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Slide 1: Virtual Learning in Schools: Thriving in Web 2.0 Vincent Jansen LEARN Email: vjansen07@gmail.com Skype: vjansen07 http://virtualschooling.wikispaces.com/

Slide 2: Work smarter not harder

Slide 3: Key points: • Resource optimization • Process-oriented • Blended learning • Work / Learn / Play / job-embedded • Collaborate / Communicate • Just do it

Slide 4: 2.0

Slide 7: Disorganized in Web 2.0

Slide 9: Put First Things First - Principles of Personal Management

Slide 10: Virtual Learning Community • Electronic communities of practice • Group of people with same interest • Deepen knowledge and expertise • Situated learning

Slide 11: The missing piece • RSS feeds (Pull vs Push)

Slide 12: Build Capacity • Personal and professional growth • Balance of work and play • Blended learning • Thinking and collaborating differently • Social network • Educational transformation - teacher / student leverage

Slide 13: Key components Focus – relevant to you Friends – with people you trust Feel – confident to contribute

Slide 14: 4L model

Slide 15: Measuring success • Shared vision • Core group, key participants • Opportunities (chats, publish, PD, lesson sharing) • Innovation (ideas) • The right stuff

Slide 16: Virtual Learning Community

Slide 18: LMS

Slide 21: Virtual tools How online tools mediate application of program to Experience EXPERIENCE ACADEMIC ONLINE TOOLS PROGRAM Professional Students bring experience to / Social Experience Writing skills discussion Expression of ideas COURSES Information literacy Audio and video Critical producers thinking skills Digtial culture Students apply informal learning techniques Professional Evaluation / Social Experience skills Teamwork / Students practice in simulated collaboration Research environments conversation Students understand and fulfill Professional applications / Social Experience Self directed learning simulations Mentoring onlne Forum Content discussion creators Negotiation Discussion and boards collaboration Professional Validating / Social Experience information Peer editing

Slide 23: Communication Notifications Personal Website Chat Groups Alerts RSS Forums ePortfolio Chat Course Content ePortfolio Notifications Social networking Knowledge net is Learner centred school based LMS whereas moodle can online learning be housed by another environment site, for online Notifications learning. Social software Personal photos student uses to store and manage files, participate in online communities. Notifications Groups Forums Notifications Chat Course Content Video publishing Social networking ePortfolio

Slide 24: Student-centered learning Web as ecosystem – Small pieces loosely joined – Emergent behavior from connections – Sharing / learning with friends Web as conversation – Read / write web – Blogging – Content is continuously created – Real audience

Slide 25: What are the essential classroom tools for collaborating and communicating worldwide? Miguel Guhlin

Slide 28: Personal Learning Environment

Slide 30: PLE http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple

Slide 31: LMS vs PLE • In an LMS, the architecture of virtual space is derived from the model of the institution – Functions are institutional functions – Divisions are institutional categories • In a PLE, the architecture of virtual space is a web of connections centred on the learner – Functions are learner tasks – Divisions are a mix of learner-created and acquired categories

Slide 32: PLE Project 1. Identify patterns that emerge from your “personal learning” (e.g. Email, chat, aggregators, media tools, social networking, groupware, blogs, wikis, tags) 2. Relate these patterns to a web 2.0 technology model

Slide 34: Workflow Process

Slide 35: Constructing your own model

Slide 36: Content: eLearning 2.0

Slide 38: Community of Practice Ongoing integration of Documents work and knowledge Knowledge Store RSS RSS RSS Help desk RSS Project Spaces Expertise You RSS RSS Fleeting RSS Interactions Discussion Groups E-learning spaces Synchronous interactions Conversation Instruction Social Structure

Slide 39: Self-Directed Learning • Curriculum preparation • Evaluation situations • Assessment • Collaborative docs • Discussion groups • Shared resources

Slide 43: Math 9 I can see creating a Wiki in math class would be a great way to get students thinking outside the box, coming up with their own real life examples and putting together something that is more interesting than ever before. Bridget Perry-Gore

Slide 44: http://www.google.com/ig

Slide 46: … to what extent is it now a teacher's responsibility to make use of these tools in his or her own learning? Will Richardson

Slide 47: Tools for key processes • RSS • Tags • Alerts • Docs • Calendar • Notebook • IM

Slide 48: Automating

Slide 49: mating • – Virtual workspace – Shared workspace – Online store of active content – Author/contributor/owner of active content

Slide 50: • This is where everything falls apart as Vince attempts to demonstrate some virtual tools (technology factors, hotel wifi, power…)