Week Two Assignments

Here are the assignments for Week 2 of our course (April 12th – April 18th). Like last week, we have posted the assignments in this blog so that you can see how blog posts work and become familiar with navigating a basic blog structure.
Click on the linked items below to complete. Remember: Week 2 assignments need to be completed in Week 2.

FIRST – PLANNING FOR YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PROJECT:

This week we will do the planning and initial implementation for your Social Media Project, so that next week we can all “see” and comment on what you’re doing. Your project may include one of the following:

Plan and create a blog for a specific purpose

Plan and create a Facebook page or group for a specific purpose

Plan and create a LinkedIn page or group for a specific purpose

Plan and create a YouTube channel for a specific purpose

Plan and create a Twitter account for a specific purpose

Combination of some or all of the above

Or propose something else to the instructors that will best meet your needs for learning and using social media.

The project may be for personal, professional, and/or educational purposes. To help you plan your Social Media Project, take a look at these posts on planning for social media:

Engagement Planning

Social Media Strategic Plan

Social Media Policies

Social Media Strategy Framework

NEXT – DISCUSS!

First, we would like you to discuss your reflections on learning from week 1. What are your biggest takeaways? What was new to you? Did your thinking about Social Media change, and if so how and why? Feel free to check in and share where you are in your assignments and what is and is not working for you. There is a discussion forum on our Angel course site for this purpose: please post there.

Also, as with last week, there are specific discussion questions for this week posed in this week’s discussion forum on the Angel course site. Please read the questions and respond to them and other students’ responses throughout the week. The assignments below will help inform our discussion, but you do not need to complete the assignments first. Again, for maximum learning, the discussion should occur throughout the course of the week. Thanks!

LEARNING ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS:

1) Learn more about Social Bookmarking and Tagging by reading the following FAQs from Delicious, a Social Bookmarking tool:

What is Social Bookmarking?

What is my Network and How do I Use it?

You may also want to refresh your knowledge of Delicious and Social Bookmarking by re-watching last week's video on the subject from CommonCraft.

2) Optional: Create a Delicious account:

Share with the class your username by posting it in the Delicious Discussion Forum in Angel

Create a Network bundle for “CCM366E” and add all classmates and instructors

Throughout the remainder of this course, tag anything and everything meaningful related to this course. The tag you should use is “CCM366E”

3) Read information on Wikipedia about the different kinds of Social Media Websites.

Scroll through some of these sites to see what’s happening, what kinds of social media tools exist, and what folks are doing there. Also, here are two more examples of social media being used to connect people:

UbranMamas (parenting)

CaringBridge (terminal illness)

4) Join and connect with your instructors in LinkedIn.

Also, we recommend joining the “Social Media Today” group on LinkedIn. This group provides a lot of resources and discussion on this topic for your ongoing learning.

Optional: Connect with our classmates and other colleagues in LinkedIn.

5) Continue to add items of interest to your Google Reader RSS stream. For example, Joanne has included a couple of links to social media experts:

Chris Brogan

Mari Smith

And Alex recommends thee Portland related blogs:

Mapes on Politics, an Oregonian blog by Jeff Mapes about regional political happenings.

Portland Architecture, by Brian Libby.

TriMetiquette, a blog about riding and using public transit in the Portland region.

Or search for blogs and other kinds of sites for things that are of interest to you!

6) Continue to implement your Social Media Project — next week we’ll take an initial tour and see what’s happening!

Onward!