Best Practices in Web 2.0 Education (Social Networking)

Presenter: RBG Street Scholar

For: BEPAA, Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry

Lecture and Workshop Saturday, June 30, 2012

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Aka, HOW TO USE THE INTERNET TO LEARN, MASTER AND TEACH BLACK /

AFRICANA STUDIES Part II

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How to Use the Internet To Learn,

Master & Teach Black Black/

Africana Studies Part II

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Topics Covered: 1) Exploring Best Practices in Social Networking 2) Computer Revolution / Communication / Information age 3) What is Social Networking? 4) The Conversation: The Art of Listening, Learning and Sharing 5) Social Networking Applications 6) Microblogging “tweets” Link to cell phone 7)Twitter, Known as the Swiss Army of Social Media 8) Why Educators/Organizers/Activist/Movements Need Go Social 9) Marketing, recruitment, Monitoring conversations referencing your group 10) Blogging 11) Podcasting 12) Platform for creating your own social network very easy

Exploring Best Practices in Socio-Educational Networking

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Exploring Best Practices in Socio-Educational Networking (2)

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How many people have/use any of these social networks/tools?

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The Computer Revolution / Communication / Information Age

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Did You Know? We live in the Computing and the Information Technology Age, Change is Permanent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Age

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What is Social Networking?

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The interaction between a group of people who share a common interest Web 2.0 is a concept that takes the network as a platform for information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (consumers) are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

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What is Social Networking?(2)

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Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies /social tagging.

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What is social media? A category of sites that is based on user participation and user-generated content. Software tools that allow groups to generate content and engage in peer-to-peer conversations and exchange of content. Multi-Dimensional, Involve, Create, Discuss, Promote, Measure

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Social Networking Applications

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The Conversation: The Art of Listening, Learning and Sharing

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RBG-BLAKADEMIXTAPE-VOL 2-NU-AFRIKAN-EDITION

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Microblogging “tweets”

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rbg4lif (@rbg4lif) on Twitter twitter.com/rbg4lif

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Known as the Swiss Army of Social Media

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Why Educators/Organizers/Activist / Movements Need Go To Social

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Improve instruction

Global collaboration

Sharing of resources

Discussion

Knowledge acquisition

Why Schools/Universities Use

Twitter

Communication,

Events,

Meetings School closings,

Awards Announcements , /Updates

Campus, Weather,

News/RSS feeds,

Emergency information

Publishing, Marketing, Recruitment,

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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Agency overview

Formed 1958

Headquarters Arlington, Virginia

Employees 240

Annual budget $3.2 billion

Agency executive Dr. Kaigham J. Gabriel[1], Director

Parent agency Department of Defense

Website

DARPA.mil

“Monitoring”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

Blogs: “Speak Your Mind, Express Your Passion”

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RBG Street Scholars Think Tank Multi-media e-Zine

Ex. http://rbg-street-scholar-multi-media-e-zine.blogspot.com/

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Blogs(2)

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RBG Worldwide 1 Nation EduBlogs/Lessons

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Podcasting

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Example: BlogTalk Radio

A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of

audio files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or

streamed online to a computer or mobile device. The word is a

neologism derived from "broadcast" and "pod" from the success of the

iPod, as podcasts are often listened to on portable media players.

Example:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rbg4lif

RBG4Lif Report | Blog Talk Radio Feed www.blogtalkradio.com/rbg4lif.rss

An RSS feed icon, commonly used to indicate the Web feed for a podcast A list of all the audio or video files currently associated with a given series is maintained centrally on the distributor's server as a web feed, and the listener or viewer employs special client application software, known as a podcatcher, that can access this web feed, check it for updates, and download any new files in the series. This process can be automated so that new files are downloaded automatically. Files are stored locally on the user's computer or other device ready for offline use, giving simple and convenient access to episodic content. In this way it is contrasted to webcasting (Internet streaming).

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Creating your own social network

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Creating your own social network (2)

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Reparations Class/Discussions/Platoons/Leaders/Recruitment/Library/RBG Blakademics TV/Education Wikizine/Multi-Media e-Zine/4RBG Scholars Only/RBG SlideShare/ Donate to

RBG Edu. Fund/RBG Communiversity FB/ Revol Productionz Menu/Events/Chat/Headquarters

SUMMARY: Take Home Points

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Best Practices for Educators/ Schools, Organizers, Leaders, Activist: Keep it Professional Remember your role within the community Think before you post to the internet, Digital footprint (DARPPA Track and Trace) Policy Development within your group Why You Should Use Social Media Communication Public Relations Professional Growth Branding Opportunity

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Ex. 1 “Its about Creativity, Imagination, Intellect and Historical Accuracy”

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http://www.slideshare.net/rbgstreetscholar1/intro-to-africana-studiescheikh-anta-diop-and-black-scholars

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Ex. 2“Its about Creativity, Imagination, Intellect and Historical Accuracy” (2)

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http://www.slideshare.net/rbgstreetscholar1/free-your-mind-return-to-the-source-african-origins-dr-asa-g-hilliard-iii

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