THE WORK: Social Media and Web 2.0 for Global Good
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT
For my individual project, FAMILY GENEALOGY early in the semester, I was searching for a way to connect with family on a deeper level through Social Media and explore our biological connections. I set up a genealogy for family members to help contribute to building a family tree. In addition to this, we set up a private collection of stories that define us. An example of this is a story from my mother-in-law, who now lives on a farm removed from town. It turns out, she actually grew up in a suburb just outside of a town, but she remembers visting her aunt in the country and always knew that there was something to that connection to nature that really spoke to her and made her who she was, so "going country" was a decision, not something that she fell into. These types of memories and stories are now written down for us to share and pass on.
GROUP WORK: WHO, WHAT, HOW
I had an amazing team for my journey through Social Media and Web 2.0. Dana Mathews, Paige Werhan, and myself, Jamille Brayshaw, collaborated on projects that we hoped would teach us how to learn to use these tools in positive ways.
PROJECT ONE
Our first project THE DEPARTMENT OF SLINKYAN STUDIES was a project designed to explore what makes information on the internet come across as real, and how important it is to look beyond the facts stated on a single site. The idea was to bring the need for critical consumption of knowledge to the foreground in the minds of individuals who view this project. On this project, I took the lead on building the website and assisting on the graphics and timeline, while Dana assisted with design, as well as leading on the graphics and providing content, and Paige led the way with the timeline and assisted on links and content.
PROJECT TWO
Our second Project WEB 2.O LEARNING is a Blog about Social Media and Web 2.0 in the classroom. For this assignment, Dana Mathews took the lead on the site design and build, while Paige and I assisted with research and content development.
PROJECT THREE
Our third Project STEPS FOR SUDAN was built around the idea of a global Facebook collaboration between schools in Sudan and the United States to raise money for water filtration systems. Our team is very interested in how Social Media could be used for Global Sustainability and Social Justice so that led to our final two projects also being about issues of broader importance.
PROJECT FOUR
Our fourth Project CYBERBULLYING was about people using social media to degrade each other and how damaging this can be to other humans. Its not only about cyber bullying, its also about taking the time to consider the impact of our online lives on the confidence and even the ever changing personalities of the people around us. If people can be brought to suicide through what we say or do online, how could we be re-channeling our energies to build each other up, focus on kindness, and even change the world? Dana led this project design, while Paige and I offered support through links, comments and discussion.
PROJECT FIVE
Our final Project SUSTAINABLE LIFE is a culmination of the semester's lessons, discussions, readings and tool exploration. We put together a collection of Web 2.0 tools that we enjoyed using throughout the semester and focused them all into a single concept that fit what I had come to define as our group "style:" Social Media for Global Good. This site is about taking real world knowledge and using Web 2.0 tools to create teaching material to share that real world knowledge to the world through Social Media platforms. We took a topic important to a large population of the world: Sustainable Living, and created a population sampling (a class in Sustainability) to represent the individuals seeking to change small things about their lives to live more conscientiously and then expanded the concept to a global level by incorporating other lessons from around the state, the country, and the world. For this project, I choose the site and set up the basic outline, but then Dana and Paige both contributed to and helped improve the design elements of the site as well. We all contributed blog posts, links, teaching tools, Web 2.0 projects, writing, and images.
For my individual project, FAMILY GENEALOGY early in the semester, I was searching for a way to connect with family on a deeper level through Social Media and explore our biological connections. I set up a genealogy for family members to help contribute to building a family tree. In addition to this, we set up a private collection of stories that define us. An example of this is a story from my mother-in-law, who now lives on a farm removed from town. It turns out, she actually grew up in a suburb just outside of a town, but she remembers visting her aunt in the country and always knew that there was something to that connection to nature that really spoke to her and made her who she was, so "going country" was a decision, not something that she fell into. These types of memories and stories are now written down for us to share and pass on.
GROUP WORK: WHO, WHAT, HOW
I had an amazing team for my journey through Social Media and Web 2.0. Dana Mathews, Paige Werhan, and myself, Jamille Brayshaw, collaborated on projects that we hoped would teach us how to learn to use these tools in positive ways.
PROJECT ONE
Our first project THE DEPARTMENT OF SLINKYAN STUDIES was a project designed to explore what makes information on the internet come across as real, and how important it is to look beyond the facts stated on a single site. The idea was to bring the need for critical consumption of knowledge to the foreground in the minds of individuals who view this project. On this project, I took the lead on building the website and assisting on the graphics and timeline, while Dana assisted with design, as well as leading on the graphics and providing content, and Paige led the way with the timeline and assisted on links and content.
PROJECT TWO
Our second Project WEB 2.O LEARNING is a Blog about Social Media and Web 2.0 in the classroom. For this assignment, Dana Mathews took the lead on the site design and build, while Paige and I assisted with research and content development.
PROJECT THREE
Our third Project STEPS FOR SUDAN was built around the idea of a global Facebook collaboration between schools in Sudan and the United States to raise money for water filtration systems. Our team is very interested in how Social Media could be used for Global Sustainability and Social Justice so that led to our final two projects also being about issues of broader importance.
PROJECT FOUR
Our fourth Project CYBERBULLYING was about people using social media to degrade each other and how damaging this can be to other humans. Its not only about cyber bullying, its also about taking the time to consider the impact of our online lives on the confidence and even the ever changing personalities of the people around us. If people can be brought to suicide through what we say or do online, how could we be re-channeling our energies to build each other up, focus on kindness, and even change the world? Dana led this project design, while Paige and I offered support through links, comments and discussion.
PROJECT FIVE
Our final Project SUSTAINABLE LIFE is a culmination of the semester's lessons, discussions, readings and tool exploration. We put together a collection of Web 2.0 tools that we enjoyed using throughout the semester and focused them all into a single concept that fit what I had come to define as our group "style:" Social Media for Global Good. This site is about taking real world knowledge and using Web 2.0 tools to create teaching material to share that real world knowledge to the world through Social Media platforms. We took a topic important to a large population of the world: Sustainable Living, and created a population sampling (a class in Sustainability) to represent the individuals seeking to change small things about their lives to live more conscientiously and then expanded the concept to a global level by incorporating other lessons from around the state, the country, and the world. For this project, I choose the site and set up the basic outline, but then Dana and Paige both contributed to and helped improve the design elements of the site as well. We all contributed blog posts, links, teaching tools, Web 2.0 projects, writing, and images.