WorldCall Fukuoka 2008

Engaging Collaborative Writing through Social Networking

Vance Stevenspresented with Nelba Quintana

at WorldCALL 2008 Fukuoka Japan

“HANDOUTS” ARE HERE: http://www.wix.com/vances/worldcall08

http://slideshare.net/vancesSESSION RECORDING: http://tinyurl.com/5bdpvh

1This version August 6, 2008

You are welcome and have permission to

• Record this session as you like• Post / access the recording after the session• Take pictures of the presenters• Post your pictures online (e.g. Flickr)• Tag them 'worldcall08' so they will aggregate here:

http://technorati.com/photos/tag/worldcall08• Reuse any material you find here under creative

commons license 3.0 (non-commercial, free to share/remix)http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Shift Happens

http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/

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10 Aspects of Paradigm Shift• Pedagogy:

Didactic --> constructivist• Modeling:

Do as I say --> AND as I do• Transfer:

Technology enjoyed at leisure is F.U.N. --> also, applied to professional practice

• Trepidation:Will they find out? --> ok to say “I don’t know!”

• Literacy: Print literacy --> multiliteracies

• Heuristics: Client server --> peer to peer

• Sharing: Copyrighted --> creative commons

• Classification: Taxonomies --> folksonomies

• Directionality:Push --> pull

• Ownership:Proprietary --> open source

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Info Management vs. Overload

3 keys to collaboration and control of information resources online

• Syndicationutilizing RSS

• AggregationRSS plus tagging

• MashupContent aggregated and repurposed into reusable learning objects

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The tag cloud is from Wordle

Bob Sprankle tutorial: http://bobsprankle.com/bitbybit_wordpress/?p=461Alan Levine example (above): http://cogdogblog.com/2008/06/14/wordle/

Create your own: http://wordle.net/

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Syndication - 1RSS feeds

generated by• blogs• listservs• Podcasts• online

journals• online

newsfeeds• del.icio.us

and Technorati searches

http://tesl-ej.org/

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Syndication - 2Here's a blog providing many ways to subscribe –

Incidentally, this posting is an interview with Vance Stevens discussing Writingmatrix

http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=145

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Aggregation & RSS

Any of these can be subscribed to in

• Bloglines• Google

Reader• Pageflakes• Netvibes • Etc.

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Aggregation: TaggingTaxonomy vs. Folksonomy

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Mashup: e.g. Pageflakeshttp://www.pageflakes.com/webheadsblogs/2338071

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WritingmatrixThese concepts applied with students ...

View from Doris Molero in Venezuela: http://tinyurl.com/5fnbgk

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WritingmatrixInvolved bloggers in • Argentina• Venezuela• SloveniaUtilized • tagging • social networking tools to enable students to• locate each other's blogs • interact with selected individuals

thus identified as being of similar age and interests.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHjlCY0BCNo

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Technique

Students encouraged • To blog their

interests and concerns• To tag relevant posts with an identifier

unique to the project• To Use Technorati to identify posts

of participants in other countries

http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/

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Outcomes in Theory

Students are motivated to form writing partnerships• spontaneously• in projects set by teachers collaborating in the project

A final aspect of the project is to have students• explore areas of mutual interest through tagging some

of their and each other's posts in Del.icio.us, • then discern who else is reading and tagging their

posts

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Outcome in Practice: It Works!

Ronaldo commented on this posting:http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2008/02/all-i-know-about-blogging-and.html

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Pause in the proceedings

To hear from Nelba in Fukuokaand Doris in Venezuela

Sasa in Slovenia, Rita in Argentinaif there is time, if we can connect

via Elluminate, http://tinyurl.com/y3eh

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Sample Applications of Web 2.0 plus aggregation: WorldCALL08

• Email to Posterous

• Posted to Blog

• Directed to Twitter

http://webheadatwc3.posterous.com/well-try-to-connect-via-wiziq

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Aggregating Twitter - 1Crowdstatus

Some of the aggregations and mashups possible with Twitter have become quite interesting and useful

http://crowdstatus.com/Learning with Computerscrowd.aspx

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Aggregating Twitter -2Twemes

Twemes aggregation of the tag worldcall08

http://twemes.com/worldcall08More ideas: http://del.icio.us/vancestevens/twitter

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Aggregation through Technorati -1

• Search blog posts for tags

• Set to ANY authority

• Monitor search results in feed reader such as Bloglines or Google Reader

http://technorati.com/tag/worldcall2008?authority=n&language=n

Tutorial on setting results to ANY authorityhttp://screencast.com/t/M33ixayEN2J

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Aggregation through Technorati -2

• Monitor search results in a feed reader such as Bloglines or Google Reader

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Aggregating YOUR Feeds - 1e.g. del.icio.us to Friendfeed

Posts to delicious and other tools can aggregate to Friendfeed

http://del.icio.us/vancestevens and http://friendfeed.com/vance

This post todel.icio.us hasregistered inFriendfeed

Students'

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Aggregating YOUR Feeds - 2Timelines with Dipity and Swurl

http://grahamstanley.swurl.com/timeline/2008

http://www.dipity.com/user/michaelc/timeline/My_LifeAggregated content appears in mashups

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Mashup YOUR FeedsDiigo and Webslides

• Import your del.icio.us bookmarks into Diigo

• OR use Diigo as your social bookmarker

• Order selected bookmarks in Webslides

• Create interactive slide shows

• Interactive because viewers can annotate shows publicly or privately

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMHCrd9RNCw

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Example Aggregation: Connectivism & Connective Knowledge

http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/

http://del.icio.us/tag/cck08

RSS feedsand Tags

http://del.icio.us also generates an RSS feed

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http://technorati.com/search/cck08?authority=a4&language=en

Example Mashup: Connectivism & Connective Knowledge

Also follow in Google Reader or Bloglines

http://www.pageflakes.com/ltc

This free course facilitatedby George Siemens and Stephen Downes startsSept 8, 2008

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Video introduction linked from page shown: http://youtube.com/watch?v=W2j9qw-A0NM

In conclusion: “HANDOUTS” ARE HERE: http://www.wix.com/vances/worldcall08

http://slideshare.net/vances

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