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)