social media in higher education Trebor Scholz Eugene Lang College [email protected] last update: March 28, 2009
Aug 19, 2014
social media in higher education
[email protected]:March28,2009
Trebor ScholzInternet Studies, Media Education, Art, Activism
media activist
educator
blogger
artist
writer
creative conferencing
•Right now
Student Twitter poetry slam competition (followed by booklet)
In the classroom (Free software, Seesmic, Slideshare, SMC, blogs, wikis, Zoho, Screenflow, podcasts, video casts, live streaming)
Guest speakers via Skype or Seesmic
LibraryThing: Cataloguing party with students. Reference personal library of faculty online
Social media dash board to bring together social web presence of college in one place
Official Flickr stream and dedicated YouTube channel (photo gallery of all people at Lang)
Live stream and archive large university lectures
Twitter for administrative purposes: Twtpoll (quick feedback from students)
Twitter account to tweet all Lang events(calendar as twitter stream)
Students connect through Twitter, Flickr, Netvibes (i.e., freshmen with seniors, alumni with current students)
video essays
•Mid-termFaculty and students micro-blogcreate directory and feature on website
•Long-termOpen Access: Invite faculty to make their syllabi and all of their research available to the public
What can we do right now?
graphic created with wordle.com
social media?publish
share
discuss
microblog
livestream
livecast
blogs
explore virtual worldsuse social networking services and social games
http://globalnerdy.com/2007/07/23/kids-say-email-is-only-for-talking-to-the-man/Through social media we can make our classes more relevant to the interests of students by
engaging with their everyday fascinations and obsessions.
content in many placesFacebook
Delicious
Seesmic
Flickr
YouTube
Blogs
Tweetworks
Wikis
Yammer
Podcast
How findable is our content?Does it reside in places where students gather?
web page culture
Social bookmarking
GamesVirtual Worlds
http://community.livejournal.com/loltheorists/tag/foucault
Linking everyday vernacular to academic scholarship
Poetry Twitter Slam a socially networked student competition
•publish booklet of entries on Lulu.com
winner of thetwitter poetry slam competition
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evandagan/3283259916/
In the classroom
Learning to work as peers in public
Educating authors for the networked age
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/we-have-a-winner/
video essays
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F66qju9N0SE&feature=related
UC Irvine course about YouTube on YouTubeLiz Losh (UC Irvine)
editing, very engaged and engaging, dialogical writing situation
Fostering practices aimed at public writing and semiotic mobility and thus
encouraging sensitivity to new questions about authorship and audience
-Liz Losh
http://videoessays.tumblr.com/
22 Short Films about Grammarhttp://www.bunkmag.com/grammar/
http://sharewidely.org/
tool to share and collaboratively build syllabi
Profcast to record lecture slides with audio (video casts)
ScreenFlow to record computer screen (segments of DVDs, screen interaction)
http://ww
w.facebook.com
/video/video.php?v=579416073383&
ref=m
f
“Instructors set aside a few hours each week for students to drop by for conversation. These conversations can cover anything from a review of course content to the latest research findings or career advice.”
Open Office Hours on Facebook
video discussion of readings and hosting of guest speakers with Seesmic
http://librarything.com/http://www.librarything.com/profile/trebor
Cataloguing Book cataloguing parties in faculty’s houses
Social networking sites for groups with Ning
http://socialmediaclassroom.com/
several tools in one interface
Pro:Threaded private Twitter conversationMessages limited to 140 characters
Con:too many casual replies- misunderstanding of discussion as instant messaging
http://creator.zoho.com/trebors/articles/#Form:Participation_Literacycredit: http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=202
Reading and sharing a large number of articles in preparation for class (thanks to Michael Welsh)
students submit summaries of a large number of articles through Zoho: the class ends up getting an overview of a large number of texts
http://www.noahwf.com/
faculty and student research blogs
http://q2l.org/
http://seriousgames.org/
http://gamesforchange.org/
http://imlbeta.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/tempestentrance.jpg
Multi-user Virtual Environment for Learning
Gamesandvirtualworldsas“gateways”toparEcipaEonliteracythatfostercollaboraEveproblemsolving
“Gamescanalsobeusedbyinstructorstounderstandwhatit'sliketobeanoviceinadeep,complexsystemofunfamiliarsignsandsignifiers.”‐AliceRobison
http://www.googlelittrips.org/
Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place.
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
Firefox The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, weʼve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.
Tweetdeck takes an abundance of information from Twitter i.e twitter feeds, and breaks it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
OpenOffice.orgis a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
Miro is the free open-source video platform.
VLC Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more.
Instructorʼs Resources http://delicious.com/Trebor/
uchicagolaw: “Twitter allows us to give prospective students a bite-sized glimpse into what life here is like.”
selected from: http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2009/01/04/chronicle_hlp.html#comment52073
• Chat with your professor or other students after class
• Collaborate on a project. Start a conversation thread.
• In-class back channel
• Follow the tweets of professionals
• Share your teaching resources beyond the class room
Feature Twitter faculty address directory on College website
•Learn what people say about you and join that conversation
•Find experts in your field on Twellow.com or Twitter Search
•What do people think about your organization?
•Twitter as possibility for creating intellectual community.
•Organizational: quick way to point to problems.
•Of course, it only works if people make an effort to use it.
http://messageboard.chatuniversity.com/eugenelang/
Twitter could enhance live chat service
What is my colleague writing, reading,... right now?What are her research interests?What can I learn about him or her?
http://www.newschool.edu/lang/events.aspx
Use a Twitter stream to announce events
http://
Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets and schedule their release. You can tweet hourly/daily/monthly announcements.
http://twtpoll.com
invite quick feedback from studentstwtpoll.com
https://www.yammer.com/
private twittering in the organization$1 per employee per month
Who is telling the story about your university?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/metmuseum/3266695469/sizes/l/in/set-72157613529457517/
-Hand out upload details to very many people
(authorize with Flickr so that people can email
photos from their phones)
-Create a gallery of people
at your college
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uchicagolibrary/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/unmflickr
http://ww
w.youtube.com
/user/Swarthm
oreCollegePA
Set up YouTube channel and document most events
http://ww
w.google.com
/talks/authors/index.html
recording small events without complicated setup, inexpensive
tweetgrid.com
Pull all college-related content together in a social media dash board NetvibesSocial Media Dash Board
http://www.mogulus.com/thefutureofnewsHarvard University live cast of the Future of News course
tools: Ustream, Mogulus
Live stream and archive large university lectures
Long term:
Open access to all research and syllabiGradual approach: Encourage faculty to publish lectures publicly
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
Most of our content should be available to all.
MIT faculty open access to their scholarly articles
March 20, 2009http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/open-access-0320.html
http://trebor.blip.tv/file/1829726/
Video cast of lectures on blip.tv,
Podcasts: record public faculty readings as well as other public lectures and make them publicly available
http://davidharvey.org/
slideshare.net
http://firstmonday.org/
open access peer reviewed journalsexperiments with new models of peer review
http://ijlm.net/
Concerns Considerations
Loss of control
conversations are happening anyway
student stories can provide a human, unfiltered image of the institution
it’s expensive to monitor, edit
Information overload/overwhelming
Just pick two or three tools that make immediate sense to you.
Time commitment Start with work/study students and a working group of enthusiastic faculty and staff.
Syllabi: copyright issues Not every institution has the resources of MIT to clear the copyright for all material appearing in syllabi. Openness comes at a prize.
What is the value of working in public? Should not students edit, edit, and re-edit before steppinginto the limelight?
Some kind of public practice is required in all professions. Working in public is a necessity. Learning to work on the mentioned platforms helps students to establish a literacy of tools that they will still use once they graduated.
What is the point of investing time and energy in technologies that may be obsolete at the end of the semester already?
The suggestions in this presentation are not bound to specific tools. These educational practices could easily migrate from one tool to another, from one service to another and you simply move with the technologies. This is why committing large resources to one platform or tool, especially if it is exclusive to educational settings, makes little sense. Our content should be where students spend most of their time online.
Q&A
Summary Tools, Services, Practices
Facebook Pages, LinkedIn social networking service
Blogs blogging
Ning.com social networking, media sharing
Twitter micro-bloggingTweetworks: Twitter threaded conversationsTweetworks
Flickr photo
YouTube video, media sharing-YouTube only short video-Viddler allows private video, large files-Vimeo- large files, bad for slides, great for live video-Blip.tv high quality large video possible
Viddler.com
Blip.tv
Vimeo
Tumblr
Delicious social/bookmarking
Seesmic video conversations (asynchronous)
Profcast video casts/podcasts
Slideshare sharing
Seesmic conversation
Zoho collaborative writing
Google Reader RSS
Technorati Search
PbWiki wiki
Voicethread audio and video conversation (asynchronous)
Skype video conversations (synchronous)
hOp://seriousgames.org|hOp://gamesforchange.org Games as “gateway”
Twitter: trebors
Blog: http://www.collectivate.net/journalisms
Delicious: http://del.icio.us/trebor
Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/treborscholz
LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com/profile/trebor
Trebor [email protected]