Engaging Collaborative Writing through Social Networking Vance Stevens presented with Nelba Quintana at WorldCALL 2008 Fukuoka Japan “HANDOUTS” ARE HERE: http://www.wix.com/vances/worldcall08 http://slideshare.net/vances SESSION RECORDING: http://tinyurl.com/5bdpvh 1 This version August 6, 2008
At the August 6-9, 2008 WorldCALL congress in Fukuoka, Japan, http://www.j-let.org/~wcf/modules/tinyd0/. My 45 min. session on Engaging collaborative writing through social networking is listed in the program http://www.j-let.org/~wcf/docs/Web_20080728.htm on Aug 6 from 17:25 to 18:10 Tokyo time, http://tinyurl.com/6bjk7r; or Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 08:15 GMT. The presentation can be accessed also via http://www.wix.com/vances/worldcall08
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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
• 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
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