social software and education
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Social Software and Education
Manuel A. Pérez-QuiñonesDepartment of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Web 2.0
The Machine is Usby Michael Wesch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
We need to rethink...education
• Community of learners that go beyond the classroom, major, campus, town
• Community of educators ...
• Sharing of resources is the norm
• Information spreads faster than we can control it
• Collaboration take different forms
• social interaction is by both online and offline
Social Software is...
• ... software enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication [Wikipedia]
• ...55% of all American youth (ages 12-17) use some form of social networking site [Pew Internet & American Life Project, Lenhart 2007]
Features of Social SW
• Goals vary - identify friends, resources, staying in touch, sharing interesting news...
• Connections - friends, “following,” groups...
• User-provided tags
• Commenting features... support discussion, collaboration, exchange
• Syndication in the form of RSS, ics, Atom...
• API - for the techies, build your own stuff
Goals of SSw
• Identify friends (facebook, okrut, friendster)
• education (campusbug, carmun, rateteachers)
• Share resources: movies (youtube), pictures (flickr), bookmarks (del.icio.us, SumbleUpon), status (fliker), news (digg, reddit), citations (citeulike), slides (slideshare), exams (koofers)...
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Beauty of Social Tagging
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• Free for all tagging, users pick their own tags
• But social network gives meaning to tags
• Joe receives as a recommendation url_b
citeulike.org
• Bookmarking for references
SSw APIs and Syndication
SSw APIs: Mashups
• Combination of multiple applications
• Google maps is a popular partner in mashups
http://perez.cs.vt.edu/peer-cs.html
SSw APIs: custom interfaces
• Syllabus collection
• Computing News, as a result of Google search
• Google COOP
Syndication: Embedding
Multiple Personalities
• On the web, everybody has schizophrenia
• Accounts in facebook, flickr, twitter, slideshare, etc....
Implications for Education
• the sky is falling, cheating is rampant, we are doomed
• Have a presence on facebook - make students know you are participating
• Post some pictures to flicker, movies to YouTube, slides to SlideShare
• Make use of embedded content, rss
• Make use of these examples in classes
• process rss, etc.
Implications for Education
• the sky is falling, cheating is rampant, we are doomed
• Have a presence on facebook - make students know you are participating
• Post some pictures to flicker, movies to YouTube, slides to SlideShare
• Make use of embedded content, rss
• Make use of these examples in classes
• process rss, etc.
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