Hello, Everyone!
What a pleasure it has been to be a part of this class, Introduction to Social Media.
It's hard to believe we have been together for a full three weeks now. Remember those first few days when we did our introductions? Then we started seeing each other through RSS feeds, Facebook, and LinkedIn, not to mention Angel every day. And think about how much each of us has changed and grown in the past 21 days.
Alex and I were discussing this and we decided since we were always asking you for your reflections and what you had learned, we thought it would be fun to do the same for you.
I'd have to say the learning that had the biggest impact on me was how quickly each and every one of you jumped in, got your feet wet, explored, learned, and then shared your learnings about social media with the rest of us. I am struck by how quickly you embraced and then acted on what you learned. It was truly inspiring. I want you to know that if you ever wondered if your reflections and posts are impacting your instructors, the answer is a resounding YES!
And it's a very good thing you learn so quickly because, you see, we are all in the same boat. Oh, some of us have dabbled and played with social media longer than others, but change and learning will always be a big part of this process. We will never learn it all and thank goodness for that. I think something to keep in mind as we all go forward is to have a sense of wonder, adventure, and curiosity--especially during those times when we're frustrated because we just can't figure out how something works! (Or maybe it's only me who feels that way at times...but I don't think I'm the only one.)
I want to wish you the best as you move forward. I know a number of you are graduating this June so my congratulations. Those of you who will be at Marylhurst University for awhile yet, enjoy.
You may remember on our initial blog post, one of the assignments was to friend Alex and me on Facebook. You may "unfriend" or "defriend" us now if you like, or if you'd like to stay connected, then I support that option to. I'd like that.
It's been a privilege to connect and converse with each and every one of you. Thank you so much.
All my best,
Joanne
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Alex's Thanks and Learnings
As you read this, I am not actually at the computer. In fact I am in Chicago right now, at a conference, and thus unable to join you all for the last few days of class. (I hope that you're being nice to Joanne while I am gone!)
Be assured though that I will be reading your reflections once I am back this week. Every one of you in this class has been a pleasure to spend time with, and each of you has brought some great learning and experience to the table. This class was meant to help you to explore the vast realm of Social Media, and through exploration to gain familiarity and understanding of how this landscape of tools can profoundly change the way we communicate with each other.
Even so, I have to admit that Joanne and I have learned almost as much from you as you likely have from us. Discussing this point, we decided that before this class was out, we would thank you for the experience and share what we took away from the class. This post contains my thoughts; Joanne will be posting hers as well.
The biggest thing that I think I have learned from our short time together is just how quickly these mediums can be learned. It was very amusing and heartening to see many of you shift your viewpoints to ones similar to our own, not because we prodded you to these conclusions, but because you "thought your way there."
Another point that came home to me is that, even to someone who is as steeped in Social Media as I, there are huge aspects of this field that are as yet unfamiliar to me. It seems that any given hour researching some Social Media tool or platform leads to yet another new one I had not heard of, or yet another new way of using them.
As we draw to a close, again, I want to thank each and every one of you for the pleasure of being part of our class, and any of you who wish to stay in touch, you know how to do so! (And on a side note, although the class is ending, Social Media is endlessly fascinating to me, and we barely scratched the surface of many topics, so feel free to drop me a message if you want to continue the conversations we have begun.)
Lastly I want to make one "plug:" the Communication Studies department here at Marylhurst has both a facebook page and a new blog called Conversations. I invite you all to become a fan, and subscribe to the blog.
Be assured though that I will be reading your reflections once I am back this week. Every one of you in this class has been a pleasure to spend time with, and each of you has brought some great learning and experience to the table. This class was meant to help you to explore the vast realm of Social Media, and through exploration to gain familiarity and understanding of how this landscape of tools can profoundly change the way we communicate with each other.
Even so, I have to admit that Joanne and I have learned almost as much from you as you likely have from us. Discussing this point, we decided that before this class was out, we would thank you for the experience and share what we took away from the class. This post contains my thoughts; Joanne will be posting hers as well.
The biggest thing that I think I have learned from our short time together is just how quickly these mediums can be learned. It was very amusing and heartening to see many of you shift your viewpoints to ones similar to our own, not because we prodded you to these conclusions, but because you "thought your way there."
Another point that came home to me is that, even to someone who is as steeped in Social Media as I, there are huge aspects of this field that are as yet unfamiliar to me. It seems that any given hour researching some Social Media tool or platform leads to yet another new one I had not heard of, or yet another new way of using them.
As we draw to a close, again, I want to thank each and every one of you for the pleasure of being part of our class, and any of you who wish to stay in touch, you know how to do so! (And on a side note, although the class is ending, Social Media is endlessly fascinating to me, and we barely scratched the surface of many topics, so feel free to drop me a message if you want to continue the conversations we have begun.)
Lastly I want to make one "plug:" the Communication Studies department here at Marylhurst has both a facebook page and a new blog called Conversations. I invite you all to become a fan, and subscribe to the blog.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Week Three Assignments
Welcome to Week 3! This week we will wrap up this course.
Below are the assignments for Week 3 of our course (April 19th – April 25th). Please pay careful attention to the due dates as some assignments are due on Friday, April 23rd!
FIRST – IMPLEMENTING YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PROJECT:
This week you will do more implementation of your Social Media Project. Please tell us about your project in the discussion forum on our Angel site.
AND OF COURSE … DISCUSS!
We would like you to discuss your reflections on the class, and also on each other's projects. There is a discussion forum on our Angel course site for this purpose: please post there.
LEARNING ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS:
1.) Please post a description of and link to your project on Angel. This post is due Friday, April 23rd. If your project is not 100% complete that is okay -- nothing in the Social Media world is ever completely finished! -- but you need to have something up and running by Friday.
Remember, if you are having any trouble or fear you are falling behind, contact myself or Joanne via the Angel Course Mail system.
2.) Please post your thoughts and reflections on the course on Angel. Consider the following as possible discussion points:
How your perceptions of Social Media have changed What role if any you see for Social Media in your life What new things you have learned about Social Media in this course Any other reflections or "aha!" moments you have had during the last three weeks. Your reflection is due Friday, April 23rd.
3.) Please respond to at least 2 classmates’ projects. Please consider them from various aspects, such as:
Social Media etiquette Privacy Developing community Power and control Attention (and managing distractions Digital literacy Societal impacts
Post your comments on the Discussion Forum in Angel. This assignment is due by Sunday, April 25th
4.) Social Media in 2010
To continue to inform your thinking about social media communications, read 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2010. Post any key take-aways from this article in our Discussion Forum on Angel.
It''s been a fun two weeks and I'm sure that Joanne and I will enjoy this last week just as much! Onwards with projects and discussion!
Below are the assignments for Week 3 of our course (April 19th – April 25th). Please pay careful attention to the due dates as some assignments are due on Friday, April 23rd!
FIRST – IMPLEMENTING YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PROJECT:
This week you will do more implementation of your Social Media Project. Please tell us about your project in the discussion forum on our Angel site.
AND OF COURSE … DISCUSS!
We would like you to discuss your reflections on the class, and also on each other's projects. There is a discussion forum on our Angel course site for this purpose: please post there.
LEARNING ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS:
1.) Please post a description of and link to your project on Angel. This post is due Friday, April 23rd. If your project is not 100% complete that is okay -- nothing in the Social Media world is ever completely finished! -- but you need to have something up and running by Friday.
Remember, if you are having any trouble or fear you are falling behind, contact myself or Joanne via the Angel Course Mail system.
2.) Please post your thoughts and reflections on the course on Angel. Consider the following as possible discussion points:
3.) Please respond to at least 2 classmates’ projects. Please consider them from various aspects, such as:
Post your comments on the Discussion Forum in Angel. This assignment is due by Sunday, April 25th
4.) Social Media in 2010
To continue to inform your thinking about social media communications, read 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2010. Post any key take-aways from this article in our Discussion Forum on Angel.
It''s been a fun two weeks and I'm sure that Joanne and I will enjoy this last week just as much! Onwards with projects and discussion!
Monday, April 12, 2010
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
And Alex recommends thee Portland related blogs:
6) Continue to implement your Social Media Project — next week we’ll take an initial tour and see what’s happening!
Onward!
Monday, April 5, 2010
Posting to discussions on ANGEL
Hello class!
We had a minor error in the settings on the ANGEL online discussion board that prevented students from posting replies or new posts. That is now fixed!
We had a minor error in the settings on the ANGEL online discussion board that prevented students from posting replies or new posts. That is now fixed!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Week One Assignments
Here are the assignments for Week 1 of our course (April 5th – April 11th) — these all need to be completed in Week 1 (so by Sunday April 11th). 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. We recommend you complete them in the order listed below.
FIRST: Please introduce yourself in our Introduction Discussion Folder in the Week 1 Folder on our Angel course site.
NEXT: There are 3 questions posed in this week’s discussion forum on our 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. For maximum learning, the discussion should occur throughout the course of the week. Thanks!
LEARNING ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS:
1) Watch “Think Before You Post” (short YouTube video)
2) Learn about RSS (short video from CommonCraft)
3) Create a Google account if you don’t already have one.
4) Using Google Reader, RSS this course blog and both instructors’ blogs within Google Reader. Feel free to RSS anything else you’d like as well! (Let us know if you need help!)
5) Join Facebook (if you haven’t already) and then “Friend” Alex and Joanne there. (After the course is over, we may all “un-friend” each other as desired.)
6) Complete Course Readings (which are really course “browsings”):
Click on the linked items below to complete. We recommend you complete them in the order listed below.
FIRST: Please introduce yourself in our Introduction Discussion Folder in the Week 1 Folder on our Angel course site.
NEXT: There are 3 questions posed in this week’s discussion forum on our 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. For maximum learning, the discussion should occur throughout the course of the week. Thanks!
LEARNING ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS:
1) Watch “Think Before You Post” (short YouTube video)
2) Learn about RSS (short video from CommonCraft)
3) Create a Google account if you don’t already have one.
4) Using Google Reader, RSS this course blog and both instructors’ blogs within Google Reader. Feel free to RSS anything else you’d like as well! (Let us know if you need help!)
- Alex’s Blog: civics21.org
- Joanne’s Blog: Book Publicity Central
5) Join Facebook (if you haven’t already) and then “Friend” Alex and Joanne there. (After the course is over, we may all “un-friend” each other as desired.)
- Optional: Become friends on Facebook with other people in our course (again, this is totally optional and up to each member of the course whom to accept Friend Requests from.)
- Optional: Become a “Fan” of Marylhurst University’s Facebook page and the Shoen Library Facebook page.
6) Complete Course Readings (which are really course “browsings”):
- Howard Rheingold’s video in which he talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.
- Digital Ethnography
- Top 50 Social Media blogs
- New Comm Bizz: Social Media and the Future of Business.
- Social Media Marketing for Business
- Social Media Influence
- Tagging / bookmarking (a short CommonCraft video)
- GovFresh -- Gov 2.0
- Anything else that you find to answer Week One’s questions (and by all means, please share any links with the class in the Discussion Forum in Angel)
Welcome!
Welcome to the blog for CCM 366: Introduction to Social Media Communications: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, & More
This site was created by Alexander Craghead and Joanne McCall for this class. On it you will find assignment descriptions as well as occasional bits of information we think you will find interesting and useful.
We look forward to seeing you both in the discussion boards on Angel and here on the blog!
~Alex and Joanne
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Course Description:
CCM 366: Introduction to Social Media Communications: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, & More
Dates: 4/5 – 4/25, online
In this online workshop, learners will be introduced to social media tools and concepts, focusing on how social media technologies can affect their work, learning, and life. Through hands-on demonstration and use of a variety of social media tools such as blogs, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, RSS, wikis, podcasting, and social bookmarking, participants will learn how these tools are shaping modern communication and how to incorporate them into everyday business, educational, and personal communications. We will also address topics such as digital etiquette, privacy, digital trails, and developing community.
This site was created by Alexander Craghead and Joanne McCall for this class. On it you will find assignment descriptions as well as occasional bits of information we think you will find interesting and useful.
We look forward to seeing you both in the discussion boards on Angel and here on the blog!
~Alex and Joanne
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Course Description:
CCM 366: Introduction to Social Media Communications: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, & More
Dates: 4/5 – 4/25, online
In this online workshop, learners will be introduced to social media tools and concepts, focusing on how social media technologies can affect their work, learning, and life. Through hands-on demonstration and use of a variety of social media tools such as blogs, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, RSS, wikis, podcasting, and social bookmarking, participants will learn how these tools are shaping modern communication and how to incorporate them into everyday business, educational, and personal communications. We will also address topics such as digital etiquette, privacy, digital trails, and developing community.
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