Engagement 2.0: Using Social Networking Web Apps to Increase Interaction and Learning Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones Dept. of Computer Science [email protected] http://perez.cs.vt.edu Carlos Evia Dept. of English [email protected] http://faculty.english.vt.edu/evia/ Wednesday, October 7,
Engagement 2.0: Using Social Networking Web Apps to Increase Interaction and Learning
May 10, 2015
Communication technology continues to evolve. In the process, we (educators) continue to explore how to best use them in the classroom to stimulate discussion and support learning. In this session, Dr. Evia (English) and Dr. Perez-Quinones (Computer Science) will describe how some of these new communication technologies can be incorporated into the classroom environment. Hands-on demonstrations of some of these technologies, including Twitter, blogging, and Google Docs, we be key components of this short course.
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Engagement 2.0: Using Social Networking Web Apps to Increase
Interaction and Learning
Manuel A. Pérez-QuiñonesDept. of Computer Science
[email protected]://perez.cs.vt.edu
Carlos EviaDept. of English
[email protected]://faculty.english.vt.edu/evia/
Wednesday, October 7,
Social Software*...
• ...enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication [Wikipedia]
• 55% of all American youth (ages 12-17) use some form of social networking site [Pew Internet & American Life Project, Lenhart 2007]
2* social software is sometimes a synonym for Web 2.0Wednesday, October 7,
Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
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Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
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Interaction and learning with online collaboration
• Agenda for meetings (Google Docs)
• Common calendar deadlines, conferences, trips (Shared calendar)
• Shared documents folder (Dropbox)
• Quick communication/collaboration (Twitter)
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Google Docs• Online documents, edited and
stored within a browser with Word-like interface
• Share document with each student
• Use for agenda or common notes, document writing, etc.
• Publication plans
• Forms (with data gathering)
• etc...
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Agenda for Meetings• Document between student
and advisor
• Shared agenda, updated ahead of time (often by student)
• I check agenda before meeting and address issues
• Keeps record of previous meetings
• Marissa Mayer's how to run a meeting
• http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/sep2006/sb20060927_259688.htm
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Documents shared
• Publications plans
• NSF Proposal in the making
• Forms/Spreadsheets for data gathering
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Demo
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Shared calendar• Keep track of upcoming
deadlines for conferences, fellowships, grant opportunities, events, etc.
• Group responsibility to post/manage
• Google Docs, iCal or even Exchange
• Student benefit of seeing when I am in the office
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• Quick demo
• Google Calendar - conference deadlines, CDC
• Personal Calendar
• Family, Work, Others
CalendarDemo
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Dropbox
• Store and share documents online
• Software syncs your computer files with their online repository
• Can have multiple computers per account
• Share folders transparently
• Free software, limit of 2GB; paid option for more storage
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Share with many• Thesis folder, shared with
student
• Book, shared with co-authors
• Folder shared with family
• Software folder, shared with middle school teachers
• Grant folder, shared with coPIs
• Others for me, available on my iPod touch, on web
Demo
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iPhone support• Access whatever files you put
in dropbox from your iPhone
• Basic support for viewing content (but not editing)
• New iPhone App (haven’t played with it yet)
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Middle school setup• Description http://perez.cs.vt.edu/bns-computers
• One dropbox account for all computers
• All contents automatically replicated to all
• Parent’s home computer has their own dropbox
• Kids folder shared with parent’s account
• Teacher’s see all content at their workstation, no submission of work needed
• Can see from home without moving materials13
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Twitter.com• Micro blogging platform
• Status (what are you doing) service
• Inform your friends, be informed about their status
• “Follow” friends, famous people, or single words
• Updates can be received via email, SMS (to your phone), desktop client, etc.
• Has been used in courses to support “contextualized” teaching (teaching in the moment)
• I use it to post announcements and updates to course materials, and to interact with students in short bursts
• Follow us: mapq and carlosevia
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Demo
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Casual conversation with the world• Different people catch what
you say and repeat it (RT)
• Turn taking conversation online (asynchronous)
• Global conversation
Demo
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“The class twitter account served as a nice platform for the class participants to built rapport and exchange thoughts and ideas. On a personal note, […] whenever I wanted a clarification, I just sent him a private message on Twitter and got back a quick reply.”
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Student from CS 5774 Fall 2008
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slideshare.net
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Embeddable...
• Because all content is on the web, it can be embedded in other pages
• See http://happy.cs.vt.edu/fdi09/
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Demo
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Questions?
Manuel A. Pérez-QuiñonesDept. of Computer Science
[email protected]://perez.cs.vt.edu
Twitter: mapq
Carlos EviaDept. of English
[email protected]://faculty.english.vt.edu/evia/
Twitter: carlosevia
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