social software
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Social software for teaching and learning:
Web 2.0, early 2008
NITLEWorkshop
to go
Plan of the talk
1. Web 2.02. Rich media
web 2.03. More
pedagogies4. New forms
(Vermont county fair, fall 2007)
Thematics
• Emergence in
time and space
• Pedagogy• Open
determinism(Radio Open Source blog/podcast, 2006)
One problem
How to apprehend emerging technologies?
•Panic/siege mode•Vendors•Futurism methods•Networks
One metaphor
Web 2.0 and education is like gaming and education: awareness is challenging
• Huge, financially and quantitatively successful worlds
• Global and rapidly developing scope• Bad anxieties, policies, and media
coverage• Perceived lack of seriousness
One metaphor
Web 2.0 and education is like gaming and education: intersections are possible
• Take advantage of preexisting projects• Mod/warp/hack • DIY• Literacy: new media• Influence
(World of Warcraft)
I. Web 2.0
The term’s history: Tim O’Reilly, 2005• Expands
“social software”
• Draws on Web history
I. Web 2.0Microcontent, rather than sites or large
documents
(NITLE blog)
I. Web 2.0
Multiply authored microcontent
I. Web 2.0
Open content and/or services and/or standards…
(Pepysblog, 2003-)
I. Web 2.0
…leading to networked conversations
(Pepysblog, 2003-)
I. Web 2.0
Data mashups (Google Maps meets Twitter)
I. Web 2.0
Perpetual beta (O’Reilly, now history)
I. Web 2.0
O’Reilly: platforms for development
I. Web 2.0
Web 2.0 components, movements• Collaborative writing platforms: the
wiki way
I. Web 2.0
Research: wikis are textually productive
-Viégas, Wattenberg, Dave (IBM, 2004)
I. Web 2.0
Web 2.0 components, movements• collaborative writing platforms: the
blogosphere
I. Web 2.0
Addressable content chunks
I. Web 2.0
• Distributed and/or attached conversations
I. Web 2.0
State of the blogosphere• 70 million blogs tracked by Technorati:
“Technorati is now tracking over 70 million weblogs, and we're seeing about 120,000 new weblogs being created worldwide each day. That's about 1.4 blogs created every second of every day.”
(David Sifry, April 2007)
Chart follows…
I. Web 2.0
I. Web 2.0
State of the blogosphere, more• 12 people million using three
platforms, including LiveJournal: majority women (Anil Dash, MeshForum 2006)
• Diversity: diaries, public intellectuals, carnivals, knitters, moblogs, warblogs home and abroad…
I. Web 2.0
Web 2.0 components, movements: social objects
http://flickr.com/
•Photo sharing:
Flickr
I. Web 2.0
Reach of Flickr• 100 million images, as of Feb 2006• As of October 2006, 4 million Flickr
members (3/4 not in the US)• 1 million photos uploaded each day
(http://www.radioopensource.org/photography-20/
)
I. Web 2.0
Reach of Flickr• 26 million
searchable, shareable images in Flickr (December 2006)
• Metadata is good enough
• Gaming inspiration
(Ben Harris-Roxas, 2006)
I. Web 2.0
Social news:• Memeorandu
m, Tailrank, Digg, TechMeme
I. Web 2.0
• Social bookmarking
• Del.icio.us• Also Furl,
Scholar.com, StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, MyWeb (Yahoo)
I. Web 2.0
Social object: the person• FaceBook• MySpace• LinkedIn• ZoomInfo• CyWorld
“Less than four years after its launch, 15 million people, or almost a third of the country's population, are members.” (BusinessWeek, September 2005)
This canbe a bit
overwhelming
(“Online Communities”
XKCD
April 2007 )
I. Web 2.0
What can we learn from this? Ton Zylstra:
“In general you could say that both Flickr and del.icio.us work in a triangle: person, picture/bookmark, and tag(s). Or more abstract a person, an object of sociality, and some descriptor...”
I. Web 2.0
“…In every triangle there always needs to be a person and an object of sociality. The third point of the triangle is free to define[,] as it were.”
-http://www.zylstra.org, 2006(emphases added)
I. Web 2.0
New forms: folksonomy
• Search• Retrieval• Self-awareness
http://del.icio.us/
for DoctorNemo
I. Web 2.0
Community surfacing
• Ontology
• Concepts • Collaborative research
I. Web 2.0
Tagging museums: the Steve project
• Users tag differently
• Curators get it
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004)
I. Web 2.0
Tagging libraries: PennTags
• Coded locally• Also tags the
open web
http://tags.library.upenn.edu/
I. Web 2.0
Components, movements• Mixing and mashing:
the RSS feed
I. Web 2.0
-Alex Iskold, The Read/Write Web, April 2007
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_future_of_rss.php
“RSS is basically a filtered push - the user subscribes (pulls in) to channels that he/she likes, and after that content is delivered automatically.”
II. Web 2.0 and rich mediaWeb 2.0
influences rich media
• Podcasting
II. Web 2.0 and rich mediaHow old is the term? “… all the
ingredients are there for a new boom in amateur radio.
But what to call it? Audioblogging? Podcasting? GuerillaMedia?”
(Ben Hammersley, The GuardianFebruary 12, 2004)
II. Web 2.0 and rich mediaWhat’s happened since February 2004?
II. Web 2.0 and rich mediaWhat’s happened
since “podcasting” in 2001? Neologisms:
• godcasting• nanocasting
• podfading• podsafe• podspamming• podvertising• porncasting
II. Web 2.0 and rich media
Web 2.0 influences rich media: more audioFreesound
archive
•DIY copyright
•Social networking values
(http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/)
II. Web 2.0 and rich mediaWeb 2.0 influences rich media:
video
(Gootube? Suetube?)
II. Web 2.0 and rich media
Videoblogging(vlog? vog?)
(Rocketboom, Amanda Congdon)
(already moved on)
(Ask a Ninja)
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Teaching with Web 2.0: it’s not all new - Web 1.0, internet pedagogies• Hypertext• Web audience• Discussion fora• Collaborative document authoring• Groupware
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Teaching with Web 2.0: it’s not all new
Earlier pedagogies• Journaling• Media literacy
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Teaching with Web 2.0: CMS involvement
• Moodle modules
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Teaching with Web 2.0: Blackboard Beyond
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Teaching with Web 2.0: principles
• Distributed conversation
• Collaborativewriting
• Object-oriented discussion
http://smarthistory.blogspot.com/
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Teaching with Web 2.0: more principles
• Ease of entry• Personalization
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Wiki pedagogies• Collective research• Group writing• Document editing• Information literacy• Discussion• Knowledge accretion
(Romantic Audiences projectBowdoin College, 2005-present
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Social object pedagogies
• Prompts• Discussion object• Composition
materials
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Social object pedagogies
• Annotate details
• Remix (“Make it mine”)
Edugadget
http://www.edugadget.com/2005/05/07/flickr-creative-commons
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
New forms: profcasting
• Bryn Mawr College: Michelle Francl, chemistry
• Duke: Classroom recording
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Student program podcasting on campus
• War News Radio
(Swarthmore College)
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Podcasts and research• Public intellectual
– Out of the Past– Engines of Our
Ingenuity – In Our Time– University
Channel(Napoleon 101)
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Instrumental to pedagogy: enhance other media
• Handouts: Allegheny College, Gothcast
Illustrations in pdf format
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Enhance other media
Middlebury College, Barbara Ganley
Podcasting with…• Blogging• Digital storytelling• Photography• Study abroad
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Teaching with Web 2.0: “net.gen”:“Fully half of all teens and 57 percent
of teens who use the Internet could be considered Content Creators, according to a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.”
http://www.pewtrusts.com/pdf/PIP_Teens_1105.pdf
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
“[S]tudents… write words on paper, yes— but… also compose words and images and create audio files on Web logs (blogs), in word processors, with video editors and Web editors and in e-mail and on presentation software and in instant messaging and on listservs and on bulletin boards—and no doubt in whatever genre will emerge in the next ten minutes.
Note that no one is making anyone do any of this writing.”
Kathleen Blake Yancey, "Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key." CCC 56.2 (2004):297-328.
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
RSS pedagogies• Shaping Web reading• Pushing student-created
content (mother blog, Feed to Javascript)
• Web 2.0 wrangling
(Bloglines)
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Podcasts and teaching: profcasting
• Bryn Mawr College: Michelle Francl, chemistry
• Duke: Classroom recording
• Learning objects: Gardner Campbell, University of Richmond
• Duke: Course content dissemination
• Information literacy
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Blog problem: privacy• Contrary to class safe space
(Gary Kornblith, Oberlin College)• Culture of too much disclosure• Problem increasing archivally
III. Web 2.0 pedagogies
Some responses• Can block comments and/or
readers• Teachable moment: what is
privacy in 2007?• Complement other practices
IV. Web 2.0 storytelling
Lonelygirl15• One YouTube• Another YouTube• Myspace• Blogs• Discussion frenzy• Media attention
(2006-)
IV. Web 2.0 storytelling
Alternate reality games
• Permeability of game boundary (space and time)
• Focus on distributed, collaborative cognition
• Increased ephemerality
(Perplex City, 2003-2006)
IV. Web 2.0 storytelling
Political ARG
(World Without Oil, May 2007)
IV. Web 2.0 storytelling
ARG pedagogy?• Creation for
constructivism• Information literacy• Object of study
(Nine Inch Nails game, 2007)
IV. Web 2.0 storytelling
Flickr and storytelling
• Tell a story in 5 frames group
“Gender Miscommunication”(Nightingai1e, 2006)
IV. Web 2.0 storytelling
IV. Web 2.0 storytelling
IV. Web 2.0 storytelling
IV. Web 2.0 storytelling
“Gender Miscommunication” (Nightingai1e, 2006)
IV. Web 2.0 storytelling
“Gender Miscommunication” (Nightingai1e, 2006)
IV. Web 2.0 storytelling
Flickr and storytelling
• In the Tell a story in 5 frames group, 'Alone With The Sand'
(moliere1331, 2005)
One provocation
(Valdis Krebs, 2004)
A second provocation
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health, May 2007
The persistence of fears
Keeping up
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