project overview
Explores the relationship between social networking environments and instruction and learning.
A Vision of Students Today
From Michael Wesch's http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg
settings for social networking @ nc state university, raleigh, nc, & beyond
√ 8tracks, founded in 2006 and launched 2008, for creating and sharing music mixes
√ bebo, launched 2005, social networking acronym for "blog early, blog often"
√ delicious, launched 2003, allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages
√ doodle, incorporated in 2008, for coordinating group events and polls
√ facebook, launched 2004, supporting 132M visitors in June, 2008
√ flickr, launched 2004, image and video hosting Website that claims 3B images
√ google docs, rolled out 2005-2007 as separate pieces of collaborative "office" applications
√ linkedin, launched 2003, as business-oriented social networking site (3.2M visitors)
√ minekey, founded in 2005, discussion network spanning other top social networks
√ myspace, launched 2003, social networking Website in competition with facebook for users
√ newsmap, visually reflecting the daily space of the Googe News aggregator
√ ning, launched 2005, serving more than 275,000 networks
√ pandora, launched 2000, part of the Music Genome Project (capturing ~400 music attributes)
√ photobucket, allowing shared photographs and videos, tagging, commenting
√ playlist, founded in 2006, for music search and sharing
√ plaxo, reporting 20M users in May 2008
√ shelfari, supporting social cataloging, tagging, discussion of books
√ tagcloud, launched 2005, building tagging representations of your information (under construction)
√ twendx, exploring twitter conversations and sentiment (searching for "learning")
√ twitter, allowing "micro-blogging" or short messages to a network of people
√ youtube, allowing shared videos, tagging, and commenting
√ zoho, supporting shared editing of spreadsheets, presentations, databases, documents
It's a Profile World
From Clive Thompson (2008). Brave new world of digital intimacy. New York Times, September 5.
Did You Know?
From Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Bronman
for more information on social networking
√ Chelan, D. (2007). Working the Web. University Business: Solutions for Higher Education Management, April.
√ Coldewey, D. (2009). Why I don't use Twitter. TechCrunch.com, August 17.
√ CTV News Staff. (2007). Ontario government employees blocked from Facebook. CTV.ca, May 3.
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EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. (2008). 2008 Horizon Report. Austin, TX: New Media Corsortium.
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EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. (2009). 2009 Horizon Report. Austin, TX: New Media Corsortium.
√ Harris, S. D. (2008). Facebook, Salesforce.com collaborate. Mercury News, November 3.
√ Hoffman, C. (2008). The battle for Facebook. RollingStone.com, June 26.
√ McKee, J. (2009). The 90-9-1 principle: How users participate in social communities. Ant's Eye View and CommunityGuy.com.
√ Powell, R. S. (2009). Who is on the other end of Facebook? Advice, The Chronical of Higher Education, October 9.
√ Schmidt, T. S. (2006). Inside the backlash against Facebook. Time.com, September 6.
√ Siemens, G., & Cormier, D. (2009). Social media: Trends and implications for learning. EdITLib, August.
√ Wikipedia. (2008). List of social networking Websites. Wikipedia, November 6.
Tagging and Folksonomy (tagcrowd.com)
Community-based non-hierarchical organization of information or objects on Web