Week 10

ETEC 642: Week 10 • Oct 27-Nov 3 • Social Media Network Awareness

Social media has changed us and changed the world. The most tweeted event was the World Cup with 672 million tweets over 32 days (theguardian.com, July 15, 2014). Nielsen even publishes a weekly Twitter TV top ten. The Pew Research Center survey data shows that harassment on the Internet is prevalent (October 22, 2014). Social media continues to evolve while social networking has become a permanent fixture of modern society, like shopping, traveling and dining. This week, increase your awareness of social networks and how users operate them.

1. Collaborative video project
2. Team #2: Storify peer reviews
3. Social media network awareness
4. TCCfx participation (extended)
5. Weekly reflection blog post

ITEMS DUE
See course calendar and individual weekly web pages for other relevant dates.
Mon Oct 27 - Team Assignment 2: Storify deliverable
Mon Oct 27 - Weekly reflection blog post (Week 9)
Tue Oct 28 - Progress report #1 to G+ community.
Fri Oct 31 - TCCfx participation (deadline extended)

Mon Nov 3 - Peer review: Storify (Team #2)
Mon Nov 3 - Social media network awareness (SM4Ed post)
Mon Nov 3 - Weekly reflection blog post (Week 10)

CLASS MEETING
We will meet again on Monday, Nov 3, 6-8 pm. There is NO online meeting this week.

To view recordings of previous meetings, locate the appropriate session from this list:

http://bit.ly/bert-voffice-recordings

COLLABORATIVE VIDEO PROJECT
Continue to collaborate with your team members. We ask our Japanese students each week about how well their team work is proceeding. So far, we have been pleased. Nevertheless, it is time for your group to shoot and assemble images for your video. In other words, you should be actively working from your storyboard or shot list.

Progress report #1 is due on Oct 28, report #2 next week Tuesday, Nov 4.

Review the details about collaboration posted on our class website:
http://ltec642.blogspot.com/p/collaboration.html
http://ltec642.blogspot.com/p/cvp.html

STORIFY: PEER REVIEWS (Team Assignment #2)
Review the deliverables posted by each team for Team assignment : Storify Tools. Locate items by clicking on the by searching the Facebook SM4Ed group.

From the list of assigned reviews (see below), prepare a formal peer review for each team reviewed. Each person is assigned two teams to review. Follow guidelines listed in the document, I heard, I noticed, I wondered:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3573563/etec/Peer-review-process-revised.pdf

Make your reviews substantive and professional. It should be at least 4-5 paragraphs in length, clear and understandable. Prepare your review off-line and then cut and paste for submittal. Special formatting (headings, character formats, etc) is not needed. However, be sure to enter a BLANK LINE to separate paragraphs.

For examples, this is what students have submitted previously for another of my classes: https://etec647s14.wikispaces.com/SENEESU

Submit your peer review by completing the Google form:

http://goo.gl/IVFcHc

Access the form with your HAWAII.EDU email address. The form records your email address for us to verify that you have completed the assignment.

Reviewer Assignments
Brittany » Brown Bear, Peter Rabbit
Christy » Momotaro, Wild Things
Coby » Lorax, Green Eggs
Desiree » Brown Bear, Peter Rabbit
Faith » Momotaro, Wild Things
James » Lorax, Green Eggs
Janet » Brown Bear, Peter Rabbit
Kainoa » Momotaro, Wild Things
Kaulana D » Peter Rabbit, Momotaro
Kaulana H » Green Eggs, Brown Bear
Kitty » Wild Things, Lorax
Liane » Green Eggs, Brown Bear
Mark » Peter Rabbit, Momotaro
Mike » Wild Things, Lorax
Shilpa » Wild Things, Lorax
Terri » Lorax, Green Eggs
Wendy » Peter Rabbit, Momotaro


SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK AWARENESS
Social media use is everywhere today: Sporting events, natural disasters, political upheaval, entertainment, breaking news and flash mobs. Often the crowd responds in positive ways to help each other, in practical or psychological ways. Sometimes, however, the response is detrimental to a local community.

(1) First, listen to Dr. Howard Rheingold talk about Network Literacy (in two parts):
http://youtu.be/g6UKWozzVRM
http://youtu.be/Q4YXtn7hJPA

(2) Next, review the relevant readings (see below).

(3) Finally, search the Web and locate an occasion, incident or event where social media has played a prominent part. Use a Google document to summarize the event, explain the role of  social media, and share your thoughts about how your case illustrates the power of social networks and it's potential value in learning.

Post the link to your summary (about 250 words, 4-5 paragraphs) with a once sentence lead-in to the SM4Ed Facebook group. Identify the event in this sentence. [Example: A Swedish flash mob gathers 1,000 books to establish a rural bookmobile.]

RELEVANT READINGS
Satell, G. (2014, January 18). If you doubt that social media has changed the world, take a look at Ukraine. Retrieved from www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2014/01/18/if-you-doubt-that-social-media-has-changed-the-world-take-a-look-at-ukraine

Smith, M. A., Rainie, L., Shneiderman, B., & Himelbolm, I. (2014, February 20). Mapping twitter topic networks: from polarized crowds to community clusters. Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/02/20/mapping-twitter-topic-networks-from-polarized-crowds-to-community-clusters/

Tucker, C. (2014, October 18). Why the ice bucket challenge proved such a runaway success. Retrieved from https://www.yahoo.com/tech/op-ed-why-the-ice-bucket-challenge-proved-such-a-100262238434.html

Gruzd, A., & Haythornthwaite, C. (2013). Enabling community through social media. Journal of Medicine Internet Research, 15(10). doi: 10.2196/jmir.2796. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3842435/

Rheingold, H. (2010). Attention, and other 21st-century social media literacies. EDUCAUSE Review, 45(5), 14–24. Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/attention-and-other-21st-century-social-media-literacies [NOTE: Read section on Network Awareness, p. 20].

Jones, C. (2013). Activism or slacktivism? The role of social media in effecting social change. Retrieved from http://chris-m-jones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/activism_slacktivism_report.pdf

Flash mob. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob

Seo, H., Houston, J. B., Knight, L. A. T., Kennedy, E. J., & Inglish, A. B. (2013). Teens’ social media use and collective action. DOI: 10.1177/1461444813495162. Retrieved from http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/07/03/1461444813495162

TCCfx 2014 PARTICIPATION (Week 9) - Extended deadline
We are extending the deadline for last week's TCCfx 2014 participation activity. If you have completed the assignment, there is no need to modify what you have done.

The links to the event recordings are as follows. Please wait a minute for the recordings to start.

Track #1:
https://www.cubbyusercontent.com/pl/Instant+Meeting+2014-10-22.webm/_e39edcf78fcc4846a922cce578a19f9c

Track #2 (Part 1):
https://www.cubbyusercontent.com/pl/Instant+Meeting+2014-10-22+(2).webm/_05303fc735fb4fbbb1fe048d6c043c1e

Track #2 (Part 2):
https://www.cubbyusercontent.com/pl/Instant+Meeting+2014-10-22.webm/_5ff93a1b61b442f1bca7a06786fefd72

TWITTER PRIVACY NOTE. In order to fully participate as a class team member, set your tweets to PUBLIC. Others will not be able to view or include your tweets in the class assignment. If you are concerned with privacy, create a Twitter account just for this class with a pseudonym. If you need assistance, please let us know.

WEEK 10 BLOG POST
Reflect about something new that you learned this week.

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