Sunday, June 26, 2011

Assignment for June 27 and June 28

All #Socmed groups are required to submit the ff on a bond paper:

1. Proposed tool and collaboration case scenario. Explain the context on how you intend to use the tool. Indicate who are the members participating and when you intend to have the meeting.

2. Make a short paragraph discussing your proposed global issue to be researched on. Provide some facts such as why it had become a global issue and cite instances how social media takes part in this global issue. Pls. provide the links to your reference, follow the APA format.

Thank you.

Monday, June 20, 2011

CALLED OFF CLASSES ON JUNE 21, 2011

I would like to thank all the #Socmed students who attended the Lounge Lecture last Sat.

I would also like to request everyone to refer to the blog for the assignments for this week and for next week.

With the good number of attendance last Sat, the Soc-med S13 and S14 classes will be called off on Tues, June 21, 2011.

Soc-med S21 will have a class session on June 23.

Please be guided with the tasks and activities through the blog. Thank you.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Creating a PLN/PLE

Dear students,

You are asked to make your own PLN/PLE diagram and map your present social connections through a diagram based on the class discussions we had. Refer to the ff sites--

Atwell, G. (2007). The personal learning environments- the future of e-Learning? eLearning Papers vol. 2 no. 1 ISSN 1887-1542.
Communit-eLearning (2010) . Please PLEs me. Retrieved from http://sitchensis.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/please-ples-me
Siemens, G (2004). Connectivisim: A learning theory for the digital age. Retrieved from: http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

Feel free to use any open access mindmap application.

Pls. indicate your complete name and section at the top of your diagram. Provide the link of your homework to this post.

This is due on June 22 for all Soc-med classes. Thank you.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Lounge Lecture on June 18

All Soc-med students are enjoined to attend and participate in the Lounge Lecture on Community Disaster Preparedness. We have two distinguished scholars from Florida State University, Dr. Audrey Heffron-Casserleigh and Dr. Ralph Brower.

Details are found in this link -- http://mobilemartha.blogspot.com/2011/06/lounge-lecture-on-community.html

It will be on June 18, 2011, 8.30-11.10am at Andrew 903.

Those who are attending the lecture will get a class incentive if you also complete the reflection form that will be distributed during the session. Please do not forget to include your complete name and section.

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Happy, Happy #DLSU100 Years to all friends, colleagues and beautiful students! It's timely that the lunar eclipse also occurred on June 16, 2011. It's a beautiful sign of the transformational role of DLSU in our nation building and better change.

Let's also pray for all the Lasallian brothers in the Philippines!

Cheers to everyone! Have a safe, wonderful fun-filled day! God bless.. :))

Social Media Syllabus for 1st Term SY 2011-2012

1.0 COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Code : SOC-MED
Course Title : Social Media for Global Collaboration
Description : This term, the social media course explores the power, influence and impact of social media and ICT tools in our present information society can bring about meaningful and engaging collaboration. The course attempts to provide a wider periphery vision of the application of social media and ICT transforming the way people act and respond to many changes happening in the environment particularly on the idea of collaboration.

Credit Units : 3
Pre-requisite : Pls check your flowchart
Co-requisite : None
Department : Information Technology
Course Adviser : Ms. Mavic Pineda – mavic.pineda@delasalle.ph
Twitter: queenandroid, #socmed
SOCCOMP Blog : http://ideasonsocialcomputing.blogspot.com

Liberty : Use of laptop and Bluetooth enabled mobile phones together with the web is a privilege during group dynamics and experiments that may be held/performed in the classroom.

2.0 COURSE OBJECTIVES

The course intends to introduce social computing and push the students to migrate from being online consumers to idea producers or designers of social network software through:

a. learn about the different contexts of collaboration;
b. learn contemporary theories that support collaboration;
c. research on dynamic collaboration case studies and reflect on these;
d. develop and design a mobile or web-based intercultural collaborationl tool;
e. and finally, construct some ideas how to promote a collaborative, sharing web culture and mature online social environment inspired by Christian values .

3.0 COURSE TOPICS

1. Introduction
Orientation of what the direction and vision of the course
Definition and forms of collaboration
Formation of teams/groups

2. PROJECT orientation
Venture: Examples of collaboration with relevant outcomes done outside the class boundaries

3. What is a networked society? What is an information society?
4. Social structure and digital culture
**Special topic: Interculturalism
Venture: Special assignment on interculturalism

5. Review of the different Web 2.0 and other ICT-based collaboration tools
Activity: Group reporting
6. Trends and new web (3.0) collaboration tools
Venture: Group reporting

7. Informal and social learning
Personal learning envrionments/networks (PLN/PLE) and Connectivism theories
Venture: Creation of individual PLN

8. Diversity and interculturalism
The wisdom of the crowds
Venture: Research of an interculturalism and/or diversity case and group reflection on it

9. **Situated learning, collective learning and connected practice

10. Project proposals’ presentations
Special topic: Gapminder

11. Global issues/crises affected
Venture: Group investigation and discussion of a pertinent global issue and how social media may influence or have made an impact to this

12. Project presentations
13. Project presentations
14. Course feedback and assessment
Strengths and weaknesses of the course

*Online meetings
**Topic nos. correspond to week nos.
3. 0 LEARNING STRATEGIES

1. Activity as major course work;
2. Use of short video and/or wikis and/or blogs and relationship simulation tool for presentations;
3. Interactive discussions, insight sharing, research & heavy reading assignments;
4. Participation in a blogs, twitter and online meetings;
5. Development of a well-thought web-based or mobile intercultural collaboration application/solution/tool

6. 0 RATING SYSTEM

Group &individual ventures including seminar attendance (10% each) - 50%
Class Activities – participation in group interactions, insight sharing, online discussions - 10%
Final Project (20% design, collaboration effort 15%, 5% milestones) - 40%
TOTAL 100%


REFERENCES:

Cottle, S. (2009). Global Crisis Reporting. New York: McGraw Hill.
Call No: P 96 S63 C66 2009.
**Dijk, J. v. (2006). The Network Society. London: Sage Publications.
Call No: P 96 T42 D5513 2006
Duck, S. (2007). Human Relationships. London: Sage Publications.
Call No: HM 132 D8 2007

CLASS READINGS :

Atwell, G. (2007). The personal learning environments- the future of e-Learning? eLearning Papers vol. 2 no. 1 ISSN 1887-1542.
Communit-eLearning (2010) . Please PLEs me. Retrieved from http://sitchensis.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/please-ples-me
O’Reilly, Tim. (Sep 30, 2005). What is Web 2.0? O’Reilly Behind the Cover. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
Siemens, G (2004). Connectivisim: A learning theory for the digital age. Retrieved from: http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
Spante, M. (2009). Connected practice: the dynamics of social interaction in shared virtual environments, 35-63. Gothenburg: Chalmers University of Technology. ISBN: 978-91-7385-262-3
Surowiecki, J. (2005) The wisdom of the crowds. The wisdom of crowds, 1, 3-31. New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 0-385-72170-6
Surowiecki, J. (2005) The wisdom of the crowds. Science: collaboration, competition, and reputation, 8, 158-168. New York: Anchor Books.
Wenger, W. (2006). Communities of practice a brief introduction. Retrieved from http://www.ewenger.com/theory/

*other reading materials to follow.
**Main course references
Prepared by MVP/may 2011 (Trollhattan.SE)