Using Web2.0 in Teaching

Slide 1: Us ing We b 2.0 in Te ac hing Matt Lingard & Jane Secker Centre for Learning Technology

Slide 2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022/

Slide 3: What are they? Potential Uses for Teaching

Slide 4: What are blogs ? • Journal-style personal websites with comments from visitors • Easy-to-update » easy to publish • Web 2.0 / social software

Slide 5: Blog Characte ris tics • Messages or posts • Journal format / reverse chronology • Use of categories (tags) • Commenting open to readers • Use of links • RSS Feeds >> • Single or multiple author • Personal / Corporate / Institutional

Slide 6: Blogs and le arning • Blogs develop thinking & writing skills • Blogs are good for reflection • Blogs are good for sharing resources • Blogs allow progress & development to be tracked over time • Blogs are usually one author, with comments from others so allow discussion

Slide 7: Blogs at LS E • If you wish to set up your own blog • CLT Hosted blogs for teaching purposes • External providers – WordPress – Blogger

Slide 8: Example Blogs • http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/blog/ Intute Social Sciences Blog. Includes details of new resources in the social sciences which may be useful for your teaching • http://blog.aluxtel.com/ Aluxtel - IS471 Boot Camp. Blog used as part of a Group Project by students • http://augmentation.blogspot.com/ A blog maintained by two lecturers in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland on the use of ICTs in politics teaching • http://elearning.lse.ac.uk/blogs/clt CLT Team Blog – Sharing Resources, conference reports etc • http://elearning.lse.ac.uk/blogs/socialsoftware/ LASSIE Project blog – used for reflection, for feedback on a research project

Slide 9: The Warwick blogs • Social content like Facebook • Also academic and course related (and everything in between) • Students can post anything (within guidelines and regulations) • Can be searched by words, individuals or courses • Leeds and Brighton have adopted the same approach should LSE?

Slide 10: Wikis - collaboration

Slide 11: Wikis in Educ atio n • Wikipedia models – Multi-page, multi-author – Collection of Individuals’ pages • Group Projects & Reports • E-portfolios – collection & reflection • Documenting (Research) projects

Slide 12: S ocial Bookmarking • Allows you to share: internet favorites, online resources, books and journal articles • Tagging to organise resources • Numerous tools available:

Slide 13: • A way to share internet favourites or bookmarks online • Accessible from anywhere • Tagging facilitates resource discovery and allows customised lists to be built • Del.icio.us is very flexible and tags can be put onto web pages • Can also build a network • Teaching examples from LASSIE project and from Institute of Education

Slide 14: • A personal reference management tool for storing and sharing your books and journals articles • Uses tagging to organise your papers • Can be used for resource discovery • Can be used to create a reading list for students • Doesn’t currently support export to Endnote • Free!

Slide 15: • Developed by Harvard Law School for creating online ‘playlists’ or reading lists see my example • Can add all sorts of different resources: internet sites, PDFs, books, journal articles • Good for resource discovery: uses tagging • Free!

Slide 16: Me dia S haring • User-generated content – Images, Video, Slides • Organise, Share, Find • Includes Commenting, Tagging & more

Slide 17: We b 2.0 in Moodle • Wiki • Blogs • Web 2.0 elements – e.g. Glossary has commenting, keywords (tagging) & ratings

Slide 18: Group dis cus s ion • Identify possible uses for web 2.0 services in your LSE teaching • Any reservations?

Slide 19: Thank Yo u Centre for Learning Technology http://www.clt.lse.ac.uk Workshop links: http://del.icio.us/LSECLT/workshop.teaching2.0