sustaining social networks
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me.edu.au provides Australian education and training professionals with an online profile and networking space. Members of the education community are encouraged to use me.edu.au to create an online professional profile, connect with educators who have similar interests, share resources and publish ideas and opinions. me.edu.au puts the individual at the centre of the service and encourages them to collect, connect and publish beyond faculty, institution, state and sector boundaries.TRANSCRIPT
edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au
Sustaining social networks in education
Pru Mitchell me.edu.au/p/pru
Who is ?
3
educationcareers
standards
PLE
Wilson et al, 2006 PLE http://dspace.ou.nl/handle/1820/727
Web 1.0 Web 2.0reading writing
companies communities
HTML XML
home pages blogs
portals RSS
taxonomy tags
wires wireless
owning sharing
dialup broadband
hardware costs bandwidth costsjoedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/05/29/web-20-vs-web-10
“If web 1.0 was organized around
pages
web 2.0 is organized around
people”Johnson, S 2006 “It’s all about us” Time, 16 Dec
Why me?1. stepping into social networking with
support
2. enhancing the profession's digital footprint
3. aggregating contributions from multiple social networks
me.edu.au/p/pru/rss
architectureidentity
edna single sign on & edna profileconnection
colleagues, communities & tagscontent
blogs, bookmarks & lifestreamsnotification
whiteboards, RSS & email
everyone a URL
a person is a URLa group is a URLa conversation is a URLa media item is a URLan event is a URLa post (of every kind) is a URL
blog.broadbandmechanics.com
learning community?
community of practicesocial presencecollaborative learningknowledge construction technology
Tu and Corry (2001) Research in online learning community
Salmon, Gilly “5 stage process” E-moderating 2nd ed
Salmon’s stages
Access & motivationIdentity
Open standards
Invitation
Purpose & Motivation
<Person id="80c65c5b-007c-4618-b65f-3d9428877b18"><identifier scheme="ANBD">000035416174</identifier><name>Mitchell, Pru</name></Person>
groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=1132
xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#sec-foafsw
Socialisationactivity alerts
messaging welcome
privacy encouragement
professional learning
Information exchange
search
social bookmarking facilitation
social tagging support
person + resource + tag
Knowledge construction
blog
tagging commenting
rating blogging
Development
open standards
RSS real dialogue about authentic
issues integration
networking
me.edu.au/c/Digital Storytelling/rss
tafecollaborate.nsw.edu.au
Policies• statement of purpose
• open or walled?
• eligibility and registration
• personal information and privacy
• user material and intellectual property
• conduct, grievances and termination
‘I store my knowledge in my friends’
Karen Stephenson
www.netform.com/html/icf.pdf
me.edu.au/p/pru