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+====== Education ======
+===== Practical/interesting syllabus materials? =====
+<code>
+Subject:   Re: practical/interesting syllabus materials?
+From:   "Alan Neustadtl" <alan.neustadtl@GMAIL.COM>
+Date:   Tue, June 25, 2013 17:04
+</code>
+Natalie,
+If you and your students hace access to MS Excel you can use the an add-in
+called NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) for collecting, analyzing, and
+visualizing networks.  Bernie Hogans Facebook generated data can easily be
+imported to NodeXL and it is really easy to use the built-in data
+collectors to get twitter, youtube, and flickr data.  You can see lots of
+examples at the NodeXL gallery (
+http://www.nodexlgraphgallery.org/Pages/Default.aspx).  Also, Marc Smith,
+who is the head of the group working on NodeXL has office hours using
+Google+ where you could get some support.
+Personally, as others have suggested, having students look at their own
+Facebook networks is really educational and illuminating.  I am also a fan
+of checking out current events using NodeXL and twitter.
+Best,
+Alan
+<code>
+Subject:   Re: practical/interesting syllabus materials?
+From:   "Ian McCulloh" <cusum6@GMAIL.COM>
+Date:   Tue, June 25, 2013 16:21
+</code>
+I did something similar for an intro psych course (all first year students).  I
+showed Krackhardt's network of centrality measures and made an analogy to mean,
+median, & mode.  I then showed them how Newman grouping worked.  I took them through
+an activity where they downloaded their Facebook network, ran centrality measures
+(they are maximally central), then had them delete themselves, run centrality and
+subgroup analysis using the visualizer in ORA.  There was an immediate intuitive
+understanding of centrality, structure, subgroups, and it tapped into their interest
+effectively.
+If I were to do this again, I would add Lothar's idea of also taking the bipartite
+agent to 'like' page, folding it, and comparing it to the agent by agent network.
+While I think it is critical to include mathematical calculations of network metrics
+in a network course, I think the above approach is good for familiarization.
+Best of luck!
+Ian McCulloh
+<code>
+Subject:   Re: practical/interesting syllabus materials?
+From:   "Eric C Jones" <ecojones@UNCG.EDU>
+Date:   Tue, June 25, 2013 16:17
+</code>
+Hi Natalie,
+SocioScope (socioworks.com) uses attribute and alter lists and tie lists
+that you type into it, to collect data directly in the software so there is
+no need to manipulate data formats to get data into a typical network
+analysis package. There are some  flexible visualization capabilities in
+it, but no analytical capabilities. This works very well for seminar-type
+sessions involving social networks, especially when you want to actually
+generate a social network from scratch but you're not going into the
+descriptive or statistical metrics that social network analysis algorithms
+generate. Good luck!
+eric
+<code>
+Eric C Jones
+UNCG Department of Anthropology
+Spring Garden St, 426 Graham Bldg
+Greensboro NC 27412-5001
+email. ecojones@uncg.edu
+</code>
+<code>
+Subject:   Re: practical/interesting syllabus materials?
+From:   "Alexander Semenov" <semenoffalex@GMAIL.COM>
+Date:   Tue, June 25, 2013 15:21
+</code>
+Hi, Natalie.
+I think, that playing around with their Facebook ego-network should
+entertain them a bit. You should try Bernie Hogan's NameGenWeb application
+for that:
+https://apps.facebook.com/namegenweb/
+Another interesting tool for social network exploration is theyrule.net,
+which shows how companies are connected through common board members (and
+vice versa):
+http://theyrule.net/
+Hope that helps,
+Alex.