QIK

• Work in groups of about 10 participants

• Use these points to design activities:

17:15 - 17:40

• Aim & Outcomes:

• Groups & Context:

• Tasks & Activities:

• Tech & Media:

Design activities

17:40 - 18:00

Presentation & conclusions

Each group presents their idea for a scenario

Time per team: 5 minutes

Finish with a short conclusion about the workshop

17:40 - 18:00

Thank you!

Ilona Buchem @mediendidaktik

Helen Keegan @heloukee

Mar Camacho @marett