Modeling social media -Vance Stevens

Modeling social media in groups, communities, and networks : Modeling social media in groups, communities, and networks Vance Stevens Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAEPrepared for the AVEALMEC/ARCALL online conference on Social NetworkingNovember 5-8, 2009 http://avealmec.org.ve/ Attribution: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fractal_nevit_60.png Detailed information at http://tinyurl.com/vance-socialnet09

Where to begin? : Where to begin? How about with some pieces loosely joined? http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle Attribution: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/y58UDZ0ies25xvJ-HYCgXQ

Where to begin? : Where to begin? How about with this thought From Stephen Downes, Learning the Web 2.0 Way http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/personal-learning-the-web-20-way

Where do we get our models? : Where do we get our models? Our daily network interactions; e.g. Morning Tweets

Nings : Nings http://cck2009.ning.com/ http://multiliteracies.ning.com/video

Webcasts, Podcasts : Webcasts, Podcasts http://edtechtalk.com/live http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/

Edmodo : Edmodo Modeled and demonstrated by Nicky Hockley, #Socialnet09

Waves : Waves Who are the early pouncers? http://wave.google.com

Waves and Wikis : Waves and Wikis http://webheadswave.wikispaces.com/

Future of Learning in a Networked World : Future of Learning in a Networked World http://flnw.wikispaces.com/Brazil

Knowledge (Creative Commons) : Knowledge (Creative Commons) Attribution: http://www.kelvybird.com/facilitation/scribing/workingknowledge.html

How did you learn aboutCreative Commons? : How did you learn aboutCreative Commons? http://creativecommons.org/

How did you LEARN how tofind Creative Commons Images? : How did you LEARN how tofind Creative Commons Images?

Heard it through the grapevine? : Heard it through the grapevine? http://delicious.com/vancestevens/art Attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonastherkildsen/122881874/

One State of Knowledge : One State of Knowledge http://www.wblut.com/constructs/cyclic/

Knowledge Changes : Knowledge Changes http://www.wblut.com/constructs/cyclic/

Paradigm Shift : Paradigm Shift http://www.wblut.com/constructs/cyclic/

Paradigm Shifts in Education : Paradigm Shifts in Education http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/2007alexandria/web20arabia.htm

Slide 19 : 10 Aspects of Paradigm Shift Pedagogy: Didactic --> constructivist Modeling: Do as I say --> AND as I do Transfer: Technology enjoyed at leisure is F.U.N. --> also, applied to professional practice Trepidation:Will they find out? --> ok to say “I don’t know!” Literacy: Print literacy --> multiliteracies Heuristics: Client server --> peer to peer Sharing: Copyrighted --> creative commons Classification: Taxonomies --> folksonomies Directionality:Push --> pull Ownership:Proprietary --> open source 19

Paradigm Shifts in Wordle.net : Paradigm Shifts in Wordle.net

Can’t get enough Wordle.net : Can’t get enough Wordle.net

Slide 22 : Configurations for sharing and dissemination of knowledge Groups Communities Communities of practice Connectivist perspectives Personal learning networks Distributed learning networks Rhyzomic learning Attribution: Nancy White http://www.fullcirc.com/

Slide 23 : Configurations Groups

Slide 24 : Configurations Groups Communities

Slide 25 : Configurations Groups Communities Communities of practice Domain Practice Community

Slide 26 : Configurations Groups Communities Communities of practice Networkscan include overlappingcommunities

Slide 27 : Configurations Groups Communities Communities of practice Networksand sampleConnections

Slide 28 : Webheads started as EFL class in 1998 WiA formed as result of 2002 EVO sesson Educators who engage in Helping each other pursue lifelong, just-in-time, informal learning Through experimentation in use of social-media and computer mediated communications tools Webheads in Action Online ConvergenceWiAOC 2005, 2007, 2009 http://wiaoc.org

Webheads: Group : Webheads: Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/

Webheads: Community : Webheads: Community Attribution: http://flickr.com/photos/94794165@N00/410359410/

Webheads: Community of Practice : Webheads: Community of Practice http://webheadsinaction.org/

Personal Learning Networks : Personal Learning Networks Scott Leslie's PLE (above) and more PLE diagrams: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

Getting back to knowledge : Getting back to knowledge Attribution: http://www.kelvybird.com/facilitation/scribing/workingknowledge.html

Slide 34 : Knowledge dissimenation through communities and networks Downes on distributed learning networks Knowing ( where’s Waldo?) Once you know, you can’t not know Knowledge exists throughout nodes in a network Wenger notes (2002:6)? Increasing complexity of knowledge requires greater … collaboration; whereas … Half life of knowledge is getting shorter

Slide 35 : Knowledge dissimenation through communities and networks Cormier - Rhizomatic Learning to deal with increasingly rapid obsolescence of knowledge http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1380055

Slide 36 : Knowledge dissimenation through communities and networks Siemens – Connectivism stresses importance of pipes over content Attribution: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venice_-_Piping.jpg

Siemens – Connectivism – dealing with explosion of available info : Siemens – Connectivism – dealing with explosion of available info http://www.wiziq.com/TutorSession/Session.aspx?JuX%2bgH%2b2GbYuXrqZqj1F3uIA%2fgrtIiAEcKQ3usZlk1VhT5GwwVHz6vferdj5MlOz5JOdRjZO8mc%3d http://tinyurl.com/siemens-socialnet09

Implications for Teacher Professional Development : Implications for Teacher Professional Development Jack Richards plenary Denver TESOL 2009 (March 27)? About what teachers need to KNOW in order to practice effectively Research indicates that teachers tend to revert to traditional methods rather than activate what they are exposed to in training curricula Derick Wenmouth (also from NZ) mentioned similar research findings at K-12 Online 2008 http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=181

Problems : Problems Teacher-trainers without sufficient experience with technology and rooted in old-school methodologies simply not modeling new age learning behaviors for trainees Attribution: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8aagIQGZq-RyFMO1dFHHNg

Problems : Problems Students and staff love to learn but hate to be taught, resent top-down approach forced on them by managers sometimes out of touch with actual needs of students and staff Attribution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxHb5QVD7fo&feature=player_embedded

Solutions : Solutions Allow, facilitate, encourage networking in meetings, conferences, classrooms Offer workshops/projects bottom up, as something that staff/students organize themselves Create atmosphere encouraging formation of communities of practice where staff/students interact with peers in other institutions

Models for professional and student skills development : Models for professional and student skills development Encourage teams to organize training sessions that utilize synchronous and non-synchronous social media tools.  Call them something other than ‘training’ sessions Use Nings / Moodles / wikis / Google Wave / Jing / uTiPu / or other LMS/CMS to replace outmoded email attachment systems http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/06/speedlifing.html Hold un-conferences and other grass roots events such as Bar camps LAN parties Speed-geeking Speed Lifing

Keep current, participate with peers around the world in: : Keep current, participate with peers around the world in: Social networks: Ning, TappedIn, EVO, WiAOC Social bookmarking: Delicious, Diigo Groups: YahooGroups and GoogleGroups Microblogging: Twitter, Plurk Instant messaging: Yahoo Messenger, Skype

Keep current, participate with peers around the world in: : Keep current, participate with peers around the world in: Blogging and podcasting: keeping current via RSS Wikis: PBWiki, Wikispaces Aggregation: Technorati, Pageflakes, Netvibes, Protopages, iGoogle, http://addictomatic.com

This suggests that … : This suggests that … Key to success in keeping current is in expanding productive contacts within a network Attribute: d'arcy norman touchgraph: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/436670816/

Thanks for joining Vance Stevensand friends … : Thanks for joining Vance Stevensand friends … at AVEALMEC/ARCALL 2009 Social Networking Conference http://avealmec.org.ve/

Modeling social media in groups, communities, and networks : Modeling social media in groups, communities, and networks Vance Stevens At the AVEALMEC/ARCALL online conference on Social NetworkingNovember 5-8, 2009 This has been More information here: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/11/modeling-social-media-in-groups.html