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Stay Connected: Social Spaces & Social Media August 28, 2009

Stay Connected: Social Spaces & Social Media August 28, 2009 . Luba Iskold Terry Collings Josh Suchow. Presentation outline. Stay Informed Start Planning Collaborate with Colleagues. Stay informed. What’s new at the LLC? People Hardware 20 PCs 2MACs Microsoft Lifecom VX-5000 Webcams

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Stay Connected: Social Spaces & Social Media August 28, 2009

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  1. Stay Connected: Social Spaces & Social MediaAugust 28, 2009 Luba IskoldTerry CollingsJosh Suchow

  2. Presentation outline • Stay Informed • Start Planning • Collaborate with Colleagues

  3. Stay informed • What’s new at the LLC? • People • Hardware • 20 PCs • 2MACs • Microsoft Lifecom VX-5000 Webcams • Digital Camera • Canon HighSpeed Document Scanner SR2050C • Software • Courseware • Skype • VLC Player

  4. Start planning • Projects in progress: • Dish Network TV • Kiosk • Social media and online collaboration • Student-led presentations: • Skype-October • Facebook-November • YouTube-December • Podcasting & RSS Feeds- February • Twitter- March • Best Practices: Faculty and student show and tell-April

  5. Going beyond the classroom • What are all these technologies? • Why do we need to know about them? • How can the new technologies be used for pedagogy? • Connecting with students and colleagues in new ways? • Making language learning and teaching more enjoyable? • Expanding the study of languages and cultures beyond the classroom?

  6. Background Information: Clarification of Terms • Social Interactions • Definition: Dynamic, changing sequences of social actions between individuals or groups • Types of Social Interactions • Spontaneous - not planned • Regular - very common • Planned - scheduled

  7. Where do Social Interactions Occur? • Social Spaces • Definition: The purpose of campus social spaces is to promote social interaction among students, staff, faculty, etc. • Information Grounds • Definition: Social settings in which people share everyday information while attending to a focal activity • Fisher et al., 2004 introduced the concept of ‘information grounds’ • The findings of their study suggest • 'Information grounds' play an intrinsic role in facilitating communication among people • Social spaces with information flow may enhance learning and interaction

  8. Kiosk Definition: Unattended multimedia kiosks dispense public information via computer screens. Either a keyboard, touch screen or both are used for input.

  9. Online Collaboration: Brief Overview • Synchronous tools • “Same time-different place” mode for communication and collaboration • Examples: Audio/Video/Web conferencing, Chat, Instant messaging, Skype • Advantages: • Engage people instantly, at the same point in time • Drawbacks: • Require same-time participation • Different time zones and conflicting schedules can create communication challenges

  10. Online Collaboration: Brief Overview • Asynchronous tools • “Different time-different place" mode for communication and collaboration • Examples: E-mail, Discussion boards/BlackBoard, Web logs (Blogs), Streaming audio/video, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, Online calendars • Advantages: • Involve people from multiple time zones • Capture the history of the interactions of a group • Collective knowledge easily shared and distributed • Drawbacks: • Require discipline to use for ongoing communities of practice • e.g., people typically must take the initiative to "login" to participate

  11. Online Social Networking • How can we integrate Skype into our teaching? • What is Skype? • Introduced in July 2004 • Within a year, more than 100 million people downloaded the software • By late 2008, an average of 10 million users were using Skype simultaneously

  12. Online social networking • How can we integrate Facebook into our teaching? • What is Facebook? • Free online social networking directory that connects people • Launched in 2004 by undergraduates at Harvard, led by Mark Zuckerberg • Similar to books of faces distributed to freshmen • Open to anyone with a valid email address • Privacy settings prevent strangers from accessing users’ personal information • Enables photo, video, message sharing

  13. Online social networking • How can we integrate Twitter into our teaching? • What is Twitter? • Free social messaging utility for staying connected • To chirrup • To speak rapidly and in a tremulous manner: twittering over office gossip • To giggle nervously • To tremble with nervous agitation or excitement • The light chirping sound made by certain birds • A similar sound, especially light, tremulous speech or laughter • Agitation or excitement; flutter

  14. Collaborate with colleagues • Terry Collings • Presentation of GroupWise Calendar

  15. References Karen E. Fisher, Carol F. Landry and Charles Naumer. Social spaces, casual interactions, meaningful exchanges: 'information ground' characteristics based on the college student experience.The Information School, University of Washington Box 352840, Seattle, Washington, USA

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