Presentation given at the JISC Winter Fayre in Edinburgh on 25th February 2011.
The presentation looks at the growing influence of social networking sites in course and resource discovery/promotion.
More information here http://mashe.hawksey.info/2011/03/value-of-recommendation/
1. Cost, Reach and Engagement #jiscwf #n2 Cost, Reach and Engagement CREATE, Reach and Engage Martin Hawksey or @mhawksey e-Learning Advisor (Higher Education) http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/ RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning
2. Slides are available from http://slidesha.re/esO0Mn Links for this presentation are bundled at http://bit.ly/jiscwf-n2← case sensitive If you are tweeting the tag is #jiscwf #n2 (also tweeting links as I go via @mhawksey) Cost, Reach and Engagement #jiscwf #n2
3. History of web search: In the beginning … Cost, Reach and Engagement #jiscwf #n2 First Web Server from Wikimedia Commons
4. History of web search: In the beginning … Cost, Reach and Engagement #jiscwf #n2 Archie By DavidDMuir
19. How can I recommend courses at your institution? Cost, Reach and Engagement #jiscwf #n2
20. How can I recommend resources on your course? Cost, Reach and Engagement #jiscwf #n2
21. Ways to enable recommendation Drop the bit of code you need yourselfe.g. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ Use a share button service like ShareThisAddToAny Promote a ‘sharing’ browser extension like Shareaholic, Mozilla Labs F1 Cost, Reach and Engagement #jiscwf #n2
Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. It is considered to be the first Internet search engine.[1] The original implementation was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and J. Peter Deutsch, then students at McGill University inMontreal.