1. Enhancing Participatory Culture:
How to design international collaboration with
social and mobile media?
Ilona Buchem (professor)
Sascha Feldmann (student)
Marco Seidler (student)
Andreas Oettinger (student)
Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin
Online Educa Berlin 2012, RCP51 session, 29 November 2012
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4. Participatory Culture
Henry Jenkins
Source: http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF
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5. Participatory Culture
attributes
• Affiliations: memberships, formal and
informal, in online communities centered Henry Jenkins
around various forms of media.
• Expressions: producing new creative
forms, such as digital sampling, video-
making, mash-ups.
• Collaborations: problem-solving and
working together in teams to complete
tasks and develop new knowledge.
• Circulations: Shaping the flow of media, media creators
such as podcasting, micro-/blogging.
Source: http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF
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6. Participatory Culture
21st century skills
• Play: capacity to experiment with one’s
surroundings as problem-solving. Henry Jenkins
• Simulations: ability to interpret and construct
dynamic models of real world.
• Performance: ability to adopt alternative
identities for improvisation and discovery.
• Appropriation: ability to remix media content.
• Multi-tasking: ability to monitor one’s
environment and shift focus ad hoc
• Collective intelligence: ability to pool
knowledge and work on common goal collaborators
Source: http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF
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7. Participatory Culture
Henry Jenkins
“We must integrate these new knowledge cultures
into our schools, not only through group work but
also through long-distance collaborations across
different learning communities.”
Source: http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF
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8. The iCollaborate Project
Helen Keegan
Salford University
Ilona Buchem
Salford, UK
Beuth University
@heloukee
Berlin, Germany
@mediendidaktik
Mar Camacho
Thom Cochrane
University R&V
AUT University
Tarragona, Spain
Auckland, NZ
@marett
@thomcochrane
http://www.shamelesscarnivore.com http://cdn4.vtourist.com/4/5898700-Buddy_Bears_Berlin.jpg
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9. iCollaborate goals
• Enable low barriers to participation and collaboration
• Create space for meaningful practice (contributions matter)
• Engage students in co-creating the curriculum
• Encourage free-form experimentation
• Support creative expression and sharing with digital media
• Facilitate social connections across across cultures
• Supporting informal mentorship and peer learning
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10. Summer semester 2012
Mobile Reporters
#iCollab12
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lievensoete/2731963346/
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11. Mobile Reporters
Aims:
• Field research on uses social and mobile media in your city
• Exploring similar phenomena in scattered locations
• Taking on different identities: reporter, researcher, publisher
• Using media to create and share self-generated content
• Exploring a field by investigating, analyzing and synthesizing
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12. Mobile Reporters
Activities:
• Define the context and the question of your field research
• Go to the city and inquire (watch, talk, document)
• Select and define your own topic and application field
• Create content and aggregate in a multimedia documentation
• Present and share with others in class and on the web
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13. Mobile Reporters
Media:
• Mobile devices, e.g. camera, voice recording, GPS
• Mobile apps, e.g. QR reader, Qik (live stream & recording)
• Social media, e.g. Twitter, WordPress, YouTube
• Presentations, e.g. Prezi
• Voting, e.g. polleverywhere
• E-Portfolios, e.g. Mahara
• Feedback, e.g. wallwisher
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14. Mobile Reporters
Assessment:
• Ability to define own goals and design own project
• Creativity in approaching and presenting the topic
• Individual expression and insight
• Evaluating credibility of sources
• Collaboration
• Reflection
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15. Social Media Reports Berlin (Mahara)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ctLpUuLzy4I
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16. Social Media Reports Manchester (Tumblr)
http://mussaicollab12.tumblr.com/
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