Incorporating Social Networking into Learning: Taking Stock and Moving

Ahead Social Science History Association

Dr. Kelly A. Woestman November 2007 Chicago

A Vision of Students Today

YouTube

Share your new blog post with your friends on Facebook

“This is an opt-in feature -- you'll be able to control whether or not you want to send your posts to Facebook, and of course we'll only do this when you're creating posts on the blogs you publicize. We see this as a great way to help you let your friends on Facebook know that you've updated your blog.”

Wikis

Change over time Not only in entries but Also in my view of their usefulness

Wikipedia

Wikispaces TAHPS Wikispaces

Google Docs and Spreadsheets

Posting Word docs Posting Excel docs

PowerPoint Positives Negatives SlideShare

Top 100 Tools: SlideShare

ANGEL Learning

ANGEL CMS Request a Sandbox Comparisons to Blackboard?

Vertical File Box

ANGEL Learning Isle

Education – MacArthur Foundation

Doonesbury in Second Life

Web 2.0

The Visual Design of Web 2.0

Pixel Acres

Mandarinmusing Freshly squeezed Web 2.0 resources

Social Design “Interactive software has evolved over the past

forty years to provide increasingly accessible user interfaces to increasingly powerful functionality. The earliest software users were programmers as well. Their deep knowledge of the technology and personal commitment to exploiting it made them highly tolerant of complex interactive models and primitive visual displays. Today’s users are very different. [snip]

Usability has become a central concern in software development. Its focus is increasingly being broadened to recognize the importance of delivering a good user experience that encompasses all aspects of the product.”

Kevin Mullet, Experience Design Reactor

Experience is the New Black Blog: GetOutSmart.com The new experience echelon expands

beyond just the visual sense introduced in the 2nd echelon.  It includes and values the full sensation and experience of the user in the context of their immediate goals and preferences. Rich Internet Applications are a new tool for this new echelon and provide businesses with a powerful means to help win the attention of new and existing markets.

Is Social Sharing? How do we define sharing?

Sandbox analogy

Sharing Teaching and Learning

What is appropriate sharing in the academic realm? Zotero: The Next Generation Research Tool

See it. Save it. Sort it. Search it. Cite it. Zotero Video

What is appropriate sharing in the teaching and learning realm?

Sharing, Sharing, Sharing

How do research and teaching intersect?

Science of Teaching and Learning ISSOTL H-TLH – tba (from H-Net)

Sharing from K-graduate history learning