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INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL NETWORKING
SITES, AND YOUTUBE (WEB 2.0)
The Internet – more than just a book
“The Read/Write Web”(Tim Berners Lee)
Original photo by Hummanna.
PERSONAL PUBLISHING/ PARTICIPATORY MEDIA TOOLS
• Blogs – writing (mostly)• Podcasts (audio)• Wikis – collaboration (mostly text)• Social Networking sites (MySpace, Facebook, Ning,
Bebo, etc)
MEDIA• Video repositories:
– YouTube, TeacherTube, Google Video, BlipTV• Flickr (photo sharing)• UStreamTV (video creation)
PARTICIPATORY MEDIA/CULTURESOCIAL MEDIA SOCIAL NETWORKINGSOCIAL SOFTWARE
YouTubeFlickrMySpaceFacebookNing, etc
WHAT HAS CHANGED?
• Decline of the Gatekeepers
• Publish then evaluate
• Content Creators; Content Rankers
• Everyone has access to everything
The World is Flat (Thomas Friedman)
• “People just don’t subscribe to magazines anymore; they also subscribe to people.”
Networked Learning
CONNECTIVISM: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
(George Siemens, University of Manitoba, Canada)Principles of Connectivism:
• Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning.
• Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.
• Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
• 9000 hrs of extra content each day
• In 6 months generates as much content as major broadcasters in US did in 60 years
• Superb video from Michael Wesch: An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU
A GLOBAL AUDIENCE:
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8
• Performance by a 13 yr old Korean boy• Jan 31st: 34,770,497 million views; 142796 comments• That’s more than the populations of
Israel 5.7mDenmark 5.3mFinland 5.1mNew Zealand 3.6mIreland 3.6mHolland 16.4mAustralia 20.4m etc
WHAT’S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT?
• Is it real?• Who are these 34.7 million people?• Copyright implications? – I can reuse the content for my own purposes• Who is exercising editorial control?• Disintermediation – the decline of the gatekeepers of content• Should students have access to sites like this?
(see ‘YouTube – a Class Act’)• How do students like this feel at school?• Should we be encouraging our students
1. to create content2. to publish to these kinds of sites
• Empowerment and realisation of identity through personal publishing to social networking sites
Rewriting or Killing our Cultures?
THE CROWD:
Collective wisdom?
Stupidity of the masses?
Is our culture beingre-written?
Is the Internet killing ourCulture? (Andrew Keen:the cult of the amateur)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5jtiJPlv4Y
MySpace/FacebookSeptember 2nd, 2008
• POLICE are trawling social networking sites and tracking text messages to find the organisers of a wild party shut down by the riot squad in Sydney.
• About 1500 people crammed into a Camperdown warehouse in Sydney's inner west for the party which was publicised through Facebook and other online forums.
(http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24273455-5014108,00.html)
September 2nd, 2008
• A wild teenage party promoted on MySpace has been condemned by Geelong police who were pelted with glass bottles when they tried to close it down.
(http://www.theage.com.au/national/myspace-party-teens-pelt police-with-bottles-20080902-47hg.html)
fear
It’s a Wild World
http://youtube.com/watch?v=T-t8tUED9MI
“Just remember there’s a lot of bad and beware.”
Indian Initiative: babajob.com/babalife.com
NY Times, Oct 30th, 2007
Second Life
See Second Life in Education
Are we sociologically ready?
What are our ethical responsibilities as adults/educators:
• to our children/students?• to ourselves? (teacher sacked for posting photo on MySpace)
IN CONCLUSION:
Being a connected educator involves: • engaging with the world of participatory media• guiding students in this new disintermediated
world• modelling the use of technology for lifelong
learning• allowing time for ‘slow learning’ and reflection
• It’s all about connections……
Education by and large has not changed. Syllabus/curriculum is still rooted in a past paradigm of fixed knowledge. The world beyond classrooms has changed a great deal, and will continue to do so at an ever-increasing rate……
Photo courtesy of Sawrah, http://flickr.com/photos/sawrah/314474272/
• Accompanying URLs for this session available at http://socnetyoutubesl.wikispaces.com/
• This slideshow on the web at http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc
• Michael Coghlan can be contacted via NewLearning.com http://protopage.com/michaelc, or via email – michaelc@chariot.net.au