Using social media for teaching and research

The University of Canberra (UC) brings you: Social media in teaching and research A series of live streamed and recorded seminars demonstrating how people at UC and afield are using social media in their teaching and research.

Early social media, Keep-River-Nationalpark, Aboriginal Rock Paintings at Nganalam Rock Art Site

## Format[edit | edit source]

10-15 minute recorded presentations followed by 1 hour discussion and/or 1-2 hour workshops. Here lists the sessions, workshops, recordings and resources.

## Upcoming sessions[edit | edit source]

### Blogging for assessment[edit | edit source]

A workshop on how blogs can be used for student learning and assessment.
Presenter: Michael de Percy
Where: : 7D4 University of Canberra
When: 9:30am-12:30pm 26 March 2010
Recordings and Resources:

* Assessment 2.0: Blogs, wikis and media sharing at the University of Canberra (blogspot)

### Open academia in practice[edit | edit source]

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A series of workshops on how to practice open academia.

Copyright options
and how to
find, use and contribute
free media resources

This workshop examines copyright licensing options; and teaches about how to find, use and contribute free and open media resources, including images, slides, and audio/video.

Presenters: Leigh Blackall and James Neill

Where: 7D4 (computer lab), University of Canberra

When: 1-3pm Monday 29 March 2010

Blog: http://open-academia.blogspot.com

Participants: Participant list
| Original caption: Farm, farm workers, Mt. Williamson in background, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, USA. Photo by Ansel Adams, 1943, who put the image in the public domain.

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## Workshop outline[edit | edit source]

A Chevrolet 490 automobile with wheel spokes broken, 1923. In the background is the Thomas Jefferson Building, known as the Library of Congress Building at the time, USA.

1. Visit http://open-academia.blogspot.com and do the 5 second survey
2. Create a Wikiversity account
3. Introduce your self
4. Review the main points of the openism and freedom in academia seminar
5. Tour the Educational Media Awareness Campaign
6. Look at copyright and free and restricted licenses
7. How to find free content
8. Find free content on your topic and add links to Wikiversity
9. Sign the participant list for this workshop
10. Showcase - let's see what you found
11. Feedback - leave comments on the blog

Video recordings

* Introduction to the workshop: Blip.tv, Youtube, Ustream, Archive.org and Wikimedia Commons TBA.
* Introduction to Wikiversity: Blip.tv, Youtube, Ustream, Archive.org and Wikimedia Commons TBA.
* Copyright options: Blip.tv, Youtube, Ustream, Archive.org and Wikimedia Commons TBA.
* Wikimedia Commons: Blip.tv, Youtube, Ustream, Archive.org and Wikimedia Commons TBA.
* Creative Commons Search: Blip.tv, Youtube, Ustream, Archive.org and Wikimedia Commons TBA.

## Introduce yourself[edit | edit source]

Video recording of James introducing Wikiversity (Blip.tv)

Wikiversity is an online community linked with other projects in the Wikimedia Foundation, such as Wikipedia. As you will be using Wikiversity for notes and finding resources, we'll start by creating accounts introduce ourselves to the community.

1. Click your Wikiversity user name (it will be in red) and add some info about yourself
2. Add sections on your user page for the topics you would like to find free media for
3. Include a sentence or two on the types of content you are looking for in each of these topics

Once you create a user account, then there will be links at the top of each page to your user page and user talk page. |  Joseph Kittinger's record-breaking skydive from 31,300 metres (102,800 feet). He fell for 4:36 minutes reaching a maximum speed of 988 km/h (614 mph) before opening his parachute at 4,270 m (14,000 feet). Read more.

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## Openism and freedom in academia[edit | edit source]

Video recording of James introducing the workshop and open academia (Blip.tv)

Like barn raising, knowledge-building is a team effort - you help build mine, I help build yours; what goes around, comes around.

Academia should be conducted in such a way as to benefit society. This means (among other things) that the processes and products of publically-funded academics' activities should, by default, be freely accessible and re-usable. It also means that academia should use and promote tools (such as software) and materials (such as textbooks) which enable others to utilise and foster public knowledge. However, open academia is a cultural challenge because closedness is the norm.

Open academia is proposed to involve five pillars: open access, open licensing, open formats, free software and open management.

For more, see Going naked - Openism and freedom in academia

## Educational Media Awareness Campaign[edit | edit source]

Video of James showing the Wikimedia Commons (Blip.tv)

* Explore the Educational Media Awareness Campaign by subject
* See also: 10 things you may not know about images on Wikipedia

## Copyright restrictions and freedoms[edit | edit source]

Video recording of James explaining copyright (Blip.tv)

|  |  | Public Domain (pd or cc0)  | The public domain comprises copyright-free works: anyone can use them in any way and for any purpose. Attribution to the author or source of a work, is still required to avoid plagiarism.

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| Attribution (by)  | Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these.
| ShareAlike (sa)  | Licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs the original work. (See also w:copyleft.)
| Noncommercial or NonCommercial (nc)  | Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only for noncommercial purposes.
| No Derivative Works or NoDerivs (nd)  | Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based on it.
| All rights reserved | No use permitted without written permission from the copyright holder (except fair dealing/fair use)
Train wreck at Montparnasse Station, at Place de Rennes side, Paris, France, 1895.

Go to Creative Commons to see the actual licenses.

## Find and use free content[edit | edit source]

Video of James introducing the Creative Commons Search engine (Blip.tv)

Click this screenshot to go to Creative Commons search.

Editing help

* Intro to Wikiversity
* How to edit
* Editing toolbar
* Edit summary
* Embed media files
* Upload images
* Tips and tricks
* Editing FAQ
* Cheatsheet

1. Paste the links to good resources in your Wikiversity user page and annotation including an attribution to the author
2. Double check the copyright on those resources and delete links to any that are too restrictive.
3. Contributing content - Find a page on Wikiversity that will benefit from the links you have found, e.g. Psychology, Sport etc. Paste the links you have found into a relevant page.
4. How to make appropriate attributions? e.g., include information such as:

Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/916142/
Image author: jurvetson, http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/
Image license: CC-by-A 2.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

## Participants[edit | edit source]

Using social media for teaching and research/Participants/Instructions Using social media for teaching and research/Participants

|  Mavericks surfing competition, 2010. The image was taken from a boat. According to Shalom: "The boat was very rocky. Many people got sea sick though. One guy (photog) never even got any pictures he was so sick."

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## Showcase[edit | edit source]

Photochrom print of an elderly Irish woman at a spinning wheel, ca 1890-1900.

We'll copy great finds here..?

Cardboard chair with signature by famous authors, which were collected during the Guardian's HayFestival 2009.

## See also[edit | edit source]

* Composing free and open online educational resources
* Creative Commons
* Going naked - Openism and freedom in academia
* Instructor notes
* Open academia
* Open academia: A philosophy of open practice
* Using social media for teaching and research
* Reddit for learning

## External links[edit | edit source]

* A shared culture (3 min video) - About the spirit of sharing and creative commons
* Copyright 101 (10 min video) - Copyright law and creative commons licensing in an Australian context
* Copyright for educators
* Public domain in Australia
* Teaching students about the Creative Commons

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## Previous sessions[edit | edit source]

### Going naked - Openism and freedom in academia[edit | edit source]

A discussion on open academia and related issues such as copyright as they have, and likely will affect Universities, academic freedoms and the public good.

Presenter: James Neill, with responses from Leonard Low and Leigh Blackall
Where: Hothouse, 1C32
When: Friday 5th March, 2010 13:30-14:30
Recordings and Resources:

* James Neill - Going naked - Openism and freedom in academia
* Leigh Blackall
* Going Naked - Openism and Freedom in Academia
* Leigh's perspectives on copyright
* The new colonialism in OER

### Popular Internet in teaching and research[edit | edit source]

A presentation made to the Faculty of Health at the University of Canberra, Dec 2009.
Leigh Blackall
Recording: http://leighblackall.blogspot.com/2010/02/popular-internet-in-teaching-and.html

### Connecting, sharing, developing - the openPhD[edit | edit source]

A presentation to the University of Canberra, PhD student Induction Day, 4 Feb 2010
Leigh Blackall
Recording: http://leighblackall.blogspot.com/2010/02/presentation-on-open-phd.html

### How and why of blogging and vlogging[edit | edit source]

Set up a blog and Youtube channel and start finding good content
Keane Wheeler
Recording: Set up a professional blog and youtube channel

## Suggested sessions[edit | edit source]

### The how and why of Wikipedia[edit | edit source]

* Reviewing Wikipedia in education and research
* Wikiversity, Commons, News and Books
* User pages and talk pages
* Editing pages and featured pages
* Education and research projects in Wikiversity

### The how and why of Youtube[edit | edit source]

* Intro to Youtube
* Looking at Blip.tv
* Looking at uStream
* Looking at Archive.org
* Looking at Wikimedia Commons

### The how and why of Podcasting[edit | edit source]

* Media blogging, RSS then podcasting
* Start with a blog
* Burn the feed
* Produce and publish the media