Slide 1 : WHERE is SOCIAL MATH?!! Social objects
Social Actions
Kids compiled by Maria Droujkova for naturalmath.com
Slide 2 : Site: Scratch programming community Social objects: Scratch applets and comments
Actions: Create and share applets, remix other people’s applets, collect applet galleries
Kids: yes
Slide 3 : Site: Twitter Social objects: Twits (140-character messages), hashtags, links
Actions: Twit, search
Kids: yes
Slide 4 : Site: Geogebra Wiki International Social objects: Geogebra applets, descriptions and discussions
Actions: Program, share, modify applets
Kids: yes
Slide 5 : Site: Many Eyes Social objects:
Data visualizations
Actions: Create, share, comment, tag visualizations
Kids: ?
Slide 6 : Site: GraphJam Social objects: Funky graphs and diagrams
Actions: Create, share, rate, tag graphs
Kids: yes
Slide 7 : Site: Orbiter flight game forum: space math Social objects: Stories and code for math and physics of flight simulators
Actions: Program, design, discuss flight simulation
Kids: yes
Slide 8 : Site: Elitist Jerks: World of Warcarft guild forum Social objects: Stories, computations, addons, spreadsheets for strategies of a multi-player game
Actions: Program, design, discuss
Kids: yes
Slide 9 : Site: YouTube Social objects: Short videos, relational networks among videos, collections (channels), comments
Actions: Make videos, aggregate, comment
Kids: yes
Slide 10 : Site: Living Math Forum Social objects: Email messages to the group centered on incorporating living books and materials into family life
Actions: Write and answer
Kids: yes
Slide 11 : Site: WCYDWT - what can you do with this Social objects: Blog posts on math-rich objects and lesson ideas around them
Actions: Blog
Kids: no, but can be
Slide 12 : Site: Friendster networking platform, group Elite Math Circle Social objects: Forum posts, comments, photos
Actions: write and comment
Kids: yes
Slide 13 : Site: Orkut math forum Social objects: Forum posts about homework, puzzles, tricks
Actions: Comment
Kids: probably
Slide 14 : Site: Mathtrain.TV Social objects: videos, audios and podcasts
Actions: Create and share screencast, video and audio files (class members only)
Kids: yes
Slide 15 : Viral: Email game "IQ120" Social objects: A small puzzle, its answer the name list password; names of people who solved it
Actions: Solve the puzzle, add your name, forward the file to friends
Kids: yes
Slide 16 : Site: Math Playground Videos Social objects: Screencast videos about school math topics
Actions: Create and share math videos
Kids: yes
Slide 17 : Site: Wolfram Demonstrations Project Social objects: Mathematica-generated widgets
Actions: Create and share widgets
Kids: maybe
Slide 18 : Site: xkcd webcomic community Social objects: Comics, discussions
Actions: discuss math-related news and ideas
Kids: yes, though the comic has very grown-up themes
Slide 19 : Site: Brown Sharpie webcomic community Social objects: Comics, comments
Actions: discuss comics
Kids: yes
Slide 20 : Site: TVtropes wiki Social objects: Examples of (mostly non-math) tropes in movies, literature, videogames and so on, organized in a wiki
Actions: collect and create tropes and examples, discuss, build themes
Kids: use the site, though it has mature themes
Slide 21 : Site: VoiceThread about fractions Social objects: Pictures, text and voice comments
Actions: define fractions together
Kids: yes
Slide 22 : Site: Art of Problem Solving forum Social objects: Problems, solutions, discussions
Actions: post, discuss, solve, compete
Kids: yes
Slide 23 : Site: Math247, a wiki about MathCasts Social objects: MathCasts, Scratch, and GeoGebra applets
Actions: create webcasts, program applets, discuss
Kids: yes
Slide 24 : Site: Instructables Social objects: "Instructables" - blog entries and comments
Actions: create web pages, discuss
Kids: yes
Slide 25 : Site: MySpace page of 4D Studios Social objects: mathcasts, short videos about mathematics
Actions: create mathcasts, comment
Kids: no
Slide 26 : Site: Flickr image sharing community Social objects: Prints with "the Droste Effect" transformation; software; discussions
Actions: create and share picture, program, comment
Kids: no
Slide 27 : Site: Mathematics 24x7 ning Social objects: Rich media (videos, pictures, widgets, stories) and comments
Actions: create media, discuss
Kids: no
Slide 28 : “Empty Frame”
by THEfunkyman on flickr.com Where is social math? Your example here: