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A few notes about online learning and the future of teachingeduOnline

TREBOR SCHOLZDepartment of Culture & Media Studies

Eugene Lang College, The New School

lastupdate:October19,2009

http://globalnerdy.com/2007/07/23/kids-say-email-is-only-for-talking-to-the-man/

making classes more relevant to the interests and modes of communication used by students

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content in many placesFacebook

Delicious

Seesmic

Twitter

Flickr

YouTube

Blogs

Tweetworks

Wikis

Yammer

Podcast

How easy is it to find your content?Does it reside in places where your students gather?

web page culture

Social bookmarking

GamesVirtual Worlds

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Participation in New Social Media

1) Competence and skill to collaborate with peers in public

2) Critical evaluation of information sources

3) Capability to use instruments that enable collaboration

4) Playful experiments with new social media as a way of getting things done

5) Ability to effectively “socialize” your ideas

5 Competencies forParticipation Literacy

SELECTED TOOLSFacebook Pages, LinkedIn social networking service

Blogs blogging

Ning.com social networking, media sharing

Twitter micro-bloggingTweetworks: Twitter threaded conversationsTweetworks

micro-bloggingTweetworks: Twitter threaded conversations

Flickr photo

YouTube video, media sharing-YouTube only short video-Viddler allows private video, large files-Vimeo- large files, bad for slides, great for live video-Blip.tv high quality large video possible

Viddler.com

video, media sharing-YouTube only short video-Viddler allows private video, large files-Vimeo- large files, bad for slides, great for live video-Blip.tv high quality large video possible

Blip.tv

video, media sharing-YouTube only short video-Viddler allows private video, large files-Vimeo- large files, bad for slides, great for live video-Blip.tv high quality large video possibleVimeo

video, media sharing-YouTube only short video-Viddler allows private video, large files-Vimeo- large files, bad for slides, great for live video-Blip.tv high quality large video possible

Tumblr

Delicious social/bookmarking

Seesmic video conversations (asynchronous)

Profcast video casts/podcasts

Slideshare sharing

Seesmic conversation

Zoho collaborative writing

Google Reader RSS

Technorati Search

PbWiki wiki

Voicethread audio and video conversation (asynchronous)

Skype video conversations (synchronous)

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“Instructors set aside a few hours each week for students to drop by for conversation. These conversations can cover anything from a review of course content to the latest research findings or career advice.”

Open Office Hours on Facebook

Selected tools and services

Profcast to record lecture slides with audio (video casts)

ScreenFlow to record computer screen (segments of DVDs, screen interaction)

Selected tools and services

Video discussion of readings and hosting of guest speakers with Seesmic.tv

Selected tools and services

  Twitter

uchicagolaw: “Twitter allows us to give prospective students a bite-sized glimpse into what life here is like.”

selected from: http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2009/01/04/chronicle_hlp.html#comment52073

• Chat with your professor or other students after class

• Collaborate on a project. Start a conversation thread.

• In-class back channel

• Follow the tweets of professionals

• Share your teaching resources beyond the class room

Selected tools and services

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Multi-user Virtual Environment for Learning

Gamesandvirtualworldsas“gateways”topar6cipa6onliteracythatfostercollabora6veproblemsolving

Selected tools and services

Social networking sites for groups with NING

Selected tools and services

Cataloguing Book cataloguing parties in faculty’s houses

http://librarything.com/http://www.librarything.com/profile/trebor

Selected tools and services

Core Commitments for Online Education

1) Underwriting students for the commons

2) Open web standards for distributed, participatory learning

3) Digital libraries, learning communities, free & open journals

4) Free software

5) Mobile learning

6) Update peer review for the 21. century

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Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Firefox The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, weʼve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.

AviaryPhoto-editing, logos, web templates, filters, color palettes, screen capture & more at Aviary.com

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

OpenOffice.orgis a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

Miro is the free open-source video platform.

VLC Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more.

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Free and Open Source Software

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Most of our content should be available to all.

MIT faculty open access to their scholarly articles

March 20, 2009http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/open-access-0320.html

OpenCourseWare: Toward a Culture of Sharing

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http://sharewidely.org/

SHARE WIDELY tool to share and collaboratively build syllabi

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http://beta.selfplatform.eu/

http://firstmonday.org/

Open access peer reviewed journalsexperiments with new models of peer review

http://ijlm.net/

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http://slideshare.net

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Pull all college-related content together in a social media dash board NetvibesSocial Media Dash Board

http://www.mogulus.com/thefutureofnewsHarvard University live cast of the Future of News course

tools: Ustream, Livestream

Live stream and archive large university lectures

http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/

What Can Be Done Right Now?In the classroom (Free software, Seesmic, Slideshare, SMC, blogs, wikis, Zoho, Screenflow, podcasts, video casts, live streaming)

Guest speakers via Skype or Seesmic

LibraryThing: Cataloguing party with students. Reference personal library of faculty online

Social media dash board to bring together social web presence of college in one place

Official Flickr stream and dedicated YouTube channel (photo gallery of all people at Lang)

Live stream and archive large university lectures

Twitter for administrative purposes: Twtpoll (quick feedback from students)

Twitter account to tweet all university events(calendar as twitter stream)

Students connect through Twitter, Flickr, Netvibes (i.e., freshmen with seniors, alumni with current students)

video essays

Mid-TermEducate faculty and students in the use of social media tools and services

Long-TermOpen Access: Invite faculty to make their syllabi and all of their research available to the public

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Twitter: trebors

Blog: http://www.collectivate.net/journalisms

Delicious: http://del.icio.us/trebor

Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/treborscholz

LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com/profile/trebor

Trebor Scholzscholzt@newschool.edu

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