Topics:
- Introductions
- Seminar Expectations & “What do you want to learn?”
- Changing State of Information, Knowledge, & Education
- The Rise of Social Networks
- Becoming a Participant
Activities:
- Open discussion (introductions, backgrounds & experiences, course assessment & goals, needs of learners)
- Discussion of the importance of tags, and course tag (edst499k)
Network Literacy 101
View more presentations from Alec Couros.
Related Videos & Resources:
- Everything is Amazing, Nobody is Happy – Louis C.K.
- Essay About the Future – Nokia Advertisement
- Vision of Students Today – Michael Wesch
- Open Doctrine – Alec Couros
- Introducting the Palm Pre – Sprint
- Staring Contest – Cisco Telepresence
- David After the Dentist – Viral Video
- Amateur – Lasse Gjertsen
- Mother of All Funk Chords – Kutiman
- Transmedia – Henry Jenkins
- Talking with Dr. Gregg – Kathy Cassidy’s Grade One Classroom
- Landslide – PS22 Grade Five Choir
- The Twitter Experiment – UT Dallas
- Networked Student – Wendy Drexler
- Creative Commons – License or find copyleft content.
- OER Commons – Copyleft, educational materials.
Find a more complete list of videos here.
Assignments:
- Create an account on the course site.
- Set up an account at WordPress.com (or other blogging services) and write your first blog post. The blog post should be a reflection of the first session.
- Email your blog address to your instructor (couros@gmail.com)
- Optional but recommended: Watch “The Machine is (Changing) Us” by Michael Wesch.