How do you use international
learning objects?
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June 7, 2007
Tampere, Finland
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Group activity 20 mins
Find a partner who works in the same/similar area
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than you do.
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NOT from the same country!
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Present your LOs briefly to your partner. Let your
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partner to brainstorm how can it be used in her/his
teaching.
Things that could work on yellow.
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Things that might NOT work on pink.
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Keywords to describe the resource on small ones.
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Group activity – wrap up
!! Does your LO exist online? Tag it with del.icio.us,
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use tag “melt_tampere_LO” + topic !!
Group topics together at one place
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e.g. biology, left window at the back
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Languages, right side of the window
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Xxx, whiteboard on the right
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Xxx, white screen on the left
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Write the name of your LO on the big post-it and cluster
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your tags around it
Yellows on one side
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Pinks on the other
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In a variety of ways, look at the great examples of
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learning resources that you brought with!
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They come in
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Diversity of types
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Diversity of formats
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For different tasks
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...
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Learning resources, how to define?
Reusable - can be modified and versioned for different
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courses
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Accessible - indexed and retrieved using metadata
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Interoperable / portable - operate across different
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hard/software
Durable - remain intact across upgrades of
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hard/software

Different LO productions
Students
Publishers
ICT
Teachers developers others...
and
support staff
• building LOs with existing tools
• building LOs with proprietary tools
• building LOs with exiting templates

Different audio/mp3
• formats
• application/base64
• audio/mpeg
• application/binary
• audio/x-pn-realaudio
• application/java
• audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin
• application/macbinhex40
• audio/x-wav
• application/msexcel
• image/bmp
• application/msword
• image/gif
• application/pdf
• image/jpeg
• application/postscript
• image/png
• application/ppt
• image/tiff
• application/rtf
• image/x-wmf
• application/uue
• model/vrml
• application/x-compressed
• text/html
• application/x-gzip-compressed
• text/plain
• application/x-pn-realmedia
• text/richtext
• application/x-shockwave-flash
• text/xml
• application/x-stuffit
• video/avi
• application/x-zip-compressed
• video/mpeg
• application/zip
• video/x-pn-realvideo
• audio/basic
• video/x-pn-realvideo-plugin
• audio/midi
• video/quicktime

A diversity of types of LOs
Assessment Guide
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• Broadcast • Learning asset
(audio,image, video,..)
• Course
Lesson Plan
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Drill and Practice
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A resource consisting • Open activity
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of exercises (drills), • Presentation
• Educational game • Reference
Demonstration Simulation
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• Experiment • Tool
• Exploration • Weblog
Glossary Web site
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• Wiki

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LOs for different needs and purposes
motivate the learners
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to recall existing knowledge
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to illustrate
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to find information
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to vizualise and represent new concepts and
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information
to deepen the existing knowledge
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to personalise learning
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for re-mediation
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to assess the learning, etc.
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Alone or with others?
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With teacher or without?
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Metadata
Defined as structured information that
• describes,
• explains,
• locates,
• or otherwise helps in retrieving, using, or
managing a resource.
It is often called
• ‘data about data’ or
• ‘information about information’
NISO (2004). Understanding Metadata. National Information
Standards Organisation, NISO Press

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But, it's not always helpful!
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Classification and cataloguing
• since library of Alexandria, Aristotle
• priority of author's intent
cataloguer's
author's intent reader's need
neutral stand
= terms
• naming the object to distinguish it from
others, grouping it with similar entities
• restrictive, rather than expansive

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Personal knowledge management

Sharing with and linking to others

Discovery and recommendations

Tag cloud: global / personal

Folksonomic approach
• Look at the window wiki!
• Whose intent and interpretation is it anyway?
– author's, indexer's or reader's
• Different meanings and purposes
• Tags: priority of user's intent- user-generated
• Also called social tagging or classification
– Users add the terms suitable for them

So, how does it relate to education?
Can SoSo help teachers to teach better and students
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to learn better?
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Can SoSo help teachers to organise their teaching
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better?
Can SoSo help teachers to find better suited learning
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resources for their different tasks?
Preparing lessons – Teaching - Evaluating
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Can SoSo help teachers and learners to network with
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like-minded peers?
Can SoSo help teachers and learners share their digital
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artefacts - and learning?

Social Software
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June 7, 2007
Tampere, Finland
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ECP2005 EDU038103

How did we get here?
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What for?
to remember useful sites I use del.icio.us as a first
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option when looking for
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specific information.
I use it for organising the
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URLs I use for getting my Brows and searching
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teaching material other bookmarks about
learning objects, tips,
skills
I looked for images on
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Flickr. Tags could help
me.

What for?
I browse my friends' Collecting resource
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bookmarks (on material for a wiki make
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del.icio.us) and if find any together with pupils
useful ones, I also visit
and perhaps bookmark To share the sites with
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them. I sometimes also my students
send bookmarks to
friends in which they
might be interested.

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What's in social software?
User profile
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Artefacts (pictures, bookmarks, blog posts,..)
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Social networks between users displayed in relation to
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the profile
Annotation
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Communities start emerging from the crowd, which can
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be displayed through underlying relations

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User profile

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Artefacts

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Artefacts

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Networks expressed

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Networks expressed

Annotations
Tags
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Comments
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Ratings, Thumbs-up, Thumbs-down
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Displays of support, kudos, cheers, pokes,...
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Annotations - tags

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Annotations - tags

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Annotations - tags

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Annotations - tags

e.g. social bookmarking
• Bookmarking
on the Web
– access from
everywhere
• Own keywords
- easy to find it again
• Shareable

Personal knowledge management

Sharing, syndicating, linking

e.g. social bookmarking
• Bookmarking on the Web
– access from everywhere
• Own keywords
- easy to find it again
• Sharable
- private, with a group, everyone
• Serendipitous access
- access others bookmarks, tag-cloud,
recommendations

Discovery and recommendations