Phil Greaney, IET

This presentation is for those new to

social networking

This is a whistle-stop tourand there’s little time for the detailed exploration it deserves.

So…

…I’ve added lots of

resourcesto the end of this presentation that you can look at

in your own time…

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downloading or viewing

this presentation online.

So far, we’ve looked at two examples to illustrate how – broadly speaking – the web is full of social networks…

…but now I want to direct our focus to a narrow definition of social networking.

If Flickr collects and shares photos and Delicious collects and shares bookmarks…

People create identities, friends and groups.

Users add details about themselves (interests, workplace, relationships, and so on).

Users add media, including photos, video, sound clips and so on.

Users communicate with each other with public, private and real-time messages.

Users add ‘applications’, add-ins which provide additional functionality.

Technologically feasible: sites are free to join, easy to use and run on technology like mobiles.

Large userbase: if only we could create an educational community with a userbase like Facebook…

Sustaining communities: for distance learners without a ‘bricks and mortar’ campus (and even those that have), social networks can create and sustain a richly variable and geographically-scattered community.

Spaces: creates different spaces for working and ‘socialising’ within a single site, creating formal and informal networks.

Rich functionality: writing apps (widgets, gadgets) can add specific functionality to an existing social network: Course Profiles; My OU Story.

Privacy

Demanding of time, energy

Change

Social networking is an online approximation of real world relationships.

But it is also much more than that.

What social networks are and what that might mean for the web in general and education in particular we have yet to discover…

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Phil GreaneyInstitute of Educational Technology

PJGreaney@gmail.com

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OverviewSocial networking Learn About Guidehttp://kn.open.ac.uk/workspace.cfm?wpid=8738Social networking in plain English videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc&eurl=http:/facebooklife.net/blog/facebook-tutorials/understand-what-is-social-networking/What is social networking?http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com/Map of Web 2.0 apps HQshttp://www.platial.com/map/Web-2-0-HQ-Map/1768List of social networking siteshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites‘Social network services’ definition from Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_servicesSocial networking bloghttp://www.socialnetworking-weblog.com/If you use the internet, it’s likely you use broadbandhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7105242.stm

Social networking in educationOU Facebook Position Statement (PDF) (Internal only)http://www.open.ac.uk/online/objects/fb-position-statement.pdfH800 is a course that makes use of social networking (Internal only)http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01H800UK University pages on Facebookhttp://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/revisiting-uk-university-pages-on-facebook/Facebook in Wolverhampton Universityhttp://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/library-20-at-the-university-of-wolverhampton/‘Make friends before you start’: Facebook Guardian Articlehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/30/students.facebookA search of the tags ‘social_networking’ and ‘education’ in everyone’s Delicioushttp://delicious.com/search?p=social_networking+education&u=&chk=&context=all&fr=del_icio_us&lc=1Classroom 2.0 (a site about Web 2.0 in education that uses the Ning platform)http://www.classroom20.com/OpenLearn social networkshttp://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/about-us/our-networks.phpE-learning at Sheffield Hallamhttp://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html

Tools for sharingFlickrhttp://www.flickr.com/How to get the most out of Flickr (and what it does)http://www.flickr.com/get_the_most.gneGuidelines for using Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gneOnline photo sharing in plain Englishhttp://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vPU4awtuTsk

Delicious (formerly del.icio.us)http://delicious.com/A search for ‘social_networking’ on Delicious

List of social bookmarking siteshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_software#Social_bookmarkingSocial bookmarking in plain Englishhttp://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU

Some social software tools

Slidesharehttp://www.slideshare.net/

Citeulike (academic social bookmarking socftware)http://www.citeulike.org/

SocialLearn presentation (Martin Weller)http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2008/02/the-sociallearn.html

Dipity (timeline creation software)http://www.dipity.com/

Google mapshttp://maps.google.com/

Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com

E-learning references, with especial focus on collaborative activities and learningBrown, R. (2001) ‘The process of community-building in distance learning classes’, JALN, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 18–35; also available online at http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/v5n2/index.asp

Carson, S. (2005) MIT OCW 2004 Programme Evaluation Findings Report, Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; also available online at http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/90C9BC91-7819-48A0-9E9A-D6B2701C1CE5/0/MIT_OCW_2004_Program_Eval.pdf

Castells, M. (2001) The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (New York: Oxford University Press)

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (2002) How Do People Learn?, CIPDDalsgaard, C. (2006) ‘Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems’, European Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning [online], http://www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2006/Christian_Dalsgaard.htm

Dirkx, J and Smith, R ‘Learning to Learn in Online Collaborative Groups’ in Roberts, T. (ed) (2004) Online Collaborative Learning: Theory and Practice (Information Science Publishing: London)

Mason, R. and Rennie, F. (2004) The connecticon: learning for the connected generation (Information Age, US)Paulsen, M.F. (2002) Online Education Systems: Discussion and Definition of Terms [online], http://www.nettskolen.com/forskning/Definition%20of%20Terms.pdf

Roberts, T. (2005) (ed) Computer-supported Collaborative Learning in Higher Education (Idea Group: London)

Karen Swan and Peter Shea ‘The development of virtual learning communities’ in Hiltz, S. and Goldman, R. (ed) (2005) Learning Together Online: Research on Asynchronous Learning Networks (Lawrence Erlbaum, New Jersey)

Weller, M. 2007 ‘Is education intrinsically a bit dull?’ EdTechie Bloghttp://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2007/07/is-education-in.html

All photos are from Flickr unless other stated and are subject to the Creative Commons Licence agreement (http://creativecommons.org/ )

StabiloBoss’s photostream at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022/

davidking’s photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/davidking/2584489931/

Cougar-studio’s photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/suvcougar/1273657633/

MatthewField’s photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewfield/2306001896/

Luc Legay’s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/1824234195/

Julie70’s photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/2424793700/

185Queen’s photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/185queens/1268803822/

JimGrant’s photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jimgrant/257793151/

Joriel ‘Joz’ Jimenez’s photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/joriel/3100236400/

bejealousofme's photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/thexbeautyxofxlove/2793965150/

Dave-F’s photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/frield/95509221/

jurveston’s photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/2242999901/

kk+ photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/1717899661/

Matt Hamm’s photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/matthamm/2945559128/