Writingmatrix: Engaging collaborative writing through social networking Presented March 4, 2008 at theTESOL Arabia 2008 Conference Dubai Men's College, Dubai, United Arab Emirates By Vance Stevens Lecturer of Computing, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com / [email_address]

How you can find this presentation VanceStevens.com is down right now but you can Google “Vance Stevens” I’ll post the slideshare and handout links at http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com Or you can Google Writingmatrix

VanceStevens.com is down right now but you can Google “Vance Stevens”

I’ll post the slideshare and handout links at http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com

Or you can Google Writingmatrix

Becoming Multiliterate Requires changing Attitudes Practices in education How we join the “conversation” (some examples) Twitter http://twitter.com or Pownce http://pownce.com Worldbridges http://www.worldbridges.net/ Webheads http://webheads.info My course on multiliteracies: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/portal2007.htm

Requires changing

Attitudes

Practices in education

How we join the “conversation” (some examples)

Twitter http://twitter.com or Pownce http://pownce.com

Worldbridges http://www.worldbridges.net/

Webheads http://webheads.info

My course on multiliteracies:

http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/portal2007.htm

Ten aspects of paradigm shift Pedagogy : Didactic --> constructivist Modeling : Do as I say --> AND as I do Sharing : Copyrighted --> creative commons Trepidation : Will they find out? --> ok to say I don’t know Literacy : Print literacy --> multiliteracies Heuristics : Client server -->peer to peer Transfer : Informal technology is F.U.N. --> applied to professional practice Directionality : Push --> pull Ownership : Proprietary --> open source Classification : Taxonomies --> folksonomies Here, I first suggested multiple aspects of paradigm shift required http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/2007alexandria/web20arabia.htm

Pedagogy : Didactic --> constructivist

Modeling : Do as I say --> AND as I do

Sharing : Copyrighted --> creative commons

Trepidation : Will they find out? --> ok to say I don’t know

Literacy : Print literacy --> multiliteracies

Heuristics : Client server -->peer to peer

Transfer : Informal technology is F.U.N. --> applied to professional practice

Directionality : Push --> pull

Ownership : Proprietary --> open source

Classification : Taxonomies --> folksonomies

Classification: Taxonomies  Folksonomies

Content management vs. overload Keys to collaboration and control of information resources online Syndication - understanding of RSS Aggregation - add to above, understanding of tagging Mashup - Putting it together in reusable learning objects This presentation Explains these concepts in terms accessible to educators Describes how the concepts were applied in Writingmatrix: a worldwide collaboration project

Keys to collaboration and control of information resources online

Syndication - understanding of RSS

Aggregation - add to above, understanding of tagging

Mashup - Putting it together in reusable learning objects

This presentation

Explains these concepts in terms accessible to educators

Describes how the concepts were applied in Writingmatrix: a worldwide collaboration project

Syndication --> Aggregation --> Mashup blogs listservs podcasts online journals online newsfeeds Technorati searches RSS feeds generated by

blogs

listservs

podcasts

online journals

online newsfeeds

Technorati searches

Syndication --> Aggregation --> Mashup Bloglines or Google Reader Pageflakes and any of these can be subscribed to in

Bloglines or

Google Reader

Pageflakes

Syndication --> Aggregation --> Mashup Moodle blocks Embedded videos in blogs http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2007/10/vances-first-video-production-teaser.html Pageflakes http://www.pageflakes.com/vancestevens/13498617 Netvibes http://www.netvibes.com/webdesk

Moodle blocks

Embedded videos in blogs http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2007/10/vances-first-video-production-teaser.html

Pageflakes http://www.pageflakes.com/vancestevens/13498617

Netvibes http://www.netvibes.com/webdesk

Writingmatrix: Introduction Initially involved bloggers in Argentina Venezuela Slovenia Who utilized tagging social networking tools to enable the students to locate each other's blogs interact with selected individuals thus identified as being of similar age and interests. http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com

Initially involved bloggers in

Argentina

Venezuela

Slovenia

Who utilized

tagging

social networking tools

to enable the students to

locate each other's blogs

interact with selected individuals thus identified as being of similar age and interests.

Writingmatrix: Technique To achieve this, Students are encouraged to blog their interests and concerns tag relevant posts with an identifier unique to the project Technorati then used to identify the posts of participants in other countries http://technorati.com/search/writingmatrix?authority=n&language=en http://screencast.com/t/M33ixayEN2J

To achieve this, Students are

encouraged to blog their interests and concerns

tag relevant posts with an identifier unique to the project

Technorati then used to identify the posts of participants in other countries http://technorati.com/search/writingmatrix?authority=n&language=en http://screencast.com/t/M33ixayEN2J

Writingmatrix: Outcomes Students are motivated to form writing partnerships Spontaneously without prior collaboration in projects set by teachers collaborating in the project A final aspect of the project is to have students explore areas of mutual interest through tagging some of their and each other's posts in Del.icio.us, then discern who else is reading and tagging their posts

Students are motivated to form writing partnerships

Spontaneously without prior collaboration

in projects set by teachers collaborating in the project

A final aspect of the project is to have students

explore areas of mutual interest through tagging some of their and each other's posts in Del.icio.us,

then discern who else is reading and tagging their posts

It works! Ronaldo’s comment on http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2008/02/all-i-know-about-blogging-and.html

http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2008/02/all-i-know-about-blogging-and.html