ICOM 210: Intro to Social Media

ICOM 210: Introduction to Social Networks
This course combines an examination of social media technologies, applications of emerging technologies on various careers with practical skills aimed at students of all skill levels. Students will build their own website using existing tools, engage in social and mobile networks and deploy a variety of social media applications using pre-existing software tools.

Assignments:

• Blog post rubric: downloadable PDF + (video lecture)
• Group presentation rubric: downloadable PDF + (video lecture)
• 1-sheet rubric: downloadable PDF + (video lecture)
• Paper rubric: See Week 4 lecture, Writing the Academic Paper
• Benchmarks rubric: downloadable PDF + (video lecture)
• Critique rubric: downloadable PDF + (video lecture)
• Live Event rubric: downloadable PDF + (video lecture)
• Final Presentation rubric: downloadable PDF + (video lecture)

Information Streams

• Twitter Stream for #bsuSM

Course Schedule:

• Week 1:
• Class Overview: downloadable PDF or interactive SWF (video lecture)
• Projects: See Assignment section at the top of the page
• Your Education Role: downloadable PDF or interactive SWF (video lecture)

• Week 2:
• Using the Class Technologies: downloadable PDF or interactive SWF (video lecture)
• The Wiki Classroom: (video lecture)
• ICOM 210: How the Wiki Works: (video lecture)

• Week 3:
• What is Social Media, Part 1: downloadable PDF or interactive SWF (video lecture)

• Week 4:
• What is Social Media, Part 2: downloadable PDF or interactive SWF (video lecture)
• Writing the Academic Paper: downloadable PDF (video lecture)

• Week 5:
• Mediactive (Intro-2):  downloadable PDF or interactive SWF (video lecture)

• Week 6:
• Mediactive (3-4):  downloadable PDF or interactive SWF (video lecture)

• Week 7:
• Mediactive (5-6):  downloadable PDF or interactive SWF (video lecture)

• Week 8:
• Mediactive (7-8):  Student Google Doc work

• Week 9:
• SPRING BREAK

• Week 10:
• Mediactive (9-11):  Student Google Doc work
• Setting Up Your Blog/Three Plug-ins Your Site Needs: downloadable PDF (video lecture)

• Week 11:
• Finding Knowledge, Evaluation, and Usability: downloadable PDF (video lecture)
• Google Forms + the Evaluation Process: downloadable PDF (video lecture)

• Week 12:
• The Kinds of People on the Web, and How to Find Them:  downloadable PDF or interactive SWF (video lecture) 

• Week 13:

• Week 14:
• Why Your Friends Can’t Help You Build Communities: downloadable PDF (video lecture)

• Week 15:

• Week 16:
• What Did It All Meant: downloadable PDF (video lecture)