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Collaborative writing using Delicious and Google Docs Vance Stevens, 2011 International TESOL Conference in New Orleans Thursday, March 17, 2011, 3:00 to 430 p.m. 90 min. Intermediate Computer Workshop Vance’s presentations online at http://slideshare.net/vances

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This workshop seeks to show participants how students can work on projects and writing tasks using Google Docs as an online space for collaborative writing. Participants are shown 16 steps whereby students share spaces with one another, publish to Internet, and share their URLs via TinyURL and tagging in Delicious.

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Collaborative writing using Delicious and Google Docs

Vance Stevens, 2011International TESOL Conference in New Orleans

Thursday, March 17, 2011, 3:00 to 430 p.m.90 min. Intermediate Computer Workshop

Vance’s presentations online at http://slideshare.net/vances

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Presentation materials in MoodlePI Moodle: http://pimoodle.org • Computing, then …• Technology for Language Learning

http://www.pimoodle.org/course/view.php?id=69

You are welcome toEnter this MoodleAs a GUEST

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Social networking materials

Some of the handouts used for TLL students in the IE/TLL course• Instructions for Google Docs and TinyURLs

http://www.pimoodle.org/file.php/69/TLL_Google_Docs/GoogleDocs2010.pdf

• Introduction to Delicoushttp://www.pimoodle.org/file.php/69/TLL_Delicious/delicious2010oct20.pdf

• Team building with Delicious / Google Docshttp://www.pimoodle.org/mod/resource/view.php?inpopup=true&id=4944

• Team collaboration exercise http://www.pimoodle.org/file.php/69/Team_Building/Team_Collaboration_gdocs_delicious.pdf

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Basic precepts

To teach is to • Model• Demonstrate

To learn is to• Practice• Reflect

What we call a teacher is really just a “master learner”

(paraphrased from David Warlick)

I love to learn …I just hate to be taught!

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Multiliteraces / Multimodalities

• Howard Reingold’s 5 literacies skills– Attention– Participation– Collaboration– Crap detection– Network awareness

http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?article=111-1&section=articles

One indispensible participatory tool• Screenshots created

with Jinghttp://jingproject.com

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What you can learn in this workshop

How to use Google Docs• Create one• Share it• Publish it• See its history

How to use Delicous• Tagging• Aggregation• Search• Collaboration

I’m using two tags today• tesol11rocks• vances Delicious link:

http://delicious.com/tesol11rocks+vances

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To participate actively now …

• Create these accounts– For Google Docs

Use (or create) an account in Googlehttp://gmail.com

– For DeliciousUse (or create) an account in Yahoohttp:yahoo.com

– Twitter http://twitter.com

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Let’s begin

Approximately 16 stepsConsult your handouts

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1. Create a new Google Doc

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2. Give your Google Doc a name

• http://screencast.com/t/0DfaTj9Iio

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3. Create new Collection (Folder)

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4. Find your Items not in Folders

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5. View all Files

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6. Drag Latest Files to Folders

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7. Access Sharing Settings on Doc

• http://screencast.com/t/n4dtyy1aj

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8. Add people’s GMAIL addresses

• http://screencast.com/t/vsJliBhPX6LO

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9. Set advanced permissions

• http://screencast.com/t/GU7Fh12P

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10. Publish to the Web

• http://screencast.com/t/kG3PVNxizfO

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11. Start publishing

• http://screencast.com/t/rcBl1n0J

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12. Are you sure? OK

• http://screencast.com/t/JEsv2pvxXfp

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13. Copy the Document Link

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14. Create a Tiny URL from that Link

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15. Tag that Link in Delicious

• Create a class / project tag for this purpose– Tesol11rocks– vances

• Under NOTES paste your TinyURL link

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16. Aggregation

• Find everyone’s links in Delicioushttp://www.delicious.com/tag/tesol11rocks

• Tweet it with a hash tag; e.g. #tesol11rocksSearch: http://twitter.com/#search?q=tesol11rocks

• Check it out with Spezify; e.g.http://spezify.com/#/tesol11rocks

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Tagging in Action

The Writingmatrix project• http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com

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Happy Tagging

Vance Stevenshttp://adVancEducation.blogspot.com