Regional Staff Development Day October 23, 2009 K. Virginia Bond
Communication and Collaboration Digital Citizenship Technology Operations and Concepts Research and Information Fluency Creativity and Innovation Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making
From Wikipedia- “A social network is a social structure made of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes," which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige”social structurekinshipsexual relationships
’94 Theglobe.com Geocities share info / ideas around personal homepages ’95 Classmates.com Link to each other via addresses ’99 Epinion.com more control over content / connectivity ‘02-04 Friendster MySpace Bebo led to Facebook ’05 launch of Yahoo 360. ‘08-09 Ning Twitter
Internal (ISN) Closed private community within a company/ ass’n/ society or ed/ provider “invite only” in ESN External (ESN) Open/public community Available to all users Designed to attract advertisers
Online communities Share interests / activities Most web-based Provide multiple ways to interact: ◦ ◦ Posting ◦ IM’ing ◦ Photos
Encourage new ways to communicate and share information Used by millions of people (regularly Gained popularity in the 21 st century Most popular contain category divisions ◦ Former school / year
Can upload a picture of themselves Create a profile Be friends with users ◦ Confirmation of friends Usually have privacy controls ◦ Allows users to choose who can view their profile
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NO SWEARING NO SMOKING NO ALCOHOL / DRINKING NO DRUGS NO RUNNING DOWN people ◦ Always be aware of specifics NO “YUCKY” comments about employer
NO PRESENT DAY Students! “Sorry, I don’t accept current students. I will accept you as a friend once you graduate high school.”
Mobile phone users can do ALMOST everything a user at a computer can do
Some of the things I bet you didn’t know you could do with SMS text messaging: 1. Movie times at your local cinema 2. Driving directions 3. Stock quotes 4. Traffic updates 5. Weather updates 6. Translate words to and from English 7. Send 8. Watch your auctions on eBay 9. Post to your blog 10. Compare prices for merchandise 11. Find wifi spots 12. Check whether your flight is on time 13. Keep up with Twitter 14. Get alerts and add events to google calendar 15. Track your package 16. Convert metric to english measurements and back again 17. Calculate math 18. Receive AMBER alerts 19. Get RSS feeds
Create brand awareness Online reputation management tool Recruiting To learn about new technologies & competitors As a lead generational tool to intercept potential prospect
Share/ exchange scientific knowledge ◦ Able to increate both their learning / flexibility beyond their area / research field Expand knowledge base & share ideas
Creating chat-room forums/ groups to extend classroom discussions Post assignments, tests & quizzes Foster parent – teacher communication
Privacy ◦ Too much? ◦ Data theft ◦ viruses Notifications ◦ “only positive” Access to information ◦ Beware if NOT given a choice Potential for misuse ◦ bullying Risk for child safety
mother-indicted-in-nations-first-cyber-bullying-case Potential for misuse ◦ Cyber Bullying ◦ October Megan Meier Risk for child safety sexual predators
Web-based / distance learning Concept used to describe the connection within and between society and SN
Facebook is increasing used by administrators and law enforcement as a sources of evidence against student users Vast majority of school districts have STRINGENT rules against nearly ALL forms of SN’ing during the school day
twitter MySpace Facebook Youtube Teacher tube blogs (blogspot) wiki (wikipedia) Ning Teacher ATC Others……google groups / yahoo groups
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