Social  Media  in  Suppor/ng  Learning:  Self-­‐Organised  Learning  Network

Ville VenäläinenOnline Educa Berlin 2011 - 2.12.2011

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• Is an open network for everyone intrested in social media and learning (not only in the educational sector)

• Today it has nearly 4200 members with different backgrounds and professions

• It was founded in November of 2007

www.sometu.fi

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Social innovation machine,explore and learn together

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Social InnovationMachine

Learning organism

• Play and test ideas together

• Iterate - try different variantions

• Reflect and seek practise's in field

• Learning by doing together

• Cross organizational collaboration

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The Rise of the Sometu -networkExperimental workshop/miniseminar at Otava Folk High School at November 2007

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Themes in the Seminar

Democracy

Active citizenship

Teaching

Entertainment

Business (canceled)

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Possible reasons for Sometu’s success:Social Hub People

• People with expertise and good amout of charisma

• People who has already good connections

• People with a passion to the topic

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Possible reasons for Sometu’s success:

Timing

•Social need in time for the substance

•People like Me

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Possible reasons for Sometu’s success:

Own Voice for People• No strict rules

• Open conversation culture

• Freedom to speak and think differently

• Everyone has their own chance to shine!

• Peers gives a value for each other

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Possible reasons for Sometu’s success:Intense Interaction

• Especially in the begining, facilitating people must be active and do their best to raise conversation and make people to feel they are noticed

• Different kind of activites together on net and irl

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Possible reasons for Sometu’s success:

Live Event

• The beginning seminar created a deep cohasion between most of the hub people and generated some sort of boost

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Sometu offers...

• … a friendly, supporting and enlightening forum for different conversations for those teachers and developers of teaching methods, who are alone with their ideas in their own working community or are just curious to hear what people think elsewhere

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In addition Sometu participates...

• ...in developing teaching, participatory and collaborative methods nationally and hopefully globally in the future.

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Thank You!Ville VenäläinenOtavan Folk High Schoolville.venalainen@otavanopisto.fi+358 44 794 5102skype:ville.venalainen

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