Presentation slides of Moodleposium 2010. I talked about how I integrated Social medial tools like blogs, wiki, Twitter to develop digital citizenship skills among students.

1. MoodlePosium 2010 Mashing up social media with Moodle Lubna Alam Faculty of Information Sciences & Engineering Lubna.alam@canberra.edu.au/ @lubnaalam Blog: Lubnaalam.Wordpress.com Presentation slides:

2. What is this talk about? Developing a platform of learning and communication to facilitate digital citizenship Two things: integrating social tools using pedagogy 2.0 principles in Moodle. Scenarios of teaching students the digital skills to participate in civic engagement.

3. Motivations

4. Motivations

5. Social Informatics third year elective for both UG & PG IT students at UC. Learning outcomes: To analyse and evaluate the impacts of the design choices made by information professionals and various technologies on people, organisations and society. Deploy theoretical frameworks to analyse the complex relationships among information technology, people, and institutions in any social setting Use digital tools to participate in civic engagement

6. The four dimensions of social and citizenship competence in teaching & learning Source: Alam & McLoughlin (2010) (Adapted from Lara & Naval, 2009 & Bennett et al, 2008)

7. A blended learning approach The design of the learning environment incorporates multiple participatory digital social tools where students can share ideas and co-create content to enable them to engage fully in the knowledge society

9. The Moodle Mash up Blog RSS Feeds Delicious Bookmarks Twitter Search Widget

10. Assessment SocInfo2010 10

11. Tutorial & participation Participation Participation during class discussion Participation using social media Wiki contribution Blog contribution Twitter contribution Delicious bookmark contribution SocInfo2010 11

12. Digital Citizenship Skills development scenarios

13. Idea generation & Online voting

14. Multimedia presentations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky2iPDLEeZQ&feature=player_embedded http://animoto.com/play/jdKeeT7aaD1oLPAonGcT5A

15. Wiki & reading brick

16. Twitter Model A hastag: socInfo to share content Tweetchat for following a conversation in real-time Visibletweets in lecture SocInfo2010 16

17. Follow a conversation, topic of interest e.g. #election 2010, #ausvotes

18. Reflections – first 7 weeks Tool perspectives Usual hiccups e.g. with blogpressinstallation. Ended up using external blog site. GO Moodle 2.0!! Twitter widget: acting strange. Needed to archive it. Is twitter the best tool for micro-content sharing? Wiki contribution is slow, need more scaffolding Participation perspectives Myth busted yet again! Students do need training General excitement is there, however students finding it hard to see the benefits of these social tools Need to have the carrot (or marks assigned to activities) Assignments can be re-written to integrate these tools for sharing widely

19. Acknowledgements TLC Leonard-Low Alan Arnold ArshadHusannee Jason Weber from ISE Catherine McLoughlin, ACU

20. References Bennett, W.L., Wells, C. & Rank, A. (2008) Young citizens and civic learning: two paradigms of citizenship in the digital age. Report from the Civic learning online project Lara, S. & Naval, C. (2009) Educative proposal of web 2.0 for the encouragement of social and citizenship competence. In G. Siemens & C. Fulford (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2009 (pp. 47-52). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. McLoughlin, C. & Lee, M. J. W. (2007). Social software and participatory learning: Pedagogical choices with technology affordances in the Web 2.0 era. In ICT: Providing choices forlearners and learning. Proceedings ascilite Singapore 2007. http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/singapore07/procs/mcloughlin.pdf O'Brien, J. (2008). Are we preparing young people for 21st-century citizenship with 20th century thinking? A case for a virtual laboratory of democracy. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Richards, R. (2010) Digital citizenship and web 2.0 tools. MERLOT Journal of online learning and teaching. Vol6(2), June 2010 Westheimer, J. & Kahne, J. (2004). What Kind of Citizen? The Politics of Educating for Democracy. American Educational Research Journal. Summer 2004,41(2) Alam, SL & McLoughlin, C (2010, forthcoming).Using digital tools to connect learners: present and future scenarios for citizenship 2.0. In C. Steel, M.J. Keppell & P. Gerbic, Curriculum, technology & transformation for an unknown future. Proceedings Ascilite Sydney 2010.

21. Image References Social http://www.inf.usi.ch/postdoc/lelli/imgIndexArticle/social_network.jpg Informal Education http://www.infed.org/images/illustrations/artists_models.jpg Social Media http://www.penn-olson.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/social-media2.png Question http://www.curvedetroit.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/question-mark1.jpg Participation http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools/images/Inclusion%20and%20Participation%20-%20resized.jpg Computer lab image: http://radhakrishaninstitute.com/Prateek/ComputerLab.jpg

22. Any Questions? Please participate! Unit Moodle: http://learnonline.canberra.edu.au/course/view.php?id=4791 Unit blog: http://ise.canberra.edu.au/socialinformatics/ Unit Wiki: http://ucspace.canberra.edu.au/display/SocInfo/Home Twitter hashtag: #socInfo