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Learning and Teaching with Social

Technologies

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Change Drivers

• Understanding of learning– Vygotsky, Bandura, Wittgenstein

• Pace of knowledge growth– U Berkeley, ASTD, Bontis

• Development of technology (ubiquity)

• Expectations of students• “The Great Complexification”

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The Read/Write Web or Web 2.0

Web 1.0

The web is a publishing medium where some write and others read.

Web 2.0

The web is an interactive medium where all users read and write, interact, create and collaborate.

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Defining social software

• Shirky: something that can be spammed

• Boyd: it’s the opposite of project-oriented collaboration tools that places people into groups. SS supports the desire of individuals to be pulled into groups to achieve goals”

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Chat

• Instant messaging• Internet relay chat• VoIP

Firefox (included), MSN Messenger, Skype, GoogleTalk

Uses: Group work, quick conversations

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BloggingWrite, share, reflect

Heavy – K-12, corporations, media

Services: Blogger, Movabletype, Myspace, MSN Spaces

In classroom: reflective learning, central point for info sharing, reactions for group discussions

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Tagging & Social Bookmarking

• What a resource means to me

• An alternative taxonomy

Del.icio.usDigg

Uses: Pattern recognition, group pulse, casual information sharing, serendipitous learning

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Wikis

• Collaborative writing, thinking

• Jotspot (Google is at it again)• Writely• Wikispaces

Uses: “knowledge blender”, collaboration, brainstorming, content creation (wikipedia, writing a book, etc.)

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Podcasts

Audio – creating, sharing

Odeo.com, iTunes and universities (lectures)

Uses: broadcasting, lectures, adding additional dimensions to learning, present foundational elements

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Video Online

• Youtube (go Google!)• Google Video• Sharkle• Blip.tv

Uses: Lectures, link to other resources, add additional dimension to learning, provide “real” views of what may be theoretical

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Integrated suites

• Blogging with community formation…tagging, etc.

• Community formation• Manage digital identity• ePortfolio

• Example: Elggspaces (free 50 user space)

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Content is a conduit for conversation

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Bringing it together

• RSS

• Bloglines• Google Reader• Desktop Aggregators

Why? – aggregate conversations from large group of learners, connect learners with sources of ongoing learning

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Ok, but how do I know what’s going on in the

“ecology”?

• The “live web”• Technorati• Icerocket• Feedster• …and of course, Google

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To continue

• ConnectED

– Grassroots knowledge sharing community

– U of M network– Share ideas, experiences, problems,

challenges, opportunities, theories