EDCI 338 Final Project Outline

The Final Project reflects 40% of your final mark.

Team Working Contract:

  • Establishing team procedures
    • Talk to each other via Mattermost chat or on zoom.
  • Identifying expectations
    • Each group member is expected to complete their assigned parts before the deadline on November 23rd. 
  • Timelines and milestones
    • Try to finish the rough draft by November 22nd to leave enough room to revise and edit the final version by November 23rd. 
  • Specifying the protocol and consequences for failing to follow procedures and fulfill expectations
    • Peer review of how each group member contributed to the PLN project will be submitted after the project is completed. 

Assign tasks to be as specific as possible and include a timeline and who is assigned to do each step. 

FINAL PROJECT OUTLINE: 

“Although a written submission will be accepted, consider the modality of this course and consider creating something that reflects the media-connected experience we are all sharing this year.”

The final assignment will consist of your groups creating a walkthrough of PLN themes, platforms, and practices that you have explored during the term. Students should include a variety of discussions about how a PLN should be created, managed, and engaged, including dialogue about how a PLN interacts with social media platforms, highlighting aspects that were the most meaningful during their course trajectory, and any instances of personal experience devoting a PLN within a professional capacity.

Marking will be based on evidence-based examples, the use of professional and engaging language, and the quality of presentation delivery. You will include descriptions of the process and steps that a person would need to take in order to build a personal learning network (PLN) using a variety of social media platforms that would best support your professional and personal learning goals.

Grading Rubric/Assigned to each 5 team members: Please remember to support your topic paragraphs with references of external or internal (course lecture) materials [APA format so we can all be consistent]. 

(Assigned to Kate Ueda) 

  • Description of social media platforms, their usage and value to PLN
    • Comparing and contrasting social media platforms.
    • Describe the key characteristics (benefits/negatives) of any discussed social media platforms.
    • Dialogue about how a PLN interacts with social media platforms

(Assigned to Becky Zeng)

  • Discussion of key characteristics of PLN
    • Comparing and contrasting key characteristics of PLN
    • How a PLN should be created, managed, and engaged
    • Process and steps that a person would need to take in order to build a personal learning network (PLN) using a variety of social media platforms that would best support your professional and personal learning goals

(Assigned to Abdullahi Bashir)

  • Connection to Digital Identity/ Reputation
    • How technology allows you to enhance/develop your digital identity/ reputation?
    • What are social considerations that should be accounted for?
    • Provide examples of individuals who have used a PLN to become leaders in a field of interest and discuss their presence in the platform.
    • How do they use social media platforms to build their reputation/presence? 

(Assigned to Adam Li)

  • Connection to Privacy, Security, Data Collection
    • Comparing and contrasting connection to privacy, security, data collection of PLN and how to support concerns.
    • What are the ways the technology tracks and uses your data – how can this be used to benefit a PLN?
    • What are the strengths and weaknesses of the privacy, security and acceptable use policies for social media platforms?

(Assigned to bruce song)

  • Connection to Course Content
    • Comparing and contrasting connections to course themes.
    • What features & characteristics of existing media technologies make them effective for personal learning?
    • How will you know that your PLN is a success?
    • Highlighting aspects that were the most meaningful during their course trajectory
    • Any instances of personal experience devoting a PLN within a professional capacity (Should be optional I think, because not everyone has a personal experience within a professional capacity)

Grading Rubric on Project Delivery:

  • Making Learning Visible (How students communicated their understanding)
    • comparing and contrasting PLN, social media understanding, and professionalism. The group used their medium of choice (eg. text, video. Infographic) to describe their comparison and choice and added clear details, additional links and resources and information.
  • Delivery
    • Delivery of information is excellent; media, images, graphs, charts and other image types are incorporated;

Things to Consider:

  • Describe the key characteristics (benefits/negatives) of any discussed social media platforms.
  • What features & characteristics of existing media technologies make them effective for personal learning?
  • How does the discussed technology allow you to enhance/develop your digital identity/reputation?
  • What are social considerations that should be accounted for?
  • What are the ways the technology tracks and uses your data – how can this be used to benefit a PLN?
  • What are the strengths and weaknesses of the privacy, security and acceptable use policies for social media platforms?
  • Provide examples of individuals who have used a PLN to become leaders in a field of interest and discuss their presence in the platform.
  • How do they use social media platforms to build their reputation/presence? 
  • How will you know that your PLN is a success?
  • Provide references and resources to your opinion and team consensus.