1. Social Networks
Technology for Teaching and Learning
Summer 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009

2. Day 3: Social Networks
❖ Social Networks (generally
speaking...)
❖ Facebook.com
❖ Ning.com (ours and some
other examples)
❖ Twitter.com
❖ Bookmarking
Friday, July 31, 2009

3. Social Networks, Generally
Speaking...
❖ “How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live,” by Steve
Johnson, Time, June 2009.
“Social networks are notoriously vulnerable to the fickle
tastes of teens and 20-somethings (remember Friendster?),
so it's entirely possible that three or four years from now,
we'll have moved on to some Twitter successor. But the
key elements of the Twitter platform — the follower
structure, link-sharing, real-time searching — will
persevere regardless of Twitter's fortunes, just as Web
conventions like links, posts and feeds have endured over
the past decade.”
Friday, July 31, 2009

4. Social Networks, Generally
Speaking...
❖ “First of its kind study at U of Minnesota...” by Christine
Greenhow
❖ Youth, Identity, and Digital Media series from the
MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and
Learning
❖ “Social Network” on Wikipedia.org
Friday, July 31, 2009

5. Let’s talk Facebook....
❖ Pros, cons, reservations, etc.
❖ I personally don’t teach with Facebook, but....
❖ “Educators Using Facebook” Facebook Group
❖ “Driving Engagement and Belonging with
Facebook” (PDF) from Michael Staton
❖ “Thanks for the Add. Now Help Me with My
Homework,” kind of about Greenhow’s work
Friday, July 31, 2009

6. Nings
❖ Pros and cons...
❖ Our ning.com at http://techforteach.ning.com/
❖ Search for other Nings!
Friday, July 31, 2009

7. Twitter.com
❖ The Twitter Experiment (YouTube video)
❖ My (modest) examples...
❖ A TON of Twitter links out there; for example:
❖ 100+ Serious Twitter Tips for Academics
❖ Twitter Tweets for Higher Education
Friday, July 31, 2009

8. Bookmarking
❖ (This isn’t something I do much, but...)
❖ Social Bookmarking in Plain English
❖ delicious.com (to sign up for a site)
❖ digg.com (a slightly different, more social bookmarking site)
Friday, July 31, 2009