The document appears to be notes from the first class of a course on social networking. It includes topics like introducing the course and syllabus, discussing results from a pre-course survey, defining social media, and activities on managing information overload and branding oneself online. Key activities included students taking screenshots of their Google search results and About.me pages. The document emphasizes organizing incoming information and curating what is shared outwardly across personal and professional online spaces.
7. Course introduction
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21st century Teacher
teaching and stories and
learning practices
Making connections for
professional Personal
development learning
environment/
Personal productivity and network
Information management
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8. Mathieu Plourde, MBA
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http://bit.ly/mathplourde
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9. Your turn
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http://openteaching.ud-css.net/participants/
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10. Who’s our winner?
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• Please nominate and vote on which about.me
profile is your preferred one.
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12. Experience
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Corporate training 12 3 2 2
Instructor support 7 10 2
No experience
Graduate 16 1 1 1 Some experience
A lot of experience
Not interested/not in my domain
College 10 2 6 1
K12 5 5 8 1 12
0 5 10 15 20
13. Quotes
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• “everyone is calling social media is in reality
pushing everyone away from being social.”
• “I am hesitant to bring social networking into a
[…] classroom; I fear that things could turn
inappropriate!”
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14. Quotes
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• “I would also like to learn how people fit in these
types of activities in their daily lives.”
• “… to not only market myself as an educator but
aggregate stories pertinent to my discipline.”
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15. Quotes
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• “ways to maximize their collaborative learning
through safe social media.”
• “I'd like to help students to assist each other at
home using social networking sites.”
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25. Activity 1
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• The meaning of offline:
• What does it mean to you to be offline?
• Do you like it? Does it scare you? Why?
• What do you do when you’re not online?
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27. Sharing
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Are you afraid of sharing your ideas
online?
• Yes.
• No.
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28. Are you Googlable?
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If someone googled your name, would
they find you?
• Yes.
• No.
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29. Are you employable?
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If someone found your social media
profile, would they consider you a
potential candidate?
• Yes.
• No.
• OMG, no way!
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30. Activity 2
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• Google yourself:
• Google your full name
• Take a screenshot of the first page
of results
• How many links does it take before
you show up?
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31. Activity 3
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• Take a screenshot of your About.me
page. Keep it for future reference.
• Which self does your page reveal?
• Professional
• Personal
• Interests/hobbies
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32. Activity 4
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• Learning and sharing: Your inbound
and outbound information sources
and destinations
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33. INPUT OUTPUT
(Inbound) (Outbound)
ME
MY STORAGE
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MANAGING INCOMING
INFORMATION
Information overload…
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35. How big is the problem?
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36. #udsnf12 - M. Plourde - Sept. 10, 2012
“It's not information
overload - it's filter
failure” – Clay Shirky
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37. Don’t be a slave to email!
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• Apply the Getting Things Done process to your
inbox.
• Use filters, tags, and folders.
• Unsubscribe.
• Move messages you’re not
required to take action
upon to another space.
• Separate email account
• RSS reader 37
39. Google Alerts
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http://www.google.com/alerts 39
40. Consume the social web
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• Create a custom online newspaper that scouts
the social web for you.
• http://paper.li
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42. Google Reader and
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
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• Almost every web site generates
a RSS feed nowadays…
• You get a notification when there
is something new.
• http://www.google.com/reader
Attribution: jrhode on Flickr.com 42
44. Storing and retrieving
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I can retrieve relevant information I was
exposed to in the last month.
• Yes.
• No.
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45. Social bookmarking: Diigo
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http://www.diigo.com
Browser Add- 45
Can you imagine having 5,000 bookmarks
On
in your browser?
47. Evernote
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• Personal note-taking application.
• Syncs on multiple devices.
• http://www.evernote.com/
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48. Dropbox.com
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• Easy personal file storage.
• Syncs on multiple devices.
• http://www.dropbox.com
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49. INPUT OUTPUT
(Inbound) (Outbound)
ME (Circa 2007)
MY STORAGE
50. If Information Was Made of
Light… EXTERNAL
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INFORMATION
RECEIVED SOURCE
INFORMATION
FORWARDED
INFORMATION
STORED 50
INFORMATION SHARED
INFORMATION
51. If Information Was Made of
Light… EXTERNAL
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INFORMATION
RECEIVED SOURCE
INFORMATION
CURATION FORWARDED
INFORMATION
STORED 51
INFORMATION SHARED
INFORMATION
52. Conversational Spaces
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PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL
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53. Social Media Spaces
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PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL
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