April 2, 2009

SESSION ORIENTATION

Social Networking Tools-Web 2.0- significance Tools of 2.0 (Blogs/Wikis/Pod/VodCasts/Notification/Tagging)You and Web 2.0Why bother?

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Connected Classrooms Program

The Web 2.0 LandscapeThe Web 2.0 Landscape

Web1.0>Web1.0>

Evolution

Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0

pull push both

Fordist development Perpetual beta Ubiquitous computing

Centralised authorship Social/distributed authorship

Associative authorship

Proprietary products Opensource Hybrid business models (VRM)

Old paradigms of publishing

Just in time publishing Predictive publishing

Passive sites Dynamic networks Intelligent systems

Web 1.0>2Web 1.0>2

Learning Tools Project

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BlogsBlogs

Micro BlogsMicro Blogs

Video tutorialTwitter for TeachersDMoore

Wikis

School WikisSchool Wikis

Everyone can publish, and everyone will 120K blogs are created daily — most of them with an audience of one No one argues the value of free speech, but the vast majority of stuff we find on the web is useless

Two OpenSource WikisTwo OpenSource Wikis

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Twitter Twitter

Other social Networking toolsOther social Networking tools

Video tutorialTwitter for TeachersDMoore

Infantalising the human brain

We’ve got mail...?We’ve got mail...?

Email is, let's just accept it, broken in concept and in practice. And that is why people have embraced Twitter so wholeheartedly. It lets them talk only to the people they want to, and to swap information as they like. You can even create secret networks within it – just set up a group of people with protected updates who only follow each other.

With all those other applications, you get to choose what appears. Twitter? You get to choose who you follow. (Even, if you want, who gets to follow you.) On Facebook, you choose who is your friend, and how much of your profile they can see; you choose when you update stuff; whether you join groups; what emails you get.Instant messaging? You choose conversations, pick what your status is. Blogging? If you've nothing to write, you don't write. (And any sensible blog lets you either moderate comments first or delete them afterwards.)

My SpaceMy Space

IGoogle Page

POD/VODCATSPOD/VODCATS

My SpaceMy Space

MESSAGINGMESSAGING

References

Our investigations have shown that social software tools support a variety of ways of learning: sharing of resources (eg bookmarks, photographs), collaborative learning, problem-based and inquiry-based learning, reflective learning, and peer-to-peer learning.

Students gain transferable skills of team working, online collaboration, negotiation, and communication, individual and group reflection, and managing digital identities. Although these tools enhance a student’s sense of community, sharing and collaboration brings in additional responsibility and workload, which some students find inflexible and rather ‘forced’. The study found that students have concerns about privacy and the public nature of the tools for their academic activities.

JISC:2009

References

Social software is a class of networked tools that support and encourage individuals to learn together while retaining individual control over their time, space, presence, activity, identity and relationship (Anderson, 2005). Social software enablescommunication between groups where the members are made aware of what other groups are doing, and where each member of the group benefits. Further, social software allows gathering and sharing resources to inform others and receive feedback.

JISC:2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/mar/25/primary-schools-twitter-curriculum

To come…

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Free software and online tools for education After the TASITE AGM on March 5 2009

• Audacity [Audio recording, editing, [http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ]Scratch [Programmable animation http://scratch.mit.edu ]

• VLC Media Player[Media Player http://www.videolan.org/

• PhotoStoryhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

• Picasaphoto organiser www.picasa.com

• Game Maker Game Programming http://www.yoyogames.com

• Hot Potatoes [Quiz Maker http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

• Google Sketchup 3D modelling: [http://sketchup.google.com/]

• Movie Maker[http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx

• Open Office[Office suite http://www.openoffice.org/

• The Google suite -[Google docs, iGoogle etc[www.google.com

• Gimp [Image Manipulation http://www.gimp.org/

• edublogs[ www.edublogs.org

• Irfanview[Graphic viewer, editor http://www.irfanview.com

• wikispaces [ www.wikispaces.com

TwitterTwitter