Joint presentation by Cole Camplese and Scott McDonald, recapping our experiences teaching C&I 597C: Disruptive Technologies for Teaching and Learning.

1. Community Engagement: How
Disruptive Technologies Enabled
New Social Learning
Scott McDonald & Cole Camplese

2. “Wouldn’t it be cool if ...”

3. Curriculum and
Instruction 597C
Disruptive Technologies for Teaching and Learning

4. “This is a grand experiment ...”

5. Course Structure
• Several readings every week
• Weekly reflections in their blogs
• Peer review of reflections
• Weekly discussions
• Students in teams
• Team presentations

6. Design
• Three blocks
• Us, Together, Them
• Three themes
• Community, Identity, Design

7. Distributed Expertise
“What made my head hurt”
Technology
Time Technologists
Theorists

8. Distributed Expertise
“What made my head hurt”
Theory
Time Technologists
Theorists

9. Technologies
• PSU Blogs for all students • Facebook
• PSU Blog for course site • Wikis
• Pligg • Podcasts
• ANGEL • YouTube
• Del.icio.us • Flickr
• Twitter • Google Docs, Analytics,
Maps

10. Technologies
• PSU Blogs for all students • Facebook
• PSU Blog for course site • Wikis
• Pligg • Podcasts
• ANGEL • YouTube
• Del.icio.us • Flickr
• Twitter • Google Docs, Analytics,
Maps

11. Student Blogs

12. Pligg: Social Aggregation

13. Pligg: Social Aggregation

14. What Changed the Game

15. Technologies
• PSU Blogs for all students • Facebook
• PSU Blog for course site • Wikis
• Pligg • Podcasts
• ANGEL • YouTube
• Del.icio.us • Flickr
• Twitter • Google Docs, Analytics,
Maps

16. Technologies
• PSU Blogs for all students • Facebook
• PSU Blog for course site • Wikis
• Pligg • Podcasts
• ANGEL • YouTube
• Del.icio.us • Flickr
• Twitter • Google Docs, Analytics,
Maps

17. Technologies
• PSU Blogs for all students • Facebook
• PSU Blog for course site • Wikis
• Pligg • Podcasts
• ANGEL • YouTube
• Del.icio.us • Flickr
• Twitter • Google Docs, Analytics,
Maps

18. The Twitter Community

19. The Twitter Community
Extended Conversations Extended Community

20. The Twitter Community
Backchannel Conversations External participation
Extended Conversations Extended Community

21. The Twitter Community
Coalesced the Learning Community
Backchannel Conversations External participation
Extended Conversations Extended Community

22. The Twitter Community

23. The Twitter Community
“Yes, I feel I know you, Scott, and the
others more intimately than I do other
professors & cmates with whom I’ve spent
more time”

24. The Twitter Community
“Yes, I feel I know you, Scott, and the
others more intimately than I do other
professors & cmates with whom I’ve spent
more time”
“Your identity is defined by the
communities you participate in, so your
choices to participate are how you control
who you are”

25. The Twitter Community
“Just found out, thesis is due in 12 hours.
Anyone care to read it and give feedback?”

26. Evaluation
How do we quantify community engagement?

27. Predicting the unpredictable
Why Twitter and why not something else?

28. Lost in translation?
How does this work outside this course?

29. Discussion
cole@psu.edu & sum16@psu.edu