April Galyardt - Turadg Aleahmad

ONLINE TEACHER SOCIAL NETWORKS

Classroom 2.0 is a social network site designed to help teachers incorporate more web 2.0 technology into their classrooms and their professional development. The network currently boasts 17000 members.

Research Questions
Who is interacting? How do people use the network? What content is owing through the network? Who is at the center of the network? Who is providing the content?

Patterns of Interaction
Two types of interaction appear to dominate: Forum discussions Myspace style homepage activity These 2 networks appear to operate separately.

People in the Network

Visitors to Classroom 2.0 based on IP address

Members come from 115 distinct countries, with the most members coming from the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada and India Within the rst 3 weeks from its founding, members of Classroom 2.0 were interacting with others around the globe

Black - Forum posts Blue - Homepage walls Red - Blog posts Purple - Photos & Videos Orange - other

2000 Most recent actions on the network

Created with Graphviz, available at www.graphviz.org

Content of Forum Discussions - Latent Dirichelet Analysis

Tech Equipment Google Blogging Getting Started Blogging Wikis Web 2.0 Communication Social Networking Podcasting Discussion Forums Graphics Classroom 2.0 Software General Media (How-to) General Web Specic Vocab Reading Foreign Language Math + Virtual Worlds Science Games & Kids (Young Kids) Has anybody tried this? Im looking for suggestions? I created ____ Visit my url What Ive been up to How have you solved this? General Teacher Discussion Lesson Planning Parental Involvement Help/Collaboration Requests Setting Up Collaboration Volunteering Future of Education (practice) Education in Society Education Leadership & System Professional Development Teacher Training Pedagagy Virtual Tools in the Classroom Money & Grants Obtaining Classroom Computers Using Computers Announcement of Conference or Event Event Scheduling Course Advertisement In or Going to Graduate School
GibbsLDA++ by Xuan-Hieu Phan and Cam-Tu Nguyen http://gibbslda.sourceforge.net/

Created with Google Earth and custom software to be released open source

Forum posts tend to be long and in-depth.

Post Length
500 Mean is 124

Frequency

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Advisors: Stephen Fienberg, Brian Junker, Mary Kay Stein Thanks to Steve Hargadon, founder of the Classroom 2.0 network Supported in part by IES Training Grant (# R305B040063) L. Adamic, J. Zhang, E. Bakshy, & M. Ackerman: Knowledge sharing and yahoo answers: everyone knows something. In WWW 08: Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web, pages 665674, New York, NY, USA, 2008. ACM. D. Blei, A. Ng, M. Jordan: Latent Dirichlet allocation. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 3:933-1022, 2003. A. McCallum, X. Wang, N. Mohanty: Joint Group and Topic Discovery from Relations and Text. Statistical Network Analysis: Models, Issues and New Directions, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4503, pp. 28-44, (Book chapter), 2007.