introduction, preliminary custom apps, basic commercial apps, social media online maps, RSS, multi-poster, social networks, tools and resources,
tools for a classroom of the present
interactivity is a process of mutual influence
what is social media?
did you know, 4.0?
login as a user
i'll create a group and give your account permission to join
find at least one image online, or create one, and upload it.
once everyone has uploaded at least one image we can have a (mock) silent crit.
to post comments on a work, double click it. if the work is yours, double clicking will show you comments by other users.
basic social media apps set for class
**custom hash tags, emacsam example
huffington post social media maps
popurls: the genuine news aggregator for the latest web buzz.
intro to multi-poster
clay shirkey, how social media can make history
"media is increasingly less a source of information, and increasingly more a site of co-ordination"
user icons
IM/chat functionality
dbl-clk user icon to view their most recent posts
shft-clk user icon to send IM to that user
shft-dbl-clk multiple user icons to send a group of users IMs
users can post text from text area to selected accounts by checking the boxes for those accounts in the admin panel on the left, and either highlighting specific text and clicking the 'post' button below the text area, or to post all text in the text area, simply click the 'post' button.
to post a word or link the the class tag cloud, click the 'tag cloud' button below the text area.
custom tags. i.e, naeaj_10.
Here's a quick guide to some digital things that are worth distinguishing:
The Internet is what allows computers, smart phones, and other devices to connect to anything at all. Before the Internet, your computer was stuck with a fixed body of information unless you inserted a physical disk or typed something on the keyboard to add to the information that was present. Now your computer can connect to information resources directly, either through a cable or on WiFi. That's the Internet.
The Web is the way that different computers can receive the same information from the Internet and have it come out looking approximately the same on their screens. Before the Web, you couldn't create something like the web page you are reading now and be confident that it would appear on the screens of different computers in a comprehensible way. The Web could only come about after the Internet was established.
Browsers, like Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, or Safari, are all similar programs that run on specific computers that show what's on the Web.
Cloud computing means using the Internet to create the illusion of a giant computer that is actually a composite of many computers. It is a crucial tool in understanding global complex phenomena like climate change, and is also what makes services like XBOX Live, Amazon, search engines, or social networking possible. Without clouds, each computer would just connect to other individual computers and large scale central services could not come about.
Search Engines, like Google and Bing, are programs that run on computing clouds, instead of on individual computers. They show up for your use within your browser, of course, but they get their work done in the cloud.
connected, by nicholas christakis and james fowler
interview with james fowler
james fowler at political network conference
James Fowler at Political Networks 2009 from David Lazer on Vimeo.
henry jenkins, wisdom of crowds/collective intelligence and play
go through various free apps
"blogs are diaries, CMSs are libraries"
CMS
chris hecker's homepage built with MediaWiki
mashup utilities
streaming media
lastly, a couple of cool ways to actually publish hard copies of your stuff via the web