Melt Summer School Socialsoftware and Metadata

How do you use international
learning objects?
info.melt-project.eu

MELT Summer School
June 7, 2007
Tampere, Finland
eContentplus
ECP2005 EDU038103

Group activity 20 mins
Find a partner who works in the same/similar area

than you do.

NOT from the same country!


Present your LOs briefly to your partner. Let your

partner to brainstorm how can it be used in her/his
teaching.

Things that could work on yellow.

Things that might NOT work on pink.

Keywords to describe the resource on small ones.


Group activity – wrap up
!! Does your LO exist online? Tag it with del.icio.us,

use tag “melt_tampere_LO” + topic !!
Group topics together at one place


e.g. biology, left window at the back
–
Languages, right side of the window
–
Xxx, whiteboard on the right
–
Xxx, white screen on the left
–

Write the name of your LO on the big post-it and cluster

your tags around it
Yellows on one side
–
Pinks on the other
–

In a variety of ways, look at the great examples of

learning resources that you brought with!

They come in

Diversity of types
–
Diversity of formats
–
For different tasks
–
...
–

Learning resources, how to define?
Reusable - can be modified and versioned for different

courses

Accessible - indexed and retrieved using metadata


Interoperable / portable - operate across different

hard/software

Durable - remain intact across upgrades of

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
• •
• Broadcast • Learning asset
(audio,image, video,..)
• Course
Lesson Plan
•
Drill and Practice
•
A resource consisting • Open activity
•
of exercises (drills), • Presentation
• Educational game • Reference
Demonstration Simulation
• •
• Experiment • Tool
• Exploration • Weblog
Glossary Web site
• •
• Wiki

LOs for different needs and purposes
motivate the learners


to recall existing knowledge

to illustrate

to find information

to vizualise and represent new concepts and

information
to deepen the existing knowledge

to personalise learning

for re-mediation

to assess the learning, etc.


Alone or with others?


With teacher or without?


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

But, it's not always helpful!

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

Sharing with and linking to others

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

to learn better?

Can SoSo help teachers to organise their teaching

better?
Can SoSo help teachers to find better suited learning

resources for their different tasks?
Preparing lessons – Teaching - Evaluating
–

Can SoSo help teachers and learners to network with

like-minded peers?
Can SoSo help teachers and learners share their digital

artefacts - and learning?

Social Software

MELT Summer School
June 7, 2007
Tampere, Finland
eContentplus
ECP2005 EDU038103

How did we get here?

What for?

to remember useful sites I use del.icio.us as a first
 
option when looking for

specific information.
I use it for organising the

URLs I use for getting my Brows and searching

teaching material other bookmarks about
learning objects, tips,
skills
I looked for images on

Flickr. Tags could help
me.

What for?

I browse my friends' Collecting resource
 
bookmarks (on material for a wiki make

del.icio.us) and if find any together with pupils
useful ones, I also visit
and perhaps bookmark To share the sites with

them. I sometimes also my students
send bookmarks to
friends in which they
might be interested.

What for?

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 
option when looking for

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
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send bookmarks to
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What's in social software?
User profile


Artefacts (pictures, bookmarks, blog posts,..)


Social networks between users displayed in relation to

the profile

Annotation


Communities start emerging from the crowd, which can

be displayed through underlying relations


User profile

Artefacts

Networks expressed

Annotations
Tags

Comments


Ratings, Thumbs-up, Thumbs-down

Displays of support, kudos, cheers, pokes,...




Annotations - tags

e.g. social bookmarking
• Bookmarking
on the Web
– access from
everywhere

• Own keywords
- easy to find it again

• Shareable

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,
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