eTwinning workshop on Social software

Riina VuorikariEuropean Schoolnet

riina.vuorikari@eun.org

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Based on “Social networking and copyright” by Hans Põldoja

Learning resources and copyright

Copyright laws

• Educational use in motivated amount is permitted (fair use)

• You need author’s agreement to distribute, adapt or translate the resource.

How to recognize the license?

http://creativecommons.org/

Topics

Social software

1. CREATE

2. SHARE

3. USE and REMIX

Social media

1. CREATE: Easy creation of content by everyone

• not only the ones who have the technical knowledge

• many tools available on the Web for anyone to use for free

2. SHARE: Sharing of content is made MUCH easier, thanks to handy

ways of aggregating content

3. USE and REMIX of content is made easier thanks to easy and freely available software and licensing like Creative Commons

Social software

Any web-based software tool that supports or fosters group

interaction. It enables people to connect and collaborate through

technology-mediated communication.

Characteristics:

• 1. User-profle

• 2. Social networks between users displayed in relation to the profle, features to support networking

• 3. Annotate any artefacts

Video: Social mediahttp://dotsub.com/view/f810c5b5-b8dc-4946-a58f-5f7ce7ce4d44

Practical cases of using social

networking tools for learning

CREATE

Blogs[WordPress]

Blogging terms

• Post• Comment• Category• Blogroll• RSS feed

http://htk.tlu.ee/etwinest07/

WordPress

WordPress

Getting WordPress

•Free hosting• http://wordpress.com/• http://edublogs.org/

•Installing to your own web server• http://wordpress.org/

Collaborative writing[writeboard, Google docs]

http://www.writeboard.com

http://www.writeboard.com

http://docs.google.com/

http://docs.google.com/

image manipulation[sumopaint]

photo sharing[Flickr]

http://www.fickr.com/

http://www.fickr.com/

movie sharing[Youtube]

http://www.youtube.com

movie translation[dotsub]

sharing slides [Slideshare]

http://slideshare.net/

You will fnd these slides at: http://slideshare.net/vuorikari

http://slideshare.net/

Frappr! and social mapping

http://www.frappr.com/

SHARE through

tags and ratingsother people

feeds

SHARE: THROUGH TAGS

Folksonomyi.e.

user created keywords

Terms

• Folksonomy• Tag• Tag cloud

Choosing a tag for your event

• eTwinningIschia2008

Choosing a tag for yourself

• mathdrill• toread• forpupils

http://www.fickr.com/

Social bookmarking[tags]

http://del.icio.us/

http://del.icio.us/

http://del.icio.us/

Ratings

Rating learning resources, http://www.melt-project.eu

THROUGH PEOPLE

Feeds (e.g. RSS, Atom)

- pick up feeds and read them- aggregate from friends

http://www.bloglines.com

http://www.feedreader.com/

RSS readers

• Feedreader: http://www.feedreader.com

• NetNewsWire Lite: http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/

• Lifrea: http://liferea.sourceforge.net/

e.g. Jaiku, Friends Feeds

Searching and aggregating RSS

http://www.technorati.com

http://www.technorati.com/tag/learnip2006

Where to fnd open educational resources?

http://www.oercommons.org/

http://wikieducator.org/

http://www.wikipedia.org/

http://en.wikibooks.org/

http://en.wikiversity.org/

http://cnx.org/

http://ocw.mit.edu

Slides available at NING

thanks! for your attentionsocial networks user communities

discover people and projectsquestions?