Monday, December 8, 2008

If I were Steve...

If I were Steve, I would keep this class pretty much the same. I might consider moving the Boyd readings to earlier in the course because to someone with no understanding of terms like friends and forums and networks, it might be a good introduction to these terms and the readings might set the tone for the rest of what would be covered in the semester which is that the most important part of social software is that it is social.

As many of us have expressed before, I would pass on Brown & DuGuid and Anderson or shorten the number of required readings from those books.

Other than that, I wouldn't change anything. The course is well planned, well designed and structured in such a way as to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of social software. It provides the hands on experience necessary to give students the confidence to use these tools on their own outside of class even if they have no prior technological experience.

Amazing job and thanks, Steve!!!

No comments: