Using Digital Tools to Build an Architecture of Participation
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This presentation describes the digital tools that we are using with the MSP2 project.
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Using Digital Tools to Build an Architecture of Participation
- 1. Kimberly Lightle Ohio State University Using Digital Tools to Build an Architecture of Participation
- 3. Access to 21 st Century Technology is a Problem…
- 4. MSP2 Social Network http://msteacher2.org
- 5. Portal to Colleagues and Content
- 6. RSS Feeds
Editor's Notes
- Funded as a NSDL Pathways September 2008
- These are the goals that we have for all our teacher participants. We have two other parts of the project – one that directly impacts students – VLEs (Sarita Pillai at EDC) and one that deal with policy and that is through the NMSA.
- We had originally thought to get rid of our original middle school portal web site but realized very quickly that wasn’t wise. So many of the tools that we are using are blocked by schools. We wanted teachers to get to our resources at schools so we are using the MSP site more as an archive but still RSS feed our blogs and have added links to the new wiki resource guides. We are still getting lots of visits to this site because it still has a high Google ranking – we updated the site to get people to the social network.
- We are using the NING social network as a portal to connect people to each other and to connect them to the content that we are developing. We have no static web pages so that even though we are writing content we are providing the ability of teachers/users to share comments and content even through the content we are developing. We made the site public in February 2009 – numbers have continued to grow each month (especially after Google found it) – 18,975 unique visitors, 87,875 page views – most visited areas is the main page, profiles, science resource guides, groups, and math resource guides. The conversations that have the most social currency (gravity) right now are the ones that are revolving around using technology tools.
- So what digital tools are we using? NING – we only pay from one premium service - $4.95 to use our own URL – we were able to get rid of ads for free – not sure that is still available NSDL – EduPak, wiki, and Expert Voices Diigo, Twitter Elluminate – free Elluminate room through LearnCentral (we should have met in the MSP2 room!)
- Quite a bit of what we are pulling into the NING is through RSS feeds.
- Thought you might be interested in the groups that have formed – we populated the groups area with 3 groups originally but have had 3 or 4 start on their own. They can be private or public – in fact, one of the reasons that I really like NING is because it allows you to set privacy on each section of the site – at the uber level and within each person’s member page.
- So what do we know about our members – this data is through November. Profile questions… none are required… we’ve had to deal with spam… now we require that you are approved but it is still public – anyone can see the content.
- In closing - need a director of social media and if you are lucky that person would also keep track of and interpret web metrics! When you have content spread all over the place you have got to figure out how to capture it, put it in one place, and then analyze it.
- Here are all web addresses that I mentioned.