Social Software in

Project Collaboration

Jacob Davidsen og Brian Møller Svendsen

Program

12:35

General introduction

12:40

Introduction to social media (Web.20)

12:55

Paper on evaluating technologies supporting virtual project based learning

13:00

Introduction to tool/system “classification”

13:05

Showcase of tools/system for project collaboration (incl. break)

14:00

(Discussion and follow-up on showcase tools)

Key web 2.0 features

• Users centrally located in the services• Profile pages: age, gender, location• Testimonials or comments about the user from other users

• Ability to form connections/relations between users• Links to other users, who are ‘friends’ - membership in

groups/communities• Subscribe to RSS feeds and “updates” from other users

• Ability to post content in many shapes: photos, video, blogs • Comment and rate your own and other peoples content• Tagging of own and other peoples content• Control privacy settings and sharing possibilities

• More technical stuff (public API to allow third–party enhancements and “mash–ups,”) • ‘Embed’ different kind of content/media (for example Flash videos),

and communication with other people through IM eller PM systems

Based on:Key differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

by Graham Cormode and Balachander KrishnamurthyFirst Monday, Volume 13 Number 6 - 2 June 2008

http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2125/1972

Personalized resource centre

• Web-desktop/portal• Individualized, privatized• Individual setup of currents/streams and

applications

User generated content and sharing

• YouTube most popular example of user generated content

• Create and share• Object-centred, but also profile

/ community based• Embed videos on other sites,

easy sharing • Personal profile, favourites,

playlists and friend lists• Other examples:

• Sharing/creating: • Blogs, podcasts, wikis,

Flickr, Revver• Social bookmarking

(delicious)• Profile text, questionnaires

(quizzes on Facebook)

User generated relevance – user ratings and reviews

• On many sites the front page content is decided by a collective of users• Youtube, Digg, delicious, Flickr

• Invisible collective –> aggregation of individual non-coordinated actions create page content:• Tag-clouds• Popular videos• Creates order in chaos (clusters)• Creates new relations and

connections (or recreates existing ones)

• Related keywords, videos, persons (FB), purchases (Amazon)

Location, time and activity

• Data and information is linked to specific places by using geo data (longitude/latitude) – gps in mobile devices/smart phones

• Pictures, video, tweets etc. are linked automatically with time and place – represented on for example Google maps

• Linked to your own present location: SMS at bus stops SNS – which friends do you have

nearby• Information in relation to

location Museums Geo-caching Information screens with bluetooth

etc.

Lifestreaming, Microblogging

• Microblogging, livestreaming• News-feeds, twitter,

aggregation/converging of several channels/feeds (Flickr, Tweets, blog posts)

• Focus on gathering streams/feeds (new FB strategy) – friendfeed, sweetcron etc.

• Both your own and other peoples feeds

• A social phenomenon: network, comments, awareness

• Linking of productivity and social actions

• Often linked to location• Lifestream, lifepath?, Lifemapping?

• Business – FB walled garden, that converges all feeds

• FB lite – rival to Twitter

Easier sharing of content – RSS, mashups, widgets

• By using different standards and technologies it has become easier to send content in and out of different systems/sites

• RSS-feeds (subscribe to other peoples bookmarks, videos, news etc.)

• Youtube videos can be embedded on other websites, blogs, etc.

• Facebook can retrieve informations from Friendfeed, Delicious etc.

• It’s easier to add/incorporate small applications (widgets on your own page, mashups)

Paper on evaluating technologies supporting virtual project based learning

- ”A Survey of Technologies Supporting Virtual Project Based Learning”

- Paper by Håkon Tolsby, Tom Nyvang and Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld (presented at the Networked Learning Conference 2002)

- Discusses differenct approaches to evaluating virtual learning environments (technical, pedagogical or learning theoretical mapping and the learning strategy used in practice)

- From a conceptual framework based on ’negotiation of meaning’, ’coordination’ and ’ressource management’ they look upon a number of different types of e-learning systems (both ’content delivery systems’, ’conference systems’ and ’groupware systems’)

http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/past/nlc2002/proceedings/papers/40.htm

(Danish version in ”Udspil om læring i arbejdslivet” (Illeris, K. 2002): ”E-læring systemer i arbejdspladsrelateret projektpædagogik)

”Classification”

- Collaboration and communcation- Tools that enable you to collaborate on the

production on content- Sharing of ressources

- Tools that enable you to share content- Found content, produced content, sources and

references etc.

- Producing- Tools that enable you to produce content

- Individual development of content

- Coordination and planning- Timeplanning, polls, events etc.

Showcase of tools/system for project collaboration

- Website http://tinyurl.com/pbl-aau - Collaboration and communcation

- Instant messaging (MSN, Skype, ICQ, Google Chat, Facebook etc.)

- Voice calls (Skype, MSN etc.)- Wiggio- Google Groups- Google Sites- Zotero- Google Docs- Etherpad (realtime)- Mindmeister (mindmaps)

Showcase of tools/system for project collaboration

- Sharing of ressources- Social bookmarking (Delicious, Digg)- Photos: Flickr etc.- Zotero (references)- Documents (Google Docs)- Google Sites- Filesharing and sync’ing (Dropbox)

Showcase of tools/system for project collaboration

- Producing- Transcribing (Sound Scribe)- Mindmaps (Mindmeister)- Screendumps (Faststone Capture)- Images (Flickr, Istockphoto.com, sxc.hu)

• 12 best places to get free images for your sitehttp://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/12-essential-sites-for-great-free-photos-624818

- Notes, references (Evernote)

Showcase of tools/system for project collaboration

- Coordination and planning- Time planning (Doodle)- Polls (Doodle)- Signup’s (Signappnow)- Google Calendar- Google Sites- Facebook (attend, yes/no/maybe)

Showcase of tools/system for project collaboration

- Future- Online office applications- Cloud based operating systems- Google Wave (video) – I guess not!