# Using social media for teaching and research

* The University of Canberra (UC) brings you: Social media in teaching and research
* A series of live streamed and recorded seminars demonstrating how people at UC and afield are using social media in their teaching and research.

## Format

10-15 minute recorded presentations followed by 1 hour discussion and/or 1-2 hour workshops. Here lists the sessions, workshops, recordings and resources.

## Upcoming sessions

* Blogging for assessment
* A workshop on how blogs can be used for student learning and assessment.
* Presenter: Michael de Percy
* Where: : 7D4 University of Canberra
* When: 9:30am-12:30pm 26 March 2010
* Recordings and Resources:
* Assessment 2.0: Blogs, wikis and media sharing at the University of Canberra (blogspot)
Open academia in practice
A series of workshops on how to practice open academia.
Copyright options and how to find, use and contribute free media resources
This workshop examines copyright licensing options; and teaches about how to find, use and contribute free and open media resources, including images, slides, and audio/video.
Presenters: Leigh Blackall and James Neill
Where: 7D4 (computer lab), University of Canberra
When: 1-3pm Monday 29 March 2010
Blog: http://open-academia.blogspot.com
Participants: Participant list
Original caption: Farm, farm workers, Mt. Williamson in background, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, USA. Photo by Ansel Adams, 1943, who put the image in the public domain.
Workshop outline
A Chevrolet 490 automobile with wheel spokes broken, 1923. In the background is the Thomas Jefferson Building, known as the Library of Congress Building at the time, USA.
Visit http://open-academia.blogspot.com and do the 5 second survey
Create a Wikiversity account
Introduce your self
Review the main points of the openism and freedom in academia seminar
Tour the Educational Media Awareness Campaign
Look at copyright and free and restricted licenses
How to find free content
Find free content on your topic and add links to Wikiversity
Sign the participant list for this workshop
Showcase - let's see what you found
Feedback - leave comments on the blog
Video recordings
Introduction to the workshop: Blip.tv, Youtube, Ustream, Archive.org and Wikimedia Commons TBA.
Introduction to Wikiversity: Blip.tv, Youtube, Ustream, Archive.org and Wikimedia Commons TBA.
Copyright options: Blip.tv, Youtube, Ustream, Archive.org and Wikimedia Commons TBA.
Wikimedia Commons: Blip.tv, Youtube, Ustream, Archive.org and Wikimedia Commons TBA.
Creative Commons Search: Blip.tv, Youtube, Ustream, Archive.org and Wikimedia Commons TBA.
Introduce yourself
Video recording of James introducing Wikiversity
(Blip.tv)
Wikiversity is an online community linked with other projects in the Wikimedia Foundation, such as Wikipedia. As you will be using Wikiversity for notes and finding resources, we'll start by creating accounts introduce ourselves to the community.
Click your Wikiversity user name (it will be in red) and add some info about yourself
Add sections on your user page for the topics you would like to find free media for
Include a sentence or two on the types of content you are looking for in each of these topics
Once you create a user account, then there will be links at the top of each page to your user page and user talk page.
Joseph Kittinger's record-breaking skydive from 31,300 metres (102,800 feet). He fell for 4:36 minutes reaching a maximum speed of 988 km/h (614 mph) before opening his parachute at 4,270 m (14,000 feet). Read more.
Openism and freedom in academia
Video recording of James introducing the workshop and open academia (Blip.tv)
Like barn raising, knowledge-building is a team effort - you help build mine, I help build yours; what goes around, comes around.
Academia should be conducted in such a way as to benefit society. This means (among other things) that the processes and products of publically-funded academics' activities should, by default, be freely accessible and re-usable. It also means that academia should use and promote tools (such as software) and materials (such as textbooks) which enable others to utilise and foster public knowledge. However, open academia is a cultural challenge because closedness is the norm.
Open academia is proposed to involve five pillars: open access, open licensing, open formats, free software and open management.
For more, see Going naked - Openism and freedom in academia
Educational Media Awareness Campaign
Video of James showing the Wikimedia Commons (Blip.tv)
Explore the Educational Media Awareness Campaign by subject
See also: 10 things you may not know about images on Wikipedia
Copyright restrictions and freedoms
Video recording of James explaining copyright (Blip.tv)
Public Domain (pd or cc0)
The public domain comprises copyright-free works: anyone can use them in any way and for any purpose. Attribution to the author or source of a work, is still required to avoid plagiarism.
Attribution (by)
Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these.
ShareAlike (sa)
Licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs the original work. (See also w:copyleft.)
Noncommercial or NonCommercial (nc)
Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only for noncommercial purposes.
No Derivative Works or NoDerivs (nd)
Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based on it.
All rights reserved
No use permitted without written permission from the copyright holder (except fair dealing/fair use)
Train wreck at Montparnasse Station, at Place de Rennes side, Paris, France, 1895.
Go to Creative Commons to see the actual licenses.
Find and use free content
Video of James introducing the Creative Commons Search engine (Blip.tv)
Click this screenshot to go to Creative Commons search.
Editing help
Intro to Wikiversity
Editing toolbar
Edit summary
Embed media files
Upload images
Tips and tricks
Editing FAQ
Cheatsheet
Paste the links to good resources in your Wikiversity user page and annotation including an attribution to the author
Double check the copyright on those resources and delete links to any that are too restrictive.
Contributing content - Find a page on Wikiversity that will benefit from the links you have found, e.g. Psychology, Sport etc. Paste the links you have found into a relevant page.
How to make appropriate attributions? e.g., include information such as:
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/916142/
Image author: jurvetson, http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/
Image license: CC-by-A 2.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
Participants
Using social media for teaching and research/Participants/Instructions
Using social media for teaching and research/Participants
Mavericks surfing competition, 2010. The image was taken from a boat. According to Shalom: "The boat was very rocky. Many people got sea sick though. One guy (photog) never even got any pictures he was so sick."
Showcase
Photochrom print of an elderly Irish woman at a spinning wheel, ca 1890-1900.
We'll copy great finds here..?
Cardboard chair with signature by famous authors, which were collected during the Guardian's HayFestival 2009.
See also
Composing free and open online educational resources
Creative Commons
Going naked - Openism and freedom in academia
Instructor notes
Open academia
Open academia: A philosophy of open practice
Using social media for teaching and research
Reddit for learning
External links
A shared culture (3 min video) - About the spirit of sharing and creative commons
Copyright 101 (10 min video) - Copyright law and creative commons licensing in an Australian context
Copyright for educators
Public domain in Australia
Teaching students about the Creative Commons :

## Previous sessions

* Going naked - Openism and freedom in academia
* A discussion on open academia and related issues such as copyright as they have, and likely will affect Universities, academic freedoms and the public good.
* Presenter: James Neill, with responses from Leonard Low and Leigh Blackall
* Where: Hothouse, 1C32
* When: Friday 5th March, 2010 13:30-14:30
* Recordings and Resources:
* James Neill - Going naked - Openism and freedom in academia
* Leigh Blackall
* Going Naked - Openism and Freedom in Academia
* Leigh's perspectives on copyright
* The new colonialism in OER
* Popular Internet in teaching and research
* A presentation made to the Faculty of Health at the University of Canberra, Dec 2009.
* Leigh Blackall
* Recording: http://leighblackall.blogspot.com/2010/02/popular-internet-in-teaching-and.html
* Connecting, sharing, developing - the openPhD
* A presentation to the University of Canberra, PhD student Induction Day, 4 Feb 2010
* Leigh Blackall
* Recording: http://leighblackall.blogspot.com/2010/02/presentation-on-open-phd.html
* How and why of blogging and vlogging
* Set up a blog and Youtube channel and start finding good content
* Keane Wheeler
* Recording: Set up a professional blog and youtube channel

## Suggested sessions

* The how and why of Wikipedia
* Reviewing Wikipedia in education and research
* Wikiversity, Commons, News and Books
* User pages and talk pages
* Editing pages and featured pages
* Education and research projects in Wikiversity
* The how and why of Youtube
* Intro to Youtube
* Looking at Blip.tv
* Looking at uStream
* Looking at Archive.org
* Looking at Wikimedia Commons
* The how and why of Podcasting
* Media blogging, RSS then podcasting
* Start with a blog
* Burn the feed
* Produce and publish the media