loosely coupled teaching with "web 2.0" tools (2008)

Loosely Coupled Teaching with Web 2.0

Scott LeslieJared Stein

Goals

1. Examine uses of Web 2.0 in higher ed

2. Move from “neat tools” to educational goals

3. Discuss your examples, issues, and solutions

Luca Cremonini, http://www.railsonwave.it/2007/1/2/web-2-0-map/

Web 2.0 AttributesSources

• Tim O'Reilly "What is Web 2.0" http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

• Scott Leslie "How I learned to stop worrying and love web 2.0" http://solr.bccampus.ca/wiki/index.php/SREB_Web2.0

• Peter Rawsthorne “Teaching with Web 2.0” http://www.slideshare.net/prawsthorne/teaching-with-the-web-20-presentation

Simplicity and Joy of Use

User Generated Content / Participatory

User-Centric

Social

Perpetual Beta

Openness

Susceptible to Network Effects / Emergent

Syndication / Aggregation

Tagging

Embed-ability, Remix-ability

Educational Goals/Practices

Cognitive Mastery of Content

Think Critically / Solve Problems

Communicate Effectively

Creative and Innovative

Self-reliant / Independent

Collaborative

ICT / Information / media literate

Authentic

Personalized

Life-long learning

Sources

•21st Century Skills http://21stcenturyskills.org

•UNESCO “Education For All”

•http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=42579

•Economic Policy Institute http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/webfeatures_viewpoints_education_goals/

21st Century Skills: http://21stcenturyskills.orgUNESCO: http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=42579Economic Policy Institute: http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/webfeatures_viewpoints_education_goals/

Web 2.0 AttributesEducational Practices / Goals

Simplicity and Joy of UseCognitive Mastery of Content



User-Centric Communicate Effectively

Social Creative and Innovative

Perpetual Beta Self-reliant / Independent

Openness Collaborative



Syndication / Aggregation Authentic

Tagging Personalized


Life-long learning

Teaching with Blogs

• “Net-centric Economics course” - http://neteconomics.wordpress.com

• Seminar led by Kathy E. Gill, University of Washington

• Course Blog + Individual Student Blogs

• Blogs Used for Discussion, Book Reviews Reflection on Readings and Presentations

http://neteconomics.wordpress.com

Which apply here?Web 2.0 Attributes

Educational Practices / Goals













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Our TakeWeb 2.0 Attributes














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Discussion

• What other examples have you seen?– Barriers? Issues?– Solutions? Workarounds?

• If you were to implement this in your class…

Other Teaching w/ Blogs Examples

• UMW Blogs - http://umwblogs.org/– http://rocksoulprog.umwblogs.org/

• Intro to Open Ed - http://www.opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Intro_Open_Ed_Syllabus

• CIOS 246 - Implementing Internet Tools and Technologies (using Social Software) – http://community.uaf.edu/~chris/wiki/CIOS246-

S09/HomePage

• SO many more… see http://delicious.com/tag/edublogging

http://umwblogs.org/

http://rocksoulprog.umwblogs.org/

http://www.opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Intro_Open_Ed_Syllabus

http://www.opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Intro_Open_Ed_Syllabus

http://community.uaf.edu/~chris/wiki/CIOS246-S09/HomePage

http://community.uaf.edu/~chris/wiki/CIOS246-S09/HomePage

Some Tips/Solutions to Common Problems

• RSS readers– Google Reader - http://google.com/reader/– Bloglines - http://www.bloglines.com/

• “Webtop” Aggregators– Netvibes - http://www.netvibes.com/– PageFlakes - http://www.pageflakes.com/– Grazr - http://grazr.com/– Drupal, Wordpress

http://google.com/reader/

http://www.bloglines.com/

http://www.netvibes.com/

http://www.pageflakes.com/

http://grazr.com/

http://wikieducator.org

http://wikiversity.org

http://wikibooks.org

Wiki: Common Attributes

• Quick editing in real-time• Hypertext articles• Collaborative authoring• Anonymous or user accounts• Revision history• Discussion of articles/changes• Open/public

http://wikilearn.uvu.edu/cs

http://wikilearn.uvu.edu/dgm

http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/Mobile+Phones

http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/snipsnap/eng242-s05/space/start















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Discussion



http://wikispaces.com

http://pbwiki.com

Wiki Tips1. Start with collaboration2. Provide wiki editing reference

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Reference_card

Wiki Tips1. Start with collaboration2. Provide wiki editing reference3. Clear, problem-based instructions4. Tie to course objectives5. Authentic and applicable6. Create or edit?7. Citations and sources8. Process vs product9. Share

Teaching with Social Bookmarks

• KCB201 Virtual Cultures - second year undergraduate course on Virtual Cultures taught by Axel Bruns at the Queensland University of Technology

• http://delicious.com/tag/kcb201• Write-up at http://tinyurl.com/bvuwwa• Students were asked to use Delicious to identify 5

resources each week • They were also encouraged to seek out other users of

Delicious • After 6 weeks, students compiled selection of links

along with details of three other posters and submitted this for assessment

• Criteria included measures of consistency, quality and scholarship of resources as well as effective use of tagging and demonstrated understanding of taxonomies

http://tinyurl.com/bvuwwa

http://delicious.com/tag/kcb201















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Discussion – Social Bookmarks



Other Social Bookmarking Examples

• Michael Wesch’s Digital Ethonography Course - http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=199

Social Bookmarking Tips and Tricks

• Simple Ways to Aggregate and Syndicate– Grazr – http://grazr.com/– Feed2js - http://feed2js.org/

• Diigo - http://www.diigo.com/• Trailfire - http://trailfire.com/ • Zotero - http://www.zotero.org/

http://grazr.com/

http://www.diigo.com/

http://trailfire.com/

http://www.zotero.org/



Online Office Apps

Google Docs in Plain Englishhttp://www.commoncraft.com/video-

googledocs

http://zoho.com

http://buzzword.acrobat.com

Online Office: Common Attributes

• Account-based• Online authoring• Docs, and spreadsheets,

presentations, forms• File import/export• Share view with others• Share editing with others

http://docs.google.com

David Wiley’s Intro to Open Edhttp://open.byu.edu/ipt692r-wiley/

Collaborative Projects

Peer Review

Maniuplate Web Data

• Formula =importHTML, importXML

Maniuplate Web Data

• Formula =GoogleLookup()

Publish to Web or Blog

Quizzes & Polls with Forms















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Discussion



http://mail.google.com

Online Office Tips1. Get Things Started2. Clear, problem-based instructions3. Tie to course objectives4. Authentic and applicable5. Collaborate, peer review, publish6. Process and product

Teaching with Google Maps/Earth

• Google LitTrips - http://www.googlelittrips.org/

• Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann - http://tinyurl.com/adm4v2

• Developed jointly by students in "Fictions of the Known World“ class at the University of Notre Dame under supervision of Professor Tobias Boes

http://www.googlelittrips.org/















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Discussion



Other Examples

• Complete Guide to Using Google Earth in Geoscience Classroom - http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/google_earth/

• Not a Google map, but John Hopkins Interactive Map Tool case studies - http://www.cer.jhu.edu/maptool.html

http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/google_earth/

http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/google_earth/

http://www.cer.jhu.edu/maptool.html

http://skype.com

http://skype.com/

http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings

Educational Applications

• Language learning• Peer collaboration• Oral assessments• Negotiation of meaning• Virtual office hours















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Discussion



Final Thoughts• “Web 2.0” is exciting, BUT…

• In all cases, educational aims made these examples work!

• Bad pedagogy + Web 2.0 is still bad pedagogy

• Start with educational goals in mind…

• …Achieve engaging, authentic and lifelong learning experiences.

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