learning technologies centre learning and teaching with social technologies
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Learning and Teaching with Social
Technologies
Learning Technologies Centrewww.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies
Change Drivers
• Understanding of learning– Vygotsky, Bandura, Wittgenstein
• Pace of knowledge growth– U Berkeley, ASTD, Bontis
• Development of technology (ubiquity)
• Expectations of students• “The Great Complexification”
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The Read/Write Web or Web 2.0
Web 1.0
The web is a publishing medium where some write and others read.
Web 2.0
The web is an interactive medium where all users read and write, interact, create and collaborate.
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Defining social software
• Shirky: something that can be spammed
• Boyd: it’s the opposite of project-oriented collaboration tools that places people into groups. SS supports the desire of individuals to be pulled into groups to achieve goals”
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Chat
• Instant messaging• Internet relay chat• VoIP
Firefox (included), MSN Messenger, Skype, GoogleTalk
Uses: Group work, quick conversations
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BloggingWrite, share, reflect
Heavy – K-12, corporations, media
Services: Blogger, Movabletype, Myspace, MSN Spaces
In classroom: reflective learning, central point for info sharing, reactions for group discussions
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Tagging & Social Bookmarking
• What a resource means to me
• An alternative taxonomy
Del.icio.usDigg
Uses: Pattern recognition, group pulse, casual information sharing, serendipitous learning
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Wikis
• Collaborative writing, thinking
• Jotspot (Google is at it again)• Writely• Wikispaces
Uses: “knowledge blender”, collaboration, brainstorming, content creation (wikipedia, writing a book, etc.)
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Podcasts
Audio – creating, sharing
Odeo.com, iTunes and universities (lectures)
Uses: broadcasting, lectures, adding additional dimensions to learning, present foundational elements
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Video Online
• Youtube (go Google!)• Google Video• Sharkle• Blip.tv
Uses: Lectures, link to other resources, add additional dimension to learning, provide “real” views of what may be theoretical
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Integrated suites
• Blogging with community formation…tagging, etc.
• Community formation• Manage digital identity• ePortfolio
• Example: Elggspaces (free 50 user space)
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Content is a conduit for conversation
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Bringing it together
• RSS
• Bloglines• Google Reader• Desktop Aggregators
Why? – aggregate conversations from large group of learners, connect learners with sources of ongoing learning
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Ok, but how do I know what’s going on in the
“ecology”?
• The “live web”• Technorati• Icerocket• Feedster• …and of course, Google
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To continue
• ConnectED
– Grassroots knowledge sharing community
– U of M network– Share ideas, experiences, problems,
challenges, opportunities, theories