AAEEBL2010 web2

Your Digital Self: Web 2.0 as Personal Learning Environment and E-Portfoliohttp://sites.google.com/site/web2workshop2010
Dr. Helen Barrett
Researcher & Consultant
Electronic Portfolios &Digital Storytelling for Lifelong and Lifewide Learning
Assistant Professor, Educational Technology (retired)
College of Education
University of Alaska Anchorage (1991-2005)

Personal Learning Environment Supports Self-Directed Learning

Web 2.0 is becoming the Personal Learning Environment of the “Net Generation”
Learning that is…
Social and Participatory
Lifelong and Life Wide
Increasingly Self-Directed
Motivating and Engaging
… and Online!

Personal Learning Environments
How do you define your PLE?

Types of E-Portfolio Implementation
Working Portfolio
The Collection
The Digital Archive
Repository of Artifacts
Reflective Journal(eDOL)
Collaboration Space
Portfolio as Process-- Workspace (PLE)“shoebox”
Presentation Portfolio(s)
The “Story” or Narrative
Multiple Views (public/private)
Varied Audiences(varied permissions)
Varied Purposes
Portfolio as Product-- Showcase

Japanese

Catalan

Spanish

Mandarin

Structure of E-Portfolio Types
Portfolio as Process/ Workspace
Organization: Chronological – eDOL(Electronic Documentation of Learning – U. of Calgary) Documenting growth over time for both internal and external audiences
Primary Purpose: Learning or Reflection
Reflection: immediate focus on artifact or learning experience
Portfolio as Product/ Showcase
Organization: Thematic – Documenting achievement of Standards, Goals or Learning Outcomes for primarily external audiences
Primary Purpose: Accountability or Employment or Showcase
Reflection: retrospective focus on Standards, Goals or Learning Outcomes (Themes)

Processes
Portfolio
Collecting
Selecting
Reflecting
Directing
Presenting
Feedback
Technology
Archiving
Linking/Thinking
Digital Storytelling
Collaborating
Publishing
Social Networks
Connecting(“Friending”)
Listening(Reading)
Responding(Commenting)
Sharing(linking/tagging)

Web 2.0 tag cloud

Recent changes in technology

Web 1.0 vs.Web 2.0
DoubleClick
Ofoto
Akamai
mp3.com
Britannica Online
personal websites
domain name speculation
page views
screen scraping
publishing
content management systems
directories (taxonomy)
stickiness
Netscape
Google AdSense
Flickr
BitTorrent
Napster
Wikipedia
blogging
search engine optimization
cost per click
web services
participation
wikis
tagging ("folksonomy")
syndication
Google
O'Reilly, T. (2005)

Architectureof InteractionArchitecture of Participation (Web 2.0)
allows a
Pedagogyof Interaction

Web 2.0 Tools in ePortfolios
Portfolio Activities
Reflective Journal
Immediate feedback
Creation/Collection/Storage of artifacts
Sharing
Collaborative editing
Collaborative publishing
Web 2.0 tools
Blogs
Microblogs (Twitter)
GoogleDocs, YouTubeDropBox, Box.net
Grou.ps, Ning,
GoogleDocs, Etherpad, typewith.me, ietherpad
Wiki/Google Sites

Web 2.0 deep trends: a revolution in human augmentation
Web 2.0 Expo, April 2008: Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media

Wikibook
http://en.wikibooks. org/wiki/Web_2.0_and_Emerging _Learning _Technologies

Why Web 2.0?
Access from Anywhere!
Interactivity!
Engagement!
Lifelong Skills!
Mostly FREE!

All you need is… an <Embed> Code!
<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ckcSegrwjkA&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ckcSegrwjkA&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

Technologies to Watch
One year or less
Mobiles
Cloud Computing
Two to Three Years
Geo-Everything
The Personal Web
Four to Five Years
Semantic-Aware Applications
Smart Objects

Cloud Computing
“The cloud is the term for networked computers that distribute processing power, applications, and large systems among many machines.”
disk storage and processing cycles a readily available, cheap commodity
thin-client, web-based applications for image editing, word processing, social networking, and media creation
More reliable than desktop storage
The Horizon Report, 2009

The Personal Web
… computer users are assembling collections of tools, widgets, and services that make it easy to develop and organize dynamic online content. Armed with tools for tagging, aggregating, updating, and keeping track of content, today’s learners create and navigate a web that is increasingly tailored to their own needs and interests: this is the personal web.
The Horizon Report, 2009

Social Learning
How can we integrate technology use with what we know about social learning and interactivity?

How can you leverage the technologies students own?
Accessibility from home computers
Connectivity with cell phones

How is social networking impacting technology in education?
It is having a huge impact on our social and political world!

A New Cultural Wedge
“less calls, more web” mobile phones from 3
Emphasis on social networking
Online versions of
Novels
Videos
Comics
Portfolios?

Web 2.0, an Architecture of Interaction/Collaboration
Using Interactive Productivity Tools (GoogleApps: GoogleDocs, GoogleSites)
Using Social Networking Strategies
(Facebook, Ning, Twitter, Edmodo)

Planning Issues
What is your purpose?
Software capabilities: allow interaction between faculty and students around learning activities and products

http://sites.google.com/site/web2workshop2010/
Advantages
Free, often open-source tools on the WWW
“Me Publishing (blog and wiki)
Shared Writing (GoogleDocs)
Web Publishing(Google Sites)
Disadvantages
May require higher technology competency
Mostly not secure websites
“Small Pieces, Loosely Joined”

Public Google Tools vs. GoogleApps for Education?
Public Google Tools (Gmail account)
Google Apps for Education
Student owns the account for life (must be over 13)
Student has complete control of access
FREE for anyone
No uploading to Google Video (must use YouTube to embed videos)
Start immediately
Protected environment (school assigns account)
School can control access (limit to members)
FREE for education
Limited use of Google Video (2 GB)
Need some advanced set-up time
http://sites.google.com/site/colettecassinelli/proscons

GoogleDocs
Advantages
Documents, presentations or spreadsheets can be edited
Maintains a record of all revisions, with identity of author.
Interactivity is maintained through comments and co-authoring.
Easily embed presentations into blog.
Convert all documents to Microsoft Office or OpenOffice or PDF.
Disadvantages
Set up own system for managing the feedback on student work.
Requires full time high speed Internet access.
No attachments, only hyperlinks to documents.

Validating my dissertation research
When learning new tools, use familiar tasks
When learning new tasks, use familiar tools

Google Sites
Advantages
Free website builder
Easy-to-use
Flexibility and creativity in portfolio authoring.
Helps students build technology skills.
Automatically store pages online.
100 MB limit on uploaded attachments
Disadvantages
Set up own system for managing the feedback on student work.

Google Sites ePortfolios
handouts

Page Types in Google Sites
Web Page – create your own structure
Announcements – blog with RSS feeds
File Cabinet – upload files, organize in folders
List – simple flat-file data base

Explore Google Sites Capabilities for ePortfolio Requirements
File Cabinet page type to upload artifacts
Comments for feedback on pages or entries in Announcements page
Announcements page type (blog) with RSS feeds
List page type as data base
Subscribe to page or site changes
What’s New in Google Docs? http://www.google.com/google-d-s/whatsnew.html

Attachments in Google Sites
More Actions -> Manage Site
Shows pages where attachments were added and links
(re-use files using hyperlinks – right click and copy link)

Storage Limitations in Google Sites – Apps vs. Sites
sites.google.com/site/ account limited to 100 MB of attachments in each Google Site you set up
GoogleApps for Education domains with a maximum of 100 GB per domain, assigning accounts for each student
Standard GoogleApps account, with your own domain name, for $10 a year, currently allows a maximum of 10GB of attached files in all Sites created under your domain
Google's FAQ on Storage in different versions of Google Sites

handouts
WordPress/Movable Type ePortfolios

Level 1 - Collection

Level 2: Primary Purpose: Learning/Reflection

Blogs
Advantages
Quickly, easily create a learning journal, documenting growth over time with entries that are date-stamped.
WordPress allows additional pages and sub-pages.
Interactivity is maintained through RSS feeds and Comments that can be added.
WordPress file limit 3 GB!
WordPress blogs can be password-protected.
Disadvantages
Prescribed order (reverse-chronological) of entries.
Does not allow organizing attached files into folders.
Limited attachments in Blogger.

Less abouttellingMore about talking!
- Julie Hughes, University of Wolverhampton
Take advantage of Web 2.0 strategies in learning

Don’t jump tothe final presentation prematurely…
Document the learning process over time… through a learning journal.

Review Examples of Scaffolding for Reflection
http://sites.google.com/site/reflection4learning

Forms of Assessment
Formative Assessments
Provides insights for the teacher
Assessment FOR Learning
Provides insights for the learner
Summative Assessments (Assessment OF Learning or Evaluation)
Provides insights (and data) for the institution
Nick Rate (2008) Assessment for Learning & ePortfolios, NZ Ministry of Ed

Level 3: Primary Purpose: Showcase/Accountability

Wikis
Advantages
Free (for education) online system.
Wikispaces allows 2 GB online storage (PBWorkslimits 50 MB).
Page can be edited by approved members.
Discussion link on top of every page.
Saves draft pages and keeps versions.
Allows embedding media and building tables on pages.
Disadvantages
Does not allow organizing files into folders.
Archived version does not save navigation menu.
Ads! (Google Sites is a wiki without ads!)

Making ePortfolios Stick
Will your students want to use the ePortfolio process after they graduate?

Ali Jafari (2004) “The “Sticky” E-Portfolio System: Tackling Challenges & Identifying Attributes” EDUCAUSE ReviewJuly/August 2004.

Success Factors
Successful ePortfolio Project = I + J + K + L + M + N + O, where:I = ease of use J = sustainable business planK = advanced featuresL = robust integrated technologyarchitectureM = lifelong supportN = standards and transportability,andO = X (undetermined factors)

Key Qualities of an idea that is made to stick:
Simplicity
Unexpectedness
Concreteness
Credibility
Emotional
Stories

Qualities
Simplicity: "How do you strip an idea to its core without turning it into a silly sound bite?"
Unexpectedness: "How do you capture people's attention... and hold it?"
Concreteness: "How do you help people understand your idea and remember it much later?"
Credibility: "How do you get people to believe your idea?"
Emotional: "How do you get people to care about your idea?"
Stories: "How do you get people to act on your idea?"

Isn’t this Web 2.0 thing just a fad?
cognitive surplus
Telling about Interview with TV producer
looking for the mouse
Web 2.0 Expo, April 2008, Clay Shirky
Author of the book Here Comes Everybody

Dr. Helen Barrett
Researcher & ConsultantElectronic Portfolios & Digital Storytelling for Lifelong and Life Wide Learning
eportfolios@mac.com
http://electronicportfolios.org/

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