#icollab12 Social Media Report Votes

First assignment using social media

Reblogged from My Journalism Blog:

This week we had our first opportunity to formally assess how willing and receptive the students have been to the introduction of social media into the teaching of journalism here at AUT University in Auckland. Our preparatory research had shown us that few studies have been conducted into the effects of introducing social media into the classroom, although papers have been written about their use outside the classroom and how they might be incorporated into education.

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Storifying Journalism Education #eje12 #icollab12

Students as Social Media Reporters

As part of the icollab12 international project, students in each participating country were required to move beyond the ‘classroom’ and use their skills in digital communications and social media content production to become transmedia reporters/citizen journalists. They were to work in groups to develop a series of reports for (and in collaboration with) an international audience. The main focus of the project was to produce rich media reports on Social Media in a) their local community, and b) their chosen industry (e.g. web, computing, creative, gigs). Their reports were then presented to students in Germany, Spain and New Zealand – in turn, their fellow #iCollab12 students overseas produced parallel content. At the end of the project, students in each country were asked to vote for the best “Social Media in ______” project, and the winners will receive an iTunes voucher.

Here’s some example student reports:

The YouTube playlist for the project will be updated as reports come in: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4C72B10F1B2AC723

Wikitude & Google Maps

Creating custom geotagged worlds for the Wikitude Augmented Reality browser is great – however you are limited to viewing content that is within a few kilometers of your current position – this makes sense as you usually only want information within the context you are currently located on mobile – however you can view your Wikitude world data in Google Maps anywhere using the custom URL linking to your KML file on your Wikitude.me ashboard. Here’s a couple of examples:

1. An interactive Google Map of some of my selected mlearning conference presentations: http://maps.google.com/maps/mapplets?moduleurl=http://wikitude.me/w4/wme/mapplet.jsp?kml=http://w4client.mobilizy.mobi/w4/search?action=mapplet%26providers=2f4f4513-49d0-4b4a-80df-4d5c26b8354f
2. An interactive map of great cafes in Dunedin! http://maps.google.com/maps/mapplets?moduleurl=http://wikitude.me/w4/wme/mapplet.jsp?kml=http://w4client.mobilizy.mobi/w4/search?action=mapplet%26providers=255d3dcb-5ff9-4b42-944c-a97ce0ebc81e
3. Of course using a URL shortener makes this rather long URL somewhat more manageable, e.g: http://bit.ly/IUDLC8
4. And this URL can also be turned into a QRCode for mobile access. e.g.
   http://bit.ly/IUDLC8.qrcode

Wikitude on Android

Some of my favourite Wikitude Augmented Reality Worlds on my Sonyericsson Xperia Arc Android phone.

#icollab12 Student Mobile Social Media Presentations

IADIS Mlearning Conference 2012 Summary