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SOCIAL MEDIA LESSONS MODULE 2 Promoting Active Learning Through Social Media Lessons

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Fabrizio Fornara

Vanessa Dennen

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Webinar Rules of the Road Interacting During the Webinar •  Feel free to use the chat •  Feel free to tweet using #SMOOC2014 If You Need Help •  TAs will help in the chat During the Q&A • Raise your (virtual) hand if you want to speak. We’ll call

on you and enable your audio. •  Type questions for the speakers into the chat. Start with a

Q: to indicate it’s a question for the speakers.

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About the MOOC • Co-designed by graduate students in the Instructional

Systems Program at Florida State University •  This week’s module design team is:

•  Fabrizio Fornara •  Yanjun Pan •  Wei Qiang •  Kate Sumsion

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Topics Covered in Webinar • Social Media, Web 2.0, and the Knowledge Economy • Sample Social Media Lessons

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Curation à Lessons

Curation

• Collecting and organizing materials and resources

Lessons

• Planned activities and interactions

• May draw upon or generate materials and resources

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POLL: Engaging Learners Are you engaging learners in active use of social media and Web 2.0 tools? A.  Yes, definitely B.  Maybe, I’m not sure C.  No, but I would like to

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Types of Online Learning Interactions • Moore (1989) suggests:

Learner-teacher Learner-learner Learner-content

•  Social media adds learner-outsider or learner-community (Dennen, 2013)

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Shifting Web Technologies

A small # of people create, a large # consume (static)

Web 1.0 Many people create and consume; few are pure consumers (user contributors)

Web 2.0 We all contribute to the creation as we consume (semantic web)

Web 3.0

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What is Web 2.0

Web 2.0 IS

• A philosophy about tool use

• Ever changing • Constant redefined by

users

Web 2.0 IS NOT

• A tool • A software version • Static • Defined by experts

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IT’S NOT ABOUT THE TOOL … but how you use it.

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Case in point: Google Docs & Dropbox

Most common uses: •  Personal productivity •  File sharing •  Low-level

collaboration between known parties

Just because it is online and allows sharing doesn’t make it social media

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Case in point: • Prezi

Most common use: •  In lieu of Powerpoint

Just because it is online and allows sharing doesn’t make it social media

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Case in point: Blogs

•  Changing personal, paper-based journals into web-based ones

•  Using Wordpress to create a static Web site

Just because it supports social interactions doesn’t make it social media

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Dimensions of Participation in the Social Knowledge Landscape

•  Using items posted online Consumption

•  Creating and posting items online Production

•  Reading and lurking Passive

•  Commenting, sharing Active - Network

•  Curating, remixing, designing Active – Creation

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Online Knowledge Activities • Knowledge consumption • Knowledge creation • Knowledge management • Knowledge brokering

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Produsage and Produsers (Axel Bruns)

• A blending of consumption and production

•  Iterative and ongoing

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Produsage Principles (Bruns, 2007) Open Participation

Fluid Roles

Meritocracy

Distributed Leadership

Continuous Development

Shared Intellectual Property

Individual Objectives

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Why engage learners in this way? Social media and produsage are both important parts of the educational experience: • To prepare learners for participation in the knowledge economy

• To develop lifelong learning skills

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Reasons why educators integrate social media

•  It’s new and trendy • Students are digital natives •  Institutional pressure • Motivates learners • Enhances learning outcomes • Enables new types of learning interactions

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Reasons why educators integrate social media •  It’s new and trendy • Students are digital natives •  Institutional pressure • Motivates learners • Enhances learning outcomes • Enables new types of learning interactions

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POLL – Are you using social media lessons? How many of you have already integrated social media into your instructional design or teaching? A.  I have done this and engaged learners as producers B.  I have done this and have engaged learners primarily

as consumers C.  I have done this and have

engaged learners equally as consumers and producers

D.  I have not yet used social media in a lesson

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POLL – What is your primary reason for social media integration? Why do you want to develop social media lessons? A.  Enable new types of learning interactions B.  Enable new types of learning creations / products C.  Institutional pressure D.  To keep current

Be honest! J

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Example: Twitter in an Ed Tech Course

• Learners: preservice teachers • Assignment: use Twitter throughout semester

• Class updates •  Find resources • Build a network

• Submitted for assessment • Archive of tweets • Reflection paper

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Example: Twitter in an Ed Tech Course

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Example: Twitter in an Ed Tech Course

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• Google Sites wiki/website, collaborative project •  Information on the Italian society and culture

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Example: L’Italia dal vivo (1)

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Example: L’Italia dal vivo (2) • Platforms:

•  L’Italia dal vivo site •  Work-in-progress wiki: Wiki dal vivo •  Google Groups forum

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Example: L’Italia dal vivo (3)

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Example: L’Italia dal vivo (4)

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Example: Voicethread Presentations •  voicethread.com • Presentations may be instructor or student created • Students provide comments (text, audio, video) and

annotations • Can be closed or open commenting environment

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Example: Voicethread Presentations

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Example: Voicethread Presentations

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Ideas for Social Media Lessons • Collaborative writing activities • Publication, presentation and feedback activities • Communication and networking activities • Collecting and curating activities • Other types of activities?

• Share your ideas in the chat!

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Wrap Up •  Think about ways of using the media to promote active

learning, whether via networking or creation • Do it for the right reasons – to facilitate learning and

promote knowledge creation, management, and brokering (and not just consumption)

• Keep sharing on this topic … in the discussion forum, on Twitter, on Facebook

• We can’t wait to see your projects!

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THANKS FOR JOINING US! Time for Questions

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