Social Networking + Web 2.0 guidelines

Web 2.0 - ‘social web’?

Tools for communication and collaboration

User-generated content + feedback and

interaction

Group formation

Common examples

social networking

blogs

wikis

social bookmarking

media sharing

‘micro-blogging’

Why in education?

a route to better collaborative working and participation even in ‘traditional’ settings

already in our students’ social lives

part of students’ post-university professional practice in all subjects

‘Web 2.0’ services : wiki (Confluence)blogging (Wordpress)podcasting video applications

Moodle – some web 2.0 features - basic blogging, wiki, RSS, student-generated material – will get better

MyPortfolio – student owned, multimedia, Facebook-style ‘groups’

Web 2.0 UCL services

MyPortfolio

Web 2.0 + Moodle + MyPortfolio

Web 2.0 + Moodle

Contact LTSS if you want to know how to do this

But UCL applications may be thought to lack

FlexibilityFunctionalityAttractiveness Dynamic interfacesNoveltyCoolness - a big part of

appeal to both educators and staff.

And external services usually

Going ‘off piste’

risk • service provision

• legal liability (data protection, ©)• UCL regulations

http://www.flickr.com/photos/op_timus/471658053/

Service provision

A pink cross means that the company is dead now while green circles mark companies that got acquired.

http://www.labnol.org/internet/chart-of-internet-companies-that-vanished/8619/

Copyright and content

• Confidentiality / ownership of data

• Copyright• UCL licensed content• UCL Computing Regs (2007)• Easy ‘take down’ for

unacceptable content

Data Protection

‘Personal data held by UCL’ or an organisation providing services on behalf of UCL e.g. email address, name, address, personal interests etc

UCL Data Protection Policy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bixentro/346558163/

Accessibility

UCL services should be ‘reasonably’ available to disabled individuals (dyslexic, visually/ hearing impaired etc)

How accessible are Web 2.0 services?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/henryfaber/28058869/

UCL Assessment regulations

• Retention of students’ assessed work

• Security– how to ensure that no

changes can be made – visibility of assessed

work to other students, – impact of possible loss

of externally stored materials.

Quick tips

Reduce your riskConsider UCL alternativesRead the small printWarn students its not a UCL serviceMake it optional

Moving on to Web 2.0?

email c.p.l.young@ucl.ac.uk

phone 34431twitter @CliveYoung

these slides onwww.ucl.ac.uk/ltss-blog and