Week 7

642: Week 7 • Mon Oct 6-13 • Curate your Twitter network • CVP

This week is focused on optimizing your Twitter timeline and starting work with Japanese colleagues on the collaborative video project.

1. Class meeting with Kansai students
2. Collaborative video project
3. Curate your Twitter network
4. Spotlight tool comments
5. Weekly reflection blog post

ITEMS DUE
See course calendar and individual weekly web pages for other relevant dates.

Mon Oct 6 - Google hangout test (self-directed)
Mon Oct 6 - Social media tool spotlight (summary, post to SM4Ed)
Mon Oct 6 - Weekly reflection blog post (Week 6)

Mon Oct 13 - Summary post to SM4Ed about curating your Twitter network.
Mon Oct 13 - Comments for three (3) spotlight summaries
Mon Oct 13 - Weekly reflection blog post (Week 7)
Tue Oct 14 - Post Google document with team name, etc., to CVP community

[NOTE: In an earlier e-mail, the Oct 8 deadline for the "Post Google document with team name to CVP community" was incorrect. The actual due date is Tuesday, Oct 14, as shown above.]

CLASS MEETING
We will meet on Monday, Oct 6, 6-8 pm. A separate e-mail was sent describing how we will conduct this joint session with students from Kansai University.

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

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

COLLABORATIVE VIDEO PROJECT
Review the document posted for details and due dates for this collaborative team project:

http://ltec642.blogspot.jp/p/cvp.html

Team assignments (Hawaii + Kansai)
Team 1 - Desiree, Kaulana H, Brittany + Urano, Naru, Riho
Team 2 - Mike, Kaulana D, Liane + Yuuka, Arata, Mana
Team 3 - Coby, Christy, Shilpa + Sohei, Yuri, Hitomi
Team 4 - Faith, James, Janet + Ayuka, Kuse, Tom
Team 5 - Mark, Terri + Takumi, Ayumi
Team 6 - Kainoa, Kitty, Wendy + Junta, Sayuri

A Google spreadsheet contains Gmail contact information for all team members from Hawaii and Japan:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13Ojh0jZZixNAq7zih2sqtdhjJlpd2hdhitZO6q7E-rY/edit?usp=sharing

CURATE YOUR TWITTER NETWORK
Optimizing your network will provide useful information and you'll get to know key individuals that can provide benefit to you. These individuals, however, are equally dependent on you for sharing information.

Howard Rheingold in his book Net Smart (2012, The MIT Press), writes:

• "Knowing how to blog, tweet, wiki. search, innovate, program and/or organize online can lead to political cultural, and economic value." (p. 111)
• "Participation, however, is a kind of power that only works if you share it with others." (p. 112)
• "The successful use of Twitter depends on knowing how to tune the network of people you follow, and how to feed the network of perople who follow you." (p. 144)

This week, therefore, we will work on curating our respective Twitter networks.

Optimize your Twitter network:

• Update your profile by presenting yourself professionally.
• Locate at least 10 individuals or organizations to follow that are credible and share similar interests.
• Review the profile of people or organizations before you follow them.
• Locate 2-3 lists and subscribe to them. If none are found, create your own list.
• Conduct 3-5 hash tag searches of interest and save them in your account. Review the posts a few days later to see what items have been added.
• Use Twitter on both a mobile device and your PC/notebook computer. Learn how they differ.
• Practice sending a direct message to people that you know (and know who you are).
• Reply to a tweet; start a brief conversation with someone you know.
• Post several tweets relating to this class or about social media. 
• Retweet several items at different times during the week.
• Post several tweets with pictures taken on your mobile device.
• Review your Twitter timeline (stream) several times and follow links provided. 
• "Star" a few items and view them again. [Hint: look for favorites]
• Explore any other Twitter related options that you may encounter.
• At the end of the week, prepare a summary post of your experience (about 250 words using a Google document or presentation). Mention what you learned, what was most helpful, and share any tips with the rest of the class. Post your document link to the Facebook SM4Ed group with a short lead-in sentence no more than 25 words.

If you have used Twitter for a while, extend yourself and enhance your Twitter network. Reassess your current Twitter timeline and strive to make it more useful.

SPOTLIGHT TOOL COMMENTS
Review and assess the spotlight tool summaries posted by your classmates. Comment on a minimum of THREE (3) summaries by clicking the Comment link below the post in the SM4Ed Facebook group.

Spread out your commenting so that everyone receives feedback. Remember that comments must be substantive, helpful, critical and provide suggestions for improvement.

WEEK 7 BLOG POST
Reflect on one of the reading texts listed below (any item EXCEPT for Zeevi and Lepi). List ways in which the subject of the texts could affect a student’s life or society. Reflect on the implications of the texts for learning or life online in the future. Do not simply summarize the conclusions or restate the abstracts. Include a citation of the text read.

READINGS
Rheingold, H. (2010). Attention, and other 21st-century social media literacies. EDUCAUSE Review, 45(5), pp. 14–24. Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/attention-and-other-21st-century-social-media-literacies

Mihailidis, P., & Cohen, J. (2013). Exploring curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education. Journal of Interactive Media In Education, 0(0). Retrieved from http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/view/2013-02

Zeevi, D. (2013, March 7). Twitter cheat sheet: How to increase your engagement. Retrieved from http://blog.dashburst.com/infographic/twitter-cheat-sheet-increase-engagement/

Lepi, K. (2013, September 3). How to create a twitter list - a step by step guide! Retrieved from http://www.edudemic.com/create-twitter-list-step-step-guide/

Junco, R. E., Heiberger, G. & Loken, E. (2011). The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades. Journal Of Computer Assisted Learning, 27(2), 119-132. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00387.x [NOTE: Download PDF from UH Libraries One Search]

Tiernan, P. (2014). A study of the use of Twitter by students for lecture engagement and discussion. Education and Information Technologies, 19(4), 673-690, doi: 10.1007/s10639-012-9246-4.  [NOTE: Download PDF from UH Libraries One Search]

Dunlap, J. C. & Lowenthal, P. R. (2009). Tweeting the night away: Using Twitter to enhance social presence. Journal of Information Systems Education, 20(2). Retrieved from http://patricklowenthal.com/publications/Using_Twitter_to_Enhance_Social_Presence.pdf

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