This document summarizes a presentation by Bill Warters on emerging technologies for learning and research. It covered topics like personal learning networks, open educational resources, social media tools for engagement and assessment, and the new features of Moodle 2.0. Specific tools demonstrated included VoiceThread, PollEverywhere, Diigo, and ContextMiner for analyzing social media data. The presentation highlighted how open web technologies can enhance teaching, collaboration, and discovery.

1. Warters’
Radar
Friday, January 28, 2011
Wayne State University

2. Thanks for having A bit about my background....
me back!

3. “a new learning
model
characterized by
the convergence
of lifelong,
informal, and
personalized
learning within
a social context”
Personalization
Thinking about a Participation
3-P Learning Model Knowledge-Pull
Chatti, M. A., Jarke, M., & Specht, M. (2010). The 3P Learning Model.
Educational Technology & Society, 13 (4), 74–85.

4. Example of a PLN Developed by Joyce Seitzinger
Template

5. Example of a PLN
Template filled in

6. Tales from a Fully
Online Course

7. art of a Book
P
Disc ussion
Using Voice Thread to
foster Engagement
http://voicethread.com

8. arra ting a
N
Co nflict
Using Voice Thread to
foster Engagement

9. Student VoiceThread
Examples

10. Doodle: Group Polling
and Scheduling
• No account
creation needed
to get started
http://www.doodle.com

11. http://www.diigo.com/education
Diigo - Social
Bookmarks Tool +
Educational Accounts for Higher Ed and K-12
Annotation of Pages/Sticky Notes
Slideshows from lists of bookmarks
Save snapshots of pages
RSS Feed of additions

12. http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
Lots of Fan Conversions!
Little
Brother
Open
Multi-
format
Text

13. Other Open Texts I used
• The Art of Community book by Jono Bacon
• Atlas Black graphic novel chapter - Flatworld Books

14. XtraNormal
Text-to-Movie tool
http://www.xtranormal.com
• Tool was featured in recent Chronicle of
Higher Ed article on academic spoof videos
Video from Bill’s class on social technology

15. Open
Educational
Resources
Gaining
Support

16. Feds supporting Open Ed
Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College
and Career Training Grant - 2 Billion $$

17. My Clearinghouse Work
CREducation.org

19. Open Source Tools Used
• CWIS Catalog - items shared via Worldcat
• Drupal - Trainers Dashboard application
• CiviCRM - Team Management tool
• Mahara Portfolio - display CR Competency
• eXe - Html Editor for making Learning
Modules

20. Learning Modules
Current Collection includes 17 Modules
http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/
learning_modules_and_activities

21. it ion 2010-11 CRE
Ed
2 nd Teacher’s Calendar
• Crowd-sourced school-year calendar
distributed internationally
http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/calendar

22. CREducation.org stats

23. Quick Web Tour
at End if Time...

24. PollEverywhere.com

25. PollEverywhere.com

26. Live Results

27. Moodle 2.0 Has
Arrived

28. Bill’s a Moodle Fan
• Running a Moodle server at WSU since 2002
• MADR courses and many other projects
• Other Moodlers offer supportive community
25+ Institutions

29. Moodle is Widely
Deployed

30. Statistics
Early 2010

31. Environments

32. Moodle 2.0 Changes

33. •Refactored the underlying code
Moodle 2.0 Features •Strong on security and scalability
•Open to the “outside world” in more ways
http://www.moodleblog.org/?p=239

34. Repositories and Portfolio
support baked in

35. Moodle Mobile
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Mobile_Moodle_FAQ

36. Resource Sharing
via Community Hubs

37. Social Web
Research
Tools
Moving Beyond Market
Research

38. Quick Search of
Realtime Web

39. ContextMiner
http://www.contextminer.org

40. ContextMiner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9URLGr-TWD0

41. WayBack Machine Updated

42. DiscoverText - Search
Facebook, Twitter & More

43. DiscoverText
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmF7ITK29JM

44. Related Tools - Host
Your Own CAT
http://www.umass.edu/qdap/

45. ScraperWiki.com

46. Other Cool Stuff
Sighted Recently

47. Inside the Haiti
EarthQuake
http://www.insidedisaster.com/experience/Main.html

48. Other Interesting Things
• Mendeley.com social research hub
• iCurrent for current awareness
• Open access journal table of contents service -
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
• Various Yahoo-pipes style coding libraries
(pypes.org, pyfproject.org, kamaelia.org)
• Xerte, Moodle and Mahara on a USB stick
• Art for presentations - as used in these slides!
http://etc.usf.edu/presentations/extras/paper_people/index.html

49. Thanks for Coming
Bill Warters - Wayne State University
http://comm.wayne.edu/profile.php?id=499