Web 2.0 And English

Connect, Contribute, Collaborate Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNG3sgk02Lc English and Web 2.0:

Back to the Future… The future is here.

What else has changed?

How we communicate

Relevant skills in a ‘global’ world

What can be created

The ‘where’ and ‘how’ we learn

Who owns and creates knowledge

Learning Outcomes

become aware of ‘Web 2.0‘ technologies

understand ways in which ‘Web 2.0’ could be used in your teaching

understand that our ideas about what constitutes knowledge being challenged

Knowledge is power

Encyclopaedia Brittanica

Hard copy - 75,000 articles

DVD version - 100,000 articles

Wikipedia 2 million+ articles

What is Web 2.0? Tools: Podcasting/Vodcasting Blogs Wikis Tags Rss Aggregators Image sharing Source: blog.getoutsmart.com

The web will...

"give a much more powerful means for collaboration between people“

"allow computers to collaborate directly"

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Creator of the ‘World Wide Web’, CERN, 1990

Key Competencies are capabilities people need in order to live, learn, work and contribute as active members of the community. What might this mean for us in the Web 2.0 era?...or even Web 3.0?

Managing Self : “.. enterprising, resourceful , reliable and resilient…” Relating to Others: “..interacting effectively with a diverse range of people in a variety of contexts..” Participating and Contributing : “…active in local, national and global communities…” Thinking : “..actively seek, use, and create knowledge..” Using language, symbols and texts : “..use language to produce texts of all kinds ...confidently use ICT to access and provide information and to communicate with others..” Source: New Zealand Curriculum 2007.

How are Web 2.0 tools being used by English teachers in our region? What are we already doing? Red dots = using with students [write your names on these] Blue dots = Personally aware of or personally use

Finding an individual voice Blogs • Easy to edit, add links, photos • Your own space for reflection on your work • Others can post feedback comments Ideas • Online project journal • Personal (e)portfolio • An alternative to traditional essay writing • Discussion of ideas • Creative writing • Making links to like minded students Digital self-expression

Teaching Examples… Room 9’s writing spot http://room9writing. blogspot .com/ [Rachel Boyd’s Blog] Tanya Phillips. Aorere College http://englishdepartment.wikispaces.com/ Elizabeth O’Hagan, Aorere College http:// finkspace . wikispaces .com/#tochome1

Image sharing

• Easy to edit, add links, photos

• Others can post feedback comments

Ideas

Digital stories, essays, poetry

Performances

Finding an individual voice. Digital self-expression

Hemingway Six word stories: For Sale: baby shoes. Never worn. Flickr: Six Word Story http://www. flickr .com/groups/ sixwordstory /pool/ Berbel and Josef http://www. flickr .com/photos/som3rsault/166679215/in/set-72157594531442973/ Digital stories http://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/166446587/ Digital essays: http://www. teachertube .com/view_video. php ? viewkey =c4e241fcc6d519ea962f Teaching Examples…

Collaboration Wikis • Who controls the ‘knowledge’ is changing • Few technical skills are needed to contribute • Understanding is formed through collaboration and consensus Ideas • Edit or create new Wikipedia articles • Create a wiki for a project • Brainstorm ideas online • Creative writing

Hi all, currently I am teaching poetry in my year 8 class and to entice the students to write some quality stuff I have asked them all to set up a wiki. Well, the result is amazing! They can’t stop using it and the language that is coming through is excellent. I have used the 30 days of poetry as a base. I would like to share one of the wikis with you

[Jacira Meyerink, post on English/ICT forum, 2.11.07]

Teaching Examples…

Computers get organised RSS feeds - Subscribe to blogs and websites Ideas • Follows developments in a class research project • Subscribe to the latest news Podcasts - Subscribe to audio downloads Ideas • Create broadcasts:- Audio/video diaries, book reviews • Search and research

Point England School: http:// kpetv . blogspot .com/2007/08/ kpe -episode-135- google -eyes.html Teaching Examples…

Research: the power of many

Research

Contribute and not receive information

Content (e.g. text, photos, videos) is classified - tagged

Tags allow:- Search, Find, Collect, Sort, Edit, Connect, Share

RSS allows us to subscribe to latest information

Ideas • Create an online research area for a topic • Subscribe to sites for researching a topic • Join forum – e.g . EOL, Facebook to make links Dewey System

Willowdale School http://del.icio.us/willowdale Teaching Examples…

Making Meaning Source: boston.com

The Social Web Search Find Collect Sort Edit Connect Share

Implications for us as leaders of learning….?

- we are no longer the only leaders of learning

Information Literacy skills are crucial , together with realistic, aspirational Internet policy

new Curriculum: a new paradigm

our students have no prior knowledge of a time before the Internet, before mobile phones…

powerful motivator: “ It’s so motivating you can’t stop them learning ” [McIntosh]

Computer suites are already an out-moded model

Five elements that have changed outside school and which need to change inside school

Audience

Creativity unleashed

Differentiate…by raising the bar

Authentic goals

It’s not about the teach, it’s about the tech.

Source: Ewan McIntosh http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2007/03/so_motivating_y.html

The tools we use should not get in the way of the far bigger question - what is your role in your classroom now and will new technologies integrate with it? The chances are they won't, unless you integrate (i.e. change) with them. The main release these tools will offer the teacher is the extension of the classroom beyond the 'nine-to-four': collaborative tools like these offer free and flexible ways to claim back some of the 200 minutes spent online by our kids each night. Source: Ewan McIntosh, Coming of Age [2006]

… and now the future is here …. The Machine is Us/ Ing Us Source: mwesch, March 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

Where to now…?