This document discusses how social media and Web 2.0 technologies can be used to help teachers and learners. It provides examples of social media platforms like wikis, blogs, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter that can be used in higher education. The document outlines goals of using these technologies, like fostering collaboration and preparing students for future work environments, as well as potential risks around information overload and privacy issues. It suggests that adopting these tools requires commitment, a culture of sharing, and involving students.
8. What’s in it for us? Some examples. A few examples to get us started: Wikis / Blogs / Flickr / YouTube / Facebook / Twitter Plus: Some use cases in higher education
11. Wiki: Social Media Classroom By Howard Rheingold (UC Berkeley, Stanford University): “ The Social Media Virtual Classroom will develop an online community for teachers and students to collaborate and contribute ideas for teaching and learning about the psychological, interpersonal, and social issues related to participatory media.“
12. Google Docs knowledge transfer easy collaborative wiki-like, but strong privacy controls walled garden (kind of) proprietary hosted in the cloud (data security?) + -
14. Blogs great archive ‘link love’: Google loves it foster dialog great exposure comments! comment might need moderation smaller groups of authors + -
22. Twitter powerful networking tool very simple produces RSS feed ("hackable") great exposure privacy issues requires a certain culture white noise + -
34. Goals … to prepare your students for their future work environment (Benkler 2006 on peer production): “ (…) radically decentralized, collaborative, and nonproprietary; based on sharing resources and outputs among widely distributed, loosely connected individuals (…)”