RSS plus Bloglines, Tagging plus Technorati and Del.icio.us = Writingmatrix & Educational Virtual Communities Vance Stevens Petroleum Institute Abu Dhabi Sept 28, 2007

Vance Stevens

Petroleum Institute

Abu Dhabi

Sept 28, 2007

RSS plus Bloglines, Tagging plus Technorati and Del.icio.us RSS Commoncraft's Video: RSS in Plain English at http://commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english Bloglines or Google Reader Will Richardson's RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators http://www.weblogg-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/RSSFAQ4.pdf Tagging Knowledge beyond Authority by David Weinberger - http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/foe-2007/David_Weinberger/ Technorati , TechScreencast's http://www.extremepodcasting.com/screencasts/technorati.html Del.icio.us Again, Lee LeFevre at Commoncraft: http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

RSS

Commoncraft's Video: RSS in Plain English at http://commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

Bloglines or Google Reader

Will Richardson's RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators http://www.weblogg-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/RSSFAQ4.pdf

Tagging

Knowledge beyond Authority by David Weinberger - http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/foe-2007/David_Weinberger/

Technorati , TechScreencast's http://www.extremepodcasting.com/screencasts/technorati.html

Del.icio.us Again, Lee LeFevre at Commoncraft: http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

The Writingmatrix collaborative wiki: http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/ An online presentation on May 18, 2007 at the WiAOC online conference by Vance Stevens, Nelba Quintana, Rita Zeinstejer, Sasha Sirk, and Doris Molero - Writingmatrix: CONNECTing students with blogs, tags, and social networking http://webheadsinaction.org/node/174 Dieu, Barbara, and Vance Stevens. (2007), Pedagogical affordances of syndication, aggregation, and mash-up of content on the Web. TESL-EJ, Volume 11, Number 1: http://tesl-ej.org/ej41/int.html RSS plus Bloglines, Tagging plus Technorati and Del.icio.us = WritingMatrix

The Writingmatrix collaborative wiki: http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/

An online presentation on May 18, 2007 at the WiAOC online conference by Vance Stevens, Nelba Quintana, Rita Zeinstejer, Sasha Sirk, and Doris Molero - Writingmatrix: CONNECTing students with blogs, tags, and social networking http://webheadsinaction.org/node/174

Dieu, Barbara, and Vance Stevens. (2007), Pedagogical affordances of syndication, aggregation, and mash-up of content on the Web. TESL-EJ, Volume 11, Number 1: http://tesl-ej.org/ej41/int.html

Educational Virtual Communities How do we find out about all this stuff? Collaborate, share information, develop our skills?? Teachers have two important responsibilities in this new age of educational technology 1. learn appropriate use of new tools and technologies themselves 2. use these with students so that they in turn become multiliterate Essentially learning communities enable teachers to learn new tools and techniques from one another try them out on one another, increasing familiarity and understanding of the most useful tools and then - competently use them with students and thus - inculcate their use in students, helping them to achieve multiliteracy

How do we find out about all this stuff? Collaborate, share information, develop our skills??

Teachers have two important responsibilities in this new age of educational technology

1. learn appropriate use of new tools and technologies themselves

2. use these with students so that they in turn become multiliterate

Essentially learning communities enable teachers to

learn new tools and techniques from one another

try them out on one another, increasing familiarity and understanding of the most useful tools

and then - competently use them with students

and thus - inculcate their use in students, helping them to achieve multiliteracy

Educational Virtual Communities Concepts that frame collaboration to fulfill these responsibilities: Communities of practice Etienne Wenger talk at WiAOC 2007 (Conversation with Suzanne Nyrop): http://www.webheadsinaction.org/wiaoc2007/EtienneWenger Slides: http://www.flickr.com/photos/netopnyrop/503628210/in/set-72157600229137116/ Part 1 of the conversation: http://streamarchives.net/node/56 Part 2 of the conversation: http://streamarchives.net/node/55 Distributed Learning Networks Stephen Downes talk at WiAOC 2007 - Personal Learning the Web 2.0 Way: http://www.webheadsinaction.org/wiaoc2007/StephenDownes Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/personal-learning-the-web-20-way Part 1 of his talk: http://streamarchives.net/node/84 Part 2 of his talk: http://streamarchives.net/node/83