Social Media in Education

1. Social Media in Education Valère Awouters

2. Content • The ‘new’ internet: Web 2.0 andsocial media: • Web 2.0? • SocialMedia? • Socialmedia in your class/school?

3. Whysocial media will break throughandsucceed? • Time-shifting • Place-shifting • Authority-shifting It’s allabout the shift of control andownership!

5. Phase 1 – WEB 1.0 • Content was offeredby the developpers • It was static, notdynamic, notinteractive.

7. Phase 2 – WEB 2.0

8. Phase 2 – Web 2.0 • From 2006 • Characteristics: • User = central • The web = platform • Data, content, information & knowledge = shared • Everything is BETA • Richconsumerexperience

9. Characteristic 1: user = central

10. Characteristic1: user = central • Some data: • Number of Facebook users ?

11. Characteristic1: user = central • Some data: • Number of Twitter users? >100 milj.

12. Characteristic1: user = central: number of CV’s in LinkedLn • LinkedIn: • 75 000 000 cv’s online!

14. Phase 2 – Web 2.0 • From 2006 • Characteristics: • User = central • The web = platform • Data, content, information & knowledge = shared • Everything is BETA

15. Characteristic 2: web as platform • Cloud computing.

16. Characteristic 2: web as platform • Available: whereandwhenyou want!

17. Phase 2 – Web 2.0 • From 2006 • Characteristics: • User = central • The web = platform • Data, content, information & knowledge = shared • Everything is BETA

18. Characteristic 3: Data, content, information & knowledge • Manipulate, aggregate, reuse, create, … • RSS: • Really • Simple • Syndication

19. Phase 2 – Web 2.0 • From 2006 • Characteristics: • User = central • The web = platform • Data, content, information & knowledge = shared • Everything is BETA

20. Characteristic 4: everything is BETA • End of the software release cycle

21. WEB 2.0 – conclusion • Content creation & posting • Collaborativewriting • Content Syndication

25. In the class? • Threats or opportunities?

26. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbpKawqA6VQ

27. Allowed or not: Web 2.0 ?

28. School 2.0

30. Didyouknow? • Number of yearstoreach 50 millionpeople: • Radio: 38 • TV: 13 • Internet: 4 • Facebook: 200 million in 1 year!

31. Social Media in the class

32. Social Media in the class • Are therealreadyguidelines? • What is allowed, whatnot? • http://dossiers.kennisnet.nl/dossiers/mediawijsheid/waar-vind-ik-een-protocol-voor-het-gebruik-van-internet-en-mobieltjes-door-leerlingen/

33. Social Media Protocol: http://socialmedia.policytool.net/

34. Social Media in the class: groups • Voorbeelden:

38. 10 FacebookPrinciples (http://www.facebook.com/#!/principles.php) People should have the freedomto share whatever information they want, in any medium andany format, and have the right toconnect online withanyone - any person, organization or service - as long as theyboth consent to the connection.People shouldowntheir information. Theyshould have the freedomto share itwithanyonethey want and take itwiththemanywherethey want, includingremovingitfrom the Facebook Service. People should have the freedomtodecidewithwhomtheywill share their information, andto set privacy controlstoprotectthosechoices. Thosecontrols, however, are notcapable of limitinghowthosewho have received information mayuseit, particularlyoutside the Facebook Service. • People should have the freedomto access all of the information made availabletothembyothers. People shouldalso have practical tools that make it easy, quick, andefficientto share and access this information.

39. Every Person - whetherindividual, advertiser, developer, organization, or otherentity - should have representationand access todistributionand information within the Facebook Service, regardless of the Person'sprimaryactivity. Thereshouldbe a single set of principles, rights, andresponsibilitiesthatshouldapplytoall People using the Facebook Service. • People should have the freedomtobuild trust andreputationthroughtheiridentityandconnections, andshouldnot have theirpresence on the Facebook Service removedforreasonsotherthanthosedescribed in Facebook's Statement of RightsandResponsibilities. • People should have programmaticinterfaces forsharingandaccessing the information availabletothem. The specificationsfor these interfaces shouldbepublishedand made availableandaccessibletoeveryone.

40. People shouldbeabletouseFacebookfor free toestablish a presence, connectwithothers, and share information withthem. Every Person shouldbeabletouse the Facebook Service regardless of his or her level of participation or contribution. • The rightsandresponsibilities of Facebookand the People thatuseitshouldbedescribed in a Statement of RightsandResponsibilities, whichshouldnotbe inconsistent with these Principles. • Facebookshouldpublicly make available information aboutitspurpose, plans, policies, and operations. Facebookshould have a town hall process of noticeandcommentand a system of votingtoencourage input and discourse on amendmentsto these Principles or to the RightsandResponsibilities. • The Facebook Service shouldtranscendgeographicandnationalboundariesandbeavailabletoeveryone in the world.

41. Thanksforyour attention!