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The space for social media in structured online learning | Salmon | Research in Learnin... - 3 views

  • digital social tools and environments located outside of the provision of a formal university-provided Learning Management System.
  • We identified that, although some participants benefitted from social media by crediting it, for example, with networking and knowledge-sharing opportunities, others objected or refused to engage with social media, perceiving it as a waste of their time.
  • Social media sites are increasingly being used for educational purposes and a range of benefits and drawbacks have been documented in the research. We examine how the usage of social media in the MOOC enhanced participants’ overall learning experience and how it led to increased networking and knowledge sharing with peers.
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  • When deployed for learning, social media can facilitate the development of online communities, allowing for collaborative and participatory engagement by placing emphasis on collective knowledge and social interaction
  • Social media can help strengthen the social relationships among students, heighten students’ self-esteem, and boost their learning performance
  • social media platforms tend to be more popular with students for peer-to-peer interactions (Davies et al. 2010; Veletsianos and Navarrete 2012) due to their familiarity and flexibility.
  • In MOOCs, where engagement and motivation tend to be low (de Freitas, Morgan, and Gibson 2015; Yang et al. 2013), social media may be beneficial in fostering online learning communities, which, in the context of a MOOC, are necessarily located online, enabled by an LMS (also referred to as Virtual Learning Environment) or social networking site.
  • The participants have a shared goal, support one another, produce material collaboratively, show a sense of belonging to the community, and are interested in the welfare of its members.
  • Online learning communities have been found to engage students in collaborative learning and reflective practice (Oliver et al. 2007).
  • Other studies show that students feel that social media reduces student collaboration because students work separately on different parts of a project, which minimises opportunities for collaborative learning
  • Students may feel that using social media in education distorts the boundaries between their online social and educational worlds, between social and informal and formal spaces, and between public and private spaces
  • Both students and academics may feel that social media for educational purposes interferes with their private lives, which raises concerns about representing identities in the online enviro
  • How and to what extent does social media enhance or complement participants’ overall learning processes and outcomes?’ is the key question that drives us to be particularly interested in investigating two outcomes
  • In addition to the structured LMS, more informal social media elements were offered. The CD MOOC designers selected Facebook and Twitter as social media platforms for participants to use, based on the studies that social media contributes to collaborative learning experiences
  • The Facebook group and the Twitter hashtag (#CDMOOC) were created in February 2014 to coincide with the beginning of the CD MOOC.
    • alwaysaddglitter
       
      The use of hashtags to organize thoughts and connect virtual users seems to be a best practice with online instruction related to social media.
  • On the Facebook group, moderators guided participants to ask questions about the CD MOOC, seek practical help, communicate and discuss issues around work tasks, and share links to online group work and resources. Twitter was used by both the CD MOOC team and participants to share practical information and resources, while also encouraging participants to share their thoughts and experiences.
    • alwaysaddglitter
       
      #EME6414 is structured relatively the same way minus the Facebook group but rather numerous other groups on various Web 2.0 tools
  • The social media postings data revealed that Facebook was most frequently used by the CD MOOC participants, compared to the microblogging site Twitter.
  • with some participants ‘signing off’ by displaying their certificate of completion.
  • The Twitter hashtag attracted 664 tweets over a 9-month period. Initially, Twitter was used by participants to announce their intention to participate in the CD MOOC, and then during the MOOC to gather, provide and exchange resources and information.
  • approximately half of all interviewees used at least one of the social media platforms in the CD MOOC. The most used form of social media was Facebook (used by 31%), a small minority (3%) used Twitter only, while 14% of interviewees utilised both Facebook and Twitter.
  • The Facebook group was used for discussions, while Twitter was used for gathering and providing information.
  • The first theme revealed that the online collaboration through social media assisted participants by enhancing their learning. The second theme showcased that many participants enjoyed and benefitted from using social media to engage with a diverse range of people with whom to network and exchange knowledge.
  • the third theme illuminated the reasons behind participants’ objections or reluctance to use social media within their structured online learning experience.
  • These participants reported various positive social aspects of their learning process enhanced by using Facebook, confirming other studies
  • Participants who used the CD MOOC Facebook group, but did not use Twitter, thought that social media was useful for posting and gathering information, and that Facebook improved their learning outcomes by facilitating discussion with peers and moderators. Facebook was also seen as an easy aid to increase learning and encourage discussions with peers as it facilitated the sharing of videos and images, and hence allowed participants to directly see others’ work. Facebook also served as a spark for a discussion, which could then be built upon within the more structured MOOC environment.
  • Both survey and interview participants spoke of the benefits of networking with people from different backgrounds, locations and professional affiliations when using social media platforms to connect and further their learning outcomes in the CD MOOC.
  • ‘collaborating with participants worldwide made it a great cultural experience, particularly in seeing how social media is taking on the world’.
  • The main objections to using social media can be divided into three categories: a belief that social media might be a waste of time; the perception of social media platforms as confusing or intimidating; and concerns about blurring social and professional identities.
  • these participants believed that social media would ‘take time away’ from what could otherwise have been spent on the structured parts of the CD MOOC,
  • Meanwhile, a number of participants wanted to use the social media with which they were familiar and comfortable. Some of these participants were notably less enthusiastic about the use of CourseSites LMS of the CD MOOC, instead preferring to spend time on social media.
  • learners often prefer to use the social media to which they are already accustomed
  • Another objection by participants related to their lack of knowledge about social media platforms and their resulting confusion.
  • A third key objection of participants to engaging with the social media elements of the CD MOOC dealt with reluctance about what was perceived as a potential merging of professional and social identities
  • The reluctance to blur social and professional identities is a common theme emerging from the literature on online learners and MOOC participants
  • Based on their findings, Jones et al. (2010) recommend that learning design address individual student preferences to either combine or separate their online identities.
  • The benefits included enhancing learning through the social and informal interaction with their peers, and from the online communities that formed around the CD MOOC. Connecting with peers using social media also strengthened participants’ sense of belonging to the CD MOOC cohort.
  • The challenges of online learning include becoming skillful in and comfortable with new technology, developing ways to relate to and communicate with other learners online, and becoming comfortable about having an online presence and digital identity.
  • The space for social media in structured online learning
    • alwaysaddglitter
       
      In this article, researchers created a MOOC focused on assisting professors understand and apply the Carpe Deim design method to designing their own courses. In addition to using the LMS Blackboard as the vehicle for MOOC publishing, facilitators were interested in studying the effects social media had on MOOC participants. MOOC facilitators used Facebook and Twitter as the two main social media platforms. Facebook was used to ask questions, seek help and discuss issues. Twitter was used to share information and resources and participants were encouraged to share their thoughts and experiences using #CDMOOC. Upon completion of the MOOC, Facebook was the most used site compared to Twitter. Out of 1000 MOOC participants who were surveyed at completion, 29 agreed to be further interviewed about their social media engagement; half used at least one of the social media platform revealing "the most used form of social media was Facebook (used by 31%), a small minority (3%) used Twitter only, while 14% of interviewees utilized both Facebook and Twitter". Three themes that emerged from the study related to MOOC and social engagement revealed three themes. One, social media did enhance online collaborative learning for participants. Two, the ability to engage with diverse knowledgeable professionals was enjoyed by many participants. Three, main objections why participants did not engage with social media include a belief it may be a waste of time, unfamiliarity with platforms and identity concerns.
    • alwaysaddglitter
       
      In this article, researchers created a MOOC focused on assisting professors understand and apply the Carpe Deim design method to designing their own courses. In addition to using the LMS Blackboard as the vehicle for MOOC publishing, facilitators were interested in studying the effects social media had on MOOC participants. MOOC facilitators used Facebook and Twitter as the two main social media platforms. Facebook was used to ask questions, seek help and discuss issues. Twitter was used to share information and resources and participants were encouraged to share their thoughts and experiences using #CDMOOC. Upon completion of the MOOC, Facebook was the most used site compared to Twitter. Out of 1000 MOOC participants who were surveyed at completion, 29 agreed to be further interviewed about their social media engagement; half used at least one of the social media platform revealing "the most used form of social media was Facebook (used by 31%), a small minority (3%) used Twitter only, while 14% of interviewees utilized both Facebook and Twitter". Three themes that emerged from the study related to MOOC and social engagement revealed three themes. One, social media did enhance online collaborative learning for participants. Two, the ability to engage with diverse knowledgeable professionals was enjoyed by many participants. Three, main objections why participants did not engage with social media include a belief it may be a waste of time, unfamiliarity with platforms and identity concerns.
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    In this article, researchers created a MOOC focused on assisting professors understand and apply the Carpe Deim design method to designing their own courses. In addition to using the LMS Blackboard as the vehicle for MOOC publishing, facilitators were interested in studying the effects social media had on MOOC participants. MOOC facilitators used Facebook and Twitter as the two main social media platforms. Facebook was used to ask questions, seek help and discuss issues. Twitter was used to share information and resources and participants were encouraged to share their thoughts and experiences using #CDMOOC. Upon completion of the MOOC, Facebook was the most used site compared to Twitter. Out of 1000 MOOC participants who were surveyed at completion, 29 agreed to be further interviewed about their social media engagement; half used at least one of the social media platform revealing "the most used form of social media was Facebook (used by 31%), a small minority (3%) used Twitter only, while 14% of interviewees utilized both Facebook and Twitter". Three themes that emerged from the study related to MOOC and social engagement revealed three themes. One, social media did enhance online collaborative learning for participants. Two, the ability to engage with diverse knowledgeable professionals was enjoyed by many participants. Three, main objections why participants did not engage with social media include a belief it may be a waste of time, unfamiliarity with platforms and identity concerns.
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    Were you able to share your annotations because it was a web version of the article rather than the .PDF? I tried to do that with mine but couldn't get it to work.
Kari (Knisely) Word

Adam Ruined My Research | Psychology Today - 5 views

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    "Jean M Twenge Ph.D" discusses how research presented in Adam Conover's YouTube video "Millennials Don't Exist" was misrepresented and how she and Adam were later able to discuss their differing viewpoints rather than bash each other on social media as many would have.
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    These two articles are great. She linked to another article in there "How do we know the millennial generation exists? Look at the data" that made me appreciate more how they study generational differences- they compare the results of surveys given to 18 year olds of different years. That does sound like a much more powerful way to measure generational differences. One of the examples was the change in opinion of same sex marriages between 18 year olds in 1976 and today, which made a giant leap in approval. I'm curious what a survey of those now 61 year olds feel about the same topic- if their approval also raised, while it would show a generational difference of opinion at a certain age, it might show a closer agreement between generations on certain topics in the here and now. I wonder how those 18 year olds in 1976 compared to people 43 years older then them, too! I liked her final optimistic take on discussing differing viewpoints. At the same time, I don't necessarily agree with her that all speakers (certainly some of the ones who were banned from speaking at universities) should be given a platform. While discussion is always good, it needs to be honest and faithful; I don't believe that some people are interested in discussion, they just want to win and prove themselves right.
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    I wish more people could debate that way! I agree that not everyone wants to discuss- some just want to argue and be heard!
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    Thanks for sharing! Twenge has had to defend a lot of her literature on generational studies. I read her iGen book before and the criticism she's received on that topic as well. Very interesting!
neus6414

Tweeting the Lecture: How Social Media Can Increase Student Engagement in Higher Education - 5 views

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    In this article, two Australian researchers investigated whether Twitter can be used to foster enhanced student engagement within a university level sport marketing course. 68 students participated in the study. 59% of the class did not have an existing Twitter account and had to sign up for one to participate in the study. There were two aspects of Twitter user during the course. First, students would participate in two discussion lectures, which was structured much the same as a Twitter chat, with questions posted in advance of the actual discussion. The second aspect was to regularly post contemporary issues in sport marketing that coincided with the course content. Much like EME 6414, students used a hashtagged course code to be able to track the activity and respond to their classmates. I thought it was interesting that the researchers explicitly advised existing Twitter users that they did not have to censor their regular Twitter activity, as the instructor would only follow the course hashtag. This appears to be a clear acknowledgement of the potential for context collapse when social media is incorporated into an educational setting. Questionnaires were administered to broadly measure aspects of student engagement. The results suggest that Twitter was effective in the university classroom as engagement levels increased over the semester. Twitter made it easier for students to connect with both the instructor and other students and extend that connection beyond the lecture time in the classroom. These networking tools also allow students to take on a more active role in the co-creation of the course content. I think this is one of the most significant advantages of incorporating social networking elements into the classroom. The biggest limitations of the study were its small sample size and homogeneous population. Future studies should include more students from various disciplines.
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    It took me a very long time to find the comment button to add another thought to my original post. Not nearly as noticeable as other discussion platforms. Anyway...I wanted to add that this article was very appropriate right now because the TA for EME 5608 is currently conducting research on a very similar topic, specifically "when and how social media apps like Instagram are used by students (without instructor participation) to support social interaction and build social connections in online courses." I know some of you are also in that course and I'm curious what your opinions are on the experiment? Do you think that interacting on Instagram has increased your social connections and added benefit to the learning experience?
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    It also took me a long time to find the comment button! You are not alone in that!
crs6414

Understanding Context Collapse Can Mean a More Fulfilling Online Life | Rewire - 2 views

  • Tech researchers say this is partially the fault of a phenomenon called "context collapse," a sociological concept that describes what happens when many social groups exist in one space.Here's how context collapse plays out online. When you have Facebook friends numbering in the thousands, your audience becomes a little difficult to speak to all at once.In an article for sapiens.org, Sophia Goodman described it as “trying to comfortably chat with your mother, bar buddy, work colleague, and ex-boyfriend at the same time.”In a place where parents, colleagues, bosses and friends all congregate, you can find it difficult to be yourself. Or, rather, to decide which self to be.
  • and your career
    • nroyal18
       
      Link to article about posts that will get you fired
  • Understanding the sociology of social media means you can be more mindful about how you use it. Hopefully, your online life will be more fulfilling because of it. Or, maybe you'll decide to give it up all together.If you do stick around, don’t expect to ever find that “authentic” online version of yourself.“There really isn’t such a thing,” Marwick said. “It’s really always a performance."
    • nroyal18
       
      authentic online personalities don't exist...always a performance
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  • There are three basic strategies people have adopted to deal with the reality of posting online.The "lowest common denominator” strategy, or only making posts that you're comfortable with anybody seeing, staying away from anything controversial or overly personal.“Social syphentation,” or migrating your conversation to a place where you have a smaller audience, like a group text, Instagram DMs or Snapchat, where the context and audience are clear.People are also avoiding context collapse by turning to more ephemeral mediums, like Instagram stories and Snapchat. These posts don’t stick around, so you can share without as much worry about the consequences.
    • nroyal18
       
      Lowest common denominator is usually the way I go. Although, I am opening up more within my social media outlets
  • And remember those privacy settings, and use them. Not everyone needs to see every post you make. And if you see something you don't want to see, feel free to mute it.
    • crs6414
       
      Good reminder!
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    I appreciate the explanation in this article about context collapse. It makes sense. This article definitely made me want to go back and check privacy settings and to think more about my likes.
Henry Xu

Chapter 7 Political Freedom Part 2: Emergence of the Networked Public Sphere. The Wealt... - 3 views

    • Henry Xu
       
      This is quite a good way to categorize the change. 
  • crystallized and synthesized,
    • Henry Xu
       
      Can it be crystallized? Other readings suggestion it a process rather than a product, which is always on its way to the ultimate, but never reach there. 
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  • first
  • anyone, anywhere
    • Henry Xu
       
      The so-called "Ubiquitous"? 
  • second, and more fundamenta
  • it allows one, or a few, or even a limited large group to communicate to a large but limited group, where the limit is self-selection as being interested or even immersed in a subject.
  • ddition to the owner, readers/users could write to the blog.
  • weighted conversation
  • cultural practice has emerged to reference through links for easy transition from your own page or post to the one you are referring to
  • his culture is fundamentally different from the mass-media culture
  • other dimension
  • is mobility
  • change their relationship to the events that surround them
  • social production practices that these tools enable
  • the excessive power it g
  • its tendency, when owners do
  • ives its owners, and
  • to foster an inert polity
  • ublic sphere allows individuals to monitor and disrupt the use of mass-media power, as well as organize for political action.
  • first story
  • second
  • how the networked public sphere allows individuals and groups of intense political engagement to report, comment, and generally play the role traditionally assigned to the press in observing, analyzing, and creating political salience for matters of public interest.
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  • Second,
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  • each individual and group can - and, indeed, most likely will - focus precisely on what is most intensely interesting to its participants.
  • fully grown like Athena from the forehead of Zeus.
    • Henry Xu
       
      It's too culture-based to understand. 
  • Information overload.
    • Henry Xu
       
      This is definitely true! Overwhelmed! 
  • Polarization
  • Fragmentation of attention and discourse.
  • Money will end up dominating anyway.
  • Centralization of the Internet.
  • Centrality of commercial mass media to the Fourth Estate function.
  • Fourth Estate
  • Authoritarian countries can use filtering and monitoring to squelch Internet use
  • Digital divide.
  • Babel objection
    • Henry Xu
       
      What is it anyway? It appears quite a lot. 
  • I suggest that neither is the case.
Vanessa

Why Twitter Is a Teacher's Best Tool - Education - GOOD - 3 views

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    At the start of this class, I thought Twitter was too much trouble, why bother. In the article you bookmarked, I would think that all one has to do was just call someone, or speak to another person. However, after emailing you and others today about things, I realized how valuable it is to be able to respond to someone with just a quick answer. This eliminates the formality of face to face conversations which usually take a lot of extra time ("hi, how are you? I'm fine, how is the family, etc....waiting for the right moment to get to the real reason why one called). I am all for f2f get togethers and phone conversations, either socially or professionally, but when it comes to things like finding out educational policies that could be answered by knowledgeable people within a few seconds, why not just cut to the chase and get a quick short answer, unless of course, one is fortunate to have an abundance of time...cough....cough.. This has awakened me to the power of Twitter and its role in education. Thanks.
disceverum

McGlynn (2021) IT Carlow launches Ireland's first ever online influencer course. Irish ... - 0 views

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    "As well as learning from those who have made their name online, students will gain valuable insight into what it means to have a digital identity and how to market ideas to your target audience. Among the topics included in the programme are the psychology of memes, brand building and how to tell your story online....The teaching panel includes award winning teacher and expert in pop culture, Dr Eleanor O'Leary; Marketing Lecturer of the Year, Dorothy Keane; and brand planning professional Ciaran O'Loan."
Alyn Minnerly

Second Life idea great for Produsage? Game-Based Learning? - 1 views

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    I don't know much about Second Life, and while it might have some elements that I could do without, I was thinking that this could tie nicely into a formal or informal Web 2.0 learning platform, game based learning, and Produsage. What do you think?
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    I took a multimedia class last semester with Dr. Ke and got to explore Second Life and Opensim. It's a great example of Produsage as the members are constantly producing (sharing)and using (making use of what's shared) in their communities. You'd be surprised at the research currently being done with Second Life/Opensim and learning disabilities here at FSU's Instructional Systems. My daughter is part of that research and loves the interaction that's involved in second life. You'll find that it's difficult to take a back seat in this virtual community as things are constantly and dynamically changing. BUT I got" creeped" out as the environment resembled too close to real life. I can see how people can really be sucked in to this environment and "live" a second life.
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    I remember writing a couple of paper's on Second Life in some of my ISD courses. Along with informal instruction, professor's are developing courses within Second Life's virtual platform. They are holding class meetings Second Life's synchronous communication tools. Second Life's features are interesting because they can easily blend formal and informal learning.
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    Second Life creeps me out too. I've tried exploring what it is, but I think it just boils down to me thinking that I would have to be dissatisfied with my first life to indulge in a second one. There was a season of The Office devoted to this, I think. It also doesn't help that the only Second Life example I have ever seen was the one that shares the thoughts and visuals of a schizophrenic and that the graphics look like the Grand Theft Auto video game (one that my little brother played WAY too much). I know all of what I just typed is silly (although true for me) because some really great things are coming out of Second Life. I have a friend who is working on her doctorate in ISD at the University of Southern Alabama, and she put a lot of work into a research on using Second Life to rehabilitate long-term prison inmates, prior to their release. She ultimately chose another topic for her thesis, but her work showed astounding results. Before learning about her work, I assumed Second Life was nothing more than a glorified Sims game.
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    To some degree, I agree Denise that its a little creepy. Especially since there are a lot of undesireable elements (at least to me) that seem to permeate the S.L. landscape. However, I am fascinated with using a virtual world setting to encourage learning because people tend to "get in to it" better when its in an environment that they can relate too.
Alyn Minnerly

Download Color Detector 2.0 Free - Point mouse cursor anywhere on the screen, to obtain... - 1 views

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    Not Web 2.0, but a cool tool to have when you want to design presentations. I have used this numerous times when I want to match a color on a website (e.g. FSU) and put the same color in my presentation. When you get the RGB or hex value, you just go to Custom color and input data, and bingo!! Download Color Detector - Point mouse cursor anywhere on the screen, to obtain RGB, & hex code of pixel
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    Alyn, Cool tool! Is this a web 2.0 tool?
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    No, its just a handy tool that I think would help all of us designers. For years I used to struggle trying to guess what color comes closet to FSU's Garnet and Gold. Then all of a sudden, one day earlier this year, I googled "how to detect a color" and bingo, this came up. Been using it ever since. Glad you like it.
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    Hi Alyn, I frequently have to develop artwork, etc and match colors. It is a challenge to get the right colors from Microsoft program colors to match Adobe program color pallets without wasting a lot of time. The results when printing can be drastically different. So this tool looked very appealing to me and I attempted to download. However, my McAfee automatically removed the download with a message that it contained a Trojan virus. Have you had any problems?
dawnadolfson

How To Use Wiki In The Classroom - eLearning Industry - 6 views

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    Since we are talking about crowdsourcing, this article explains how a teacher/trainer could use a Wiki with their students and some great ideas.
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    I see that it mentions pbworks and that is the wiki that I learned on which just happens to be the link I just shared to the EME6414 group and involved students from various cohorts crowdsourcing to create a list of various Web2.0 tools. I have now used the word "crowdsourcing" several times today. :)
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    I am intrigued by Wikis, and look forward to working with them. I was particularly interested in the suggestion, for math classes, to post word problems and have student work on them together. I am currenly helping to build a statistics class, and would - given more development time and more knowledge on my part - recommend a wiki to him for that very activity.
cpgrubb64

YouTube in the classroom - 3 views

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    This article is long however it gives some great information about using YouTube in the classroom. It is divided up into a few chapters so not all of it needs to be consumed. In short it is a research study about how educators use the web2.0 tool YouTube. It talks about how we can integrate it in the class, features of the site, and how to use the site. It also highlights some of the problems that came up with usage during the study.
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    Awesome! I love YouTube and I definitely utilize this tool A LOT in my high school English classroom. I enjoy how youtube also has the ability to focus on strictly educational materials. Visuals are so important for students to create concrete connections. Great artice!
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    YouTube is my favorite video-based network. Videos are intrinsically motivating and engaging. I agree with the point in the article that the videos that are informative, humorous, current, interesting and engaging are most preferred by students, but instructors choose a video based on its instructional value, not simply due to its humorous content. The article entirely and detailly introduces the tool. Additionally, the following article is also a great material to learn YouTube. Duffy, P. (2007). Engaging the YouTube Google‐Eyed Generation: Strategies for Using Web 2.0 in Teaching and Learning. In European Conference on eLearning, ECEL.
nutraware79

The Promotion of Eating Behaviour Change through Digital Interventions - 0 views

    • nutraware79
       
      How to use technology to affect/ modify eating behavior
  • s. The efficiency of all the interventions increased when coupled with tailored feedback and counselling. It was established that the scalable and sustainable properties of digital interventions have the potential to bring about adequate changes in the eating behaviour of individuals. Further research should concentrate on the appropriate personalisation of the interventions, according to the requirements of the individuals, and proper integration of behaviour change techniques to motivate long-term adherence.
  • Mediating variables, which can be personal, physical, environmental, behavioural, or familial, are important in the formation of dietary behaviours [13]. The most effective way to install changes in dietary behaviour is to alter one or more of the mediating variables [13]. For example, most children readily eat fruits and vegetables that they are familiar with [14], which may limit the variety of choices available to them. By exposing children to a greater variety of fruits and vegetables by increasing availability at home
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      Availability at home variable
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  • Designing interventions to change dietary behaviour is a complex process, which includes identifying and prioritising all mediating variables, defining the types of change that are needed, and then implementing appropriate policies
  • Most strategies are currently based on intuition and the social, cultural, and economic characteristics of the target population rather than evidence-based interventions. Because different individuals may respond differently to the same message, additional research in the area of behavioural science is needed to develop strategic policies that will be effective for the majority of people in the community.
    • nutraware79
       
      different people respond to different messages.
Ömer Arslan

Ethical dilemmas on social media: Swedish secondary teachers' boundary management on Fa... - 6 views

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    This study examines student-teacher interaction on Facebook and how teachers manage ethical concerns arising from pupils' actions and their appearance on Facebook.
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    https://www-tandfonline-com.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/doi/full/10.1080/10508422.2018.1516148?src=recsys This article is also about ethical issues, but deals with the field of psychotherapy (and doctoral students in clincical psychology - the education link.
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    Thank you for sharing that article! It is really interesting and similar to the concerns addressed in the first article. I just do not understand the default assumption and position that self-disclosure in online spaces will damage the interaction between the stakeholders. In the end, they (e.g., student-teacher, doctor-patient) both perform what they are expected to perform in a work-related context. Self-disclosing individual aspects should not discredit one's expertise, credibility, etc. I am curious about your perspectives. :-)
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    Thank you for the reply! What struck me as valid about the article is that for some relationships, there is no self-disclosure on one side, and maximun self-disclosure on the other. The article talked about psychotherapists. Typically, the individual in therapy knows nothing or very little about the therapist, while the therapist gets to know the person in theapy quite well - one supposes. While I personally would like to know something about the "personness" of a therapist, prevailing opinion is that, should the person in therapy gain knowledge of the therapist through social media, it would damage the theraputic relationship. Same thing with doctors. Perhaps the same thing with priests. I'm a bit paranoid about too much self-disclosure, except for the ADHD thing, so if I where a therapist, I would be OK. However, if I blogged on my struggles with Therapy School, thoughts about patients, etc... I would be more worried. Actually,blogging about patients might cause you to lose your license... and it should! I know all this because my husband is a psychologist. It's almost impossible to have a conversation about his work without violating some ethical code or another. :-)
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    I think I agree with you in the idea that in some relationships there is no mutual disclosure because we expect and accept a level of certain patterns of behavior or let's say self-disclosure. As you have mentioned, while we do not anticipate a therapist to self-disclose 'personal' aspects, the same goes with the person. S/he is expected to self-disclose. I am not familiar with the therapist/person interaction, but I can make connections from my personal experiences. They both have 'preferred, expected' rights and duties in relation to each other. While a therapist may be legitimate to know whether the person is ADHD or not or whatsoever, it sounds reasonable. However, when it comes to the person whether the therapist is an ADHD or whatsoever, wait! A therapist and ADHD??? No way. I wish I read about an expert's perspectives in a blog form that may potentially heal my wounds or others. But at the same time, it is not easy to establish. One of the tensions that I need to resolve, in the end. I am glad that you shared your experiences. Such a nurturing conversation. :-)
msoichot

Multiple social media in the workplace: Contradictions and congruencies.pdf - 2 views

  • The variety of technologies available for everyday work creates complex environments
  • They may also lead to potential conflicts
  • social media have been found to be beneficial for knowledge workers.
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  • proved a higher level of ambient awareness;
  • can be used to effectively highlight valuable knowledge created on the platform
  • negative impact on routine work
  • they can also provoke issues within organisations
  • redundancies between social media
  • as well as legacy systems such as long‐standing databases.
  • They highlighted that a single tool cannot satisfy all employee needs, and how differences emerged between groups;
  • Muller et al (2012) noted how social media were appropriated differently across groups when creating and using shared resources and forming relationships. The variation of usage could result in isolation of both resources and groups and create barriers for information sharing as well as reduce networking (Yuan et al., 2013).
  • leading to potentially conflicting modes of communication.
  • As researchers continue to study social media, contradictory findings show that their self‐organising and open‐ended nature makes it difficult to predict the actual adoption and use within the workplace, and how they contribute to maintaining coherence in work activities.
Lauren Bagdy

How Americans use Twitter: Key takeaways from our new study | Pew Research Center - 9 views

  • Most U.S. adult Twitter users don’t engage much.
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      Most Twitter users are lurkers... what do you all think about that?
  • A new Pew Research Center study goes a step further. First, we asked survey respondents whether they use Twitter and, if so, for permission to look at their Twitter accounts. After reviewing each account, we quantified these Americans’ tweets, likes, followers and followings. The result is the Center’s first study of Twitter behavior that’s based on a representative sample of U.S. adults who use the platform.
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    This article discusses how Americans use Twitter and relates to our Week 3 discussion about lurking.
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    I can definitely see most Twitter users being lurkers. I lurk on Instagram quite a bit, but I have become more active in liking posts since taking this class!
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    I am also an Instagram lurker. I was curious and looked at my three most recent posts... June 2, May 9, and March 2! Very little production happening.
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    I am an invisible learner on Instagram. I have never posted on Instagram, but just like some of the posts. :-)
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    I'm definitely a lurker when it comes to Twitter.
Vanessa

How To Delete Your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat | WIRED - 7 views

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    Ready to cut the connection? Here's some advice on how to do it.
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    This is so useful, especially after this class. Saved this and will share further.
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    I think it's funny how a lot of these platforms hide this option. Out of all of the web 2.0 platforms, I really enjoy Instagram. That is one I will NOT delete
Vanessa

Massive Open Online Courses: Setting Up (StartToMOOC, Part 1) by Inge de Waard : Learni... - 2 views

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    First in a series on setting up your own MOOC (or any other course, really) using google and related tools.
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    This article is fantastic. I like how the author is acknowledging that creating a MOOC will seem daunting to newbies, but her detailedness calmed my fears of doing something like that. As I explored the article and its links, I switched from being overwhelmed at the thought of creating one to having a flood of ideas on what I could do in such an environment. What a transitition!
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    I think the articles are great, I looked at a few of the parts. Nice descriptions and screenshots. I haven't asked this before, and maybe I should know this but what are the RSS feeds? I have ignored them because I didn't know what they were. Since part 2 tells me how to add them to my site, I wonder what they are.
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    Thank you very much for sharing this, Vanessa, I'm going to try it, it seems like a great platform to use. Fran, basically if you want to follow a blog or a website and don't want to check every day if there's something new published, you add this blog/website to a feed reader (I use Google Reader) and see all the new posts of the different blogs and websites published on the same page. This is (more or less) a RSS feed. Such a great help for managing information!
davisdanie05

B. Simone Exposed For Plagiarizing Bloggers' Work In Her Book - 3 views

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    Influencer B.Simone Plagiarizes Work of Blogger's in Her Book,
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    Posting this here, because I'm interested in how influencers navigate content creation and copyright infringement. This may make a great case study for my popular music class, for the celebrity culture unit.
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    This's very interesting and actually reminded me of a tweet that I'd come across a while ago. Maybe checking that tweet and how people reacted may give you an idea about this topic! Here's a link (https://bit.ly/37rAA6S) and I hope it works. You may want to sing in if you want to see the whole conversation. :)
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    I knew someone who was a run-of-the-mill blogger (audience of 300 or so) who had another blogger start to copy her blog, post for post. It was creepy. I can't recall how it all ended -- was about 15 years ago.
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    Wow how awful!
Vanessa

Using Diigo in the Classroom - YouTube - 2 views

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    Thanks for sharing this video! It was a helpful walk-through of how to use Diigo.
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    This is great! Thank you ~
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    This video laid out a great explanation of how using this platform can be helpful. I am already envisioning the possibility of using it in my Media Center. Theoretically, I would like to see all of our students through their Social Studies classes. I think it would be very cool to use this site during initial media center presentations to allow students to compile resources they can easily return to. I think it will be especially helpful during science and history fair. Students will have a simple way to compile and return to their resources when putting together their projects and annotated bibs.
eesllc

Social media as a complementary learning tool for teaching and learning: The case of yo... - 0 views

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    author: George Ligon IV I recently read an article about a study on college students use of Youtube to support academic learning. According to Alexa (2015), Youtube is the third most visited website in the world (as cited by Moghavvemi, Sulaiman, Jaafar, & Kasem, 2018). The study explored students' usage and their perceptions of Youtube's effectiveness as an academic learning tool. Out of 312 respondents 71% stated they used Youtube for academic learning purposes (Moghavvemi, Sulaiman, Jaafar, & Kasem, 2018). According to Moghavvemi et al. (2018), 76% of respondents stated they used Youtube to learn how to solve problems, 77% used it to answer questions, and 83% used it to watch videos that were suggested by friends. In addition to this, Moghavvemi et al. (2018), reported 70.5% of respondents believed they learned more from watching Youtube than reading a book. Thus, the findings supported previous studies which found using videos to teach was an effective tool to enhance academic performance (Moghavvemi, Sulaiman, Jaafar, & Kasem, 2018). References Moghavvemi, S., Sulaiman, A., Jaafar, N. I., & Kasem, N. (2018, March). Social media as a complementary learning tool for teaching and learning: the case of youtube. The international journal of management education. 16(1), 37-42. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1472811717303051
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