Week 8

ETEC 642: Week 8 • Oct 13-20 • Content Curation Tools & Services

With the advent of social media and sharing of content, information is distributed, at best, in a chaotic and random manner. As a result, various tools and services have emerged that enables users to curate, or help select, organize and present content in a meaningful or cohesive manner. For example, see Jane Hart's list, Content Curation Tools and Services:

http://c4lpt.co.uk/directory-of-learning-performance-tools/content-curation-tools-and-services/

1. Curating Your Twitter Network (comments)
2. Collaborative Video Project (CVP)
3. Team Assignment 2: Storify
4. TCCfx 2014
5. Week 8 Blog Post

ITEMS DUE
See course calendar and individual weekly web pages for other relevant dates.
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 - CVP: Post Google document with team name, etc., to CVP community

Mon Oct 20 - Comments about curating your Twitter network (in SM4Ed)
Mon Oct 20 - TCCfx 2014 registration deadline
Mon Oct 20 - Weekly reflection blog post (Week 8)
Tue Oct 21 - Submit title, description and storyboard to G+ community.

CLASS MEETING
We will meet again NEXT Monday, Oct 20, 6-8 pm.

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

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

CURATING YOUR TWITTER NETWORK (COMMENTS)
Having spent time curating your personal Twitter network, review the SM4Ed posts of THREE (3) others in our class and comment on them (as replies). The quality of your comments are more important than length -- read critically, comment on positive points and suggest improvements.

NOTE: ADD LINE SPACES between paragraphs  in your comments. One long paragraph that rambles over many points won't suffice either. Present yourself professionally and help your readers.

COLLABORATIVE VIDEO PROJECT (CVP)
We were very pleased with the interactions involving the Google hangout sessions with Kansai University students. The students said that they were highly engaged and appreciative of your encouragement and patience with their English. We had hoped that more students would have been able to attend the sessions. Other commitments, however, made it difficult since it was mid-day Tuesday in Japan.

Continue to collaborate with your team members. Keep in mind that the qualities of a successful collaboration experience involves trust, respect, patience, understanding, taking responsibility, and leadership.

Review the details about collaboration posted on our class website:

http://ltec642.blogspot.com/p/collaboration.html

For CVP details, including examples, resources, and due dates:

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


TEAM ASSIGNMENT 2: STORIFY
We will explore one of the many Web 2.0 curation tools that are available to help select, organize and present meaningful content out of the chaos of social media posts.

Review the document posted on the web site and start working on it by organizing your assigned team:

http://ltec642.blogspot.com/p/team-assignment-storify.html

Note: Please see the above page for assignment due dates.

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

TCCFX 2014
TCCHawaii.org, creators of the annual TCC Worldwide Online Conference is hosting TCCfx, a special fall mini-conference for the benefit of graduate students. This FREE event, titled "Forward to the Future" is scheduled for October 22 (5-9 PM) and is organized by LTEC graduate students. Dal Wong is the conference chair.

There will be an assigned social media related class activity next week relating to this event. The sessions will be recorded if you aren't able to attend.

For more information and to register for the event (by Oct. 20):

http://tccfx2014.eventbrite.com

WEEK 8 BLOG POST
We are half-way into this semester. Write a post that summarizes your thoughts about how this class is or is not meeting your expectations, what has worked well for you, difficulties or challenges encountered and how they were (or were not) resolved, and suggestions for improvement.

READING
Read Howard Rheingold's "Introduction: Why You Need Digital Know-How—Why We All Need It." Pay attention particularly to the sections about "What It Takes to Participate in Participatory Culture" and "Clueing in to Collaboration."

Download a PDF copy: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262017459_sch_0001.pdf

NOTE: This is a sample chapter, in its entirety, from Rheingold's latest book, Net Smart, published in 2012 by The MIT Press.

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