social media in virtual mobilities at smart 2014
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Presentation at the International Conference SMART Social Media in Academic Research and Training, 18-20 September 2014, Timisoara Nowadays the ubiquitous use of online and mobile collaboration tools enables participants in different locations to create knowledge and work together. This paper shares the results of the TalkTech project run in the last 7 years in which first-year introductory technology students from Bentley University in the United States and fourth-year multimedia students from Politehnica University of Timisoara in Romania worked together in an online global educational environment to research technology trends and create multimedia artifacts that shared their findings. Students met with their international partners over a period of four weeks in real time using voice, video, and chat) and asynchronously (via e-mail, forums, blogs, social media) to share their research on these popular technology trends. Based on the virtual mobility concept as „a set of ICT supported activities that realise or facilitate international, collaborative experiences in a context of teaching and/or learning“, the TalkTech project simulated the real-life work environment from a modern, global ICT company and encouraged students to use, in every year, more then 15 different web 2.0 or social media tools to accomplish the tasks. Students’ interaction on different social media and the importance of these interactions are analysed in this paper.TRANSCRIPT
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Social media in virtual mobili1es Dr. Diana Andone
Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
SMART 2014 #SMART2014TM
Interna1onal Conference SMART – Social Media in Academic Research and Training Timisoara 18-‐20 September 2014
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Digital students & Technology
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need to control - online activity, communication, eLearning environment�
Digital students
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Virtual mobility or virtual placement virtual components facilitated through an ICT supported learning environment, where the three key stakeholders (students, universities and enterprises) interact with one another independent of time and space
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Projects
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Computa1onal thinking
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Crea0ve creators SMART 2014
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Global workforce
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TalkTech project 2008-‐2013 UPTimisoara Romania
BU, Boston, USA
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TalkTech 2008 – 2013 Where We Are
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TalkTech 2008 – 2013 Students
Bentley University • IT 101, Informa1on
Technology • 50 students • Spoke English • Web literate • PC Literate • Age 18-‐21
UP Timisoara • TMM, Technologies of
Mul1media • 40 students • Spoke English • Web literate • PC Literate • Age 21-‐24
ELSE 2014
587 students involved, no dropout
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TalkTech 2008 – 2013 Students
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ViCaDiS campus
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TalkTech 2008 – 2013 2008
• Create a web page with images, a video, a PowerPoint or Google presenta1on, a recorded audio conversa1on, or a combina1on of any of these that presents your group’s understanding of a current issue in technology and culture
• Post content and group progress to a collabora1ve Google Site TalkTech2008
2009
• Research a web-‐based collabora1on tool
• Create a wiki page with images, blog entry, video or video tutorial of a tool; post link on ViCaDiS
2010
• Create a short video evalua1ng two similar online collabora1on tools (screen sharing, forms, presenta1ons, video conferencing, scheduling, project management, mind mapping) from the perspec1ves of usability and entrepreneurship
• Summarize findings in a Google Doc or video. SMART 2014
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TalkTech2010 project
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TalkTech 2008 – 2013 2011 • Create a presenta1on in which your group analyzes and discusses the poten1al of
various start-‐up Internet companies • Use VoiceThread to add comments or narra1on to the presenta1on’s slides;
integrate in ViCaDiS blog 2012 • Create a presenta1on in which your group researches innova1ve methods used in
business by promising start-‐up companies • Use VoiceThread to add comments or narra1on to the presenta1on’s slides;
integrate in ViCaDiS blog 2013 • Research popular web or mobile apps • Create an interac1ve image using ThingLink Annota1ons must include audio and
video clips in which interna1onal partners appear simultaneously discussing their topic
• Post ThingLink to ViCaDiS blog
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TalkTech 2008 – 2013
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TalkTech 2008 – 2013
• Mul1cultural • Online – different 1mezones • Simulate real world work in an IT company • Students freely choose the tools, communica1on, working 1me and hours
• Students connect using several social media tools
• All students finished and delivered the ar1fact
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TalkTech 2008 – 2013 main Tools
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TalkTech 2013 Student Use of Technologies
• 1. Mobile phone • 2. SMS – text messaging • 3. iPod /mp3 player • 4. Search engines (Google/Bing) • 5. Online Messaging (Yahoo, G-‐Chat,
etc) • 6. VoIP (Skype, Google Talk, etc) • 7. Mobile chat (WhatsApp/Viber) • 8. Online video (YouTube) • 9. Photo Sharing (Flickr, Picasa) • 10. Online games • 11. Blogs • 12. Wikipedia • 13. Facebook • 14. Twider • 15. Collabora1ve Wri1ng Apps
(Google Docs/Office Web Apps)
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Task Tools
align time zones timeanddate.com
chat Facebook, Yahoo! IM,Google Hangouts
create and host audio SoundCloud
create and host video YouTube, Screencast-o-Matic
create interactive images ThingLink
edit audio Sound Forge
edit images PhotoShop, Paint.net
edit video Windows Live Movie Maker
email Gmail, Outlook
hold video conferences Google Hangouts, Skype
record video mobile phone camera apps
schedule meetings Doodle
search the web Google, Bing
share photos Flickr, Tumblr
share screens join.me, Google Hangouts SMART 2014
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Use of tools
• Each year over 80% of students connected via social media tools
• Each year 45-‐62% from students stayed connected with each other via Facebook, Google+ or Instagram, at one year aier the end of project
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TalkTech2013 Desirability Test
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Conclusions
• introduced students to real-‐world technology topics, trends and working methods
• Empowered students
• create the learning and working environment for producing the final ar1fact, in a self-‐organized, networked-‐based and quite oien complex and chao1c manner
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CONTACT Dr.eng. Diana Andone Director e-Learning Center Tel: +40.256403300, Email: [email protected]
UPT – CeL Campus Virtual www.cv.upt.ro
@diando70
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