1. Social eLearning?Social Networking Meets eLearning Rob Gibson, Ed.D. Emporia State University

2. Social eLearning? Contact information… Robert Gibson, Ed.D. Associate CIO, Academic Technology rgibson1@emporia.edu 620.341.6694

3. Social eLearning? What you will learn today: Understand current social media utilization growth metrics Understand how social network applications are utilized in both elearning and traditional environments Understand the implications of using social media in academia

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5. Social eLearning? Boyd and Ellison (2007) define social networks as: “…web-based services that allow individuals to…. 1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system 2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection 3) view and traverse list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site.”

6. Social eLearning? The first officially recognized social network was sixdegrees.com (1997 -2000). According to the Wharton School of Business, as of October 2008 social networks impacted more than 230 million people worldwide.

7. Social eLearning? Social Networking Factoids (Nielson Global Faces and Networked Places) Social networks are growing 3x the rate of overall Internet growth (2009) Social networking sites are growing 47% annually, reaching 45% of total web users (2006) Social networking and blogging are now the 4th most popular online activities - ahead of personal Email (2009) Member sites now account for 1 in every 11 minutes online

8. Social eLearning? Social Networking Factoids (Nielson Global Faces and Networked Places) 67% of the global online population now visit a social network site - this sector accounts for 10% of all Internet time (Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, and Italy are the fastest growing segments)

9. Social eLearning? Social Networking Factoids (Nielson Global Faces and Networked Places) Orkut.com in Brazil (operated by Google) has the largest domestic online reach (70%) of any social network anywhere in the world, whereas Facebook has the highest average time per visitor among the 75 most popular brands online worldwide. However, the amount of time spent on Facebook.com increased by more than 566% in only one year. (Nielsen, 2009)

10. Social eLearning? According the 2007 report from the National School Boards Association entitled Creating and Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Social and Educational Networking some interesting data emerges regarding social networks and online students (Grunwald Associates LLC survey )

11. Social eLearning? Message Posting 59% of online students discuss education topics, including college/college planning; learning outside of school; news; careers or jobs; politics; ideas; religion; morals; and school work 50% of online students talk specifically about schoolwork 21% post comments on message boards daily (7% in 2002) 41% post comments weekly (17% in 2002)

12. Social eLearning? Music Sharing 32% of online students say they download music or audio that other users uploaded at least once a week 29% of online students upload third party music or audio themselves 12% of online students say they upload music or podcasts of their own creation at least weekly

13. Social eLearning? Video Sharing 30% of online students download and view videos uploaded by other users at least once weekly 9% upload videos of their own creation once weekly 22% have uploaded videos they’ve created at some point

14. Social eLearning? Video Sharing 30% of online students download and view videos uploaded by other users at least once weekly 9% upload videos of their own creation once weekly 22% have uploaded videos they’ve created at some point

15. Social eLearning? Photo Sharing 24% of online students post photos of art created by others at least once weekly 22% post photos or art of their own creation 50% have uploaded photos or artwork at some point

16. Social eLearning? Blogs 17% of online students add content to blogs at least weekly 30% have their own blogs (up from nearly 0% in 2002)

17. Social eLearning? Popular Social Networking Activities Among Online Students (K-12) 41% post messages 32% download music and videos 29% upload music 25% update personal web sites or online profiles 24% post photos 17% blog 16% create and share virtual objects 14% create new characters 10% participate in collaborative projects and send suggestions to web sites 9% submit articles to web sites; participate in quizzes, polls, or surveys

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19. Social eLearning? Def. According to the web site Social Media Defined, Twitter is a microblogging application that is more or less a combination of instant messaging and blogging.

20. Social eLearning? Back-channel chat (Mullings, 2009) Class chatter (Parry, 2008) Follow subject matter experts (Kuhlmann, 2009) Writing assignments (Parry, 2008) Collaboration with other students Pollingstudents Storytelling(Parry, 2008)

21. Social eLearning? “Track” a word (Parry, 2009) Storytelling (Parry, 2009) Track geo-politics History lessons Hook into podcasts

22. Social eLearning? twitterfall.com Type in a keyword (e.g., Iranelections) and watch the results in real time twittervision.com Twittervision and Twittervision 3D allow you to GeoTag users and their posts to know where certain topics are being discussed http://twittervision.com/maps/show_3d

23. Social eLearning? atlas.freshlogicstudios.com Type in a keyword and watch the results in real time historicaltweets.com Learn what it may have been like for historical figures to tweet

24. Social eLearning? tweetdeck.com Create “groups” of students YouTube or twiddeo Link to video files from Twitter

25. Social eLearning? twi.tt Poll students; add video/audio twittergram Connect Flickr to Twitter

26. Social eLearning? twitdoc Share PowerPoint and Word files podbean Publish podcasts through Twitter

27. Social eLearning? polldaddy.com Twitter-based polls screenr.com Twitter-based screen casting

28. Social eLearning? Caveats and implications of using Twitter in academia Unwanted “followers” Trending topics Torrent of tweets URLs must be shortened Retweets lose context

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30. Social eLearning? Student-student networking (Damron, 2009) Quasi Course Management System (Drummond, 2009) Specialized curricular groups Backchannel Chat (Online College, 2009) Poll students (Parry, 2008) Classroom Page (Hart, 2009) Track politicians (Online College, 2009) Multilingualism

31. Forbes allows users to track company stocks and access related financial information, along with business headlines Blackboard Sync allows students to check Blackboard course content and grades directly from Facebook Booklist allowsusers to share their library or favorite books Worldcatallows users to search for books through Facebook Washingtonpost.NewsweekInteractive offers two political applications built on the Facebook platform, giving Facebook users more access to current political affairs SlideShareallows user to post presentations to their Facebook profile Podcast Player allows user to post podcasts to their Facebook profile Xmindcombined with Facebook, provides a way to enable both team brainstorming and personal mind mapping Social eLearning?

32. Social eLearning? academia.edu Facebook-like application Facebook Groups Create a class-centric group

33. Social eLearning? Research Analysis of how social networks are formed LMS replacement Journalism http://snipr.com/j5d2m http://snipr.com/j5di5

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40. Social eLearning? Caveats and implications of using Facebook in Academia Friending students Students do not want to use FB as an academic tool Information is not private Facebook owns the data Institutional policies Faculty ethics English was only option

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42. Social eLearning? Def.Ning provides a software platform (the "Ning Platform") that enables you to create, join or browse Social Networks (Ning.com) Ning includes some interesting and useful tools out-of-the-box, including a blog, discussion board, groups, and video and photo uploading capabilities

43. Social eLearning? Advantages of Ning Includes multiple built-in tools (blog, discussion, group tool) Granular security controls (Email invites) Includes multiple built-in templates Supports multiple languages

44. Social eLearning? Personal Learning Networks (Howard, 2007) Customized social networks specifically targeting curricular interest areas, such as http://bioarchaeology.ning.com/ ePortfolio deployment (Ivanova, 2008) ESL/EFL application (Molero de Martins, 2009) Composition application (Ettzevoglou & McBribe, 2009) Virtual Learning Network (Brooks-Young, 2009) Xmindcombined with Ning, provides a way to enable both team brainstorming and personal mind mapping

45. Social eLearning? Ning Custom social networks http://bioarchaeology.ning.com/ http://education.ning.com/ http://www.ourprivatenetwork.com/ http://podstock.ning.com/profile/RobGibson

46. Social eLearning? Caveats and implications of using Ning in Academia While useful as a community resource, it should probably not be used as a replacement for a campus course management system for reasons related to FERPA Operates outside the domain of the institutional network

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