Syllabus for Social Media for Active Learning MOOC, running 3/24 - 4/20. http://meme.coe.fsu.edu/smooc

1. SYLLABUS
Social Media for Active Learning
A professional development MOOC
Lead Assistant:
Jiyae Bong
Teaching Assistants:
Ben, Chris, Dean, Fabrizio, Josh, Julie, Kate, Kayla,
Maipeng, Meichelle, Monica, Owen, Xinhao, Wei,
Weinan, Yanjun
Course Web Pages
Informational Web Site
Direct Link to Enrollment Page
Contact Emails
General queries: SMOOC.2104@gmail.com
Technical support: SMOOC.tech@gmail.com
Twitter
Course account: @SMOOC.2014
Course hashtag: #SMOOC2014
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aggregate with other course tweets.
Instructor:
Dr. Vanessa Dennen
Associate Professor
Instructional Systems
Florida State University
vdennen@fsu.edu, @vdennen
Course Dates:
March 24 – April 20. 2014
Course Description:
This professional development course was
designed to help instructors, trainers, and
instructional designers learn how to better
use social media to support learning, whether
in an informal networking sense or by
embedding social media into more formal
learning contexts. The four course module
topics are (1) social media curation for
education, (2) developing social media
lessons, (3) developing and using personal
learning networks, and (4) privacy and ethical
issues related to using social media to
support learning
Whether you’re a newcomer to social media
tools or you’re quite familiar with them, this
course can help you find new and better ways
to reach and teach your students, connecting
them with the rich network of online people
and resources, and helping them become
active users and contributors within this
network.
Since this is a professional development course,
it has been designed with flexibility in mind.
Each week we will focus on a new topic and will
have new learning materials, a live chat,
discussions, and a small project. You may
complete the projects for each week – or just
those that interest you most or best fit your
schedule. You can earn badges during the
weeks you choose to complete the projects,
and you’ll be able to get feedback from our
community of learners and teaching assistants.
Language:
This course will be taught in English.
However, we have an instructional team who
can offer assistance in Chinese, Italian,
Korean, and Spanish. If you need assistance
in one of these languages, just ask! If you’re
enrolled in the course and would like to assist
in other languages, just let us know.
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2. SYLLABUS
Social Media for Active Learning
A professional development MOOC
Course Calendar:
Week 1 / Module 1: Curation
March 24 – 30
 Webinar: Monday, March 24, 17:00 – 18:00 (EDT).
 Module Project: Use a social media tool to curate on a topic of your choice
Week 2 / Module 2: Social Media Lesson
March 31 – April 6
 Webinar: Monday, March 31, 17:00 – 18:00 (EDT).
 Module Project: Create a lesson plan with active social media engagement
Week 3 / Module 3: Personal Learning Networks
April 7 – 13
 Webinar: Monday, April 7, 17:00 – 18:00 (EDT).
 Module Project: Build your personal learning network or develop a plan for helping your learners
develop a PLN
Week 4 / Module 4: Privacy and Ethics
April 14 – 20
 Webinar: Monday, April 14, 17:00 – 18:00 (EDT).
 Module Project: Develop social media guidelines for use in your own setting
Assessment:
In this course, you can earn badges for each
module that you complete. Module
completion involves taking the module
quizzes, participating in the module
discussion, and completing and sharing the
module project.
You can also earn badges for completing
multiple modules and for being an active and
helpful member of our course community.
Participants who complete all four modules
will earn a certificate of completion, which can
be printed from CourseSite.
Note that these badges are measures of
participation more than anything else, and
that we will not be assessing quality of
submitted projects. However, we hope that
between our instructional team and the
course participant community everyone who
submits a project will get helpful feedback on
their work.
Teaching Methods:
This course is divided into four modules. Each
module contains brief video lectures,
optional readings, self-check quizzes, and a
project you might complete.
You may interact with other participants and
the instructional team in the discussion
board, and on Twitter and other social media
channels.
Each week there will be a live Webinar on
Monday, 17:00 – 18:00 (EDT). Be sure to check
the time in your time zone. Webinars will be
recorded, so you can come back and watch
them later.
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3. SYLLABUS
Social Media for Active Learning
A professional development MOOC
• If someone else tries to argue with you, do
not take the bait. It takes two to argue.
• Be sensitive to cultural differences.
• Allow multiple perspectives to emerge in
the discussion. You do not need to agree
with everyone else, and you do not need to
tell people with whom you disagree that
they are wrong.
• Respect the privacy of your fellow
participants. Do not share their personal
information and intellectual property with
others unless you have their permission to
do so.
Social Media and Privacy Concerns:
When we use social media, we leave behind a
digital footprint. Everyone has a different level
of comfort with this idea. Since you’ve
elected to participate in a course on social
media, we’re assuming that you are interested
in using social media tools to engage with
others. If you are uncomfortable using these
tools, please do not feel pressured to do so.
Keep your activities within your personal
comfort zone.
Think carefully about how you set up your
social media accounts, who you include in
your networks, and what you share with them.
For example, you may choose to use your real
name, location, and photograph, or you
might use a pseudonym, elect to not share
location, and either not share a photograph
or use a different graphic as your avatar.
Alternately, you might leave your accounts
visible and open to everyone, maximizing
your opportunities for interaction, or you
might restrict access to select contacts if you
are more comfortable that way.
A good rule of thumb, no matter what your
privacy settings and actions, is to not share
anything online that you would not want your
boss, grandmother, neighbor, best friend, and
worst enemy to know.
Intellectual Property:
The course materials (e.g., video lectures)
developed by the SMOOC team are our
intellectual property. We believe in sharing
openly, and thus license our work under a
Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Participants in the course are encouraged to
select and use a Creative Commons license
for any instructional materials they create and
share in this course. More information about
these licenses is available at
http://creativecommons.org.
Participants in the course are expected to
respect the intellectual property of others,
providing proper attribution. Discussion posts
and projects should be your own original
work, although you may be incorporating
(and providing attribution to) the work of
others. Failure to respect the intellectual
property rights of others may result in
removal from the course (although we really,
really hope this issue doesn’t arise).
Netiquette:
All participants in this course are expected to
treat each other with respect. I’m not
anticipating any problems, but here are some
general guidelines to help us be respectful of
each other:
• Read your messages before sending them
to others, carefully considering the tone.
Avoid name-calling, labeling, insults, and
offensive language.
• If you are offended by something someone
else posts, either contact them privately to
discuss the issue or post a thoughtful reply.
Give the original poster an opportunity to
respond and clarify with they meant.
• Debating is fine, arguing is not.
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