Short presentation held in Online Educa Berlin 2011 about Sometu -network, its emergance and some thoughts about possible ideas what made it happen.

1. Social
Media
in
Suppor/ng
Learning:
Self-­‐Organised
Learning
Network
Ville Venäläinen
Online Educa Berlin 2011 - 2.12.2011
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2. www.sometu.fi
• Is an open network for everyone intrested in social
media and learning (not only in the educational
sector)
• Today it has nearly 4200 members with different
backgrounds and professions
• It was founded in November of 2007
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3. Social innovation machine,
explore and learn together
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4. Social Innovation
Machine
Learning organism
• Play and test ideas together
• Iterate - try different variantions
• Reflect and seek practise's in
field
• Learning by doing together
• Cross organizational
collaboration
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5. The Rise of the Sometu -network
Experimental workshop/miniseminar at Otava Folk High
School at November 2007
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6. Themes in
the Seminar
Democracy
Active citizenship
Teaching
Entertainment
Business
(canceled)
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8. Possible reasons for
Sometu’s success:
Social Hub People
• People with expertise and
good amout of charisma
• People who has already good
connections
• People with a passion to the
topic
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9. Possible reasons for
Sometu’s success:
Timing
• Social need in time
for the substance
• People like Me
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10. Possible reasons for
Sometu’s success:
Own Voice for People
• No strict rules
• Open conversation culture
• Freedom to speak and think
differently
• Everyone has their own chance to
shine!
• Peers gives a value for each other
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11. Possible reasons for
Sometu’s success:
Intense Interaction
• Especially in the begining,
facilitating people must be active
and do their best to raise
conversation and make people
to feel they are noticed
• Different kind of activites
together on net and irl
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12. Possible reasons for
Sometu’s success:
Live Event
• The beginning seminar
created a deep cohasion
between most of the hub
people and generated
some sort of boost
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13. Sometu offers...
• … a friendly, supporting and enlightening
forum for different conversations for those
teachers and developers of teaching
methods, who are alone with their ideas in
their own working community or are just
curious to hear what people think
elsewhere
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14. In addition Sometu
participates...
• ...in developing teaching, participatory and
collaborative methods nationally and
hopefully globally in the future.
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15. Thank You!
Ville Venäläinen
Otavan Folk High School
ville.venalainen@otavanopisto.fi
+358 44 794 5102
skype:ville.venalainen
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