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Social Network Services as Tools for Teaching and Learning

Social Network Services as Tools for Teaching and Learning. Edward Podgaisky, Russian State Hydrometeorological University EUMETCAL 2008, Toulouse, France 27 August 2008. Outline. Mobile content usage perspectives (from CALMET 2007) Social networking sites overview

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Social Network Services as Tools for Teaching and Learning

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  1. Social Network Services as Tools for Teaching and Learning Edward Podgaisky, Russian State Hydrometeorological University EUMETCAL 2008, Toulouse, France 27 August 2008

  2. Outline • Mobile content usage perspectives (from CALMET 2007) • Social networking sites overview • Example of a SN site usage for learning content distribution, incl. mobile • Example of a SN site usage for rising public awareness/learning

  3. mobilephones PDAs netbooks Personal Response Systems Tablet PCs Era of Mobile Devices Smartphones personal media players digital voice recorders Wearable PDAs • video game consoles Mini digital camcorders Portable DVD players

  4. Commuting time…

  5. There is software to produce small screen audio-enabled presentations: • Articulate Presenter, expensive • http://www.articulate.com • Camtasia Studio 4.0 - $179 educational license • http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia • FlashSpring 2.1 - $99 educational license • http://www.flashspring.com • …and many more!

  6. Update from 2007: • iSpring 3.5 is now available free of charge • FreeScreencast software – free of charge • Articulate Presenter and Camtasia Studio have newer & more powerful versions, remaining commercial leaders

  7. St Petersburg student community: peculiarities of mobile phones usage • August, 2006: SIMs sold = population • Late market boost (monopoly till mid-2001) • Advanced neighbours • Students – most advanced mobile users; • Independence • Social status • Well being

  8. Questionnaire (early 2007) • Commuting time • Mobile phone usage • M-learning and CAL potential

  9. How is the commuting time spent? %

  10. Summary of mobile phone usage • 73% fully utilize their mobile phone’s features • 68% are ready to use audio narrations • 55% are technically able to watch video • 46% plan to buy new mobile in 12 months • Only 39% phone memory exceeds 10 MB

  11. Conclusions we made: • Small chunks of mobile learning content • AVI, 3GP or FLV video 128x128 or 320x240 pt available to more than 50% • Not substitute – only complement

  12. How to market the optional learning content among the students?

  13. Is there an opportunity? • University of Minnesota study, 2007 • http://www1.umn.edu/urelate/newsservice/Multimedia_Videos/social_network.htm • File://D:/EUMETCAL/MySpacePkgGrfx-medium.flv

  14. What is a social networking site? • a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use it to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.(Facebook creators)

  15. University of Minnesota, 2007

  16. What social networking site is the best? Ask your students! Best site for you is the one where your students are

  17. SN websites usage by country (Alexa, Aug 2008)

  18. SN websites usage by country (Alexa, Aug 2008)

  19. Let’s try it! • http://vkontakte.ru/club4294315 * • Not available without registration on the SN website

  20. Another example of learning on SNS • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=640381424* • Not available without registration to the SN website

  21. Thank you for your attention! Edward Podgaisky podgaisky@rshu.ru http://www.rshu.ru – RSHU university

  22. Videos used: • Research on educational benefits of social networking sites - video available here • http://www1.umn.edu/urelate/newsservice/Multimedia_Videos/social_network.htm • Small videos on weather-related issues for public awareness: • http://www.watchtheweatherchange.com/ • Locally produced videos available on demand

  23. Analytics online: • http://www.alexa.com/browse/general/?&Mode=general&CategoryID=6309075&Start=1&SortBy=Popularity&R=True • http://social-networking-websites-review.toptenreviews.com/ • http://video-share-review.toptenreviews.com/

  24. Sharing screen-/slide-/webcasts • There are several options to share screencasts online: • http://freescreencast.com/ - based on FreeScreencast Recorder software - free • http://slideboom.com/ - based on iSpring software - free • http://www.slideshare.net/tour -free online conversion • http://screencast.com/ - based on TechSmith products (fee-based)

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