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A POD presentation on the potential of social software for education. October 23, 2007
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Building Community
with social software
Communication
CollaborationCooperation
blogs, bookmarking, forums, IM, media sharing, web clipping, wikis
A traditional
community of learners
A traditional
community of learners
Do these students think of
themselves as a community?
community building
works easily offline
community building
works easily
online
from theonion.com
What is social software?
What is social software?
It's the opposite of project-oriented collaboration tools that places people into groups. Social software supports the desire of individuals to be pulled into groups to achieve goals.
— Stowe Boyd
Software that supports group interaction — Clay Shirky
Blogs
Social Bookmarking
Wikis
Instant Messaging
Web Clipping
Media Sharing
Web 2.0 Increasing semantics of social connections
Why use social software in education?
Building Community
• generates excitement and interest in learning
• creates an infrastructure for learning
shared questions, shared methods, opportunities for critique and feedback
• provides opportunities to cultivate social skills involved in knowledge acquisition, evaluation and distribution
March 1987 AAHE Bulletin, Chickering and Gamson
‣ rapid feedback and critique
‣ stimulating creativity
‣ facilitating collaborative study
‣ providing a real audience for student work
‣ fostering the development of critical thinking
‣ platform for academic discourse
‣ address conflicts of time and space
Susan Connell
Uses for Social Software in Education
http://soozzone.com/690review.htm
Potential Benefits
• encourages student-faculty interaction
• encourages cooperation among students
• encourages active learning
• gives prompt feedback
• emphasizes time on task
• communicates high expectations
• respect diverse talents and ways of learning
7principles of good practice in undergraduate education
Good Practice
March 1987 AAHE Bulletin, Chickering and Gamson
Some examples of social software
Blogs
• online journal or weblog
• posts displayed in reverse chronological order
• users can‣ easily post new entries‣ comment on entries‣ include media and
external links‣ use sidebar to post
stable information
Media Sharing
Music, photos, videos, podcasts,
slideshows
Instant Messaging
• one-to-one messaging
• more immediate than email
• familiar to students
Web Clipping
• highlight selected text
• save clippings
• add sticky notes or annotations clippings
• bookmark favorite pages or websites
• create tags for your bookmarked sites
• search your sites or the sites of others
• share your clippings and notes
Social Bookmarking
• store, organize and share your bookmarks
• visit your collection from different browsers and from different computers
• users can share each others’ bookmarks
• search through tags or interest groups
Social Bookmarking
tags are “free-form labels assigned by the user and not drawn from any controlled vocabulary” — Hammond
Wikis
• collaborative authoring• users can
‣ create, edit and delete pages
‣ user friendly markup language
‣ easily link one page to another
‣ comment on text‣ review the history of
changes• soft security
How to use social software
to build community
community building online
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community building online
Which applications?
What assignments?
How do I assess this?
Training for faculty and students?
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community building onlineWhat do you want to accomplish?
‣ I want students to get to know each other.
‣ I want students to communicate with each other.
‣ I want to facilitate peer evaluation.
‣ I want students to learn from each other.
‣ I want students to produce something collaboratively.
‣ I want to manage my course more effectively
community building onlineWhat do you want to accomplish?
‣ cultivating working peer relationships
‣ collaborative and cooperative problem solving
‣ producing and presenting something in collaboration with others
‣ adapting to new technologies
‣ effective communication
Foster skills for
community building onlinesuggestions for an smooth transition
‣ start small — start simple
‣ period/place for experiment (sandbox)
‣ introductory activities
‣ closing activities
‣ extra credit activities
‣ be prepared to make adjustments
