{"id":1237,"date":"2016-07-14T09:46:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T08:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/socmedhe\/?page_id=1237"},"modified":"2016-10-18T13:38:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T12:38:34","slug":"16-periscope-vs-facebook-live-it-isnt-a-grudge-match","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/socmedhe\/16-periscope-vs-facebook-live-it-isnt-a-grudge-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Periscope vs Facebook Live &#8211; it isn\u2019t a grudge match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Andrew Smith<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>@teraknor<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Open University<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Periscope and Facebook Live both offer educators an opportunity to extend their<\/span> \u2018typical\u2019 teaching and learning experience into the domains occupied by different social media paradigms. Both are live video streaming technologies &#8211; enabling individuals to broadcast live events in an (almost) real time format.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Each entrenched in affordances of their own host system &#8211; Periscope is for Twitter, as Facebook Live is for Facebook. Avoiding the obvious, it is clear that Facebook and Twitter serve different social media communities. However, with tools available to interconnect Facebook and Twitter. Live streaming Internet broadcast quality video content can transcend either platform and the behaviours of their respective communities of practice (Lave 1991) .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Teaching networking has already been accomplished using Periscope &#8211; by virtue that this platform was released a clear year ahead of Facebook Live. Work has been accomplished using this platform as a tool to reach and teach prospective Network Engineers basic practical skills in the domain of Cisco routing (Smith 2015).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Linked to the Teaching by Social Media process, already being researched and developed within a distance learning context. The teaching team were able to integrate a series of live sessions. Presenting a comparable set of online practical sessions via Facebook live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Using similar sessions, offered an opportunity existed to critically evaluate the respective strengths and weaknesses of each platform. From technological affordances to audience engagement and persistence of the video post broadcast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Following the first five from the former Periscope weekly sequence (October 2015) the work presented via Facebook Live in May 2016 &#8211; covering:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">IP addressing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Subnetting<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Static routes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Routing using RIP<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Routing using OSPF<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">This session critically compares the affordances offered by Periscope and Facebook Live &#8211; on a 1:1 session basis as well as how:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">The different audiences behaved and the impact on student engagement?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Technology strengths and weaknesses?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Reach and persistence, what was the impact?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Audience perception.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\"><em><strong>Lave, J. et al (1991),<\/strong> <\/em>Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, p.91<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\"><em><strong>Smith, A (2015),<\/strong> <\/em>Periscope into the world of Social Media Education for Cisco Network Engineers, SocMedHE15, Conference Proceedings, 18th December, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Smith \u2013 @teraknor The Open University Periscope and Facebook Live both offer educators an opportunity to extend their \u2018typical\u2019 teaching and learning experience into the domains occupied by different social media paradigms. 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