Links

From JITT

Here's a page for useful links, online articles and so on. They might go in a system like del.icio.us or whatever bookmark mechanism we are using for the workshop series. But they are here for now, at least.

If you read one please stick a named comment on the end of the reference. If you use three tildes (this is a tilde ~) for your name then someone else can click on your name to go to your wiki home page, from whence they can click on your talk tag and leave you a message. Copy and past this text to help add a comment <br>''~~~: Comment''

Contents

A course like our workshop series

Teaching Social Software with Social Software: A report [1] [2]

Building online communities

Draft: Lazar, J. and Preece, J. (2002) Online Communities: Usability, Sociability and Users’ Requirements. [or is that title Social Considerations in Online Communities: Usability, Sociability, and Success Factors. In H. van Oostendorp, Cognition in the Digital World. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. Publishers. Mahwah: NJ. 127-151 [3]

Draft: Preece, J. (2004) Etiquette Online: From nice to necessary. Communications of the ACM (accepted, in press) [4]
Mark: A light read

Draft: Preece, J., Maloney-Krichmar, D. and Abras, C. (2003) History of Online Communities In Karen Christensen & David Levinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Community: From Village to Virtual World. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1023-1027. [5]

Brook C and Oliver R, A case study of community development in online settings [6]
Mark: Traditional e-learning communities, not for here, really

Building online communities of practice, with social capital

DRAFT: Preece, J. (2004) Etiquette and trust drive online communities of practice. Journal of Universal Computer Science. (accepted, in press) [7]

Social Software

What is social software?

Wikipedia on social software
Mark: Basic description and categorisation of far more than what one might think of as social software

A wiki page packed with links pertaining to social software
Mark: Looks good for basic knowledge, e.g "What is rss and what can I do with it?", and links off to exemplar systems -- worth a browse'

General social software

What a horrible non-descriptive title, we should recategorise this stuff!

Mejias, U. "Socialist" Software [8]

Mejias, U. A Nomad's Guide to Learning and Social Software [9]

Ideas for social software systems

DRAFT: Bieber, M., Engelbart, D., Furuta, R., Hiltz, S. R., Noll, J., Preece, J., Stohr, E. A., Turoff, M., Van de Walle, B. (2002) Toward virtual community knowledge evolution, Journal of Management Information Systems, 11-35 [10]

Wikis

Wiki's in education blog [11]

Recategorise

[12]

Social Software and education

Paper on social software and education [13] Abstract: Innovations in educational technology are often seen as opportunities to transform learning, and social software (blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, etc.) is no exception. But are the tensions between pedagogies and social software the result of attempts to make the latter conform to traditional teaching practices, or are they signs of real opportunities for rethinking learning processes? In this article, I explore the role that social software can play in new models of learning and participating in society. While social software can connect learners to new resources and to each other in new ways, I argue that its true potential lies in helping us figure out how to integrate our online and offline social experiences. Thus, social software must live up to its name by relating to the individual’s everyday social practices, which include interacting with people online as well as people without access to these technologies. I conclude that social software can positively impact pedagogy by inculcating a desire to reconnect to the world as a whole, not just the social parts that exist online.