Welcome to Social Media Issues
A resource for Comm 182/282
Stanford, Autumn, 2013
Instructor: Howard Rheingold
View this material as a Concept Map or Prezi (go ahead, try different views – that’s what the course is about)
Monday, 3:15-6:05 PM
Classroom: Wallenberg 124 (60-124)
Office: McClatchy 332
Office hours: McClatchy 332 Monday, 2-3 PM and by appointment
Contact: howard@rheingold.com
How this course works <—– You commit to this when you apply for this class.
Assignments, Expectations, and Grading (How you will assess & be assessed)
Assignment support:
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Your WordPress Site
- How to search, add, activate plug-ins on your WordPress site
- Jim Groom and Howard Rheingold talk at length about why and how to use open blogging to create a learning community (Video One, Video Two)
- About your personal learning journal
- How to be a great co-teaching team
- Sign up for co-teaching a session
- Sign up for learner lecture series
- Wiki index to personal learning journals
- Wiki pages for co-teaching teams
- Facebook group (It’s a secret, private group, so you have to request admission.)
- Interactive media resources for co-teaching and project presentation
- The media we use for co-learning (clickable content map)
- The media we use for co-learning (video)
Group Projects:
- Group Projects Pages 2009
- 2010 Group Projects Pages
- 2011 Group Projects Pages
- 2012 Group Projects Pages
- 2013 Group Projects Pages
- Lexicon 2013
About laptops in class (By Professor Amy Bruckman) <—– Read, think, be prepared to talk about it
Laptop Revolution (By USC students) <—– An alternative POV about laptops in class
How Does Multitasking Change The Way Kids Learn? <—– Recent research on effects of multitasking on learning
“How to Focus a Wandering Mind,” <— Good recent (2013) short article about benefits of training your attention
Quick guide to using the wiki, forums, blogs, chat rooms, and social bookmarks
Sandbox — play with wiki editing here if you want
“Students with documented disabilities: Students who may need an academic accommodation based on the impact of a disability must initiate the request with the Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC) located within the Office of Accessible Education (OAE). SDRC staff will evaluate the request with required documentation, recommend reasonable accommodations, and prepare an Accommodation Letter for faculty dated in the current quarter in which the request is being made. Students should contact the SDRC as soon as possible since timely notice is needed to coordinate accommodations. The OAE is located at 563 Salvatierra Walk (phone: 723-1066, 723-1067 TTY).”