Virtual WorldsAgumented Reality

Social Networksas

Educational MediaBill Sams

Obsam1 Canettiehttp://www.slideshare.net/samsw12/e-tech-10-rev-3

samsw@ohio.edu

February 3, 2009

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Beginning The First Decade of the 21st Century•Y2K

•Dot com

•Federal Budget in surplus

•Strong newspaper industry

•Stock Market heading toward 14,000

•Real Estate prices will only go up

•The human genome remains a mystry

•A country at peace

Beginning The Second Decade of the 21st Century

•Social Networks

•Avatars and Virtual Worlds

•Augmented Reality

•Renewable energy

•Gene therapy

RealityThe future ain’t what it used to be…Yogi Berra

•Physical world is only known by our five senses

•Synthetic world is known currently by three senses (see, hear, touch = haptics) and eventually smell. Taste is very complex.

•5 Physical + 3 Synthetic Senses = Personal “Reality”

New Media Literacies 1• Play – capacity to experiment with one’s

surroundings as a form of problem-solving

• Performance – ability to adopt alternative identies for the purpose of improvisation and discovery

• Simulation – ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes

•Appropriation – ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content

• from Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century,

• by Henry Jenkins, with Ravi Purushotma, Katherine Clinton, Margaret Weigel, and Alice J. Robison

New Media Literacies 2•Collective Intelligence – ability to pool

knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal

•Multitasking – ability to scan one’s environment and shirt focus as needed to salient details

• Judgment – Ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources

•Distributed Cognition – ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities

• from Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century,

• B y Henry Jenkins, with Ravi Purushotma, Katherine Clinton, Margaret Weigel, and Alice J. Robison

New Media Literacies 3• Transmedia Navigation - ability to follow the flow

of stories and information across multiple modalities

• Networking – ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information

• Negotiation – ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms

• Visualization – ability to interpret and create data representations for the purposes of expressing ideas, finding patterns, and identifying trends

from Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, by Henry Jenkins, with Ravi Purushotma, Katherine Clinton, Margaret Weigel, and Alice J. Robison

Virtual Worlds

• For the young

• Exponential growth

• Multiple genres

• A “reality”

Virtual Worlds

Q1 09 = 400 million

Q4 09 = 800 million

ParticipantsSource: Kzero

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Virtual Worlds by Sector

Virtual Worlds for Education

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3D Virtual Worlds

Virtual Worlds

• For the young

• Exponential growth

• Multiple genres

• A “reality”

Augmented Reality

•Connecting the physical world with the digital world:

•Mobile devices

•Digital content: print, audio, video, avatars

•Social networks

Google EarthColumbus Convention

Center

iPhone Augmented Reality App

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality

Social Networks

•Transforming the human interface

Social Networks•3 yrs old

•250 active networks

•Facebook = 300 million

•MySpace = 254 million

•Habbo = 117 million, 13 & older

•Linked In = 50 million

•aSmallWorld = 250,000 European jet set and social elite. Invitation only.

Social Networks

New Models for Education

Bill’s personal predictions

•Transformative change always comes from someone with a different model

•P-16 Education is a $1.6 trillion market

•Disney, Sony, Apple, Google, Cisco, Microsoft, IBM have a different model

•Curriculum will be provided to students for FREE for life...advertising model

•Assessment will be real time and for life…association model

Lots of Free Content

State Of Ohio iTunes U

Merlot

Neat Free Content and Tool

Lots of Free Tools• Blogging

• Micro Blogging

• Collaborative Calendaring

• Collaborative Mind Mapping

• Podcasting

• RSS Readers

• Photo Sharing

• Screen Cast Sharing

• Web Page Development

• Presentation Sharing

• Video Sharing

• Social Bookmarking

• Collaborative Editing

• Collaborative Presentations

• Social Networking

• Personalized Start Pages

• Integrated Social Collaboration Environments

Digital Learning 1Blogging

Blogger http://www.blogger.com/

TypePad http://www.typepad.com/

Edublogs http://edublogs.org/

Collaborative Calendaring

Google Calendar http://www.google.com/calendar/

Podcasting

Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Gabcast http://www.gabcast.com/

Digital Learning 2RSS Readers

Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader/view/?

Collaborative Mind Mapping

MindMeister http://www.mindmeister.com/

Bubblus http://bubbl.us/

Mindomo http://www.mindomo.com/

FreeMind http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download

Micro-Blogging

Twitter http://twitter.com/

Digital Learning 3Photo Sharing

Picasa http://picasa.google.com/

Flickr http://www.flickr.com/

Screencast Sharing

Screentoaster http://www.screentoaster.com/

Jing http://www.jingproject.com/

Presentation Sharing

Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/

Content Management

Drupal http://drupal.org/

Digital Learning 4Video Sharing

YouTube http://www.youtube.com/

YouCube http://www.universaloscillation.com/youcube/

SchoolTube http://www.schooltube.com/

Social Bookmarking

Del.icio.us http://delicious.com/

Collaborative Editing

Google Docs docs.google.com/

ZumoDrive http://www.zumodrive.com/

PBworks http://pbworks.com/

Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/

Digital Learning 5Collaborative Presentations

Voicethread http://voicethread.com/#home

Social Networking

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/

Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/

Ning http://www.ning.com/

Personalized Start Pages

iGoogle www.google.com/ig

Social Learning 6Integrated Social/Collaboration

Environment

Google Apps http://www.google.com/apps/

Elgg http://elgg.org/

Google Wave…beta by invitation

Virtual Worlds

Second Lifehttp://secondlife.com/support/downloads/

Social Learning 7Maps

Google

Earth http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

Maps http://maps.google.com/

Microsoft

Bing Maps http://www.bing.com/maps/

Photosynth http://photosynth.net/

Virtual WorldsAgumented Reality

Social Networksas

Educational MediaBill Sams

Obsam1 Canettiehttp://www.slideshare.net/samsw12/e-tech-10-rev-3

samsw@ohio.edu