CUIN 7376: Design of Online Educational Resources II - summer 2008

• A Little More about Podcasting
• Review of Last Week's Assignments
• Final Semester Project Updates
• This Week's Class Topic: Social Networks
• Additional Resources
• Assignments For Next Class

A Little More about Podcasting

We will spend some time at the beginning of this week's class discussing the University of Houston's podcasting initiatives.

Shawn's presentation included some resources and terms that we haven't discussed so far this semester. Below is more information about some of those items he mentioned.

• The UH iTunes Webpage
  http://itunes.uh.edu/
  
  - images that are shown on web ages that indicate RSS feeds.
  
  embedded video: RSS (and an Aggregator) in Plain English
   
  
  
  
  
   

embedded video: Social Media in Plain English

embedded video: Social Networking in Plain English

Popular Social Networking Sites & Resources

• MySpace
  http://www.myspace.com/
   
• Facebook
  http://www.facebook.com/
  
  embedded video: 22 Minutes Facebook
  
  
  embedded video: Think Before You Post 1
  
  
  linked video: Think Before You Post 2
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w4_Hrwh2XI
   

Friendster
http://www.friendster.com/

LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/

Swurl
http://www.swurl.com/

FriendFeed
http://friendfeed.com/

twitter (is it a social networking site?)
http://www.twitter.com/

bebo
http://www.bebo.com/

orkut (the most visited website in Brazil and the second most visited site in India)
www.orkut.com/ 

List of SN Sites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_sites


Educational Uses of Social Networks?

Ning
http://www.ning.com/

Rolling on the River
http://rollingontheriver.ning.com/
 

Issues Related to Social Networks

• Privacy Issues
   

• Safety Issues: Stalkers, Sexual Predators
   

• Security Issues: Spam, Viruses, Adware/Malware
   

• Legal Issues: Use and Distribution of Copyrighted Material, Posting Defamatory Content, Cyber-bullying
  
   

Other Interesting Web 2.0 Resources

• Dipity
  http://www.dipity.com/

• WebTrend Map
  http://www.informationarchitects.jp/slash/iA_WebTrends_2007_2_1440_900.gif

• Periodic Table of the Internet
  http://www.shambles.net/web2/web2_periodic_table/web2_periodictable.jpg

Maps of Online Communities

Web 2.0 Knowledge Map




 

Social Networks by Languages

Social Networks by Continent



 

Web 2.0 Logo Map

Additional Resources

• Making a Podcast for iTunes
  http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html 
   
• A Privacy Paradox: Social Networking in the United States
  http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/barnes/index.html
   
• The Two-Edged Sword of Web 2.0
  http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/03/29/the-two-edged-sword-of-web-20/
   
• Achieving Fairness and Excellence in Social Software
  http://www.hippasus.com/resources/socialsoftware/puentedura_flash/index.html
   
• Ning in Education
  http://education.ning.com/
   
• Social Networking Theories and Tools to Support Connectivist Learning Activities
  http://elilearning.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/ijwltt2007_pettenati_cigognini.pdf
   
• Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing Community into Being on Social Network Sites
  http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_12/boyd/index.html
   
• Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life
  http://www.danah.org/papers/WhyYouthHeart.pdf
   
• How Small Development Teams Make Everyday Life Better Using Web 2.0 Technologies
  http://dev.aol.com/article/2007/web20_tools
   

Class Seven Assignments  


Reading Assignment:

• A History of the Social Web
  http://www.collectivate.net/journalisms/2007/9/26/a-history-of-the-social-web.html
   

• Collaborative Filtering: Lifeblood of The Social Web
  http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/collaborative_filtering_social_web.php
   

• Integrating Web 2.0 Technologies in the Instructional Process
  http://www.ibiblio.org/fred/pubs/osn_educ_draft2.pdf
   

• Is MySpace Good for Society?
  http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/is-myspace-good-for-society-a-freakonomics-quorum/
  
   

Class Seven Hands-On Assignment:

• In this week's class, we created the beginning of a social network using Ning, located at: http://cuin7376.ning.com/
  
  For this week's hands-on assignment, explore how you can add content to a Ning and then add some interesting (and educationally meaningful?) content of your own to our Ning. This might include a series of images, a video clip or two using the Ning video player, and/or a few badges, widgets or one or more Ning OpenSocial Gadgets.
  
  When you have completed this assignment, please go to the CUIN 7376 blog at http://cuin7376.blogspot.com and post a comment under the Class 7 Assignment, in which you describe the content you added to the Ning.