Final Exam (in Google Docs)

1. Make a copy of it, then share yours with me when you're done.

Freewriting

• By the end of the semester, I am about ready to...

Team Presentations

About the Final Exam

• To be held on Thursday, December 17, from 6 pm to 8 pm in our regular classroom
• Open book, open notes, open web
• All thinking and writing you do must be your own work
• Re-read articles on social informatics
  • Rosenbaum, Howard. "Social Informatics." Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. Ed. William Sims Bainbridge. Vol. 2. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, 2004. 633-637. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Aug. 2015.
  • Kling, Rob. "What Is Social Informatics and Why Does It Matter?" Information Society23.4 (2007): 205-220. Academic Search Complete. Web. 3 Sept. 2015.
  • Sawyer, Steve. "Social Informatics: Overview, Principles and Opportunities." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 31.5 (2005): 9-12.ABI/Inform Global. Web. 3 Sep. 2015.
• Review the mind maps and graphics on this Classroom Activities page that discuss the aspects of social informatics

Actvity: Freewriting

• What is the point of photography?

Review of Aspects of Social Informatics

• ICTs
• Individuals
• Social, organizational, and institutional context

Managing Photos

• Survey of photography
• Note to Self. "It's Time to Deal with Your Photo Clutter." Note to Self. WNYC, 28 October 2015. Web.
• ACTIVITY
  • Using poster paper, each team creates three mind maps related to the issues raised in this podcast
    • ICT
    • Individuals
    • Social, organizational, and institutional context

Course evaluations

• If we get a 100% response rate for the evaluations, I'll throw a pizza party in class next week.
• Log in here with your Baruch username and password to do the course evaluation.

Freewriting

• I do or don't take notes in different classes depending on...

​Research Ethics

Discovering what you didn't know you needed to know

• Known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns
• Complexity, interdisciplinarity, and relatedness

Problem solving using a social informatics approach

Freewriting

• Things I'm learning in this class that I can use in other classes include...

Literature reviews

    * ACTIVITY: group does worksheet in Google Docs

Annual Reviews

• Demo
• ACTIVITY: find a relevant article
  • Each team looks for an article in Annual Reviews that is relevant to their topic
  • Each team publishes a blog post with:
    • MLA citation of the article found
    • explanation of how it is related to their research topic

Finding statistics

• Demo
  • Pew Research Center: Internet & Tech
  • EDUCAUSE
  • National Center for Education Statistics
  • Statista
• ACTIVITY: find relevant statistics
  • Each team looks for statistics that are relevant to their topic
  • Each team publishes a blog post with:
    • MLA citation where the statistics were founnd
    • explanation of how they are related to their research topic

This class will be conducted fully online using a Google Hangout

Freewriting

• I think taking a class fully online for a semester would work (or wouldn't work) for me because...

Research question review

• Each team shares the latest iteration of their research question
• Each person offers some suggestions to improve each question

Journal blog posts

For next week

• We'll meet in our usual classroom from 6:05 - 9 pm
• READING: Go to the SAGE Research Methods database, search for "literature review" and read three articles you find there. Be prepared to discuss them in class.

Freewriting

• Social informatics is...

Group presentations

• Each person provides written feedback for each presentation using worksheet handout in class

Blog posts about journal articles

• When publishing posts, select appropriate category:
  • Homework for all homework assignments you do  (such as the blog posts about journal articles)
  • In-Class Activities for anything we do in class
  • If you have any posts in the Uncategorized category, please edit the post by selecting the appropriate category
• Feedback on first blog posts
• Second blog post due November 5
• Third blog post due November 12

Review of the aspects of social informatics

• ICTs
• Individuals
• Social, organizational, and institutional context
• ACTIVITY: Identifying the aspects in other people's research
  • We'll watch video projects done by Rutgers University students in a social informatics class.
  • Take notes that identify the aspects of social informatics that the student videos covered
  • "The Usage of Mobile Devices on Rutgers Buses"
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBtPMqMSuDU
  • "Social Informatics Project - Makerspace"
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQg8LAt7zUo

For next class (November 5)

• Google Hangout from 6:05 pm - 7:05 pm

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Freewriting

• As an institution, Baruch is...

Aspects of social informatics: the social, organizational, and institutional perspective

• Mind map of values and norms as a part of culture
• ACTIVITY: values and norms
  • In this shared Google Doc, identify the values and norms of Baruch College that are relevant to our campus email system
  • With your team, write a blog post in which you identify the values and norms that relate to the ICT you are studying
  • Google Hangouts: Within our Google Hangout, we'll discuss the values and norms of online chat

Credibility of Sources

• Who is the author (find a page on the web about them, preferably from the institution where they currently work)
  • Have they published in the same topic area?
  • Have they taught a class on this topic?
  • Have they presented at conferences on this topic?
• How many times has the article been cited? Does the article seem to be seminal?
  • Database demo: Web of Science
• Where was the article published? A well-known journal?
• ACTIVITY: Finding a highly cited article
  • Each team uses Web of Science to find an article that directly relates to their topic and that has been highly cited.
  • Once each team finds an article,they should write a blog post with a citation for the article and note how many times it was cited.

ACTIVITY: Research questions

• Each team writes a blog post with the current version of their research question.
• Time permitting, each team member should write a comment on the each team's research question post in which useful criticism is offered.

Freewriting

• After I've found sources that look promising, I have to make decisions about which ones to use based on criteria such as...

Ways we really use sources: the BEAM model

• Background
• Exhibit
• Argument
• Method
• ACTIVITY: complete worksheets from Baruch College Writing Center lesson plan

ACTIVITY: finding sources

• Each team looks for relevant sources and adds them to Google Site as needed

ACTIVITY: research questions

• Each team creates a "Research Question" page in their Google Site
• One member of each team writes a blog post on the course blog that presents their research question

Aspects of social informatics: the Individual

• Mind map

Methodologies for your research projects

• Interviews
• Usability tests
• Diary studies
• Focus groups
  • Introduction to how to run a focus group
  • ACTIVITY: we'll participate in an actual focus group

ACTIVITY: Freewriting

• In a Google Doc that you will share with me, please take 10 minutes to respond to this prompt:
  • Of all the qualitative research methods discussed in today's reading, the one that I am interested in is _____ because ....

Social science research methods

• Each student discusses the qualitative research method they are interested and asks one question they had from the reading

ACTIVITY: Parts of a journal article

• Using the article we read today by Arora ("Digital Gods,") we will analyze the sections of that article and decide which parts make up the introduction, the method section, the results section, etc.
• Each team will work together on a worksheet
• Make your team's own copy of the worksheet using this Google Doc
• Fill out the worksheet as directed in class and share with me at my Gmail address

Aspects of Social Informatics Research: Information

• Mind map: Information and Communications Technologies

Technology Databases

• FAITS (Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies)
• Gartner

ACTIVITY: Focusing Research Topics

ACTIVITY: Freewriting

• In a Google Doc that you'll share with me, write non-stop for 10 minutes. Start by trying to answer this question:
  • What I find hard about doing research is...

Social Science Research

• Developing a topic and a research question
  • ACTIVITY: refining your team's topic
    • Each team meets up and works on its mindmap for its topic
    • On the "Topic" page in your Google Site, add a link to the mindmap
    • Each eam will then present its topic to the class by showing the mindmap on the projecter
    • Each student will take notes about ways that each team could refine its topic and what kind of research question could be asked
  • Literature reviews
    • Discuss reading on the "literature review"
    • ACTIVITY: Adding sections to Google Sites
      • On the Literature Review page in your team's Google Site, add these sections:
        • Peer-reviewed journal articles
        • Other journal articles
        • Magazine articles
        • Newspaper articles
        • Books
        • Book chapters and encyclopedia entries
        • Papers presented at conferences
        • Unknown
          

Use of Information

• ACTIVITY: Mindmapping the reading on "use of information"
  • Each student uses paper to make a mind map of one of the sections of the article we read today about literature reviews

November 5 Class Meeting

• Will be held online in Google Hangouts
• ACTIVITY: test run of Google Hangouts

Review of Assignments

Preview of October 8 Class

ACTIVITY: Google Sites

• Each team will set up a team notebook/workspace on Google Sites
• Add a page called "Topic" and another called "Literature Review"
• Share your Google Site with your professor using his Gmail address

Scholarly Communication

• Mind map of purposes and common forms of scholarly communication

ACTIVITY: Elements of a Journal Article

1. Using one of the library databases, find a peer-reviewed journal article that relates to your broad topic. For example, if you're interested in student use of email, you might want to go to ERIC or Education Source and do a search like one of these:
   1. college students and email
   2. students and (colleges or universities or higher education) and email
2. Each student should make a copy of this worksheet in Google Docs
3. Follow the instructions on the worksheet that ask you to compare the elements of the article you found to the standard elements in an APA-style article.
4. Share the worksheet with your professor at his Gmail address

Discourse

Developing Your Topic

ACTIVITY: Discourse in the popular press

1. Meet up with your team
2. Research your technology in Gale Virtual Reference Library. If, for example, your team is researching CUNY First, you need to know what kind of technology it is (there is usually some industry-accepted name for this kind of technology). Save details of any useful entries you find on the Literature Review page in your team's Google Site.
3. Armed with some new vocabulary from Gale Virtual Reference Library, find a magazine or newspaper article.that talks about some issue or problem with that technology that interests you. Save details of any useful articles to your team's Google Site.

ACTIVITY: Developing your topic

1. Using Mind Meister, each team creates a mind map about the topic they are going to research. To make this map, you'll need to discuss things like:
   • list of all the groups that use the technology
   • what kind of technology is it
   • what can it do
   • what problems are you aware of
   • what kind of policies are you aware of that relate to it
   • what are the expectations of users about it? expectations of the people in charge of it?
2. When you're done, email the link to your map to your professor and add it to the "Topic" page in your team's Google Site

ACTIVITY: Getting started with Google Docs

• Create a sample Google Doc that has:
  • your name
  • a list of each course you're currently taking here at Baruch in which you tell me:
    • course title
    • course number
    • days that the class meets
• Share your document with me at stephen [dot] francoeur [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Instructions for sharing files and folders in Google

ACTIVITY: Making mind maps with MindMeister

• Use your Google account to set up an account with MindMeister
• Make a sample map about the groups of people in your life (family, friends, fellow students, co-workers, etc.)
• Export the map as a PNG file
• Export the map as a PDF file
• Delete your sample map

Discuss reading for today

• Sawyer, Steve. "Social Informatics: Overview, Principles and Opportunities." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 31.5 (2005): 9-12.ABI/Inform Global. Web. 3 Sep. 2015.
  • mind map of this article
• Kling, Rob. "What Is Social Informatics and Why Does It Matter?" Information Society23.4 (2007): 205-220. Academic Search Complete. Web. 3 Sept. 2015.
  • mind map of this article

User experience research as example of social science research methods

• Demo of usability test
• ACTIVITY: X/O analysis of library home page

Team Projects

• Team member profiles
• Each team defines its own ground rules for collaboration
  1. Each team makes one copy of this Google Doc
  2. Each team lists their ground rules
  3. Each team shares the document with Prof. Francoeur at his Gmail address
• Topic areas to choose from
  • Library technology
    • Technology loans (laptops, graphing calculators, clickers, etc.)
    • Library catalog or the OneSearch system
    • Library databases
    • Scanning or printing in the library
  • Campus-wide technology
    • Student email system
    • Blackboard
    • CUNY First

For next week

• Reading
• Viewing
• Each team ready to discuss what topic area they'll do research in

Video: Watch the rest of Desk Set

• ACTIVITY
  1. On a blank sheet of paper, create a mind map
  2. Start with a central node: Desk Set
  3. Four nodes on next level
     1. People
        1. Add nodes about specific attitudes, actions, values, behaviors
     2. Information
        1. Add nodes about kinds of information, how it is created, how it is stored, how it distributed, how it is managed
     3. Technology
        1. Add nodes about kinds of ICTs shown in the movie
     4. Social/Organizational
        1. Add nodes about the structure of the company (divisions, offices, etc.), relationships between groups, breaking down groups by race, class, gender, etc.

Discuss today's reading

• Clark, Donald. “Understanding and Performance.” Big Dog and Little Dog’s Performance Juxtaposition. 15 Nov. 2010. Web. 24 Aug. 2015.
• Rosenbaum, Howard. "Social Informatics." Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. Ed. William Sims Bainbridge. Vol. 2. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, 2004. 633-637. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Aug. 2015.
• Schement,Jorge Reina. "Information." Encyclopedia of Communication and Information. Ed. Jorge Reina Schement. Vol. 2. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. 421-426. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 24 Aug. 2015.

About our next class

• September 17 (no class next week)
• How to find the reading
• Glossary definitions

Setting up teams for group projects

• Class is divided into 2-3 person teams
• Complete the team member profile survey

Who's who in the classroom

• Introductions
• Complete the student profile survey

Course overview

• What is social informatics
• What's on the course website
• Learning goals for the course
• Assignments
• Grading
• Guidelines and policies

Activity: visitors and residents

10-minute break

Activity: writing for the course blog

• Write a blog post in which you describe a favorite food
• Write a comment on someone else's blog post
• Vote on whether we want to make this blog public or private

How to find the course readings for next week's class (Sep,. 3)

• Go to Course Outline page and use citations to track down materials to be read (all online)
• Some items are found in library databases, others on the open web

Video: Watch Desk Set