Loosely Coupled Teaching with "Web 2.0" Tools (2008)

Loosely Coupled Teaching with Web 2.0 Scott Leslie Jared Stein

Goals
Examine uses of Web 2.0 in higher ed
Move from “neat tools” to educational goals
Discuss your examples, issues, and solutions

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

Web 2.0 Attributes
Sources
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
Embed-ability, Remix-ability Tagging Syndication / Aggregation Susceptible to Network Effects / Emergent Openness Perpetual Beta Social User-Centric User Generated Content / Participatory Simplicity and Joy of Use

Educational Goals/Practices
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/
21 st Century Skills: http://21stcenturyskills.org UNESCO: http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=42579 Economic Policy Institute: http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/webfeatures_viewpoints_education_goals/ Life-long learning Personalized Authentic ICT / Information / media literate Collaborative Self-reliant / Independent Creative and Innovative Communicate Effectively Think Critically / Solve Problems Cognitive Mastery of Content

Life-long learning Embed-ability, Remix-ability Personalized Tagging Authentic Syndication / Aggregation ICT / Information / media literate Susceptible to Network Effects / Emergent Collaborative Openness Self-reliant / Independent Perpetual Beta Creative and Innovative Social Communicate Effectively User-Centric Think Critically / Solve Problems User Generated Content / Participatory Cognitive Mastery of Content Simplicity and Joy of Use Educational Practices / Goals Web 2.0 Attribute s

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? Life-long learning Embed-ability, Remix-ability Personalized Tagging Authentic Syndication / Aggregation ICT / Information / media literate Susceptible to Network Effects / Emergent Collaborative Openness Self-reliant / Independent Perpetual Beta Creative and Innovative Social Communicate Effectively User-Centric Think Critically / Solve Problems User Generated Content / Participatory Cognitive Mastery of Content Simplicity and Joy of Use Educational Practices / Goals Web 2.0 Attribute s

Our Take Life-long learning Embed-ability, Remix-ability Personalized Tagging Authentic Syndication / Aggregation ICT / Information / media literate Susceptible to Network Effects / Emergent Collaborative Openness Self-reliant / Independent Perpetual Beta Creative and Innovative Social Communicate Effectively User-Centric Think Critically / Solve Problems User Generated Content / Participatory Cognitive Mastery of Content Simplicity and Joy of Use Educational Practices / Goals Web 2.0 Attribute s

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

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://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

Discussion
Barriers? Issues?

http://wikispaces.com

http://pbwiki.com

Wiki Tips
Start with collaboration
Provide wiki editing reference

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

Wiki Tips
Start with collaboration
Provide wiki editing reference
Clear, problem-based instructions
Tie to course objectives
Authentic and applicable
Create or edit?
Citations and sources
Process vs product
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://delicious.com/tag/kcb201

Discussion – Social Bookmarks
Barriers? Issues?

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 /

Online Office Apps

Google Docs in Plain English http://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 Ed http://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

Discussion
Barriers? Issues?

http://mail.google.com

Online Office Tips
Get Things Started
Clear, problem-based instructions
Tie to course objectives
Authentic and applicable
Collaborate, peer review, publish
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

Discussion
Barriers? Issues?

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://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

Discussion
Barriers? Issues?

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.

Loosely Coupled Teaching with "Web 2.0" Tools (2008)

by Jared Stein on Oct 28, 2009

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