Lets Share It - Collaborative tools and practices

Collaborative Learning Tools and Practices Steven Parker TAFE Teaching & Learning Initiatives

What we’ll talk about…

Continual Change and Innovation

Web 2.0 Networking People to Share Learning

Engaging Students – Remaining Relevant

Managing Information Flow within Organisation

Blogs - Personal Publishing Tools - Examples

Wiki’s – Collaborative Publishing Tools -Examples

Continual Change Alvin Toffler - http://tinyurl.com/35bebu

Networking People, Sharing pedagogy and Teaching Tools – Group Learning Practices http:// sparker.wikispaces.com/Group+Learning Lets Share IT – Start with People first – then look at Technology WEB 2.0

Why Blog? - Personal Publishing to the Network

… Make it personally meaningful…

'teachers have known for a long time that students develop better communication skills when they are authentically communicating. A number of educators are helping their students developing their writing skills by having them publish their work as blogs, and then invite comments from people in the outside.' http://classblogmeister.com/

Management that enables people to adopt new technologies and practices rather than controls

Systemisation of learning and innovation, Blogs and wikis are key tools

The Benefits of blogs in education

Personalised online communication tool to suit a variety of learning styles

Potentially inspiring, engaging learning and assessment tool

Anytime access to and publishing of media, text, video, photos

Anytime, anywhere access to view and record journal entries for reflection and assessment

Blog Examples in Education

One of the great aspects of blogging is being able to comment on your students work for example: 'The Gong Media Student Blog' ( http://tinyurl.com/yqwva8 ) and colleagues work 'Learning without borders blog' ( http:// tinyurl.com/yrpfrd )

http:// networklearning.blogspot.com - my personal professional using http://Blogger.com .

Publishing media – Video, Podcast http://sparker.blip.tv

Trades blog, used by Metal Fabrications teachers for professional development and pulling together resources. http:// metaledblog.blogspot.com /

Wiki’s – Collaborative Publishing Tools

Definition: What is a Wiki?

A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content.] A collaborative technology for organizing information on Web sites, the first wiki (WikiWikiWeb) was developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s. Wikis allow for linking among any number of pages, to add, change or update content. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.

Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, is one of the best known wikis.

(From: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki .)

Wikispaces.com provides a free, online service to teachers and students which allows them to work together using a Wiki to create, edit, collate and present information.

Wiki Examples

Collaborative Class wiki, example of a well developed wiki check out what the kids at FlatPlanet have created at http:// flatplanet.wikispaces.com / . It may give you some ideas.