Social Media in Education

R. John RobertsonCETL One Session WonderUW Oshkosh 2013-03-06

Introductions

Why I'm talking about this

Saying hello

A session of question raising

Technologies

Communication and status tools ● Twitter /FacebookBookmarking tools● Delcious/ Diigo / Scoop.it / Pinterest / etc.Blogs● (sort of, but also another discussion about

what is publishing; digital scholarship etc.)

Technologies

Affordances of social media- not controlled (vulnerability?)- often instant (expectations of a response?)- brief (what sort of communication)- more or less open/ public (boundaries?)- distant community made local (which community?)

Twitter - my tool of choice

public#concisebookmarkishdistributed organisationdistributed community of practicenetwork of tools and servicesnetwork is easy and easy to flex

Changes Ahead

But pick a tool and remember that it's not yoursthink about data export hold the community tightly and platform lightly ; replicate contacts across toolsbe aware that the community and technology IS transitory (e.g. tweetdeck)

Public access

What you do online, especially with social media is *public*Yes, there are various privacy protection mechanisms but once you write and share it it's outside of your control.Think about privacy and creating space for others

Automaton or person?

What do you tweet?

Do you create, share, or discuss?

Does @yournamehere produce a response?

Personhood & online identity"It is only when we bring the personal (not the private) to our discourse that we understand the rich complexity of individual being out of which civilization is built–or out of which it ought to be built. [...] Sharing the personal, as distinguished from oversharing the private, means engaging with personhood in all its messy and glorious complexity, and all its potential, too. If, as Jon Udell reminds us, “context is a service we provide for each other,” the context is not merely informational, nor is it about matters that should remain private."

Gardner Campbellhttp://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/?p=2039

Professional Development

Helping the academic debate, conference chat, journal paper, and water cooler integrate into an online world.

How do you interact with your peers?What parts of that might replicate to an online environment?What won't?

Professional Development

Find a Friend?

Let's go exploring...

In and around the classroom

Thinking about your classroomIs tech an opportunity or a distraction?Does it support or conflict with your pedagogy and objectives for a given activity?Are there private options or safe spaces?Are you ensuring that you're Ferpa compliant?

Twitter reference - the embedded librarian (@efilgo)

Dialoguing with the Instructor● A class tag # ● Encouraging students to tweet the class and

their questions● Linking to relevant library and online

resources● Promoting discussion, articulating and

sharing ideas, developing insight● Folding resources into the class and

coursework, and the course into a wider world

Open classrooms

If a student is online in your class are they distracted, processing, or engaging? What happens when you extend the classroom? and include other voices?What happens when the venue for discussion is outwith your control?

Can you dig it?

http://ds106.us

A digital storytelling course ... on campus for credit but open to the world

Is that it?

Network analysis and analytics, there's more...

by @mhawksey

Is that it?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtuuXRnPa9VJdG9mYXJWZFJlb29BWUlZQTF4V1ZzNGc&usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtuuXRnPa9VJdGpBN0NNRWNicUtTdXNQajVRelJwaVE&usp=sharing

Making things tangible again...

Capturing the transitory with Storify

Reclaiming the data with Momento (etc.) and twitter archives

> making the digital physical again.

Further readingGardner Campbell (2013) "Personal, Not Private" http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/?p=2039Martin Weller (2011) The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Changing Academic Practice (OA version: http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/DigitalScholar_9781849666275/book-ba-9781849666275.xml )Ellen Hampton Filgo (2011) “#Hashtag Librarian: Embedding Myself Into a Class via Twitter and Blogs”, Computers in Libraries, Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 78-80.Martin Hawksey (ongoing) http://mashe.hawksey.info Tanya Joosten (2012) Social Media for Educators: Strategies and Best Practice Nicola Osborne (2011) "Using social media in education, Part 1: Opportunity, risk, and policy"http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/industry/library/ind-educ-social-media1/index.html______ (2012) "Using social media in education, Part 2: Tools, support, and technical issues"http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/industry/library/ind-educ-social-media2/index.html