online social tools - google+ #solo11
DESCRIPTION
Slides for Online Social tools Workshop at Science Online London 2011 conference.TRANSCRIPT
Alan Cann
School of Biological Sciences
University of Leicester
Find me here: bit.ly/AJCann
Features
• Games - quarantined (vs. Facebook)
• Photos, Video (no audio)
• Mobile (not there yet)
• Sparks - sub RSS, disappointing.
• Hangouts - chat/video with up to ten people at a time, share YouTube videos.
Privacy - Profiles
Real names – nymwars
Companies/Entities
- e.g. RRW, MicrobiologyBytes, AnnBot
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Circles
• Different Circles for different communities
• But Circles are broadcast not read - architecture dumps you back into stream
• Public cuts across - Public is the de facto default (Twitter model)
• Still need two I.Ds for teaching & "RealMe"
A work in progress
• Search not working (apart from people)
• No groups like Friendfeed Groups/Facebook pages - you can't join someone else's circle
• No APIs (yet)
• No tagging (yet)
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
site:plus.google.com <search term>
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aplus.google.com+Spinal+Muscular+Atrophy&num=100&sa=Google
Public versus private
Visualizing Student Engagement via Social Networks
Females score higher marks than males (Wilcoxon rank sum test, p < 0.001). Although females make more contributions than males, males are strategically focussed on assessment criteria.
"Authority"
• Active group (red)• Internalized group (purple)• Inactive group (blue)