4. Did WE achieve these?
Gain a solid grounding in social media
concepts and services
Practical experience implementing social
media to foster and grow online communities
Appreciation of wider societal issues resulting
from changes on internet
Practical experience writing and setting up
blogs and generating other online content
Opportunity to work collaboratively on an
web technology centred project
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5. Did YOU achieve this?
Attend and actively participate in all classes
Contribute to online discussions on related
social spaces (e.g., wiki) and add content
Work collaboratively and constructively with
your fellow students
Create Twitter, Facebook and blogging
accounts and keep active
Provide feedback by talking, tweeting,
completing online surveys, etc.
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6. What did WE talk about?
Web 2.0 & social media Language change
Online community, Blogging
social capital & ties Disasters (#eqnz)
Users (recruitment, Gamification
types, retention) Politics (US election,
Identity management & Arab Spring)
privacy Web tech (AJAX, IPv4,
Social media strategies IPv6, DNS, HTML, CSS,
Web (under the hood) cookies,CMS, https, ...)
Copyright issues Mobile tech (OS, App
Memes store, Wifi, 3G, GPS, …)
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7. Online community
Common
interests
Reciprocity
Emotional
investment
Time
Social capital
8. “… social aggregations that emerge from the
Internet when enough people carry on public
discussions long enough and with sufficient human
feeling to form webs of personal relationships in
cyberspace”
--Howard Rheingold
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9. What tools did WE try?
Wiki (Mindtouch Deki)
Microblog (Twitter)
Social network site (Facebook)
Blog (Tumblr, Blogger, Wordpress, ...)
Cloud apps (Dropbox, ScreenR, Google docs)
WCMS (Weebly)
Mashups (Yahoo pipes)
Others?
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11. YOU were assessed as follows
Assessment Weighting Total
Blog assignments 3 x 5% 15%
Group project: 40%
• Report 15%
• Prototype 15%
• Presentation 10%
Final Examination 45%
Total 100%
Group project with 3 (or 2) other students
Presentations to expert panel (cf. Dragon’s Den)
Final examination to be digital!
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12. What can YOU do now?
Evolve your project idea (next level)
Start a new online community
Become active contributors (bye bye lurker)
Revise your privacy, security, & backup decisions
Keep on top of social media developments
Consider a related vocation:
– Community manager
– Social strategist/manager/director
– Social media marketer/advisor/consultant
Become more social!
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16. Ideas?
Multiple choice Draw pictures
Open book (e.g., Google) Swap answers with class
Easy short answer mates
No essays Give exam before the
Write blog posts exam
Rote questions (single Video then questions
answer) Show and tell
Non-obscure Case study and tasks
140 character limit …
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17. The exam (45%)
When: Tuesday 21st February, 9:30 – 12:30
Where: CO3.16
Method: Blackboard (paper-based backup)
Format:
–?
What:
– All classes potentially open to exam
– Work done on assessments (indirectly)
18. Logistics
Arrive by 9:15
Only pens required
No notes, paper, phones, etc.
Exam starts when everyone logged in
Supervised by team
Word and notepad available
Save regularly!
Anything else?
19. Preparation & resources
Ensure you can access Blackboard (today)
Talk with each other
The Wiki (slides, links, video, ...)
Read each other’s blogs (see references)
The internet (Google!)
Your past exam experiences
Other ideas?
20. Other stuff
Deadline for report & Facebook page:
Friday 17th by 12:00pm
All internal results will appear on Wiki
Aim to get internal results out before exam
22. Feedback
Good stuff Stuff to work on
Relaxed atmosphere Waited too long to explain
Reminders, prompts, … on exam
Twitter
No Blackboard! Slow return of blog marks
Access to computers during Earlier internal assessment
classes
Good internal weighting Not enough treats
Great start times Better video selection
Contribute to course decisions
More morning teas
Variety of methods
Frankness
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