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The Social Web


INFSCI 2955 Special Topics

INFSCI 3350 Doctoral Seminar
Lecture 1
Jan 06, 2010

Logistics MS

•  Attendance
•  Weekly Coursework
•  Assignments
•  Final Project

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Weekly Coursework

Assigned reading
2 papers out of 2-6 assigned readings for two
topics per week
Response to assigned reading
2 postings
A critique, an elaborated question creating discussion,
or a reply to earlier posts
To be posted by Sunday midnight before the
class in the group blog

Weekly Coursework

Resource sharing
•  Finding 3 interesting resources (a system, a
video, a blog posting, a comic, etc., a paper)
related to either topics discussed every class
•  Include a short remark describing the resource
•  To be posted by the next class in BibSonomy
•  Finding 2 colloquia per week (up to 12 weeks)
•  To be posted by the next class in CoMeT
•  Attend 1 (MS) or 4 (PhD) per semster, post summary
•  Finding 2 cultural events per week (up to 12
weeks)
•  To be posted by the next class in Eventur
•  Attend 1 per semester, post feeback

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Assignments & Final Project

Assignments
“About You” on CourseWeb and LinkedIn
Programming assignment using social web
technologies
Before midterm
Comprehensive study of several social systems
AKA Midterm
Show and Tell
Once throughout the semester
Present the resources you have found to class

Logistics PhDs

•  Attendance
•  LinkedIn Assignment
•  Weekly Coursework
–  Readings
–  Resource discovery
–  Journal
•  Paper presentation
•  Topic presentation
•  Final Project

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Assigned reading

Read
–  Read 2 papers per week. Pick one of 4-6
assigned papers (2-3) for each weekly topic
–  Find your own paper and read it. Present it
twice per semester
Reflect and discuss
–  Post critique, or an elaborated question
creating discussion
–  Reply to earlier posts
–  At least 2 contributions per week have to be
posted for the full grade
–  To be posted by Sunday midnight before the
class in the class blog system

Resource sharing

Find
–  After each class find 3 research papers related to either
topics discussed in class
Share
–  Post it to BibSonomy system to the SocialWeb group (and
your own account if you wish) and tag. One of the tags
should be Lecture-X where X is the lecture number
–  Posting has to be done before the next lecture
–  You can find papers anywhere - ACM DL, Google Scholar,
IEEE, or BibSonomy itself, but all three papers should be
unique to the SocialWeb group. So post early!
–  Same requirements for CoMeT and Eventur

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Learning Journal

Reflect
–  Maintain a blog - your learning journal
–  Each week post a reflection on your “own”
paper, other readings, attended seminars,
topics covered last week, your thoughts, ideas,
connections
–  At least two paragraphs to be posted by the
next class on your blog
–  The blog can be private if you wish, but the
instructors should be able to see it for grading.
Classmates could be also added if possible.

Topic Presentation

Play a teacher for 1/2 a class!

Read
–  Read 3-5 overview-rich papers on the topic, prepare
summaries and post to your learning journal
Analyze
–  Distill main topics, issues, problems, developments
Present
–  Prepare a structured PowerPoint presentation, deliver in
class
Reflect
–  Edit a section of the class Wiki on this topic: a brief, but
structured presentation with a short intro and a separate
section for each critical topic, issue, or system

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Final Project – Both PhD and MS

Research or practice the Social Web!

Final project options
–  A small individual research project
–  A pair research or development project
–  A group development project - lead a team of
MS students
•  Mash-ups, Facebook APIs, DRUPAL, …
–  Second classroom presentation
–  Projects and progress will be reviewed through
the course